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Peter Altes, AIM-D e.V.
Since 2016, Peter Altes has been the Managing Director of AIM-D e.V. and has been a consultant and project manager for various firms and research institutes in the event industry for nearly three decades. Peter has a Master’s Degree in Philosophy, Political Sciences, Linguistics and National Economy. |
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Chris Brown, TSC Printronix Auto ID
Chris Brown has been in the AIDC industry for 25 years. He now works as the RFID Program Director and Subject Matter Expert at TSC Printronix Auto ID. Previously, he was the General Manager for BarTender label software in EMEA. He is responsible for ensuring that TSC Printronix’s RFID printers support the latest commands and functionalities that are needed to properly work with RAIN RFID labels and tags. He also monitors the physical requirements needed for RFID printers to work with various existing and emerging tag constructions. Chris is an active member of AIM, the RAIN RFID Alliance and GS1, participating in multiple workgroups covering topics such as pharmaceutical, healthcare, foodservice, tires, aviation and label software guidelines for tag encoding. His work has included insights and extensive educational efforts for the RFID numbering systems specified by the GS1 and ISO standards. |
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Jay Crowley, USDM Life Sciences
Jay Crowley is currently Vice President, Medical Device Solutions and Services, at USDM Life Sciences. Prior to joining the firm in January 2014, Crowley was Senior Advisor for Patient Safety, in FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health. He held a variety of positions over his nearly 27 years at FDA. Jay had primary responsibility for the development and implementation of FDA’s Unique Device Identification System and the development of the GHTF and IMDRF UDI guidance documents. |
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Raf Fonteyn, Tosca EMEA
Raf Fonteyn is responsible for all Technology related activities and initiatives in Tosca EMEA. He has more than 20 years of experience in Technology overall, with roles spanning ICT Consultancy, Enterprise Architecture and Technology leadership. In 2015 he joined Contraload to upgrade and upscale their whole digital landscape and make technology deliver value for their business. After the acquisition by Tosca, Raf assisted with the integration and finally took over responsibility for all technology related activities for Tosca EMEA while guiding its digital transformation program to a success. During the digital transformation program, Tosca EMEA redefined its overarching traceability strategy and started the implementation of different Barcode, RFID and IoT implementations across Europe. |
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Nellie Gayle, GS1 Global Office
Nellie Gayle is the Community Engagement Director for Apparel & General Merchandise at GS1 Global Office, a not-for-profit standards organization. She leads initiatives uniting 116 Member Organizations as they help industry identify, capture, and share data via the usage of interoperable standards. Prior to her work at GS1, Nellie worked at Zalando, a leading fashion e-retailer in Western Europe. She has previously contributed to marketing and operations teams at LinkedIn, HelloFresh, and a variety of startups. Nellie lives in Berlin, Germany. |
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Lionel Geynet, Asygn
Lionel Geynet currently serves as RFID business unit manager with ASYGN. He joined ASYGN in 2016 and took over the leadership of the UHF RFID IC program. As a technical leader, he was responsible for product development. Lionel spent last 5 years promoting UHF RFID for sensor applications demonstrating UHF RFID can be a key enabler for Industry 4.0. He is the author of several keynotes in different exhibitions to explain advantages of UHF RFID protocols in wireless IoT applications. He has gained a vast amount of internal knowledge and experience with regard to the RFID design. Prior to Asygn, Lionel was RF Design Leader at Freescale Semiconductor in Toulouse, France, where he managed and developed Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems and Anti-Collision Radar. Up to 2008, Mr. Geynet was Senior RFIC Design Engineer at Cypress Semiconductor in Cork, Ireland, where he developed innovative structures and architectures for RF/Analog integrated circuits. |
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Dom Guinard, Digimarc
Dom is VP at Digimarc, before that he co-founded EVRYTHNG. He loves experimenting with cutting-edge IoT & tagging technology, building Web large-scale architectures, writing books, climbing mountains and even working on standards! He had the chance of being a researcher at ETH and MIT where he co-invented the Web of Things for his PhD (ETH Medal), implemented his findings at Oracle, SAP and Nokia and standardized them at W3C, GS1 (Digital Link co-chair) and for the WEF. He also conducted blockchain research for the IoT at the Blockchain Research Institute and for the World Economic Forum. |
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Martin Hartwigsen, deister electronic GmbH
Martin Hartwigsen was born in the year 1964 and is living in the area of Hanover in the north part of Germany, together with his wife and father of two children. After a marketing degree he was 15 years CEO of an international healthcare company of products for children with special needs. Since 2007 working for deister electronic, an international RFID company, with more than 250 employee. Different roles and working close with customers and development department. Responsible for industrial and healthcare RFID application. |
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Heinrich Oehlmann, Eurodata Council Institute e.V.
