RAIN Alliance at RFID Journal Live!
The RAIN Alliance is proud to be an RFID Journal LIVE! 2025 Trailblazer Industry Partner, showcasing the power of RAIN technology at the industry’s leading event. As a Trailblazer, RAIN Alliance is running two executive training courses on Thursday, May 8, speaking in educational sessions, and hosting an exclusive member-only breakfast. This is your chance to dive deeper into RAIN technology, gain valuable insights, and enhance your expertise—all while enjoying full access to the RFID Journal Live. See details below. For sponsorship opportunities, contact events@therainalliance.org.
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Expert-led Training to Boost Your Knowledge
RAIN Project Manager Primer – Thursday, May 8, 9am – 3pm
RAIN adoption is exploding! New markets and new use cases are opening up the huge potential for this technology. This workshop equips you with the essential knowledge to navigate the phases and activities that are critical for successful RAIN implementations, no matter their scale or complexity. Make sure your project is a success!
Location/Track Room: Champagne 4
Learning objectives:
- Provides a common project language and expectations between end users and their supplier ecosystem.
- Identifies critical project success factors and how they should be dealt with.
- Develop project documentation guidelines.
- Learn about standards and regulation requirements.
Workshop Topics:
- The common tasks and structure of RAIN implementations.
- Establishing corporate goals and key preparatory use cases for successful deployment.
- Identify the stakeholder landscape and the need for partners.
- Important regulatory and standards requirements for RAIN projects.
- Encoding best practices.
- How TAG, Antenna, and Read-point selection can impact a project’s success.
- IT Integration, and post-release support.
Target Audience:
- Supplier project managers, sales managers, evangelists, product managers, and new hires.
- End-user project managers, business managers, IT leads, and project teams.
Prerequisites: Attendees should ideally have familiarity with the major components of the RAIN stack, including tags, antennas, readers, and middleware.
Spots are limited. Register for RFID Journal Live and select the course/courses you wish to attend.
Connecting RAIN to Corporate Sustainability Goals — Thursday, May 8, 9am – 3pm
With pressure to meet corporate sustainability targets, evolving regulatory requirements, and shifting consumer preferences toward the circular economy, NOW is the time to understand how RAIN technology can help you achieve your goals!
With over 40 billion tags shipped last year, RAIN is already driving waste reduction, operational efficiencies, and optimizing supply chains — key pillars of corporate sustainability programs.
In this workshop, you’ll learn why you need RAIN technology and how to start addressing the European Digital Product Passport (DPP), a set of emerging sustainability and circularity regulations that will impact US exporters in the near term. If you export to Europe, you need this course!
Location/ Track Room: Champagne 5
Topics covered:
- Understand why RAIN is an ideal data carrier enabling corporate sustainability goals.
- RAIN power use cases and impact on sustainability.
- Understand the emerging DPP landscape in different US Export markets
- DPP Beginners Guide: How to get going with RAIN & DPP.
- How your sustainability team can leverage the data and operating efficiencies provided by RAIN, to achieve their goals.
- Overview of adjacent standards.
Spots are limited. Register for RFID Journal Live and select the course/courses you wish to attend.
RAIN Alliance-Hosted Conference Sessions at RFID Journal Live!
Fireside Chat: Leveraging RAIN RFID for Managing High-Dollar Inventory for Infusion and Oncology Clinics – Wednesday, May 7, 9:35 AM -10:15 AM
Managing high-cost medications in infusion and oncology clinics presents unique challenges, from inventory visibility and cost control to regulatory compliance and waste reduction. In this insightful fireside chat, RAIN Alliance President Aileen Ryan, will talk to executives from Bluesight Technologies and Sentara Hospital about innovative RAIN RFD driven solutions that help healthcare providers track, optimize, and secure their most valuable pharmaceutical assets.
Moderator:
Aileen Ryan, President, RAIN Alliance
Speakers:
TJ Bozada, Product Manager, Bluesight Technologies
Tyler Wilson, Clinical Pharmacist, Sentara Hospital
RAIN: Reinforcing the Power of Digital Product Passports and Enabling Sustainable Supply Chains – Wednesday, May 7, 10.25am – 11.05am
Digital product passports (DPP) are an essential component in the quest to produce more sustainable products for a circular economy. To meet regularity requirements (beginning in 2027/28 and mandatory by 2030 in all 27 EU member nations) companies are increasingly turning to RAIN technology. RAIN (UHF RFID) is a wireless technology that connects trillions of everyday items to the internet, enabling businesses and consumers to identify, locate, authenticate, and engage each item. In this session learn how the DPP requirements will impact the retail sector. Also hear the latest sustainability use cases for supply chains. Gain an understanding of how integrating RAIN RFID functionality in mobile device chipsets will help fulfil DPP requirements as well as enabling workers and consumers use their phones or other devices to engage with RFID tagged products or assets.
