1. Convention of the Future Reference Project: Auto-ID Center at MIT TRAFFIC CONTROL FOR THE CONVENTION FLOOR Professor Sanjay Sarma, MIT
Not sure who will introduce you to the audience, probably either Tom Piper or Peter Bassett – I will pull a bio from your site . .. Let me know if there is anything special you’d like to have noted

2. Discussion Auto-ID Center/RFID background Benefits of RFID
How the system works
Auto-ID as reference for the Convention of the Future

3. Auto-ID Center Established October 1, 1999 Sponsors include Staffing
Research
Development
Standards
Sponsors include
UCC, P&G, Gillette, Sun, Phillip Morris, NCR, Invensis, Savi
Staffing
3 Faculty; 4 associate professors; 20 staff/students
Links throughout MIT
Satellite centers in Europe, Asia
Thinking just a really brief run through here that describes how your center is pretty mature and active Evolution to this point will be something that our consortium members will want to understand

4. Auto-ID & The RFID System
Allowing people, things and systems to communicate, improving communications and management and minimizing investment and error
Very brief high level overview of entire system – later slides go into greater detail . . .

5. System Basics Tag every-day objects for anytime/any place a retrieval
Store unique IDs on RFID tags
Auto read/write information for access from networked Web sites
Track people or objects for any application

6. Benefits Industry X: Convention Industry: Supply chain automation
Smart devices
Robotics
Convention Industry:
Attendee & registrant tracking for relationship extension and personalization
Drayage automation; reduce setup/strike error and costs; increase productivity
Comparing the basic benefits that currently apply to any industry or player that the Auto-ID center currently works with to the more specific types of applications we envision for Conventions Continued in greater detail on the next slide . . .

7. Innovation Attendees Exhibitors/Show Management Contractors
Registration management & attendee tracking
Location-based services & personalization
Exhibitors/Show Management
Contact/work-order tracking & management
Asset tracking
Transportation management
Contractors
Location-based staff management
Drayage management & asset tracking
Loss-management
Sanjay – this is a great slide to include the “Gaydar” example that we discussed . .. Helping to connect people based on selected profiles with opt-in/opt-out capabilities . . .
For the Asset tracking section – do you have any anecdotal or empirical evidence where you can quote SPECIFIC COST SAVINGS for some of your existing implementations?/ Here is a good point to insert

8. Auto-ID Center: Reference for Convention of the Future Consortium
PROPOSAL
Consortium Players
Industry, technology company and academic Leaders
Investment
$50k to $300k annually
Benefits
Head start: research and strategic/business plans
Schedule
Quantum of development: 24-month development cycles
“What’s being done at the
Auto-ID Center is unprecedented.
Never before in history has industry
teamed with academia to build the
technology companies want and need.”
-Joy Nicholas, VP, Research & Emerging Technologies, Food Marketing Institute
OK – AGAIN – important to view this slide in actual slide show What I do is a quote first (great one from Auto-ID site) that dissolves and then these bullets come in. This slide needs some work since I am not sure if you would agree with the data points Essentially, the goal is to explain how the experience of creating and working through the Auto-ID center can be defined and then help the potential consortium members think about whether they are willing to make a similar commitment to the Convention of the Future . ..

9. Q&A Thank you OKEY DOKEY – build slide again . . .
Here expect questions on:
RFID Tag costs – can put some backup slides from your other presos in if you want
Politics involved in the Auto-ID Center membership
Again more quantifiable benefits of the ePC etc
Who is “gaining the rents” or profits . .. Several of the attendees won’t get that it is NOT FOR PROFIT – no matter how many times we mention So here is a good place to plug that again