Heinrich Oehlmann is chairman of the board of the Eurodata Council Institute e.V., the “not for profit” institute for AIDC located Naumburg/Saale, Germany. Involved in developing Automatic Data Capture in Europe since 1981 he engaged himself as founder member of AIM Europe, CEN TC 225 AIDC and ISO working groups for AIDC. The pioneering efforts in the field of data logistics and identification systems lead to the following appointments: Chair of C.E.N. (Comité Européen de Normalisation in Bruxelles) Working Group 1 ORM, chair DIN committee „Data Capture and Methods“, Head of delegation for the ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 31 committee AutoID. By its activities in the different areas of industry & health care, Heinrich Oehlmann is active in transferring the latest results of developments and standardization of AutoID into practical applications of tracking and tracing. His efforts are focused on optimizing material handling processes in conjunction with international traceability in close cooperation with the standardisation institutes and industry liaisons. His latest engagement is the development of the European Digital Passport (DPP) in cooperation with authorities, standardisation institutes and industries. |
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Josef Preishuber-Pflügl, RAIN Alliance
Josef Preishuber-Pflügl is Head of Regulatory Affairs of the RAIN Alliance . In this role, he leverages his extensive industry experience to track and influence regulatory activities for the RAIN RFID frequency bands, ensuring that RAIN Alliance members are briefed on any significant developments or proposals. Preishuber-Pflügl’s career spans product management, NFC+RFID chip design, and international standardization and radio regulation in a variety of technology firms and industry associations. He joined the RAIN Alliance shortly after founding Innobir, a consulting firm with a focus on wireless technologies, utilizing his experience in NFC, RAIN RFID, and UWB technologies. With more than 25 years of experience in international technological standardization, Preishuber-Pflügl is dedicated to assisting organizations in international standardization and standardization benefits, serving as convener of the ISO/IEC JTC1 SC31 WG4 “RF Communications” and vice-chairman of ETSI ERM TG34 “RFID” recently serving until 2022 as the Chairman NFC-Forum Wireless Charging Task Force and the co-chair of the GS1 EPC Gen2V3 committee from 2021-2022. AIM, the global industry alliance for stakeholders in RFID and other automatic identification and data capture technologies, awarded Preishuber-Pflügl with the Ted Williams Award in 2019, for his extreme activity in global RFID standardization. Preishuber-Pflügl holds a Master of Science (Diplom-Ingenieur) from the Technical University of Graz in Austria. |
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Kevin Taylor, Johnson & Johnson
Since joining Johnson & Johnson in 1996, Kevin has held various leadership positions in Regulatory Affairs, Quality, Supply Chain and Vigilance. He is currently Associate Director, Regulatory Affairs Digital Capabilities EMEA. Kevin chairs the MedTech Europe EUDAMED Working Group, co-chaired GS1’s Basic UDI-DI work group and has been a key advocate for industry participation in EUDAMED testing since 2017. Kevin graduated in Biomedical Chemistry from Sheffield Hallam University, including an Erasmus exchange at the Université Catholique de Louvain in Brussels. Kevin is based in Alsace, France. He is a diversity, equity & inclusion advocate and J&J Open&Out Co-lead for EMEA. |
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Claude Tételin, GS1 Global Office
Claude Tételin received his PhD from University of Lille in France in 1996. He started his carrier as full professor of wireless telecommunications and RF engineering at the University of Marseille where he specialized in HF and UHF RFID systems. During more than 10 years, he has been the CTO of the French RFID National Centre. His main tasks related to supporting end-users in the implementation of RFID technology. He is also involved in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC31 work groups and is PE of RFID conformance and performance standards. Chairman of the European committee for standardization of AIDC (CEN/TC225) since 2015, he was in charge of all issues related to privacy (EN 16571). Since January 2019, he joined GS1 Global Office in the AIDC team as Subject Matter Expert for EPC/RFID standards and applications. Claude Tételin is a strong advocate of standard based RFID solutions for more than 20 years. He is involved in numerous RFID-related organizations like RAIN Alliance and AIM. |
