In February, the Trace Labs team was once again invited to attend the GS1’s Global Forum, which took place in Brussels. This event is a platform for sharing the latest standards and solutions achievements, implementations and innovations of first-rate practices from different countries around the world, and users’ perspectives. It is also a social event, designed to bring together people with the same vision, all with the goal of improving GS1’s global strategy and fuel inspiration for innovation activities.

This year, the GS1 Global Forum, the most important annual event organized by this international organization, united more than 850 participants from more than 90 countries. Among event participants were CEOs, COOs, marketing and training managers, technical experts, projects leaders, GS1 stakeholder guest representatives from the end-user industry, key trade associations (TCGF, WCO), and solution providers who are also members of different management boards. At the GS1 Global Forum, attendees enjoyed innovative presentations about GS1 supply chain standards and how GS1 is helping companies from all around the world meet obligations and satisfy customers.

Trace Labs and GS1 — A Partnership Based on Trust

Trace Labs has a history of collaborating with GS1 on shaping the future of supply chains. The OriginTrail protocol was presented in GS1’s position paper on blockchain interoperability and during last year’s GS1 Global Forum, Co-Founder & Managing Director Žiga Drev joined the panel discussion where he called for unlocking data from fragmented global supply chains to help it reach true value.

This year, Žiga Drev was invited to speak at the session on the blockchain. He presented Food Data Market, an open-source project leveraging OriginTrail protocol and GS1’s EPCIS open standard, which provides incentives for greater visibility in food supply chains. With Food Data Market, data describing product visibility and storage conditions can be captured, valorized and monetized to provide incentives for greater visibility in food supply chains.