October 2008 RFID/Auto ID Technology Symposium
Evolution of an RFID Revolution
2008 RFID/Auto ID Technology Symposium
At Merrimack College
North Andover, MA (August 26, 2008) – World-wide inventors and leaders in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), bar coding, and other automatic ID technologies will gather at Merrimack College (North Andover, MA) for an annual symposium organized by AIDC 100 (Automatic Identification and Data Capture). College students, faculty, and staff get free admission with a college ID.
WHAT: Evolution of an RFID Revolution - 2008 RFID/Automatic ID Technology Symposium at Merrimack College
This day-long event will feature renowned speakers as they share actual business problems, solutions, and application examples such as automatic ID technology usage with national security issues, healthcare, retail, manufacturing, transportation, energy, and more. View the brochure
WHEN: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 (8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
Symposium Speakers:
Tagsys RFID (Cambridge, MA), Shipcom Wireless (Houston, TX), Radianse (Andover, MA), Reva Systems (Chelmsford, MA), Symbol/Motorola (Rockville, MD), SAVI/Lockheed Martin (Mountainview, CA), American Apparel (Los Angeles, CA), Dow Chemical Co. (Nationwide locations), and Hewlett Packard (Palo Alto, CA).
Discussion Panels:
• RFID research analysts will speak on the state of automatic technology and forecast where the industry may be headed. Panelists include: ABI Research (Oyster Bay, NY), Venture Development Corp. (Framingham, MA), R.W. Baird & Co. (Milwaukee, WI).
• Discussion on RFID programs in higher education, and student and graduate success in the field. Panelists include: Merrimack College (North Andover, MA), University of Texas (Austin), and University of Arkansas.
Symposium attendees will also tour Merrimack’s newly established state-of-the-art RFID/automatic ID technology lab - one of the few colleges in the country with such equipment for study.
WHERE: Rogers Center for the Arts, Merrimack College
(315 Turnpike St., North Andover, MA 01845)
COST: $199 per person. *Includes lunch. College students, faculty, and staff get free admission with a college ID.
For more event information including registration, visit http://aidc100.org/08meeting.htm
Why Attend?
For those interested in learning how CEOs, CFOs, CIOs, system engineers, designers and business managers view the potential of RFID technology and its benefits across present and future enterprises will find this conference enlightening and educational. AIDC technology continues to grow and deliver significant improvements in commercial and government enterprises. The use of barcode identification of goods, product and valued assets continues but is being steadily challenged by RFID technology. As RFID evolves, it’s finding new non-barcode applications and is exploring advancements. At present RFID is perceived to be a more costly - notwithstanding the greater performance of the electronic tag over the barcode, the barcode is cheaper. But a revolution in RFID is taking place that business leaders and decision makers need to understand. RFID is not about to replace barcodes, but there are an increasing number of applications where RFID is the solution of choice (cost is shown to be offset by performance concurrent with a positive ROI).
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