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Forum June 2005

An Open Forum
RFID-Enabled Supply Chains & Logistics In Asia

Economic, Strategic & Technological Issues

Press Releases [English] [Chinese]

Pervasive RFID technologies present opportunities and challenges to partners in supply chains and logistics globally. Individually, companies discern positively the benefits of RFID lest costs are amenable. When partners leverage the same exact technologies collectively to achieve advantages over competitive supply chains and logistics services, costs effectiveness may not be only one of the concerns. Rather one of the challenges revolves around end-to-end information management, especially related to privacy and security, coupled with possibly a neutral global third party EPC-based information network. The Asia region takes on unique opportunities (such as the localized EPCglobal network, manufacturing base of the globe, key supply chain hubs, etc.) to expedite collaborative efforts that are pivotal in bringing the first RFID-enabled business chains online. The Center of Cyber Logistics has been leading the business integration of RFID technologies in Hong Kong. This forum brings to you experts and researchers in the region to accentuate imperative collaboration, and highlight the economic, strategic, technological issues of RFID-enabled supply chains and logistics in Asia.

Invited Overseas Speakers:
Professor Min Hao is the Director of Auto-ID Lab at Fudan University. He was a visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University. Professor Min is specialized in RFID chip technology and he is the main architect of the Smart Card used in the transportation systems.

Dr. Nien Chu Wu is a Director of ClarIDy Solutions, Inc. which is a spin off company of Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan. Mr. Wu was the leader of the RFID testing technology and technology development projects. He is currently involved in ITRI’s RFID strategic development plan and Taiwan RFID alliance initiation.

Mr. Wooi Gan Yeoh is heading a group of over twenty IC designers in the Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore. His team is working on various high frequency ICs such as ultra-wideband transceiver, RFID reader and tag ICs, low-power RF transceiver for wireless sensors, optical communication ICs, etc. He holds four patents and has two patents pending.

Ms. Yukiko Yumoto is an Associate Director of Industrial Deployment, Auto-ID Lab, Japan. She is also the Director of Global Alliance and Marketing Hibiki Project ID solution division, Hitachi Co. Yukiko has been involved in RFID project since she was manager of Auto-ID business development at Sun Microsystems, Japan in 2001.

Date Thursday, June 30,2005, 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Venue Ballroom, Hotel Nikko, East Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Contacts
Professor Waiman Cheung
(852)2609-7816
Email: wcheung@cuhk.edu.hk

Ms. Connie Vong
(852)3163-4081; Fax:(852)2603-5104
Email:connievong@cuhk.edu.hk

Registration
$580 per person (lunch included)
$380 per employee of sponsors (lunch included)

To register, please complete the registration form and fax to (852) 2603-5104 by June 27, 2005.

For cheque payment:

The cheque should be payable to: "The Chinese University of Hong Kong" and please send to the following address:

Mailing address: Rm 303, 3/F, Academic Building No. 2, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Sponsors:

Asia Airfreight Terminal Limited
Automated Systems (HK) Limited
Cathay Pacific Airways Limited
Dimerco Air Forwarders (HK) Limited
DHL Express (HK) Limited
GS1 Hong Kong
Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited
Kerry Logistics (HK) Limited
NEC (HK) Limited
Oracle Systems HK Limited
SML Group Limited
SUN Microsystems of California Limited
Tradelink Electronic Commerce Limited

Forum Agenda

9:00 am Registration

9:30 am Opening Remarks
Miss Janice Tse
Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Labour (Economic Development), Economic Development & Labour Bureau, Hong Kong

9:45 am RFID Adoption: What is missing?
Professors Waiman Cheung, Sung-Chi Chu & Timon Du
Center of Cyber Logistics

10:10 am
RFID Adoption: Baggage Handling at Hong Kong International Airport
Mr. Howard Eng Kiu-chor
Airport Management Director, Airport Authority Hong Kong

10:35 am RFID Adoption: RFID Applications and Technological Approaches in Taiwan
Mr. Nien Chu Wu
Director, ClarIDy Solutions, Inc, Taiwan.

11:00 am
Coffee Break

11:20 am
RFID Adoption: Development & Implementation Towards Standardization in Japan
Ms. Yukiko Yumoto
Director, Auto-ID Lab at Keio University, Japan

11:45 am RFID Adoption: Issues and Concerns in China
Professor Min Hao
Director, Auto-ID Lab at Fudan University, China

12:10 pm
RFID Adoption: Issues and Concerns in Singapore
Mr. Yeoh Wooi Gan
Technical Manager, Institute of Microelectronics, Singapore

12:35 am
Lunch
Mr. Elwin Loomis
Chief Information Officer, SML Group Limited, Hong Kong

2:00 pm

Roundtable Forum : (in English)
Sifting Through RFID Hodgepodge in Asia

Moderators : Professors Waiman Cheung,Executive Director, Li & Fung Centre for SCM & Logistics
Panelists :

Mr. Paul Cheng, CEO, Autotoll HK Limited
Professor Min Hao, Director, Auto-ID Lab at Fudan University
Ms. Anna Lin, CEO, GS1 Hong Kong
Mr. Yeoh Wooi Gan, Technical Manager,Institute of Microelectrionics
Ms. Yukiko Yumoto, Director, Auto-ID Lab at Keio University

3:30 pm Closing

Presentation slides are available to be downloaded here. The forum is funded by Li & Fung Centre for SCM & Logistics and Asia Pacific Institute of Business.

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The Center of Cyber Logistics (or Cyber Logistics Research Center), is a research center under Li & Fung Institute of Supply Chain Management & Logistics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. The Center was first established in early 2000 affiliated with the Department of Decision Sciences & Managerial Economics (DSE), Faculty of Business Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Business, The City University of Hong Kong