In a recent survey conducted by the Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers, the lack of commitment in the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) adoption due to poor understanding and knowledge of RFID. From more than 2,000 respondents in the survey, less than 10% of the respondents understood the significance of the technology and its potential impact on their businesses.

Additionally, according to another recent survey conducted by Fusion Consulting with 136 international and local manufacturers, buying offices and logistics service providers located in Guangdong and Hong Kong, 94% indicated that they are currently not interested in adopting RFID technology for tracking their merchandise.

Of the 93 companies who had clear reasons for not adopting RFID, the main obstacle is ignorance i.e. "don't understand/not familiar with RFID" (44%). The main reasons given by American or European companies for not adopting RFID are they are "not interested/do not find RFID useful" (19%) and "not popular/wait and see market response" (11%), whereas the main obstacle to adoption for Asian companies is that they "don't understand/not familiar with RFID" (35%).

The Meeting Event
During the RFID Asia 1st meeting, the speakers and attendees will share their knowledge and experience, while networking among the RFID Asia community members and discussing strategic partnerships and alliances to participate in Asian RFID projects.

The event will gather senior management executives from companies and organisations working in the field of RFID, such as RFID component suppliers, RFID hardware and software developers, RFID system integrators, RFID academic and research institutions and RFID technology end users.

As the leading RFID event in Asia, this event will be held from 8th February to 9th February 2006 in Singapore at the UOB Plaza 1.

About RFID Asia
As a global independent and non-profit RFID community in Asia, RFID Asia adopts a vision of becoming the Regional Independent RFID Knowledge Centre in Asia by facilitating a regional RFID community forum for industrial, research and educational institutions and organisations, building and disseminating knowledge on the emerging RFID technological, business and societal issues, promoting regional RFID standards, innovation, venture capital, products, services, solutions, privacy issues and business opportunities.

Meeting Pre-registration
Pre-registration is available on-line and by sending a fax containing name, telephone, fax, e-mail, address and affiliation to:
Fax no. +62-21-4586 5545
Att. RFID Asia Meeting Registration

The number of attendees is limited to 50 persons to guarantee the high meeting quality. The RFID Asia community members automatically get a higher priority in acceptance than non-members.

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