Stephen Miles
From IRF 2007
Stephen Miles leads the Auto-ID Network Research Special Interest Group, a research consortium at the MIT Auto-ID Labs formed to address industry requirements for exchanging Electronic Product Code and Sensor Data in supply chains. He interacts extensively with the industry, including consulting in requirements for new shared business processes and netcentric services for improved cross-enterprise collaboration.
Steve is the founder and co-chair of the RFID Academic Convocation with events in Shanghai and Brussels in partnership with the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the European Commission European Commission Directorate General Information Society and Media Converged Networks & Services.
He is a 2003 graduate of the Management of Technology executive MBA program at MIT Sloan. While there, he served as a consultant to leading network service providers in the United States and Europe.
Steve held executive positions during the previous seven years with Wireless IP Networks, IronBridge Networks, the MPLS terabit router OEM, and NMS Communications (NMSS). During his tenure NMS grew from $20M to $250M, where Steve supported the acquisition of a 50 person French computer telephony firm, expanded Asian operations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Beijing, and was General Manager for Latin America. As Founder and President of Officenet Inc. Steve built a regional computer services company with customers including American Express and General Electric that was acquired by Decision One in 1996.
Steve participates in EPCglobal, W3C Semantic Web and related standards organizations and is a frequent speaker at RFID Conferences and chairs the MIT Enterprise Forum RFID SIG.
Steve is co-editor of the upcoming Cambridge University Press book “RFID Technology and Applications.”
Steve has served as President and Board Member for non profits including Beacon Hill Friends House, Cambridge Early Music Society, the Ipswich Historical Society, Ramallah Friends School and the Green Garden School in Nairobi. Steve is fluent in French and has learned to say thankyou in many languages.
