The 3rd T-Engine Forum Symposium “What Has Become of RFID?” on Tuesday, June 21, 2011

T-Engine Forum holds symposiums 5 times a year to introduce the latest topics in addition to the annual TRONSHOW. As the 3rd symposium, we will have one entitled "What Has Become of RFID?"

Date and Time

2:30 – 4:40 pm, Tuesday June 21, 2011

Venue

Sanjo Conference Hall, The University of Tokyo

Organized by

T-Engine Forum

Cosponsored by

Institute of Infrastructure Application of Ubiquitous Computing, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo

Special Cooperation

Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., TRONWARE

Capacity

Up to 100 people

Participation Fee

Free

Introduction of the symposium:

There has been a talk about the emerging RFID market for several years now. However, the tone of the reports from the Japanese media has recently been mainly that there is not much going on in the RFID market. Contrary to the tone, in reality, business applications of RFID technology have been steadily expanding. Smartphones overseas are equipped with an NFC reader as a standard feature, which is just one example of rapidly increasing use of RFID. We will take a look at the overview of the global trend first, and then presentations on the latest trend of RFID and leading RFID manufacturers’ approaches to RFID follow. Finally, the manufacturers and T-Engine Forum Chair Sakamura will discuss the trend of RFID further in the panel session.

Program

2:00 pm: Reception starts

2:30 – 3:10 pm:
Keynote Speech "What Has Become of RFID?"
Ken Sakamura (Chair of T-Engine Forum, Professor of The University of Tokyo)

3:10 – 4:00 pm:
Introduction of current approaches to RFID by leading manufacturers (10 minutes for each company)

• SATO CORPORATION
  Hiromasa Kojima
  Manager
  Solution Technology Group
  Solution Development Division
• Dai Nippon Printing. Co., Ltd.
  Isao Tajima
  Media Development Department
  CBS Enterprise Manufacturing Division
  

• TOPPAN PRINTING CO., LTD.
  Shinji Oi
  Manager
  RFID Promotion Project
  Research and Development Headquarters
  
• TOPPAN FORMS CO.,LTD.
  Shigeo Hayashi
  Assistant Manager
  Business Development Department
  IT Solution Division
  
• Hitachi, LTD., Information & Telecommunication Systems Company
  Koichi Kakuta
  Director
  Solutions Department
  Tracing & Tracking Solutions Division
  Security & Smart ID Solutions Division
  
• FUJITSU LIMITED
  Takanao Ochiai
  Derector, RFID
  Business Incubation Division
  Intelligent Society Business Unit
  
• YRP Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory

4:00 – 4:40 pm
Panel Session
Panel session between the companies above and Chair Sakamura

To sign up for this symposium

Participation Fee

Free

Registration Period

by Friday, June 17

How to Register

Please enter the following information, and "Sign-up for the symposium on Friday, June 21" in the subject line, and e-mail to the T-Engine Forum secretariat (sympo@t-engine.org).

Your organization’s name
Attendee’s name
Attendee’s e-mail address

*The above information for each attendee is required. Duplicate the above lines as many as necessary.

Special Privilege

With cooperation of Nikkei Business Publications, Inc., we will offer 6 months free subscription of "Nikkei Computer," a magazine specializing in IT published by Nikkei Business Publications (13 volumes, issued every second Thursday) to those who are interested.
If you would like this privilege, fill out the necessary information in the application form handed out at the venue, and hand it in at the reception on your way out.

Capacity

Up to 100 people (When the number of registrants reaches the limit, the application will be closed.)

*The information including the program in this notification is subject to change.