Northwest EC Roundtable
EC Roundtable

Thursday, April 15th,  2004
1:00 to 3:30 PM
@
T.A. Wilson Conference Center
Boeing Customer Service Center

1:00 - 1:30 Networking
Refreshments provided by our sponsors.

1:30 - 1:40 Administrative Business
Conducted by Tim McMonigle, President NW E-Commerce Roundtable

1:40 to 3:10 Program

Speaker 1: David A. Bennett: "Upcoming Trends using RFID Technology"
Presentation (ppt)

Speaker 2: Kenneth D. Porad: "Progress on Developing Machine-readable Technologies to Identify Commercial Airplane Parts"
Presentation (pdf)

Biographies:
David A. Bennett
Founder and Chief Technology Officer
Cyclone Commerce 
Dave is Cyclone Commerce's technology visionary, widely acclaimed for his business technology views and accomplishments. For over 17 years, he has focused exclusively on networking applications. He has designed and developed distributed systems for banking, retail, and supply chain execution using wireless, IP, satellite, ASYNC, SNA, B2B, EAI, and P2P technologies. Prior to Cyclone Commerce, Dave was engineering and technical services executive for Gateway Data Sciences Corporation and a Vice President of engineering and operations for Nations Bank and American Express while living in Japan. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Kenneth Porad
Program Manager, Permanent Bar Code ID Program
Boeing Commercial Airplanes Group

Ken is responsible for overall program management for bar coding and marking of parts within the Commercial Airplanes Group and is also the Boeing engineering representative to the Air Transport Association's task force, which developed the industry standard bar code format.

Ken joined the Boeing Company in April 1980 and has held increasingly responsible positions within engineering and management in both the Integrated Defense Systems and Commercial Airplanes business units. His formal education includes BS and MS degrees.

3:10 to 3:30 Questions & Networking