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1 11 T H A N N U A L E V E N T Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre TRACK AND MANAGE EVERYTHING WITH RFID Learn how to improve efficiencies, enhance visibility, reduce shrinkage and more Find the right technology partners to move forward Plus, attend RFID training and certification SAVE AN EXTRA 10% NOW WITH CODE L S A C CORNERSTONE SPONSOR

2 about the event RFID technologies are now being deployed at large, midsize and small companies to improve efficiencies, enhance visibility, reduce shrinkage and achieve other significant business benefits. This oneday event is designed to help companies considering using RFID technologies to address real business challenges determine the best RFID technology for their needs, learn best practices from early adopters, find the right technology partners and move forward. The conference will open with three general sessions, and then divide into two tracks. The Retail Track will include case studies by retailers benefiting from the use of RFID today. Among the topics speakers will cover are: Improving in-store inventory accuracy Enhancing the customer experience RFID-enabled replenishment Supply-chain applications Benefits for suppliers And much more The Main Track will cover a wide variety of applications relevant to companies in manufacturing, logistics and other industries. These applications include: Asset tracking Inventory management Tracking work-in-process Boosting shipping accuracy RFID-enabled kanban systems Supply-chain management And much more TEAMS OF 3 OR MORE SAVE 20% OFF EACH REGISTRATION There will be several breaks in the conference program during which attendees can network and visit the exhibit area. Exhibitors participating in the event will likely be displaying the following types of RFID technologies: Passive ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) Passive high-frequency (HF) Passive low-frequency (LF) Ultra-wideband (UWB) RuBee x Active UHF ZigBee Hybrid tags And others What attendees are saying Epic event. RFID Journal LIVE! Europe was the perfect mix between conference topics and exhibitors. The aerospace breakfast was the highlight for me because it was a deep dive in my industry. It inspired me to go back to my company and challenge the leadership team on its outlook on RFID. Lyle Montgomery, Product Support Engineer, Bombardier RFID Journal events are the most productive use of my prospects time. Seeing is believing, and your events prove the value of the technology and make them successful. Roy Noepel, Enterprise Sales Manager, Oat Systems 2

3 GENERAL SESSIONS, 10 NOV. THE STATE OF RFID ADOPTION IN EUROPE In this presentation, RFID Journal s Mark Roberti will bring attendees up to date on the state of adoption in Europe, share insights into which industries are adopting RFID most quickly and explain which factors are currently driving adoption. As the editor of RFID Journal, Roberti has had a unique view of the RFID industry's development around the globe. This session will also provide an overview of the RFID market in Europe today, including future projections and opportunities the industry will face in 2016 and beyond. SPEAKER: Mark Roberti, Founder and Editor, RFID Journal FROM INNOVATION TO INFORMATION EXPANDING THE VALUE OF RFID SOLUTIONS RFID continues to work its way into our business processes. The past year has been characterized by increasing deployments, rising growth projections and a recognition of the clear benefits that can result from RFID solutions. From retail to health care to manufacturing and beyond, organizations are using various types of RF and sensor technologies in a growing number of form factors to drive new levels of efficiency and productivity. As Zebra's director of European business development, Pankaj Shukla is in a unique position to discuss this momentum, as he shares his perspective on where we've been, where we are going and the importance of innovation and information to the future of the RFID solution set. SPEAKER: Pankaj Shukla, Director, Global RFID Market Development, Zebra Technologies RFID: THE OMNICHANNEL ENABLER Retail 3.0 is here, driven by the consumer's demand for an "anywhere, anytime, any product" experience. The response to this new consumer demand is omnichannel retailing. Unfortunately, most retailers are not yet in a position to successfully implement an omnichannel strategy because they do not know (with confidence) what they have and where they have it. Existing methods of inventory management are inadequate in an omnichannel world. Instead, a new approach to inventory management, enabled by radio frequency identification, is required. In this presentation, Bill Hardgrave will discuss the basic underpinnings of a successful omnichannel strategy such as ship-from-stores and buy-online-pickupin-stores and how these strategies are enabled by RFID. SPEAKER: Dr. Bill Hardgrave, Dean, Harbert College of Business, Auburn University MAIN TRACK, 10 NOV. PKN ORLEN USES RFID-POWERED FUEL TANKS TO IMPROVE RAIL YARD LOGISTICS PKN Orlen, a major Polish oil refiner and petrol retailer, is using RFID to track fuel tanks in rail yards. The firm has tagged more than 5,000 tanks, utilizing 100 fixed readers and 70 mobile readers, using GS1 standards. The project also includes equipping 100 gates with RFID, enabling direction recognition. Learn how PKN Orlen is successfully using the solution to provide transparency into logistics and improve its planning processes. SPEAKER: Piotr Dura, Director of Logistics Systems and Settlements, PKN Orlen THE ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON NHS TRUST USES RTLS TO CREATE A REAL-TIME HOSPITAL The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust has installed an infrared (IR)-based RFID solution that it believes has made the facility the largest "real-time hospital" in the world, as part of its SafeHands program. The program monitors more than one million hand-hygiene events per month, tracking the interactions of patients and personnel, as well as equipment use, sitewide. By monitoring the locations of assets, patients and staff members, Mark Roberti Founder and Editor Pankaj Shukla Director, Global RFID Market Development Piotr Dura Director of Logistics Systems and Settlements Dr. Bill Hardgrave Dean, Harbert College of Business PKN ORLEN 3

