Webinar: Delivering supply chain resilience through instruments of trust: Blockchain

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Webinar: Delivering supply chain resilience through instruments of trust: Blockchain

Date: Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Our speakers

Dan Purtell, Group Innovation Director, BSI

At BSI, Dan leads the Innovation team, which is tasked with implementing new ideas and emerging technology into the business. The Innovation team empowers BSI employees to think, create, and implement innovative solutions that solve our clients stated and unstated business challenges, providing increased levels of trust and resiliency. Innovation focuses on Digital Assurance, Predictive Analytics, and Smart Content. Prior to spearheading Innovation, Dan led Security and Risk Management consulting services, Compliance software, and Intelligence and global auditing services at BSI. He also served eleven years as a Counterterrorism and Investigative Program Manager in the US Air Force and for nine years as Intel Corporation’s Global Supply Chain Security Manager.

Dan served as Chairman of the Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA), a 1,000-member high-value cargo security group with active groups in Asia, Americas, and Europe. He is considered one of the top supply chain security experts in the world having conducted transportation infrastructure risk analysis in 70 countries. He holds a patent for the development of a supply chain risk and compliance algorithm which analyses terrorism and supply chain disruption exposures for international suppliers.

Branimir Rakic, Cofounder and CTO at Trace Labs

Branimir Rakić is the co-founder and CTO of Trace Labs, core developers of OriginTrail protocol for trusted supply chain data exchange for which a permissionless open mainnet was launched in late 2018. As the architect of the OriginTrail Decentralized Knowledge Graph - a technology stack employing blockchain, global standards for linked data and novel identity frameworks such as the Self Sovereign Identity - Branimir has been leading OriginTrail implementations with Trace Labs partners such as British Standards Institution, the Swiss Railway company SBB, Oracle, IoT & digital identity software company Evrythng and several consortiums within the Trace Alliance and European commission supported project.

He's particularly experienced in track & trace and provenance applications, having developed such solutions within the food industry since 2011. Branimir has been mentored by Bob Metcalfe (famous for the "Metcalfe's law" of network effects) after which OriginTrail has received the Food+City People's Choice Award in Austin, Texas in 2017. Being a strong advocate of open source, permissionless innovation, Branimir is active in standards development working groups within GS1 and the Ethereum community, a member of the Serbian Entrepreneurs and an alumni H-Farm accelerator.

Shelley Sjerven, Program Manager, SCM, BSI

Shelley leads the BSI Supplier Compliance Manager (SCM) Team and is responsible for managing development, integration and expansion of the SCM tool. Shelley and her team work closely with customers and stakeholders to ensure that the SCM tool meets their ongoing internal and external supply chain compliance needs; including corporate social responsibility, business continuity, sustainability and overall supply chain security.

Shelley’s experience includes serving eight years as the Corporate Security Manager at Avnet, Inc. where she managed the C-TPAT program and lead foreign onsite validations for both importers and foreign manufacturers. In addition, she was responsible for the emergency response team, the ethics and compliance program facilitation and training, corporate event security, security and supply chain assessments, and investigations.