Nominees announced for RFID Breakthrough Awards

For the first time ever the who’s who of the RFID industry will be coming together to recognize and celebrate the achievements of those who have succeeded in amazing and astounding the RFID world. The RFID Networking Forum has announced the nominees for the awards, which will be presented on November 7th at The Sheraton Skyline Hotel in Heathrow, London.
 
Nigel Montgomery, director of European research, AMR Research, will host a gala dinner evening of celebration in which prizes will be presented in eight different categories. Nominations for the awards have been entered from a wide range of industries including many that have previously kept details of their RFID usage under terms of non-disclosure. The full list of nominees and their nominators is:
 
Virgin Atlantic Airways (Tata Consultancy Services, Oracle)    
Nestl (SATO)
BMW (Siemans A&D)   
Rolls-Royce PLC (Mantic Point Solutions Ltd)
Finland Post Corporation (Capgemini and BEA Systems Ltd)
Michelin (Smartronics) 
Aegate Ltd (UPM RAFSEC)
BAA Heathrow (BAA)
Cambium-Forstbetriebe (Progress Software)
Biffa Waste Management (Nokia)
Essex County Council (Intellident UK)
Airbus (Siemans A&D)
Gillette (OAT Systems)
Trenstar (Microsoft)
CEMEX Concrete Products (BRE Ltd)
Colder Products Company (Innovision Research and Technology)
Marks and Spencer (Marks and Spencer)
Nottinghamshire Constabulary (Concept Labelling Solutions Ltd)
PH Europe Ltd (RF Code Inc and JDS Professional Services Inc)
GlaxoSmithKline (Zebra Technologies Ltd)
Titan Plastech (Concept Labelling Solutions Ltd)
Rugby Cement (Microlise)
Select Plant Hire Company Ltd (BT Auto-ID Services)
Birmingham Heart of England NHS (Zebra Technologies Ltd)
Oat Systems (Tesco Stores Ltd)
Siemans A&D (Siemans A&D)
Clinical Centre Ingolstadt (Siemans A&D)
Cinram International Inc (Siemans A&D)
Microlise (Microlise)
 
The awards evening will see an unprecedented range of RFID end users and technology providers coming together to reward those that deserve recognition for their work in RFID. Never before has there been such a valuable opportunity to network with the key players in the RFID world.
 
The RFID Breakthrough Awards 2005 are being held in conjunction with the RFID Futures Conference and the RFID Networking Forum, which are being held at The Sheraton Skyline Hotel in Heathrow on the days of the 7th and 8th of November respectively.  More information on all of these events can be found at http://www.rfidawards.com/, http://www.rfidforum.com/ and www.rfidawards.com/futures.