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GS1 New Zealand Annual Conference 2007 - 'Connecting the Dots' - hope you didn't miss it!

Links to conference presentations

Presenter	Presentation
Dr Bruce Anderson	Improving medication safety
Dr Peter Stevens	Bedside point of care
Ross Mackenzie	Food for thought
Ian King	The inevitability of traceability - for a copy of this presentation please contact Pauline Prince
Craig Asher	EPCIS Presentation
Ian Robertson	EPCglobal - Global standards for industry
Gavin Hodder	What Dots? - Reality in Action
Alan J. Stenger	Global & regional perspective on supply chains
Tim Morris	Four retail mega trends
Michael Teen	Labelling and tracking product - delivering real value for Westland Milk Products
Roger Nickerson	Mitre 10 & Product Data Integrity
Sally Herbert	Quality Data: Essential foundation to a collaborative supply chain
Michael Haire	Data Integrity & GS1net
Michelle Adams	Data Synchronisation - the hardware way
Peter Jameson	Collaborative E-Business in the hardware industry

Preview of 'connecting the dots' 2007:

Waipuna Hotel and Conference Centre
Waipuna Road
Mt Wellington
Auckland
21st and 22nd August

GS1 New Zealand “Connecting the Dots” conference, August 2007 will focus on the new technologies in supply chain management as it continues to develop application and practice, worldwide.

New Zealand business people from various sectors will meet again during August to hear about leading-edge developments in this country. They will be attending the third in a series of annual “Connecting the Dots” conferences organised and hosted by GS1 New Zealand in Auckland.

Health Focus	This year’s event will be opened by Health Minister Pete Hodgson with an address on moves to introduce automatic data capture and retrieval for improved patient safety in the New Zealand healthcare system. Other speakers will also discuss the application of bar coding and other technologies in the healthcare supply chain, from pharmaceutical and medical supplies manufacturers to the patient bedside.
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)	Radio frequency identification (RFID) will be another central focus of this year’s “Connecting the Dots”, with international leaders in this area presenting on the recent launch of EPC-IS, a global standard for secure exchange of data between multiple parties in RFID-enabled supply chains. In terms of industry significance, the EPC-IS standard, or Electronic Product Code Information Services, is considered by many to have much more of a transformational impact on the industry than the [2004] release of the UHF Gen2 Passive RFID standard, as it allows for the rapid expansion of visibility among trading partners on the status and movement of goods, services and assets worldwide. The conference will hear about latest developments from Chris Adcock [President of EPCglobal Inc.], Craig Asher [IBM – USA] and Ian Robertson [EPCglobal Inc., Director of Global Development], all key figures in global RFID driving developments in EPC/RFID, EPC-IS and other global standards of tremendous potential value to businesses worldwide. The benefits include the prevention of counterfeiting, greater border security and comprehensive traceability on food products in domestic and international markets.
Livestock Traceability	Another of the international speakers will put a spotlight on beef traceability, an increasingly critical topic for livestock producing countries like New Zealand. Ian King, Chief Executive of AUS-MEAT Australia, will outline his country’s development of beef traceability systems and their importance to maintaining international market confidence.
Grocery and Retail	In New Zealand, the grocery sector has long been at the forefront of consumer goods supply chain management – and “Connecting the Dots” will provide further insights on developments of importance to grocery. These include data synchronisation technology and practice, including the development of international data networks.
Supply Chain and Logistics	Prof. Alan Stenger, Chair of Logistics and Supply Chain Management at the University of Auckland Business School, will be among the speakers.

The conference will provide a unique forum for discussion of New Zealand company experiences, with several case studies on the application of supply chain technologies here.

Past such events have attracted significant numbers of attendees and GS1 New Zealand expects this to again be the case in 2007. For GS1, this is another key step in its drive to promote awareness and take-up in New Zealand of global standards for identification of goods, services and assets, and in information systems that make supply chain management more efficient and valuable for all participants. “Connecting the Dots” will include workshops for GS1 members to gain greater insight into how EPC/RFID and other technologies can be applied within their businesses.

For more information and registration contact:
Conference Organiser