RAIN ALLIANCE TRAINING
Pre-Show 1.12.2025 – 3.7.2025 |
Standard 3.8.2025 – 4.28.2025 |
Onsite 4.29.2024 – 5.8.2025 |
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RAIN Alliance Training* | $1,900 | $2,100 | $2,500 |
*Full Conference Pass Included
RAIN Project Management Primer • MAY 8
Presented by: RAIN Alliance
Every RAIN Project is different, and presents its own challenges, but the underlying activities and processes are the same. This workshop explains the essential phases and activities that are critical for the success of RAIN implementations, no matter their scale or complexity.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Provides a common project language an expectations between end users and their supplier ecosystem.
- Understand critical project success factors and how they should be dealt with.
- Project documentation guidelines.
- Learn about standards and regulation requirements.
Workshop Topics:
- The common tasks and structure of RAIN implementations.
- Establishing corporate goals and key preparatory use cases for successful deployment.
- Identify the stakeholder landscape and the need for partners.
- Importance regulatory and standards requirements for RAIN projects.
- Encoding best practices.
- How TAG, Antenna, and Read-point selection have critical impact on a project’s success.
- IT Integration, and post-release support.
Target Audience:
- Supplier project managers, sales managers, evangelists, product managers, and new hires.
- End-user project managers, business managers, IT leads, and project teams.
Prerequisites:
Attendees should ideally have familiarity with the major components of the RAIN stack, including tags, antennas, readers, and middleware.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have questions or want more information about this training, please contact Christian Merhy at [email protected].
Circularity, Connecting RAIN to Corporate Sustainability Goals • MAY 8
Presented by: RAIN Alliance, and the RAIN Alliance Sustainability and Circularity Community
As companies face increasing pressure to meet sustainability targets and build more resilient operations, understanding how RAIN technology can support these goals is essential — especially in light of evolving regulatory requirements and shifting consumer preferences toward the circular economy. RAIN is one of the most widely used technologies globally, enabling efficient product identification, tracking, and authentication across various industries. With over 40 billion tags shipped last year, RAIN is already driving waste reduction, operational efficiencies, and optimizing supply chains — key pillars of corporate sustainability programs.
In this workshop, you’ll learn how RAIN is becoming a game-changer in advancing your sustainability initiatives. The workshop dives into the European Digital Product Passport, as an example of a set of emerging sustainability and circularity regulations that will impact US exporters in the near term.
Workshop Topics:
- Overview of sustainability and the circular economy.
- DPP Beginners Guide: Introduction to the European Digital Product Passport and its impact on US exporters.
- The global landscape of DPP-like jurisdictions, with an emphasis on implications for US companies exporting to those regions.
- Key stakeholder in the DPP and circular economy ecosystem.
- Relevant evolving initiatives, service providers, and track-and-trace vendors in the different product segments to deliver DPPs, thus enabling the circular economy.
- Technical standards, vocabularies, and data exchange formats and protocols in the supply chain.
- Key challenges when introducing the circular economy, more transparent value chains, and implementing digital product passports.
- How to get going with RAIN as a preferred data carrier for DPP.
- Why is RAIN critical for DPPs?
- The importance of RAIN availability in mobile phones.
- How to leverage RAIN technology to achieve sustainability goals.
- Learn about the RAIN power use cases in the context of digital product passports.
- Learn how RAIN technology facilitates more sustainable value chains, featuring success stories and real-world examples.
Target Audience:
- Purchasing Department, Supply Chain Manager.
- Sustainability/ESG Responsible and Circular Economy Responsible.
- Product Managers, Sales Managers, and Export Managers.
- Public Policy, Regulatory Affairs, and Due Diligence Managers.
- Business managers from Retail, Tyres, Textiles, Food, Healthcare, Manufacturing and other sectors engaging in RAIN Implementations.
Prerequisite(s):
No specific requirements.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have questions or want more information about this training, please contact Christian Merhy at [email protected].
RAIN Alliance Training at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025

Join the RAIN Alliance at RFID Journal LIVE! 2025 for two comprehensive workshops designed to empower professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to succeed in RAIN (UHF RFID) technology implementation. Whether you’re managing projects, optimizing supply chains, or driving corporate sustainability goals, these sessions offer actionable insights and hands-on strategies tailored to your needs.