4 the hospital believes that it can provide a safer and more efficient environment for patients and employees. The facility also utilizes the technology to record patient, staff and asset contacts during disease outbreaks, and to better understand patient dependency by analyzing staff times at bedsides. SPEAKERS: Gemma Smallman, Senior Sister and Clare Nash, Programme Manager, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust including cable drums, excavators and excavator shovels to those sites, and must monitor when those items are used, inspected, repaired or moved from one location to another, or back to the headquarters. Find out how, in addition to reducing labor time to track equipment, the system is being used by the payroll department to log workers onto and off the site at the beginning and end of each shift. POLTRONA FRAU USES RFID TO INCREASE MANUFACTURING AND LOGISTICS EFFICIENCY Italian furniture manufacturer Poltrona Frau, a leader in top-of-the-range furniture recognized throughout the world for the design and production of its Italian-made goods, has been refining its sophisticated expertise in hand-crafted workmanship for more than 100 years. Each year, Poltrona Frau manages a countless number of European full-grain leather pieces, each one with specific characteristics. Due to the very high cost and the strategic role of this material, the firm introduced RFID into its manufacturing process to track and trace leather from the tannery to the production department, where it is then made into a piece of luxury furniture. Learn how the company is using the technology to manage the leather warehouse, where every optimization has a huge impact on the overall efficiency of the production process. SPEAKER: Roberto Boselli, CIO and Digital Communications Manager, Poltrona Frau Group ENGINEERING FIRM USES RFID TO KEEP TRACK OF TOOLS, WORKERS A global structural and civil-engineering firm has eliminated the need for its construction foremen to manually track the company's 6,000 pieces of equipment at dozens of European construction sites, and reduced the amount of time needed for its annual inventory check by 50 percent, by adopting an RFID-based solution. The company has approximately 60 active construction sites throughout much of Europe, where its personnel are working at any given time. The firm also provides equipment MANAGING RETURNABLE TRANSIT ITEMS (RTIS) USING RFID PLS, a British provider of plastic pallets and reusable containers, as well as a manager of pallets and containers used by other companies, is deploying RFID to track its own assets while also helping customers to set up RFID tracking for their reusable pallets and containers. PLS is currently tagging its own products, in addition to installing RFID interrogators at its three European depots (two in the United Kingdom, and one in Germany), and at a number of third-party warehouses that the firm utilizes to ship its pallets and containers throughout Europe. In this session, hear the company's future plans, which include putting readers in customers' warehouses, and enabling them to share information with PLS regarding the containers' movements. SPEAKER: Jon Graves, Director of Operations, PLS AUTOMATING THE MANUFACTURING PROCESS VIA RFID An interior door manufacturer is affixing passive UHF tags to the wood planks it uses to make its products, employing RFID data to instruct the automatic manufacturing process. The factory has RFID-enabled two production lines for the routing and customization of doors. By shifting the manufacturing to an automated system, the firm is now able to better accommodate a large number of orders in a timely manner. Learn how the RFID-enabled automation saves time and reduces the potential for human error. Gemma Smallman Senior Sister Roberto Boselli CIO and Digital Communications Manager Jon Graves Director of Operations Rupert Thorpe Senior Manager, Selling Support Department ROYAL WOLVERHAMPTON NHS TRUST PLS 4

