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| November 8 | |
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| PRE-CONFERENCE AGENDA |
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| 7:00 a.m. | CompTIA RFID+ Certification Training
Presented in partnership with RFID4U
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| 12:00 p.m. | Working lunch
General Session: RFID Basics
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| 12:00 p.m. | RFID Journal University |
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| 5:00 p.m. | Preconference seminar ends
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CONFERENCE AGENDA |
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| 5:30 p.m. | Welcome and Introduction
Speakers:| | Art Smith, President & CEO, EPCglobal Canada |
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| 5:45 p.m. | Opening Keynote
Loblaw offered its distribution centers and stores as a test bed for a joint 6-month pilot project with the Canadian RFID Centre and other Canadian food companies to see how RFID implementation can not only benefit the retailer but also the manufacturer. In this session, you will hear about how one of the most collaborative RFID pilot is doing, what has been assessed, and what developments have been made for the business case in the food industry.
Speakers:| | Roman Coba, Senior VP, Loblaw Companies Limited
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Takeaways:
 | Insight into the first results of a 6-month RFID pilot for the food Industry |
| Strategies in using RFID to benefit both partners in manufacturing and retail |
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| 6:30 p.m. | Opening cocktail reception | |
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| 8:00 p.m. | End of cocktail reception | |
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November 9 |
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| CONFERENCE AGENDA |
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| 7:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast
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| 8:30 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction
Speakers:
| | Art Smith, President & CEO, EPCglobal Canada |
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| 9:00 a.m. | RFID/EPC Standards in the Aerospace Sector
Leading aerospace companies may have agreed to a common RFID standard, but where does full RFID implementation stand in the aerospace industry? This panel discussion will focus on how the aerospace industry is coping with the uncertainty of economic feasibility to reap the full benefits of RFID tags.
Speakers:| | Nicolas Bondarenco, Deputy RFID Project Manager, IATA
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| | Ken Porad, Program Manager, Automated Identification Program,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group |
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| 9:45 a.m. | Staples Business Depot (Canada) Measures Process Benefits of RFID
Staples Business Depot (Canada), the 260-store Canadian subsidiary of this global office-products leader, has completed an end-to-end supply-chain pilot from a group of its vendors to a delivery center, as well as direct-to-store to test the process benefits of utilizing EPC-ready Gen 2 technology.
Speakers:
| | Jeff Aschroft, VP, Logistics Supply Chain, PricewaterhouseCoopers
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| | Steve Del Fatti, Project Manager, Unisource Canada |
| | Andrew Mitchell, Director, Wireless Solutions, Bell Canada |
| | Joe Soares, Dir., Retail Processes, Staples Business Depot (Canada) |
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Components and make-up of an end-to-end RFID pilot project |
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Analyzing the process benefits of utilizing RFID technology in your supply chain |
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Lessons learned and future opportunities for RFID applications |
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How to create a collaborative RFID pilot among supply-chain partners |
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| 10:30 a.m. | Refreshment break in Exhibit Hall
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| 11:10 a.m. | RFID/EPC in the Canadian Context
EPCglobal Canada has been supporting the global development, adoption and maintenance of EPC and RFID standards. This panel discussion will explore how EPC technologies will benefit companies doing business in Canada, the state of data-sharing and other critical standards, the obstacles to adoption and what's being done to enable companies in Canada to leverage EPC technologies today.
Panelists:| | Roman Coba, Senior VP, Loblaws
| | | Art Smith, President & CEO, EPCglobal Canada
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| 11:40 a.m. Breakout Session |
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Case Study—Combining RFID with Other Technology for Tracking
A Canadian provider of truck scales and weighing systems is providing a forestry tracking and management system that uses RFID and GPS technology. Four logging and sawmill operators in the Quebec area are now using the company's Virtual AT (Virtual Authorization for Transportation) system.
Speaker:| | Jean-Francis Dion, Electrical Engineer, Balance Bourbeau
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Takeaways:
| Best practices for combining RFID and GPS |
| Insights into the potential of RFID to improve distribution and logistics operations |
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| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch in the exhibit hall
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| 1:55 p.m. Sponsored Breakout Session |
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RFID-enabled Six Sigma Supply Chains
In this session, IBM and its business partner, OAT Systems, will show how RFID can help to enable Six Sigma performance in the supply chain, specifically in logistics processes. Six Sigma, as well as other best practices principles like lean manufacturing, require process control, and without the ability to monitor and observe those processes in real time, this can be a very difficult objective to meet. RFID potentially changes all that. This presentation will describe some of the emerging results on the use of RFID in logistics to drive significant top-line and bottom-line benefits.
Speaker:| | Shai Verma, RFID Practice Leader, IBM Canada Ltd
| | | Venkat Krishnamurthy, Chief Technology Officer, OAT Systems
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Takeaways:
| Understanding the potential six sigma benefits with the help of RFID in the supply chain.
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| 2:40 p.m. Sponsored Breakout Session |
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Examining the Can-Trace Initiative
Can-Trace is a collaborative and open initiative committed to the development of traceability standards for all food products sold in Canada. In this session, hear how the collaboration of several government and industry leaders has achieved the Canadian Food Traceability Data Standard, how the initiative fits with existing programs, and the business case of adding traceability to an organization.
Speaker:| | Art Smith, President & CEO, EPCglobal-Canada
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Takeaways:
| Understanding how to best add traceability into your business |
| Insights into how to work the Canadian Food Traceability Data Standard with existing systems |
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| 3:00 p.m. | Refreshment Break
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| 3:25 p.m. Sponsored Breakout Session |
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Using RFID for Global Asset and Product Tracking
The world's largest supplier of wooden pallets has implemented an enterprise-wide global RFID solution after experiencing much success from its field trial. In this session, you will learn about how the company overcame the challenges in effectively tagging products in a highly volatile environment and how to best integrate RFID data with back-end systems.
Speakers:| | Puneet Sawhney, Global Program Manager, RFID, CHEP
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Takeaways:
| How to best implement asset and product tracking systems globally |
| Understanding the challenges in working together with global implementation partners |
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| 4:10 a.m. | Refreshment break in exhibit hall
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| 4:15 a.m. | Closing Keynote:
How Wal-Mart Leverages RFID Data To Create Business Value
In this thought-provoking session, you'll learn how Wal-Mart is using RFID data to help reduce out-of-stocks by 16%. You will learn the goals and how the world's largest retailer plans to take advantage of what it learned from its U.S. rollout of EPC technology to streamline its Canadian supply chain.
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| 5:00 p.m. | Conference adjourns
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