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Dr. Krish Mantripragada, Director of SAP RFID Product Management
Dr. Mantripragada has over ten years of experience in Supply Chain Management, Product Lifecycle Management and Manufacturing across enterprise software, industry and academia. He has held management and research positions in companies like i2 Technologies, Agile Software, and United Technologies and has worked with numerous large companies worldwide. Dr. Mantripragada holds a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and specializes in the areas of supply chain management, Product Design and Dynamic Systems. Dr. Mantripragada obtained his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
Dr. Richard Swan, CTO, T3Ci (Also EPCglobal EPCIS working group co-chair) 
Dr. Richard Swan is the CTO and co-founder of T3Ci. Immediately prior to forming T3Ci,
Richard was Technical Director for Auto-ID at SAP. At SAP, Richard created and led the
team that established SAP as an early leader in responding to the opportunity with RFID.
These projects included a joint pilot with Procter & Gamble and a major retailer that
tracked cosmetic products at a fine grain level from manufacturer to store shelf and
closed the loop with an adaptive supply chain driven directly from consumer demand.
Another pilot application was with Metro, Europe's largest retailer. This includes
tagging of most dry goods at the case level and three different smart shelves at the
item level. This project won the Wall Street Journal's 2003 Innovation Award. Richard
was appointed by SAP's internal Executive Board to lead the technical product strategy
for RFID.
Richard was also Vice President of VLSI Test Systems at Megatest Corporation (now Teradyne) where he led the development of an industry leading "tester-per-pin" architecture system adopted by leading semiconductor companies including IBM and Texas Instruments. Richard led Digital Equipment Corporation's (now HP) Western Research Laboratory and created DEC's Network Systems Lab. Richard has a BS from the University of Essex in England and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Richard Bravman, Chairman & CEO of Intelleflex Corporation Richard Bravman joined Intelleflex Corporation, "The Intelligent RFID Platform Company," in September of 2005 as its Chairman and CEO. Earlier, Bravman had a distinguished 25-year career at Symbol Technologies, Inc., serving most recently as its CEO and Vice Chairman. He joined Symbol as a 5-person start-up and played a central role in multiple stages of organization growth, renewal and strategic transformation. His career spanned the growth of Symbol as it evolved to a global leader in its field: an S&P 500 NYSE-listed company with over 5500 associates. His hands-on and leadership experiences, spanning upside / growth and turn-around challenge scenarios, include: In addition to his senior executive experience, Mr. Bravman has held general management and functional leadership roles in teams responsible for product development, IP portfolio management, marketing and business development, and sales and systems integration. Bravman serves on the boards of several early stage technology companies. He holds a BS in computer science from the State University of NY at Stony Brook.
Jeff Jacobsen, President of Applied Wireless Identifications Group, Inc (AWID) 
On February 17th, 2003, Mr. Jacobsen became President of Applied Wireless (www.awid.com). Applied is
focused on the development of lower cost higher performance Multi-RFID protocol (EPC, ISO, EM Micro,
Philips U-Code, etc.) RFID tag readers with improved digital antenna technology. Prior to joining
Applied, Mr. Jacobsen was the founder, CEO & President of Alien Technology Corporation, a leader in
low cost RFID tag development and IC assembly. Mr. Jacobsen is a active leader in the MIT Auto ID C
enter Consortium, now called EPC Global and operated by the UCC and EAN. Mr. Jacobsen has contributed
to the current accelerated growth of the RFID industry and the global adoption of the Electronic
Product Code (EPC), the fastest growing RFID supply chain and logistics standard. In December 2002
Mr. Jacobsen completed the world¡¦s largest RFID tag contract with The Gillette Company for 500
million RFID tags.
Prior to Alien Technology, Mr. Jacobsen has been involved in three high tech start-up companies Kopin Corporation, ZyMos Corporation and ILSI; all three companies went public through an initial public offering on NASDAQ. Mr. Jacobsen received a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin with two majors and currently holds 35 US patents in IC Design, IC Assembly, Antenna fabrication and advanced Roll-to-Roll manufacturing technologies.
Thomas H. Lee, Professor of Stanford Microwave Integrated Circuits Laboratory 
Thomas H. Lee received the S.B., S.M. and Sc.D. degrees in electrical engineering, all from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1983, 1985, and 1990, respectively.
He joined Analog Devices in 1990 where he was primarily engaged in the design of high-speed clock recovery devices. In 1992, he joined Rambus Inc. in Mountain View, CA where he developed high-speed analog circuitry for 500 megabyte/s CMOS DRAMs. He has also contributed to the development of PLLs in the StrongARM, Alpha and AMD K6/K7/K8 microprocessors. Since 1994, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where his research focus has been on gigahertz-speed wireline and wireless integrated circuits built in conventional silicon technologies, particularly CMOS. He has twice received the "Best Paper" award at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference, co-authored a "Best Student Paper" at ISSCC, was awarded the Best Paper prize at CICC, and is a Packard Foundation Fellowship recipient. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer of both the Solid-State Circuits and Microwave Societies. He holds 35 U.S. patents and authored The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (now in its second edition), and Planar Microwave Engineering, both with Cambridge University Press. He is a co-author of four additional books on RF circuit design, and also cofounded Matrix Semiconductor.
