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Speakers 
Ms Stina Apel,
RFID Project Manager, Transport and Telematic Services,
Volvo
Stina Apel, an RFID project manager at Volvo Technology, is responsible for the company's RFID activities.
Stina is a member of Odette Sweden, where she is involved in the standardization of RFID. She has a Master
of Science degree in computer science from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. One of
many projects Stina is involved in is a project with the objective to spread the competence of RFID within
the Volvo Group.
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 Mr Rick Beasley,
Operations Manager,
Meat and Livestock Australia
Rick Beasley is currently Operations Manager, National Livestock Identification Scheme. He has been working with Meat and Livestock Australia on this program for the last five years. During this time, the NLIS has been developed from a concept to a fully operational scheme with over 40 million devices recorded.
Rick grew up on a cattle property on the Western Darling Downs of Queensland and started work with the Qld Dept of Primary Industries in beef cattle research and extension in Central and North Qld.
He realised that the marketing of cattle was central to greater productivity and returns and moved to the Qld. Livestock and Meat Authority where the first systems of trading cattle on specifications were developed.
After 10 years in developing cattle marketing systems, he moved to a position of Livestock Operations Manager with a large export meatworks. This position was responsible for the purchasing of 1 000 cattle a day and matching the production to sales and marketing.
During his time in this position, he realised that product integrity was becoming a more important part of the supply chain. After leaving the meatworks position, he joined MLA to develop and implement the NLIS program.
The NLIS is now recognised as world’s best identification, traceability and product integrity system.
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 Dr Peter Cole,
Research Director, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
University of Adelaide
Peter Cole obtained the degrees of B.Sc. B.E. and Ph.D. at the University of Sydney, following which he was engaged in three years post doctoral study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has interests in radio frequency identification, electromagnetic engineering, microcircuit design, and signal processing. He has taught at the Universities of Adelaide and Sydney, and is now Professor of Radio Frequency Identification Systems in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at The University of Adelaide. He was a founder and was from 1984 to 1999 the Chairman of Directors of Integrated Silicon Design Pty. Ltd., a South Australian Company specialising in Radio Frequency Identification Systems. In 2002 he was invited to join the Auto-ID Center established by MIT, and is now Director of the Auto-ID Laboratory at Adelaide, one of seven Auto-ID research laboratories throughout the word supported by MIT and EPCglobal.
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 Mr Frank Dorrian,
Vice-President, Asia Pacific,
RFID Business Association
Frank Dorrian is Vice President of RFIDba, Asia Pacific, and has over twenty years experience in the IT
and Telecoms industries. Frank has held a series of senior management positions for US multinationals
and has worked on international assignments in the USA, Europe and Asia Pacific.
He was a Vice President in Unisys, Tandem Computers, and Avid Technology where he had Asia Pacific
Regional responsibility. He was also involved in setting up Joint Ventures in Singapore, India and China.
He ran two of these Joint Ventures; he was VP of the Tata Unisys JV; and Executive Vice Chairman of a JV
with Tandem and Singapore Gov IT Organisation.
More recently he held the positions of Client Director for the Optus outsourcing contract, and Managing Director
for Wireless Business Solutions. He is experienced in the implementation of RFID projects, RFID business process
re-engineering, and ROI studies.
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 Mr Jasver Foo,
Business Development Manager, R F I D,
Zebra Technologies Asia Pacific
Jasver has been in the AIDC (Auto Identification and Data Collection) industry for more than 6 years.
Having been in the RFID industry for the last 5 years, he has successfully implemented a couple of key
RFID projects in the Asia Pacific region. A trained RFID engineer, Jasver holds an MBA from Preston
University.
Since joining Zebra Technologies LLC, Jasver has served various system design, business development,
sales and management roles. Currently, he is responsible for the strategic RFID business development
in Asia Pacific.
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Bruce Grant,
RFID Project Manager,
Procter & Gamble
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 Mr Brian Haverty,
Director,
ZDNet Australia
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 Mr Roger Holding,
Senior Manager,
ACT Corrective Service
Roger Holding began his career in corrections as a prison officer in 1983 and worked in the UK public
sector Prison Service for 11 years before joining the private sector. From 1997 to 2004 Roger held a number
of management and corporate positions in the private custodial services industry in Australia, before
joining ACT Corrective Services to be part of the most exciting project in Australian criminal justice -
the establishment of the Territory's first fully fledged prison.
