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AT THE CENTER
Past copies of Newsletters and Directions to the Center are available on the Web site. All programs are held at the Center unless otherwise noted. To join our community, click on this link: http://center.infopoint.com/join.php ***************************** POWER PUB: TUESDAY, MARCH
23, 2004 ******** CENTER ANNOUNCEMENT: 2004
CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM **************************** POWER PUB: TUESDAY,
MARCH 23, 2004 Few knew what RFID was 12 months ago. Today, we find that there are articles in Business Week, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, among others. Many view that the interest in this market can be attributed to one thing: Wal-Mart's requirements and commitment to the North Texas Mega-Pilot, with three of Wal-Mart's top suppliers working towards the retailer's requirement to tag pallets and cases by January 2005. This inflection point in the market launched by the Wal-Mart Commitment and assisted by the development of standards at the Auto-ID Center (now EPC Global), and the development of UHF RFID technology from companies like Alien Technology, is critically important for business innovation to take place in the supply chains. At this Power Pub, come discuss with Mr. Frew the questions that are left open to explore, including:
ABOUT DEAN FREW Dean Frew is the President & Chief Executive Officer of Xterprise, Inc., an RFID Solution Integration firm headquartered in Dallas, Texas. After filling executive roles for various supply chain software and solution companies for last 5 years and sitting on the Technical Board of the Auto-ID Center, Mr. Frew founded Xterprise in 2002 with a focus on supply chain RFID solution development and implementation services. ABOUT XTERPRISE, INC. Xterprise, Inc. (http://www.xterprise.com/) has become one of the leading RFID Solution Integrators in the market and is currently providing a variety of mission critical services to a number of Wal-Mart and Target suppliers striving toward retailer compliance. Xterprise is currently supporting Wal-Mart Suppliers (PepsiCo, DaisyBrand, and other Consumer Packaged Goods Companies). The group has also executed RFID pilots at Dell and Imagistics. Xterprise is a Knowledge Network Partner of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center. For inquiries, send an email to: (info@xterprise.com). REGISTRATION & SPECIAL INFORMATION Pre-registration is highly recommended. There is a $15 fee (cash or check only) which will be collected at the door. Please make checks payable to Silicon Valley World Internet Center. To pre-register, please send your name, title, company name, telephone number and email address to: Ms. Claire Kahrobaie ** Special Note: Upon check-in at the Pub's registration desk, you will receive a coupon for a 10% discount off of beverages at the Crowne Plaza Cabana Palo Alto's bar. The discount is applicable only on the evening of the March 23rd Power Pub. DIRECTIONS TO THE CROWNE PLAZA CABANA HOTEL From Highway 101 - North or South
From Highway 280 - North or South
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2004 CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM The Silicon Valley World Internet Center is pleased to announce its 2004 Corporate Sponsorship Program, whose objective is to provide a powerful and effective center - a third-party forum and nexus of innovators - for clients from Internet- and communications-based industries, governments and enterprise end-users to explore near- and medium-term solutions for advanced communications, business processes and security. The Corporate Sponsorship Program has a $9,900 annual fee. The Corporate Sponsorship Program will deliver series of multi-organizational sessions, open to the public, around such topics as business applications for sensor networks, RFID applications for supply chain management, future of wireless broadband, convergence of nano- and biotechnology with IT, among other cutting edge topics. The Sponsorship Program will also highlight key advances made by members of the program, bringing innovations into a multi-corporate community of developers and end-users. In November 2003, the Silicon Valley World Internet Center announced SAP Corporate Research as the first member of the Corporate Sponsorship Program. "As we look to 2004, our objective is to leverage the collective and collaborative weight of about 30 industry and government leaders to support technology, communications, and eBusiness evolution in an open, yet critical multi-organizational environment. Having SAP Corporate Research lead that challenge is a great first step," said Dr. Susan Duggan, CEO of the Silicon Valley World Internet Center. "We need to embrace, anew, the collaborative nature of innovation," says Dr. Joachim Schaper, vice president of SAP Corporate Research Americas. "Our partners -large and small-should join Susan Duggan and the World Internet Center in moving the pace and quality of innovation forward in the Silicon Valley. SAP Corporate Research calls for other enterprises, governments, and end-users to join us in this challenge to focus the next generation of innovation around the Internet and communications." FOR FURTHER INFORMATION For further information about the Silicon Valley World Internet
Center and the 2004 Corporate Sponsor Program, please contact: **************************** For further information on the Center's Sponsors and Knowledge Network Partners, visit their Websites: KNOWLEDGE
NETWORK PARTNERS **************************** To join our community, click on this link: http://center.infopoint.com/join.php
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