13-14 March, 2007, Brussels, Belgium
speakers
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Chris Adcock Chris Adcock is President of EPCglobal Inc, the global organisation leading the drive to create common standards for the use of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) and the EPCglobal Network. EPCglobal is a user driven organization, working across multiple industries and contributes to the broad scale adoption of EPCglobal standards for organizations throughout the world. Mr Adcock has a proven track record of leadership within the Fast Moving Consumer Goods industry. He has held a series of senior management positions in Europe for The Gillette Company, a global market leader in several consumer product categories. His most recent position was as General Manager of the Nordic Region for The Gillette Company. A native of the United Kingdom, Mr Adcock's career to date has included extensive experience in international markets, working within Europe, East Africa and the Middle East. He has successfully developed and implemented strategies aimed at growing market share, reducing costs and improving ways to serve customers. Since September 2004 Mr Adcock has led the global activities of EPCglobal during a period of rapid development and international expansion as companies around the world have worked to take advantage of this exciting and new enabling technology. Between 2001 and 2004 he held the position of Chairman of the AIM Trade and Industry Committee (AIM is the association of branded goods manufacturers in Europe). Mr Adcock holds a Master of Business Administration degree from Cranfield University in the United Kingdom.
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Mr. Manfred Aigner After graduating from a technical college for communications and electronics, he studied computer science at the Graz University of Technology with special emphasis on integrated circuits and IT security. Since 2001 he is active as leader of of the VLSI research group at the IAIK. He was scientific leader of the European FP6 project SCARD and is currently project leader of the Austrian FIT-IT project SNAP and furthermore actively involved in three FP6 projects with RFID contents. His special interests are IT security for RFID tags, hardware implementation of cryptographic algorithms and side-channel analysis.
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Roland Airiau For more than one year, ead the "Smart Environment" technological research program. Innovative terminal and accessories, domestic gateways and ecosystem, smart connecting things are the main research domains. Main objective is to anticipate and convince FT group to develop / adopt new basic technologies for future services / offers in order to create new opportunities and to reduce introduction risk During his career, he practiced a set of more technical and management jobs such as: Real-time software developer (and then manager) for embedded systems in the automotive area, CAD tools and methodology manager for circuit design, R&D project leader and R&D department manager. Mr. Airiau has co-authored several books about hardware description language “VHDL” and derived methodologies and holds EE degree in applied sciences from the “Institut National des Sciences Appliquées” Rennes in 1980, France.
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Henri Barthel Henri Barthel is Director Global Partnerships and Projects. He has been working for GS1 (formerly EAN International) since July 1988 where he was responsible for the technical automatic identification and electronic data interchange standards. His responsibilities include the global monitoring of regulations for Radio Frequency Identification and the liaison with external standard bodies, particularly ISO. He is a member of the EPCglobal Architecture Review Committee. He is also chairman of SC31/WG4, the ISO working group dealing with RFID standardisation for item management. Early 2006, Henri Barthel was appointed Coordinator of BRIDGE, a European Union funded Integrated Project aiming to perform research on RFID hardware, software, network and security as well as to perform trials and implementation of the technology in several business sectors.
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Alfons Botthof Alfons Botthof is deputy head of the section “Socio-Economic Issues” within VDI/VDE Innovation + Technik GmbH (VDI/VDE-IT), which is working as project and consultancy agency for public authorities like e.g. the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) in Germany and the European Commission since 1989. Mr. Botthof studied physics in Marburg/Lahn, has then worked as software developer with the Deutsche Fernsprecher Gesellschaft and was trainer in the sector of communication electronics. Since 1989 he has been responsible at VDI/VDE-IT for numerous projects with the main emphases on innovation policy, technology transformation processes, curricula development in the sector of high-technologies, and the evaluation of state support measures. At present he co-ordinates all strategic processes accompanying the framework programme "microsystems" of BMBF. On behalf of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Mr. Botthof is in charge of the accompanying research to the framework programme next generation media and responsible for the preparatory work, the stakeholder process and organisation of the conference "RFID: Towards the Internet of Things" during the current German EU councils presidency which will be held 25th/26th of June 2007 in Berlin.