Keith Cotterill, President and Founder of Bonsai Development Corporation (BDC) 
Keith Cotterill is a serial entrepreneur with extensive financial, technology, and strategy experience with
Silicon Valley application companies. Since founding BDC in early 2004 he has developed business in the USA,
Europe, Mexico and China; and engaged in pilots in multiple industries: manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical
and finance. Keith has worldwide experience of sales, business development, and rollout of new products in
new markets and has worked at Oracle, SAP, Netscape and Commerce One. In 2002 he was part of the founding
team at Webify Solutions, a Web Service Application company recently sold to IBM. Keith is an Oxford
Philosophy graduate and a Chartered Accountant.
My presentation will explore BDC¡¦s real-life projects and industry experience to share our lessons and findings in a challenging sector.
Dr. Richard Zai, CTO, Adept Identification Technologies 
Dr. Richard Zai is CTO and co-founder of Adept Identification Technologies that specializes in the
areas of radio frequency identification (RFID). From 1987 to 1997, Richard was a manager and research
staff member at IBM Watson Research Laboratory where he was instrumental in developing a high-performance
2.45 GHz RFID reader and the fastest 3DOF robot system in the world. He specializes in architecting and
delivering technology solutions in the areas of RFID, wireless communications, and robotics. Richard
receives his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and holds 12 US patents.
Dr. Jimmy Li, Deputy Director, Inititative Office for Government RFID Applications, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan, and Advisor, IDEAS, III, Taiwan 
Dr. Jimmy Li serves as a technology advisor to Institute of Information Industry, a key IT research
institute in Taiwan and technology think tank to Taiwan government.
In these capacities, Dr. Li is assisting Taiwan government to define the strategic development plan
for the emerging RFID industry, and initiate government RFID applications to stimulate applications
in private sectors. Dr. Li is also leading an R&D team to develop an integrated software platform to
facilitate future RFID-enabled application development and integrations. He is also building a
comprehensive integration laboratory and solution promotion center for RFID technology testing,
development and integration.
Previously, Dr. Li worked a few hi-tech or startup companies in Silicon Valley, such as Sun, Borland and Transcast. Dr. Li received his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. This talk will outline the current status of RFID technology industry and usages in Taiwan and the government strategy to stimulate the industry development. Taiwan government has setup multi-year plan to proactively conduct RFID pilot projects that will lead to major deployments in a number key public sectors. The main goal is to stimulate industry investment in both R&D and adoptions. It also welcomes international companies participation and collaboration to speed up the process.
Dr. Elmer M. Hsu, VP & General Director of RFID Technology Center, ITRI, Taiwan 
Education:
Professional Experience: Strategies pursued by ITRI to establish leadership position in RFID technology and application development include (1) leveraging international collaborations, (2) leveraging government funding, (3) establishing an RFID infrastructure through the use of corporate alliances, (4) reserving bandwidth (922 to 928 MHz) in Taiwan for RFID applications, and (5) establishing a RFID test and performance evaluation center. From a technology development perspective, ITRI's success extends beyond RFID microchip and reader design. Other engineering projects currently being pursued at ITRI for associated RFID value-added technology involve a wide range of topic areas from integration of tag with sensor, to miniaturization of reader to Secure Digital Input/Output 1(SDIO), then to system-on-a-chip for mobile device to enable the ubiquitous mobile service. The long-term goal is to create a respected international brand that will allow Taiwanese RFID solution providers to climb the global value chain. Our technology development successes have powered an overall leadership strategy to create and support a local industry cluster. ITRI is instrumental in the direction of the Taiwan RFID Strategic Alliance, a group of 180 companies. Grouping local industry in the alliance by technical strengths, ITRI has been able to focus matching government matching funds to stimulate local industry participation in strategic areas. As a first step in creating a global RFID brand, this infrastructure development strategy has allowed us to incubate, and to commercially spin-off, a RFID solutions provider company. This inspires local entrepreneurial innovation, as well as creates an entity that demonstrates immediate economic value and viability. In conclusion, we believe that our strategies will lay a solid RFID infrastructure foundation in Taiwan. This technical and economic investment will support the emergence of a local brand that can grow to eventually become a global top-tier RFID solutions provider. Thomas Odenwald, Director of SAP Research 
Thomas Odenwald is located at SAP Labs Palo Alto, California and heads up the global Smart
Items research program within SAP Research. His area of responsibility includes Auto-ID,
sensor networks and embedded systems and their impact and value for future enterprise
service architectures. Thomas has gained valuable experience working with the Hass School
of Business, at the Univesity of California, in Berkley, and Stanford University. Prior
to joining SAP Research, Thomas oversaw a variety of different research and development
groups in Palo Alto, Germany and India. He has a strong background in standard software
development and business applications, with a focus on discrete industries. Thomas holds
a Masters Degree in Economics and Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe,
Germany.
SAP Research aims at creating a holistic, service-oriented 'Smart Items' architecture for the seamless integration of real-world data and events into enterprise software that efficiently exploits the capabilities of these technologies, to provide organizations with a significant competitive advantage.
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Dr. Krish Mantripragada is the Program Director and Global Lead for RFID at SAP responsible
for solution and technology strategy, solution definition and rollout of a broad range of
Auto-ID enabled solutions across multiple industries and applications