Tom Ridge Keynote Speaker March 22 2006 Commonwealth Games

Business Club Australia together with RFID Association of Australia and ITS Australia invite RFIDAA members to be our guest at a keynote address from US Secretary Tom Ridge hosted by the Hon. Marsha Thomson, Minister for Information and Communication Technology.

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, US President George W. Bush created the Department of Homeland Security within the executive branch, and named Tom Ridge to head it. In January 2003, the Department of Homeland Security became a Cabinet department, and Ridge assumed the post of Homeland Security Secretary. As Secretary, he organised and oversaw a combined 22 federal agencies employing 180,000 staff. Prior to his Homeland Security appointments, Secretary Ridge was Governor of Pennsylvania between 1995 and 2001 and a member of the US House of Representatives from 1983 to 1995.

Secretary Ridge will deliver a keynote address on the need for collaboration between business and government, especially in emerging areas such as biometric technology or radio-frequency identification (RFID), to stimulate economies while helping form national security strategies. He will speak about Governments' needs to counteract advancing threats and the private and public sector coming together for an increase in real-world applications for emergency technology including programs to secure shipping containers and others as example of both industry and government developing technologies that can have mutually beneficial applications.

For further information or to RSVP please contact: info@rfidaa.org

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