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PROFESSOR: Thank you all
very much for making it

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through the snow this morning.

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And I hope people's
feet are a little bit

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drier than they were yesterday.

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Some people were very sensible
and just came in today.

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Thank you for making the trek.

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Just a reminder-- there
were many, many people that

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asked to attend this
event that we told them

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they couldn't attend.

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As a conference
committee, we had

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set a threshold of
100 people as being

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the maximum number of people
that we could actually

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realistically try to
build something with.

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And unlike yesterday-- which was
very much sort of a data dump

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where we had the technology
session on networks and tags

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and RF, and then some deep dives
into some industry adoption

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in health care, automotive,
in aerospace, in coal chain,

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in anti-counterfeit--

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today is a much more open
and collaborative structure

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to the sessions, in the
context that we'd very much

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like to come out of this session
with some ideas, some areas

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of possible research
collaboration.

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And so if we can go back
to the basic objectives

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of our gathering,
which was to identify

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areas for research
collaboration,

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to identify the core
underlying technology areas.

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And I think yesterday,
we saw locations,

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all the many specialties
that are involved

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or could be involved in RFID.

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But if we could use
the format of today

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to think about each of you--

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I mean, there are
people here running

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very large research groups.

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There are people here
running very large companies.

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So we're looking to see
if we can align on what

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the key research areas are.

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And so that's sort
of our focus today.

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A little something on where
we're taking this next--

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so the conference
committee elected

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to schedule a follow-on
meeting in conjunction

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with "RFID LIVE."

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Marc Roberti from "RFID
Journal" has rented the space

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and has offered to make
it available to the group

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for a follow-on meeting,
so that we have a target

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date three months
from now to actually

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have projects formulated.

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And at the AUTO-ID
Labs, we've been

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working on a
collaborative website

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that we will share with you
a little later on today,

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just taking the six sessions
that were established already--

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so health care,
automotive, et cetera.

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And we have session leaders
from the conference committee

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to go ahead and lead those.

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And for any of you who are
not currently involved,

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who would like to
be involved, who

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would like to lead research
or sponsor research,

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we'd absolutely like to
facilitate that collaboration.

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And then the second thing
is that Bill Hargrave has

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very kindly offered, and
the conference committee

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very graciously accepted, to be
the co-chair of the next event.

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So this will be the RFID
academic convocation number

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two, to be held at RFID LIVE.

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And I do think that one of the
expectations for that meeting

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is that we won't be
restricted to just

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the few select academic
major programs,

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but that we open this up now.

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Because there's just been a
tremendous amount of interest

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in collaborating together.

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Bill, did you want
to say something?

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BILL HARGRAVE: Yeah, I'd just
like to take off on that.

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And one of the things that I
hope you got out of yesterday,

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and then as we
continue on today,

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is that we really are seeing
a breadth of ideas and topics

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that are presented here.

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And with the hope, and
that was our intent,

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was to have everybody with
a take away from here.

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And it might not be
that you take something

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away from every
presentation, but just

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from the breadth of
things out there,

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it's amazing what's being done.

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And that was really what we
were trying to accomplish.

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And I just have to thank Steve
and the rest of the committee,

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because I think that's
been accomplished.

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And we'll see that here today.

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The next one at
RFID Journal LIVE

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is that pre-day convocation.

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We want to have that
opportunity, then,

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to start drilling down
into some of these areas.

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So we're going to have fewer
presentations and longer

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presentations, that
give us an opportunity

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to get into some of these
areas in more detail.

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So that's the plan
for the next one.

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And be looking for some stuff.

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And as Steve said, we
restricted this one.

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We're going to open
the next one up.

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It will be a competitive process
of submitting papers and having

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those things reviewed
and selected.

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And it won't be just
restricted to academia.

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If businesses or
technology providers

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are working on
research, that want

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to have an opportunity
to present that,

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those will be welcome as well.

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PROFESSOR: Right.

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And I think the only
other thing to say

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about that is, subject to the
success of that event, then

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we would very much anticipate
carrying this to our colleagues

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in Europe and our
colleagues in Asia.

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And so we want to
make sure that this

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is an inclusive, global research
collaboration that we're

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starting.

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And again, any ideas you
have, any things that you'd

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like to do, please let us know.

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So on that note, the
way today is structured,

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we have the morning dedicated
to supply chain and packaging.

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We'll have a box lunch drop
by here in the foyer at noon.

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And so we'll begin right
back in with a session

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on beyond the supply chain.

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And then we have a panel
of senior executives

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who have agreed to help us work
to identify how we can best

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collaborate here.

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To conclude the session,
we'll end at 3:00

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so that people can get on planes
and go on to their next thing.

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So a lot to do in a very
short amount of time.

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Thank you very much all
for your participation.

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Bill and the supply chain.