Moderator:
Dr. Susanne Guth-Orlowski, DPP Specialist, RAIN Alliance
Speakers:
Megan Brewster, VP Advanced Technology, Impinj
Jonathan Aitken, VP of Global On Product Technology, PVH
Melissa Auge, Marketing and Business development North America, REGOM US
Maximizing Value of GS1 Gen2v3 Adoption for RAIN deployments: Unlocking a Force to Increase Accuracy and Speed – Wednesday, May 7, 11.15am – 11.55am
Gen2v3, the latest release of GS1’s EPC air interface standard, has been enhanced to meet the obstacles encountered by users when several RAIN readers are deployed in a single area with multiple applications running simultaneously. Gen2v3 addresses this issue by improving tag data collection in multi-reader deployments, as well as speeding up the inventory process and enabling inventory accuracy by eliminating tag clutter and ensuring that only the intended tags are read. Claude Tételin, Director AIDC, GS1 Global Office, will demonstrate how Gen2V3 can be used to inventory only the tags that have passed their expiration date, enabling the removal of out-of-date products from the shelves.
Speakers:
Claude Tetelin,
Pierre Müller, RFID Business Unit Manager, EM Microelectronic
Thomas Frederick, CEO, Clairvoyant Technology LLC
Members Only Breakfast with The RAIN Alliance and AIM at RFID Journal Live
Thursday, May 8, 7.30am – 9.30am
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The RAIN Alliance is delighted to be co-hosting a partner breakfast with AIM at RFID Journal Live, Paris Hotel, Las Vegas.
Exclusively for RAIN and AIM members, session attendees will hear insights from RAIN Alliance and AIM leadership, plus case study insights from each organization’s members.
Attendees will also benefit from networking with each other over a light breakfast.
Speakers and sessions include:
AIM Executive Address
Mary Lou Bosco, Chief Executive Officer, AIM, Inc. & AIM North America
Mary Lou Bosco leads the executive team as Chief Executive Officer for AIM Global, the global industry alliance which represents the interests of individuals and organizations that implement, sell, develop, and use automatic identification and data capture technologies. She also manages AIM North America. Ms. Bosco joined AIM in 2006 and held various management positions including COO since 2010 before being promoted to CEO in 2022. An industry advocate, Ms. Bosco is passionate about the promotion and adoption of AIDC technologies, while always striving to present a balanced view of all aspects of the industry. Well recognized within the AIDC community, she is considered a resource on AIDC and the trends within the industry.
RAIN Alliance Executive Address
Aileen Ryan, President, RAIN Alliance
Aileen Ryan’s executive career spans software and hardware engineering, strategy and commercial operations with a variety of technology firms and industry associations including Siemens, TM Forum, Huawei and Motorola.
She joined the RAIN Alliance in October 2022 from a senior position at Siemens, having played a pivotal role in the strategic acquisition of UltraSoC Technologies where she was Chief Strategy and Chief Operating Officer. She also spent a decade at the TM Forum, a global industry association, in various roles including Chief Operating Officer where she led the growth and transformation of the organization including restructuring, re-skilling, and re-designing its portfolio of services.
She is widely recognized as a leader in the global communications industry and was named by Silicon Republic as one of the top 25 Irish leaders in the Sci-Tech world, and by IT Security Guru and KPMG as one of the most inspiring women in cyber security in 2021. She holds an M.B.A., an M.Sc. in Computer Science, and a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and has completed advanced executive business studies at the University of Cambridge and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
RFID in Parcels – The Last Mile to the Customer
Speakers to be announced
Leveraging RAIN RFID for Management of Railroad Components – An Amtrak Case Study
Anurag Kulshrestha, President & CEO, Anantics & Amtrak Representative (tbc)
Anurag Kulshrestha (Anu) is the President & CEO of Anantics, based in Michigan-USA, with expertise in DevSecOps, GIS, and IoT solutions’ custom design, development and implementations. Anu is a visionary, decisive and solutions-driven technical professional with 26 years of extensive experience in information and communication systems architecture and management. Anu has master’s degree in Computer Science, and he is also certified PMP since 2009. Anu has managed and orchestrated many IoT technologies driven enterprise solutions in multiple countries. His professional acumen are “Strategic in Thinking and Tactical in Acting”.
Sponsorship opportunities available. Email events@therainalliance.org for more information.
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