CompTIA, the non-profit, vendor neurtal, computer industry trade association is hosting its spring electronic commerce conference 18 - 20 May in Durham, North Carolina. The event is being hosted by IBM.

The theme of the event is, "RFID - Preparing Your Supply Chain for what the Future Holds." This conference is focused on companies in the high tech industry who are trying to understand RFID and its relationship with electronic commerce.

FEE WAIVER: It is CompTIA's policy to waive the $550 conference registration fee for first time attending companies. Please send an email to Ian Henzel, ihenzel@comptia.org.

The conference will feature speakers from the U.S. Department of Defense, DHL, IBM, Insync, Paxar, RedPairie, Sun Microsystem and Texas Instruments.

The conference provides a great opportunity for RFID education as it will start with RFID 101, an introduction to RFID and provide sessions that delve into RFID in more detail.


Conference sessions include:

- RFID 101: An Introduction to RFID – Texas Instruments and Sun Microsystems

- The Voice of the Customer – The U.S. Department of Defense

- Integration: Implementing an RFID Solution – IBM Global Services

- RFID Hardware and Middleware, An Interactive Panel Discussion – - Paxar, RedPrairie, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments

- Tying It All Together, An Interactive Panel Discussion – The U.S. Department of Defense, DHL, IBM, Insync, Paxar, RedPrairie, Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments

- RFID Workshop – The kick-off of a working group to define data
requirements and best practices for the high-tech industry and supply chain

- RFID and Logistics – DHL

- RFID and RosettaNet, Achieving Zero Latency Supply Chains – Insync


Other sessions include:



- Open Applications Group (OAGi) Updates

- E-Business Standards Cross Reference Recommendation Team (xREF) – Ship Notice and Invoice Review

- Joint RosettaNet User Groups (JRUG) discussion: DTD to Schema Migration from the Implementers' Perspective

- Joint RosettaNet User Groups (JRUG) discussion: PIP Extensibility – the Supply Chain Perspective

- e-Business Maturity Model (EBMM) Workshop

Networking and Socializing:

There will be ample opportunity to network. IBM is sponsoring a night of baseball and dinner with the Durham Bulls (famous from the movie "Bull Durham").

Registering for the Event

For more information please visit [www.comptia.org]

To obtain a promotional code for registration fee waiver, please send an email to ihenzel@comptia.org