Starting with a blank page a number of innovative design and operational features are being incorporated
including the first use of RFID tracking for prisoners and staff in an Australian prison.
Roger has qualifications from the University of York - Economics and Politics - and an MBA from the
University of Durham Business School.
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 Annika Johansson,
RFID Project Manager,
Volvo
Annika Johansson is a project manager of RFID at Volvo Technology. She is currently working on the
analysis of an RFID pilot. Annika holds a Master of Science degree in information systems in logistics
from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. The overall objective of her Master's thesis
was to investigate two RFID systems at Volvo Trucks. This thesis won a "Thesis of the Year" award from
PLAN, the Swedish Production and Inventory Management Society.
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 Mr Patrick King,
Global Electronics Strategist,
Michelin
Dr. King is the current leader for global electronics strategies for Michelin. His activities heavily
involve external electronics supplier relations as well as product development program support around the
world. Prior to joining Michelin Dr. King was founder of Technologies ROI, LLC consulting within the
Supply Chain Industry and before that VP. Engineering for Marconi Infochain an ASP and RfID solutions
provider. Dr. King past includes a long history of products and achievements in the general field of AutoID
in nine vertical industries.
Dr King has over 20 patents in the fields of Autoidentification, RfID, Imaging, Lasers and Printing. He is
a member of AIDC 100, AIMGlobal REG and Michelin representative to EPC, contributor RFID for Dummies and
recently the 2006 Percival Awardee by AIM Global.
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Jonathan Loretto,
General Manager, Extended Enterprise Solutions,
Telstra Corporation
Jonathan Loretto is a global leading expert in the field of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies, having worked extensively in public and private sectors across the UK, Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.
With a background spanning technology innovation, program management, consulting and executive management Jonathan has been greatly sought to serve in board positions for high profile projects like Auto-ID and MIT’s Supply Innovative Forum.
Jonathan’s deep knowledge and experience with RFID technologies, processes and applications provides strength and enrichment to the IP transformation strategy for Telstra Enterprise and Government.
His extensive comprehension of information systems and technology management, together with his high competencies in consulting bring true value to the 2006 RFID World conference.
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Malcolm McKeith,
Director - Visibility Programme,
Defence Materiel Organisation
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 Dr John Mo,
Team Leader, Manufacturing Systems,
CSIRO Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technoloy
Dr. John Mo obtained his PhD from Loughborough University, UK, in Industrial Automation. He is currently
Team Leader of Manufacturing Systems in the Division of Manufacturing and Infrastructure Technology, CSIRO,
Australia. His expertise includes design for flexible manufacturing, system integration, data
communication, automation, sensor networks, signal diagnostics processing and RFID applications. In the
last 9 years in CSIRO, he led several large scale international projects involving multi-disciplinary
teams in the development of advanced design methods and manufacturing of one-off facilities such as
chemical plants and high value computer controlled machinery. Prior to joining CSIRO, he was Senior
Lecturer and Course Leader at RMIT University.
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 Ms Adele Nairn,
Technologies Manager,
Manukau Libraries
Adele has worked in the IT industry for 25 years including 14 years working for several multinationals in
Europe before returning to New Zealand in 2002. She has spent the last three years at Manukau Libraries
part of Manukau City Council in Auckland, New Zealand.
Adele led the project to deploy a fully integrated RFID security and inventory management system at Botany
Library in 2004, the first public library to do so in New Zealand. The project won the New Zealand
Computerworld Excellence in the Use of IT in Government Award in 2005. Adele has spoken at several
conferences in NZ and Australia about the success of the project.
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 Ms Maria Palazzolo,
Chief Executive Officer,
GS1 Australia
Maria Palazzolo has more than twenty years’ experience at GS1 Australia (formally EAN Australia). As
Chief Executive Officer, she has successfully positioned GS1 Australia as a change agent in a highly
dynamic field. Her strength lies in her wide range of industry experience and expertise in the field of
standards development.
A large part of Ms Palazzolo’s role is to encourage industry leadership and collaboration to enhance
supply-chain management and drive the competitiveness and profitability of Australian industry in local
and international markets. Her business acumen and leadership skills are highly sought after. She is also
an experienced facilitator and sits on several global committees, advisory councils and boards.
