General Chair
Emily Sopensky (USA)
The Iris Company
A business consultant, Emily Sopensky is the sole proprietor of The Iris Company (www.iriscompany.com), a communications business, specializing in strategies for startups. Her involvement with radio frequency identification began in 1996 with Texas Instruments (Dallas, Texas), where she was a consultant for six years with the RFID group (then called TIRIS). After 20 years working with technology companies in Central Texas, she became the second IEEE-USA Fellow to the U.S. State Department, and relocated to Arlington, Virginia.
In March 2007, Ms. Sopensky co-founded the RFID Educational Foundation, a non-profit organization formed to provide educational programs, products and other activities including accepting and making educational grants. In November 2007, the IRS recognized the Foundation as 501(c)(3) charitable organization. For more information, see therfidfoundation.org.
Ms. Sopensky, a Senior Member of IEEE, is actively supporting The Institute in recognizing this emerging technology. She chaired the first IEEE-wide juried conference in March 2007, and is chairing the second. Ms. Sopensky represents IEEE-USA on the RFID Technology Council, an ad hoc group which supports the U.S. Senate RFID Caucus formed in July 2006. She led the IEEE-USA team that wrote the white paper on RFID (now available from IEEE-USA) and the position statement. She chairs the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy.
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