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                                  Seminar



                           Faculty of Engineering

                    The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title:
Open Innovation with RFID

Speaker:
Colin Lam
GCG Standards Leader

Date : June 9, 2006 (Friday)

Time : 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Venue : Room 513, William M.W. Mong Engineering Building

(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2), CUHK


Abstract:
As Information Technologies become more complex, their adoption and reuse,
especially with integration to legacy environment become a major challenge,
while at the same time business are facing challenge to transform with higher
efficiency, lower cost and increase growth, flexibility and agility, which
demands a whole new desire for Innovation.

RFID is an emerging technology that speed-up the required Innovation. Over the
past years, IBM has been working closely with customers and partners as they
look to reduce costs and increase flexibility in related solutions. In this
presentation, the speaker will provide a high-level overview of how RFID
technology fits into various applications such as supply chain, asset
management, security and access control.


Bio:
Colin Lam is the Open Standards Leader of IBM Greater China Group (GCG),
responsible for strategy and promotion of Open Standards in GCG. His key role
include development and adoption planning of Open Infrastructure and Industry
Standards with Government, Customers and Development Partners, to improve
productivity and agility required by the On Demand business environment.

Mr. Lam is an IBM certified IT Architect, a prestige qualification achieved by
technical members of IBM, and community leader of IBM GCG. He is a frequency
speaker in public conferences on emerging technology, Open Source and Open
Standards. He was a graduate of Computer Science at CUHK in 1988.

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Note : Cookies and drinks will be available at 10:45 pm.

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                       ***** ALL ARE WELCOME *****


Host : Prof. Houmin Yan
Tel : 2609 8329
Email : yan@se.cuhk.edu.hk

For more information please

refer to http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seg5810/
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