Intel goes paperless – with Poken

Intel’s International Manufacturing Excellence Conference IMEC 2012 event was all about numbers: By going paperless using NFC tags and pokens,  Intel’s flyers and other documents were collected more than 62,000 times, and participants exchanged 28,000 business cards digitally – saving more than 8 trees (on average a tree generates 8,500 sheets of paper) and all the associated bleaching, printing, and transportation costs.   Visitors also submitted more than 10,500 votes in surveys set up for instant feedback, by touching 232 tags.
 
Inside the seminar rooms, poster boards with five tags on each were set up, labled  ”okay”, “good”, “very good”, “excellent” and “amazing”. Attendees were told to tap their Pokens on the star that best represented their opinion of the seminar. Attendees also voted via more than 70 Tags for their favorite exhibits. The Tag voting system would yield more than 10,500 votes, far surpassing previous years’ totals of less than 1,000 votes, according to show organizers.
 
For Intel, security was a major concern – leading to an audit of Poken’s processes and data management systems.  The Poken team is very proud that Intel has selected Poken as a supplier of event technologies and content management services, giving us the opportunity to continue delivering successfully to this prized customer.
 
Intel’s use of NFC, in conjunction with Poken’s content management platform, started at Mobile World Congress 2012.