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Lionel Tussau, atrify
As the Market Unit Healthcare Global Lead, Lionel Tussau is leading the global healthcare strategy at the product content solution provider atrify, a 1WorldSync company enabling UDI registrations in EUDAMED and GUDID as well as GDSN connections between manufacturers, wholesalers, GPOs, and hospitals. He is co-chair of the EUDAMED IT Expert group of MedTech Europe and co-chair of the GS1 Global working group on Master-UDI |
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Anja Van Bocxlaer, Think WIOT Group
RFID and smart card technology have been among the topics covered by Anja Van Bocxlaer since 2002, first as Editor-in-Chief, and since 2005 as an independent publisher of the trade magazine "RFID im Blick". In 2006, the publishing house expanded its portfolio to include the international RFID technology portal, which today includes 70 companies from 18 countries. In 2011, another start-up took place. The foundation for the first "Wireless IoT tomorrow", then still called the "RFID im Blick Annual Conference", was laid in Hamburg. After successful stations in Hanover, Düsseldorf and Darmstadt, the international trade fair has established itself in Wiesbaden since 2021. In parallel, the technology focus has also expanded to include BLE, UWB, LPWAN, 5G and WiFi. Today, the variety of topics is referred to as Wireless IoT. Under the leadership of Anja Van Bocxlaer, the publishing house entered the international stage for trade magazines in 2016 with the first publication of the trade magazine "RFID & Wireless IoT Global". In 2020, the first international livestream event took place, which is now part of the regular program of the publishing house. Awards include 2011 Innovation Ambassador of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Lüneburg, Stade and Wolfsburg and 2020 "AIM Bert Moore Excellence in Journalism Award". |
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Maurice Van Rijn, BlueStar EMEA
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Dr. Katharina von Knop, VDE
Dr. Katharina von Knop is senior project manager for digital trust at the VDE. She is on the advisory board of the Health X Data Loft, the Max-Planck Academy, and is a mentor at Cyberlab, the startup incubator of the state of Baden-Württemberg. She led the Insitute for Applied Computer Science at Heinrich-Heine University as managing director during her doctoral studies. This was followed by several years in strategy consulting at EGC and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Afterward, she was responsible for developing new digital business models in a corporate group. After that, her startup time began. She founded successfully data product startup. Driven by the question of how digital solutions must be so that people trust them, she scientifically studied digital trust building. The results led her to found her second company Digital Trust Analytics GmbH. |
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Frithjof Walk, AIM Europe
Frithjof Walk, 1963 im Taunus geboren ist seit 2015 bei Schneider-Kennzeichnung GmbH beschäftigt. Seit 1991 ist er im Bereich RFID/Auto-ID tätig. Im Jahr 2000 wurde Frithjof Walk Vorstand für Marketing und PR in den Vorstand des Industrieverbandes für automatische Datenerfassung und Mobilität, AIM Deutschland gewählt. Anfang 2002 wurde er in die Position des Vorstandsvorsitzenden von AIM Deutschland e.V. gewählt. Im Herbst 2002 wurde Frithjof Walk zum Vorsitzenden des Chapter Councils der Region EMEA von AIM Global berufen. Seit Herbst 2003 hat er einen Sitz im Vorstand von AIM Global inne. Seit 2012 ist Frithjof Walk Präsident von AIM Europe VZW. |
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Olaf Wilmsmeier, AIM Europe
Olaf Wilmsmeier brings around 25 years of professional experience in the field of mechanical engineering and automation to his work. Since 2010, Mr. Wilmsmeier has been leading digitization and in particular UHF RFID products and projects to success worldwide. As a board member of the German speaking chapter of AIM, Olaf Wilmsmeier is one of the initiators and drivers of the OPC Unified Architecture for AutoID Companion Specification, which the AIM Association defined in cooperation with the OPC Foundation. He also chairs the AIM-D RFID + Sensors working group. As a representative of the AIM Association, Olaf Wilmsmeier participates as an expert in various standardization committees such as ETSI, CEPT ECC or as a member of the European expert group for radio devices. At DKE, he also develops new standards and shapes topics related to the Digital Product Passport and the Asset Administration Shell. |