Management & Entrepreneurship
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2006 Symposium

Thursday, September 28
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Morning Session I

Austin Hooper and William Heston, Baylor University

Dr. Pedro M. Reyes, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Baylor University

10:00 - 10:15 Break  
10:15 - 11:15 a.m. Morning Session II
Dr. Edmund Prater, Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Director of the UTA/THR Medical Mini MBA and the Associate Director of the Health Education Research Center (HERC), The University of Texas at Arlington
"What Hope does RFID bring to Managing the Uncertainty Triangle within International Supply Chains?”

Joseph Pearson, Texas Instruments
"Securing the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain with RFID"
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Donald Berg, Sun Microsystems
1:15 - 2:15 p.m. Afternoon Session I
Dr. David C. Wyld, Mayfield Professor of Management and Director of the Strategic e-Commerce Initiative, Southeastern Louisiana University
“Chasing Ghosts with Chips: RFID Tracking of Pharmaceuticals to Beat the Threat of Counterfeit Drugs”

Mark Johnson, President, RFID Tribe

2:15 - 2:30 p.m. Break  
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Afternoon Session II

Jeremiah Marks, Baylor University

Dr. Madhav Pappu, Assistant Professor, Industrial Distribution, Texas A&M
“An Inventory Management and Item-Rental System: Using Radio Frequency Identification (RFiD) For Gaining Improved Efficiencies”

Dr. Farhad Moeeni, Associate Professor of Operations and Information Systems and Director of the Center for the Study of Automatic Identification, Arkansas State University
“RFID: Where is the ROI”
Friday, September 29
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration Continental breakfast
9:00 - 10:00 a.m. Morning Session I

Kurt Wall, Chairman, President, & Co-Founder, The National RFID Center

Dr. Thomas Chen, Research Professor and Undergraduate Academic Advisor of Industrial Engineering Department, University of Houston
“Web-based Realtime Intelligent RFID and Sensor Data Acquisition, Monitoring and Exchange System”
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Break  
10:15 - 11:15 a.m. Morning Session II
Dr. Liam O’Neill, Assistant Professor of Health Systems, University of North Texas
"RFID, Stochastic Dominance, DEA, and decision analysis"
 
Sherry Avery, Ph.D. Student, The University of Texas at Arlington
“RFID: Impact on Financial Performance”
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch Dale Robertson, Texas Workforce Commission
1:00 - 1:15 p.m. Closing Remarks  
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