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Fabio Colasanti Since 2002 Director-General 2000-2002 Director-General, Directorate-General for Enterprise 1999 Deputy Head of the Office of Commission President Romano Prodi 1996-1999 Director for Resources, Directorate-General for Budget 1988-1995 Head Economic Forecasts and Macro-economic policy analysis units, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs 1985-1987 Commission's Spokesman's Group, Responsible for economic and monetary affairs, regional policy, credit and investment, small and medium-sized enterprises 1977-1984 Economist, Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs 1971-1977 Italcable Spa, Rome ( Italy)
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Robert C. Cresanti Robert C. Cresanti was sworn in as Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology on March 20, 2006. In addition, Commerce Secretary Gutierrez named Robert Cresanti to serve as Chief Privacy Officer for the Department of Commerce on July 13, 2006. Before his confirmation, Cresanti served as Vice President of Public Policy at the Business Software Alliance. Prior to this, he was Senior Vice President and General Counsel for the Information Technology Association of America. Earlier in his career, he served as Staff Director for the Senate Special Committee on the Year 2000 Technology Problem. He was also Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Financial Services and Technology for the Senate Banking Committee. Mr. Cresanti received his B.A. degree from Austin College and his J.D. degree from Baylor University.
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Dr. Gregor Hackenbroich Dr. Gregor Hackenbroich is a senior researcher at SAP Research. He is responsible for several research projects with German or EU-funding. He manages the PROMISE project that explores the strategic advantages of smart items in product lifecycle management. Hackenbroich received his habilitation in theoretical physics from Essen University, and his doctoral degree and diploma in physics from the University of Munich.
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Mr. Ryo Imura Ryo Imura graduated the University of Nagoya in 1977 and received his Ph.D in Material Science from the University of Nagoya in 1988. He was employed by the Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd. from 1977 to 2000, where he was active in the research of Information Data Storage for Magnetic bubble memories, Optical data storage (DVD) and Magnetic recording ( Hard Disc Drive). He was a chairman of DVD-Forum Working Group, achieving DVD rewritable (DVD-RAM) format technology to be the international standard.
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Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis Dr. Dimitris Kiritsis recieved his Diploma (1980) and Ph.D. (1987) in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. Since 1989 he is with the Computer-Aided Design and Production Laboratory (LICP) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). He is active in teaching and research in the domain of modeling methods and techniques for integrated product-process-resource planning, product lifecycle information modeling and transformation to knowledge. His principal investigations include: 1) an original method for integrated and dynamic manufacture /assembly/ disassembly process planning modeling and simulation using Petri nets and 2) product life cycle information modeling and management. Dr. Kiritsis is the initiator and scientific coordinator of the FP6-IP-507100 PROMISE and he is leading other international research projects in the domain of Integrated Product Design, Computer Aided Process Planning Modeling, Closed Loop Product Lifecycle Modeling etc. Dr. Kiritsis is also an active member of ASME and IFIP WG5.7, referee of well known scientific journals and conferences in his domains of interest.
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Mika Lauhde Several different positions in Nokia Corporation in technology and marketing area Fujitsu Computers LTD, Corporate PC’s NEXTROM Oy (former Nokia-Maillefer Oy) Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) Senior Researcher, Leuze electronic GmbH+Co, Owen/Teck, Germany Several international patents for Nokia (Nokia-Maillefer SA and Nextrom SA)
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Hugo Lueders Secretary General of the “European e-Skills Certification Consortium” (e-SCC) serving the European Skills Employability Alliance, a multi-stakeholder partnership to enhance ICT literacy and professional skills training for employability prospects of unemployed people throughout the European Union. Director of the “Computing Technology Industry Association” (CompTIA) for Public Policy in Europe, Africa and Middle East (EMEA) and European Director of the “Initiative for Software Choice” (ISC), a global industry coalition on tech-neutrality in software and hardware public procurement managed by CompTIA. 20 years industrial experience as corporate council with the management of foreign affiliated companies of the Volkswagen Group in Europe, Africa and East Asia ( China and Japan). Served beside others as First Secretary in charge of economic affairs at the German embassy in Tokyo (1988-1991), as EU Representative of Volkswagen in Brussels (1991-1998), and with UNICE, the European employers’ and industry federation, as e-Envoy and senior adviser in charge of information society and e-economy matters, advising the EU Economic and Social Committee as industry expert on eEurope regulatory matters (1999-2001). Joined CompTIA in May 2001. He holds an IEP Paris degree in political science as well as a Paris Sorbonne degree in international public law, is a multi-lingual Dutch-born German attorney-at-law, Japanese married and has two sons, based in Brussels.