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 Mr Harry Pappas,
Founder, President and Executive Director,
The International RFID Business Association
"Harry is the founder and President of The International RFID Business Association, an International, Not
for profit, vendor neutral, educational trade association focused on providing education/training and other
value added services to End users and other members of the RFIDba.
Pappas has spent the last five years in the RFID space working with Active as well as Passive RFID
technologies in a number of industries in a "hands-on" capacity. Harry is a firm believer in taking a
“Holistic” (Systems) approach to the implementation of RFID in all enterprises. He believes that RFID is
just another data collection technology that needs to complement and seamlessly be integrated with
existing, enterprise infrastructure.
Pappas is also the founder and President of VIAERA, LLC, a system integrator, specializing in wireless,
real time, supply chain RFID/ warehouse applications. Viaera also develops customized, software
applications for mobile, Data Capture devices, and smart phones, Blackberry devices, PDA’s, etc. and
is the founder RFID Integrators, Inc. a global RFID system Integrator for the Pharma industry.
Harry is a graduate of Widener University and speaks at many trade shows in the USA and Europe. He is also
active with many cultural and philanthropic organizations.
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Mr Geoff Ramadan,
Chairman and Managing Director,
ADCA
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Mr Gary Smith,
Director of IT,
TNT Australia
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 Mr Y F Wong,
Head of Technical Services and Procurement,
Hong Kong Airport Authority
YF Wong is currently the Head of Technical Services and Procurement of Airport Authority. He is a
Chartered Electrical Engineer, and received education both in Hong Kong and UK. After the initial
training with Hong Kong Electric Co Ltd, he joined EMSD of Hong Kong goverment to work at the Kai Tak
Airport before leaving for working at BAA of UK for more than 8 years. He then join AA since 1997 for
the setting up of the then Engineering and Maintenance Department and gradually rising to the existing
position responsible for Procurement; the maintenance and improvement works of all non IT AA facilities.
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 Jonson Yue,
RFID Business Development,
Avery Dennison - Asia Pacific
As the RFID business leader in Avery Dennison, he is in charge of the strategy and execution to promote
and drive RFID business in the region. Being an industry leader in this technology he has delivered
many knowledge sharing speeches and training sessions in more than 40 different educational sessions,
tradeshows, industry conferences, seminars, engineering association, education institutes, plus the
sharing of his RFID knowledge with press and media, journals and magazines.
He also actively participate in the industry promoting the technology in the industry and community.
Jonson is the playing an active role in EPCglobal, and is the director lead for the Marketing Workgroup
in EPCglobal Hong Kong launching a series of communication and promotion program to the industry.
In his previous role Solution and Industry Marketing Manager in Hewlett-Packard, he is the RFDI program
owner responsible for the program launch, sales and marketing, technical and system integration alignment
of the business.
Jonson was graduated from the University of Warwick, with Master of Science in Information Technology for
Manufacture, and Manufacturing Systems Engineering.
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 Mr Rolf Zimmerman,
Project Manager, SMS Management and Technology,
Department of Defence
Have been working within the Defence Material Organisation (DMO), in the engineering, medical, clothing
and foodstuffs commodity management areas. Currently providing project engineering assistance to a supply
chain RFID implementation. Also providing technical regulatory support and supply chain systems advice to
the above commodity groups.
Key professional outcomes include:
Conduct of a SCOR (Supply Chain Operations Reference Model) based configuration review of key Defence
supply chains. This has identified a number of deficiencies and extant best practices, which included the
efficiencies from centralised commodity management, direct delivery contracts and vendor held stocking
arrangements.
Project manager of the Defence Pharmaceutical Supply System. This has developed into a web based stock
control and e-Commerce engine using open industry and IT standards. One of the surviving achievements from
the NOIE funded Pharmaceutical electronic Commerce and Communication (PeCC) project.
Other related activities:
Been involved with the Australian Retailers’ Association (ARA), E-Commerce Committee, promoting data
management and e-trading standards internally to Defence and to Defence suppliers. Also a member of the
GS1, E-Com standards committee. Sit on both RFIDAA and the Australian Chapter of the
Supply Chain Council (SCC).
Lecture at Latrobe University, Graduate Management School (GSM), in Management Information Systems.
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