International Advisor - John Greaves.

John is AIDC's International Advisor. John has been actively involved in RFID for many years. His pioneering work in the area of Logistics, Inventory Management and the Returnable Transport Items sector with both active and passive RFID has led to the significant adoptions occurring in both closed loop and the global Supply Chains of today.He was the founding chair of the US RFID standards group, led the European Spectrum Initiative, was the leader of the GTAG program for EAN.UCC and developed, amongst many significant RFID implementations worldwide, the one tag per pallet UHF solution with CHEP and the IT Asset Identification Program for Wells Fargo. John has served with distinction in the standards and equipment regulation bodies, ETSI, CEPT, CEN, ISO and is currently a Director of the LPRA (Low Power Radio Association) Council, a Director of the European Center for AIDC (AIDC UK) , a member of Institute of Logistics, CIES, ICSC, and the CSCMP (Council for Supply Chain Management Professionals). He addresses more than 50 global conferences annually and his industry methodologies are followed by all who practice both RFID and Bar Code Application Deployment worldwide.

 Ian Byfield

Ian has spent the past 20 years explaining AIDC to people who need to know what is possible with the technologies before they commit to any commercial activity. His consultancy business is called Thought Word and Deed. He was a time-served newspaper journalist before moving on to write some of the earliest home computer magazines and then into consultancy. At the same time he helped found and provided full editorial services to European-wide magazines about AIDC (and other technologies) such as IT Reseller and Manufacturing and Logistics IT. He was a consultant helping with the development of the AIDC Centre in Halifax and played a major part in developing the demonstrator suites. When the Centre opened he was appointed Engagement Manager and dealt face to face with many companies interested to discover more about AIDC and how they could use it. He is passionate about the technologies and feels it is important that technologies are chosen well and used properly. He therefore retains total non-commercial stance, giving advice independent of supplier or technology. At the same time he has a comprehensive knowledge of the AIDC supplier industry.

Gwilym Morris

Gwilym has considerable experience working with the public, private and third sectors creating accessible and inclusive relationships with hard to reach groups. Nearly all of Gwilym’s roles over the last 15 years have involved the active engagement of stakeholders including disabled people. He has worked for organisations as diverse as Accenture, All Wales People First, Alliance for Inclusive Education, BT, Care Services improvement Partnership, Commission for Social Care Inspection, Children’s Workforce Development Council, Department for Heath, Disability Rights Commission, Electoral Commission, Equal Opportunities Commission, Federation of Small Businesses, iMeta, Ministry of Justice, Opt2Vote, Positif Politics, Royal National Institute for the Blind, Royal Society for the Protection of Animals, Scope, Sense, Tata Consultancy Services, Valuing People Support Team and the Welsh Assembly Government.

Silvia Butnarasu  completed a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science and started her career with the I.A.R. Helicopter Factory in Brasov, Romania as a Software Analyst on the aerodynamic characteristics tests programs run for Puma Helicopters. Her involvement in the related communication systems field led to design and implementation developments in Multicast Satellite Transmissions architectures, for Deuromedia Germany. Silvia was technical project manager in the SATIN-7 European Project for Deuromedia, working with international organisations researching into public access service from technical options of optimising satellite bandwidth to ground VSAT receivers. Silvia joined Public DataWeb UK in 2003 as technical development manager on several public access kiosk innovations including Wi-Fi to mobile services, remote monitoring methods and developments for Avatar and Smart card integrations and unique Mobile Barcode Ticketing systems. Silvia currently develops and runs all testing procedures for the AIDC LASSeO verification programme.

Professor Keith Osman is AIDC's Consulting Academic and is also the Research Director for Birmingham City University. Keith has an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering, a PhD in Industrial Automation and more than 20 years academic and professional experience of conceptualising and delivering industry collaborative research, development, technology transfer and consultancy. Keith has a comprehensive knowledge of existing and emergent AIDC, RFID and ICT technologies and their applications within industrial and commercial contexts.