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Duncan McFarlane Duncan McFarlane is Professor of Service and Support Engineering at the Cambridge University Engineering Department, and head of the Centre for Distributed Informational and Automation Laboratory within the Institute for Manufacturing. He is also Director of the Cambridge Auto ID Lab and Research Director of two industrially supported activities: the Service and Support Engineering Programme and the Aero ID Programme. His research work is focused in the areas of distributed industrial automation, reconfigurable systems, RFID integration and valuing industrial information. Most recently he has been examining the role of automation and information solutions in supporting service environments. Between 2000 and 2003 he was the European Research Director of the Auto-ID Center. In 2001 he also became a co-investigator in the EPSRC funded Innovative Manufacturing Research Centre based in the Institute for Manufacturing. In 2004, he became head of the Cambridge Auto ID Lab and co founded the Aero ID Programme, examining the role of RFID in the aerospace industry. He was appointed to the Professorship of Service and Support Engineering on 1 October 2006.
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Stephen Miles
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Prof. Rafael Pous Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Berkeley (1992). Professor of Signal Theory and Communications at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, since 1993. Research activities and publications in Microwave and Antenna Engineering, Applied Superconductivity, Numerical Methods in Electromagnetism, RFID, and RF-based Ambient Intelligence. Co-founder of the company The Information Highway Group (1994), developer of advanced virtual systems for the digital economy. Co-founder of the company AIDA Centre RFID Solutions (2004), focused on systems integration and R+D of novel RFID devices and systems.
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Dr. Katerina Pramatari Dr. Katerina Pramatari is Lecturer at the Department of Management Science and Technology of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and scientific coordinator of the ELTRUN-SCORE research group at AUEB. She holds a PhD from Athens University of Economics & Business (AUEB) and a Masters in Information Systems from the same University. She has worked as a systems analyst for Procter & Gamble European Headquarters for two years, on the development of global Category Management applications, and another year in the Marketing Department of Procter & Gamble Greece. She has won both business and academic distinctions and has been granted eight state and school scholarships. She has extensive experience in international research projects and has published more than forty five journal and conference articles. Her current research interests include collaborative practices in supply chain and demand management, RFID technology, interorganizational information systems, web-services etc.
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Antonio Rizzi Antonio Rizzi graduated in 1993 in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Parma. In 1997, he took his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering at the same University, and, since 2005, he has been employed as full professor of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the Industrial Engineering Department of the University of Parma. His scientific interests are mainly related to logistics and supply chain management. In the last few years, his researches have focused on the application of advanced auto id and data sharing technologies for supply chain management, such as RFID and EPCglobal Network. More specifically, his researches have tried to address how and where RFID can be considered as a viable tool to achieve traceability in the food chain, and how to streamline supply chain processes through activity automation and punctual visibility of flows in the logistics pipeline of the fast moving consumer goods. He has coordinated specific research projects on the subject with the Italian representative of GS1 and with the Italian Ministry of Technological Innovation. These projects were aimed at quantifying the impact of RFID and EPC adoption in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods supply chain, and in particular in the food industry. He is the founder and the director of RFID Lab at the University of Parma, a research centre devised to promote research, training and services to stakeholders, such as technology providers and end users. This centre pioneers researches in the RFID arena, since it has recently received from the Italian Ministry of Communication a site licence to operate RFID equipment in the UHF band. Antonio Rizzi serves as a referee for the Italian Ministry of research, reviewing eligible projects to be founded by the PRIN Research Program. He is also a referee for scientific journals such as Supply Chain Management, Logistics Information Management, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Application, Journal of Food Engineering, International Journal of Production Economics. He is a committee member for the MIT Academic Convocation series . |