5 RETAIL TRACK, 10 NOV. THE JOHN LEWIS SUCCESS STORY: FROM PILOT TO DEPLOYMENT John Lewis is a leading department store retailer in the U.K., owned by The John Lewis Partnership, which also operates Waitrose supermarkets. In 2007, the company made its first foray into RFID with a one-store evaluation in the women s shoe department. Based on the results of that project, in 2008, it moved to men's suits in four trial stores and four control stores, tagging at the source. Hear how the firm recently conducted a pilot in three shops which included the integration of legacy systems and 25,000 SKUs across selected fashion assortments. Gain an understanding of the challenges faced by John Lewis and how the company plans to roll out item-level RFID to more stores. SPEAKER: Rupert Thorpe, Senior Manager, Selling Support Department, John Lewis MARC O POLO DISCOVERS RFID S BENEFITS German casual apparel company Marc O'Polo has adopted a radio frequency identification solution to track its products across the entire supply chain, from its distribution center to 86 of its stores throughout Europe. The company installed the system in 2014, and is now expanding the deployment to include the tagging of products by manufacturers, thereby enabling the retailer to track its merchandise from the point at which they are made. The technology has enabled Marc O'Polo to obtain real-time, accurate inventory data, making it possible for consumers to find what they need while shopping at the store. Learn how the firm is using RFID to increase revenue, thanks to the higher availability of goods on the sales floor. SPEAKER: Jana Hildenbrand, Director of Sales Support, Marc O Polo GIKS FASHION CHAIN DEPLOYS RFID IN STORES AND DC WITHIN A WEEK GIKS MODE sells fashion and apparel items from multiple top brands, with stores across Belgium. The chain is using RFID at all of its stores and its distribution center to increase sales and reduce shrinkage. The fashion retail chain put the technology into production during a single week in June, due to careful planning and execution, as well as the plug-and-play nature of the selected solution. The firm is tagging all of its items at the central DC and, as a result, has gained visibility into stock movements across the entire supply chain. GIKS MODE deployed a variety of in-store and supply chain applications, including weekly store cycle counts, shipment validation, early detection of vendor errors and automated point-of-sale checkout. During this presentation, the firm will discuss its RFID deployment, along with IT considerations and RFID business benefits for fashion retail chains. SPEAKER: Stefaan Allemeersch, CEO, GIKS MODE RFID USE GROWS AND EVOLVES AT MARKS AND SPENCER A pioneer in the use of radio frequency identification, Marks & Spencer (M&S) is one of the United Kingdom's leading retailers, with some 760 stores. In 2001, M&S began using RFID to track deliveries of fresh food into distribution centers. In 2004, the company launched its RFID effort, deploying a solution to tag and track some clothing items at several locations. From 2012 to 2014, M&S saw a massive expansion in its deployment to include 380 of its largest U.K. stores and more than 95% of its apparel and homeware. Since then, M&S has been busy investigating and trialing new uses of the technology across the entire scope of its operations. Learn why the firm expects the technology's future benefits to provide even greater merchandise visibility and accuracy, from suppliers through DCs and into stores, to support their omnichannel efforts. Hear how RFID will be used to reduce costs, make processes more efficient, improve accuracy and ultimately enhance top-line and bottom-line performance. SPEAKER: Richard Jenkins, Head of RFID Strategic Development, Marks & Spencer Jana Hildenbrand Director of Sales Support Stefaan Allemeersch CEO Richard Jenkins Head of RFID Strategic Development Hans Petter Hübert Retail Director 5

6 MOODS OF NORWAY INCREASES SALES VIA RFID Scandinavian clothing company Moods of Norway (MoN) has equipped 13 of its stores with RFID technology to better manage its inventory. This deployment follows a six-month pilot that boosted sales of men's shirts and suits by double digits. During the pilot (which consisted of tagging men's shirts and suits, and using a handheld reader to conduct inventory counts on the sales floor), the system not only provided 98 to 99 percent inventory accuracy, but also reduced the amount of labor employees spent performing manual inventory checks, thereby enabling more frequent checks. Learn how MoN expanded the program to include men's suits, and how it expects to tag all children's, sports, women's and men's clothing, as well as footwear. SPEAKER: Hans Petter Hübert, Supply Chain Manager, Moods of Norway RIVER ISLAND USES RFID TO IMPROVE VISIBILITY AND COMBAT LOSS Fashion brand River Island operates more than 350 stores throughout Europe,the Philippines and the Middle East, as well as a website that ships to more than 100 countries worldwide. This session will cover River Island's use of RFID from trial to rollout. Hear how the trials have been implemented, the benefits and learnings the company has obtained, and the next steps of the project. SPEAKER: Jon Wright, Head of Safety and Loss, River Island Jon Wright Head of Safety and Loss RIVER ISLAND TEAMS OF 3 OR MORE SAVE 20% OFF EACH REGISTRATION 9 NOV. FAST TRACK RFID INSTITUTE CERTIFIED ASSOCIATE TRAINING This advanced, one-day fast-track course, featuring the latest equipment and relevant RFID deployment scenarios, provides a solid foundation to design, install, configure, monitor and troubleshoot an RFID deployment and prepare participants for the RFID Institute Certified Associate exam. The exam will be delivered onsite the morning of 10 Nov. at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe 2015, so you can get trained and certified during the event. 6

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