8:00 AM

Registration Opens; Networking and Coffee

10:00AM - 10:30AM
Building the Business Case for Automated Tracking of IT Assets
This opening session offers an introduction to the conference by detailing the benefits an organization can gain by implementing an automated system to track mobile and fixed assets. You’ll understand the necessary infrastructure components required (tags, readers, networking, data integration and business intelligence), and you’ll discuss multiple applications that can lead to increased ROI once a fundamental tracking and tracing system is in place.

MORNING SESSIONS: Technology & Infrastructure Overview
10:30AM - 11:15AM
Tag Essentials: Bar Codes to RFID;  Opportunities and Limitations
RFID versus Barcodes? Passive RFID versus Active RFID? Your choice of tags and data collection mechanism is foundational to the system you design and the benefits received.  In this session you will understand what RFID is, the characteristics and limitations of radio frequency waves; and finally what knowledge is useful in solution selection, implementation and trouble-shooting. Learn about core RFID technical fundamentals in a multi-media setting and about where and how training can be effective in helping your staff and the project be more successful.

11:15AM - 12:00PM
Practical Considerations in the Design and Implementation of a Tracking System
This presentation will cover the various issues that need to be taken into account from working with specific materials and challenging environments to working in tandem with partners to ensure success. You will discuss the importance of an ITAM implementations, and the inherent value of creating visibility throughout the an enterprise.

12:00PM - 12:30PM
The Support System: Keeping It working and Optimized
Supporting a production RFID system is one of the least understood and least discussed aspect of RFID programs. However, it can be the most important aspect of your program because it involves keeping the system operational consistently and efficiently. Once your operation begins to rely on RFID capabilities, it is essential that they be robust and reliable.

12:30 to 1:30PM

Lunch Break

1:30 - 2:30

BUSINESS APPLICATION OVERVIEW 

Productivity and Automation
In this session, you will understand how an advanced track and trace program improves the productivity of an IT organization through remote monitoring, visibility and automated processes. The result is intelligence on on how IT investments are performing, which enables improved use of capital for non-IT equipment and other projects. Other applications touched upon include help desk and routine IT support, software asset management and more.

Change Management and Compliance
Introducing automation into life-cycle management initiatives can put real-time ITAM dashboards  at the fingertips of managers across the extended enterprise.  From the help desk to the security desk;  from the data center to the sales office; from the loading dock to the lobby; your organization can energize compliance, security and change management with the new tools of the trade.

Enterprise Data Security: 2012
Explore the business case for tracking mission critical information and personnel based on location awareness.  This session will reveal a brave new world of RFID-enabled personnel badges, computer theft recovery applications, remote data deletion strategies and holistic asset management.

2:30 -3:00 PM
Pre-Tagging Data Center Products to Improve Product Lifecycle Management
Over the past year, several industry groups have collaborated to produce a set of requirements targeted at IT Asset vendors for pre-tagging data center equipment in a standard method prior to shipments to data centers. This presentation offers an analysis of these requirements, and how a standardized approach to product tracking provides benefits across industry sectors and suppliers.

3:30 – 3:45 PM