Yesterday I had the pleasure to talk about ’Product Passports & the Future of Trade’ at the Altana Directions Summit in NYC.

What an event we had with high-level discussions about the current global situation for international trade, while co-creating concrete solutions. The future is here, we saw it yesterday.

What a great event we had today, Evan Smith, EO and co-founder of our partner Altana !

The annual Altana Directions Summit is one of the best conferences on the planet in our field.

Supersorganization, outstanding agenda, the best speakers – great fireplace talks & panels.

As you said on stage, this where the future is co-designed. For those of you out there that couldn’t join us for this timely event – don’t miss the event next year. We will then tell you how we did it! How we did make the world a better place.

Amazing Directions Summit in New York City today arranged by our partner Altana with a full house in dialogue about AI in Customs & Supply Chains. A timely event with the recent tariff storm & increasing enforcement of ESG regulations, like the UFLPA.

I did a panel about Product Passports with Michael DeVitto from LLBean & Aaron Libbey from Altana. Great conversation.

Altana CEO, Evan Smith & former U.S. Commerce Secretary and Governor of Rhode Island, Gina Raimondo, kicked off the Summit.

Takeaways so far:

👉🏻Chaos, unpredictability, and shocks to the global trade system are here to stay
👉🏻Mastering trade in an era of global fragmentation means knowing your products: what they are, how they’re sourced, how they move
👉🏻Network-level problems in global trade require collaborative, network-based solutions
👉🏻Trade Compliance is the new license to play
👉🏻Own your data
👉🏻Manage your partner network &
👉🏻Select solutions that can manage multiple risks & markets
👉🏻Product Passports for goods is here, get ready for it!