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Mike Rose Mike is responsible for leading Johnson & Johnson’s RFID/EPC strategy. Mike’s key areas of focus include: working with Johnson & Johnson’s operating units and their customers to assess the impact of RFID/EPC on business processes, information and enabling technology, overseeing J&J’s RFID/EPC Incubator Fund to stimulate innovation through RFID/EPC, and collaborating with industry associations, regulatory agencies and external standard setting organizations to establish the future direction of RFID/EPC. Mike is a member of EPCglobal’s Board of Governors. He is a tri-chair of EPCglobal’s Healthcare and LifeSciences Business Action Group, and is member of EPCglobal’s Business Steering Committee. Mike works with several industry associations on RFID and EPC related areas. Mike has worked for Johnson & Johnson for over 30 years. In his career, he has held various positions of responsibility across Information Management and Discovery Research. Prior to his current assignment, he was most recently the Vice President, Information Technology for Ortho Biotech. Mike graduated from La Salle University with a BA in Biology, and received an MSE in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Mr. Guido Stromberg Dr. Guido Stromberg received a diploma degree and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering from the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 1995 and 2000, respectively. Since 2000, he is with Infineon Technologies, where he has worked on signal processing and embedded systems architecting in several emerging application domains. Currently Guido Stromberg is heading the Systems and Software Engineering Group of the Sense and Control Department, which focuses on software and architecture design for novel low-power wireless transceiver solutions . |
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Dieter Uckelmann Dieter Uckelmann studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig. From 1992 to 2005, he worked in sales and management positions in various enterprises in the areas of database software, communication and auto-ID systems. Uckelmann has been manager of the LogDynamics Lab at the University of Bremen since July 2005. There, the main research area of his scientific work lies in the connection of information flow and the goods transported under the influence of auto-ID technologies.
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Dr. Walter Weigel Dr. Walter Weigel graduated from the Technical University in Munich, Germany, with the Master Degree in electrical engineering in 1984 and with the Ph. D. degree in 1990. From 1984 to 1991 he was assistant professor at the Institute of Data Processing at the Technical University in Munich, where he managed an European ESPRIT research-project with the University of Nancy, France, on speech recognition. Dr. Walter Weigel was until August 2006 the Head of “Standardization & Regulation” of the Siemens AG, Munich, Germany, and worked for Siemens since 1991 in several positions including Head of the Research&Concepts-department of the Mobile Networks business unit as well as for the semiconductor business unit (today Infineon) as Head of the business segment Video Processing. Dr. Weigel has been elected as the new General Director of ETSI and has this responsibility since September 2006. He has published about 50 technical papers and contributed to several books.
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John R. Williams Professor John Williams research focus is in the design of large scale information and computation systems. He is director of the MIT Auto-ID Laboratory at MIT that is involved in Architecting “The Internet of Things”. He was recently named as one of the most 50 most influential people in computer networking. He was previously Vice President of Engineering at two start-up companies and also Managing Principal in Charge of Dames and Moore’s Boston office. He teaches graduate courses in Web System Architecting and on Modern Software Development and is the developer of systems deployed in Sandia National Laboratories and Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and is principal investigator building the Auto-ID Laboratory EPC network simulator. Williams has lectured widely in the UK and Japan on information technology. He holds a MA in Physics from Oxford University, a MS in Physics from UCLA and a PhD in Numerical Methods from the University of Wales, Swansea. He has published two books and over 120 journal and conference papers on numerical algorithms.
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Dr. Gerd Wolfram Dr. Gerd Wolfram is Managing Director of MGI METRO Group Information Technology GmbH and is responsible for the business unit Advanced Technologies. He aligns the whole Information Technology in the company at METRO´s corporate goals (IT-Strategy) and is also responsible for purchasing the required hard- and software and IT services for the METRO Group (IT-Procurement). Furthermore he cares for the search, selection and implementation of new IT innovations (Research and Innovation). Since mid-2002, Dr. Gerd Wolfram, who holds a doctorate degree in business administration, has been managing one of the most innovative projects of the METRO Group: The Future Store Initiative. The initiative was launched by the METRO Group and renowned partner companies. With the METRO Group Future Store Initiative modern technologies and systems are advanced and tested under real-live conditions. He is also a member of national and international committees which promote the standardization of logistics and merchandise management processes in the context of radio frequency identification (RFID). At the international standardization organizations EPCglobal and GS1 Germany he represents the METRO Group in several project groups. Dr. Wolfram also leads the research group Information and Communication Technologies (IKT) at the European retail representation EuroCommerce.
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