RFIDJournal.com’s Best of 2023: MEET THE INFLUENCERS: Koichi Tagawa Led NFC Standardization Through 20 Specifications

By Claire Swedberg

Known informally as the Father of the NFC Forum, Tagawa co-founded the standards organization in 2004 as a Sony representative and served as chair or vice-chair as technology development evolved and expanded.

Editor's note: As we get toward the end of 2023, RFIDJournal.com is looking back at some of the top stories that we published in the last year. Nearly 20 years after helping to found the NFC Forum, Koichi Tagawa, Sony's former general manager, stepped down from his position as chair at the standards organization in 2022. He leaves behind a much-changed industry and standards group. Tagawa has had a front seat in the vehicle driving the technology's e...

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