RFID & Privacy: OECD Forum, Paris, 5 Oct 2005

Last October, OECD, hold a forum on RFID & Privacy, presentations are available;

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Applications and Public Policy Considerations, OECD Foresight Forum, Paris, 5 Oct 2005

AGENDA

1. WELCOMING REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION BY THE CHAIR [9:30 – 9:40]
Hugo Parr, Director General, Ministry of Modernisation, Norway, and Chair of OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy - Presentation

2. DESCRIPTION OF RFID TECHNOLOGY AND ITS POTENTIAL [9:40 TO 11:00]
Introductory remarks and session moderator: Jonathan Collins, European Editor for RFID Journal

2.1. Panorama of RFID current applications and potential economic benefits [9:40 – 10:10]
Dan Caprio, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, U.S. Department of Commerce - Presentation
Naji Najjar, Director of Wireless Broadband & Sensing Solutions, IBM Southwest Europe - Presentation

2.2. Future applications, ubiquity of RFID and potential economic and social benefits [10:10 – 11:00]
Taiichi Inoue, Senior Consultant - Head of IT for Society Consulting Group, Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. - Presentation
Indro Mukerjee, Executive vice president, Automotive & Identification business unit, Philips Semiconductors - Presentation
Elliot Maxwell, Fellow of the Communications Program at Johns Hopkins University - Presentation

3. COSTS/BENEFITS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF APPLICATIONS [11:30 – 12:30]
Introductory remarks and session moderator: Richard Rees, President, Scanology Group, and Chair British Standards Institution Technical Committee “Automatic Identification Techniques” - Presentation

3.1. Smart tags along the supply chain [11:30-12:00]
Claudia Loebbecke, Professor, University of Cologne - Presentation
Masakazu Fujita, Research Director, Next Generation Electronic Commerce Council of Japan (ECOM) - Presentation - Appendix

3.2. Smart tags at the item-level and smart cards in service applications [12:00 – 12:30]
Elie Simon, Chief Executive Officer, TAGSYS SA - Presentation
Mark MacCarthy, Senior Vice President for Public Policy, VISA USA - Presentation
RFID DEMONSTRATIONS IN ROOM 1 [13:15 – 14:15]
IBM Demonstration: RFID in supply-chain management applications
Philips and VISA demonstration: payment applications with contactless pay cards and RFID-enabled mobile phone - Presentation

4. CRITICAL ISSUES FOR POLICY MAKERS [14:15 – 17:00]

4.1. Infrastructure/standards panel discussion [14:15 – 15:30]
Introductory remarks and session moderator: Dave Wollman, Scientific Advisor and RFID Coordinator, National Institute of Standards and Technology (USA)
Henri Barthel, Technical Director EPCglobal, GS1 - Presentation
Simson Garfinkel, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Research on Computation at Society at Harvard University - Presentation
Kyo-il Chung, Director, ETRI (Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Korea) - Presentation
Bernard Benhamou, Senior Lecturer, Political Science Institute, Paris - Speech

4.2. Privacy panel discussion [15:45 – 17:00]
Introductory remarks and session moderator: Joseph Alhadeff, Vice President for Global Public Policy and Chief Privacy Officer, Oracle Corporation
Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center - Presentation
Florent Frederix, Scientific Officer for RFID, European Commission Infosoc D-G - Presentation
Stephania Congia, International Department of the Italian Data Protection Commission - Presentation
Jeroen Terstegge, Corporate Privacy Officer, Philips, and Member of the EICTA (Chair) and ICC Privacy and RFID Working Groups - Presentation

5. ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION & CONCLUSION [17:00 – 18:00]
Chaired by Hugo Parr, Director General, Ministry of Modernisation, Norway, and Chair of OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy

5.1 Summary of important elements from the Forum [17:00 – 17:20]
Peter Ferguson, Director, Electronic Commerce Branch, Industry Canada
Richard Foggie, Assistant Director, Electronics and IT Services, DTI
Tony Taylor, European director, EPCGlobal Inc.
Jeremy Ward, Director of Service Development, Symantec EMEA

5.3 Open discussion of important elements from the Forum [17:20 – 17:50]5.4 Overall summary and next steps [17:50 – 18:00 ]

5.4 Overall summary by Hugo Parr, Director General, Ministry of Modernisation, Norway, and Chair of OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy
Potential future work by the OECD: next steps