Walmart first went live with RFID in January 2005, but its real journey began in 2003 with a series of pilots at distribution centers. Dr. Bill Hardgrave, the University of Memphis’s president and the founder of the RFID Lab/Research Center—which became the world’s leading center for examining the business value of RFID—will discuss how the industry responded to the retailer’s groundbreaking deployment, and why it resulted in an understanding of the need for collaboration between partners using RFID data. He will share insights about the road taken as an industry, the current state of adoption, and what the future holds for the technology. Dr. Hardgrave will be joined by Matt Alexander, Walmart’s senior director of merchandising innovation, for a fireside chat about how RFID is being successfully used today.
Speakers: Dr. Bill Hardgrave, President, University of Memphis
Matt Alexander, Senior Director, Merchandising Innovation, Walmart