Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub Showcase

About

The complexities of modern day international trade, against a backdrop of global climate change, presents many UK manufacturers and exporters with new and immediate challenges. The International Supply Chain Accelerator, part of the Digital Supply Chain Hub programme, was specifically designed to address challenges impacting international supply chain ecosystems.

At this showcase event, the tech solutions developed in response to challenges set by industry challenge owners, will demonstrate how UK businesses can benefit from the practical application of deep tech solutions within their supply chains to make a global impact. Key stakeholders from across UK and international supply chain landscape are invited to Digital Catapult’s office in London on Thursday 6 March 2025 to:

• Learn how digital technologies can support the reduction in Scope 3 emissions and drive industrial decarbonisation towards the creation of sustainable supply chains.
• Explore how intricate international trade can be streamlined through digital trade processes that enhance proficiency, improve efficiency and reduce costs.
• Discover how interoperability and end-to-end supply chain visibility, can improve the resilience of UK industrial supply chains through the projects and tech solutions delivered as part of the Digital Supply Chain Hub programme

This showcase event will feature presentations and demonstrations from the innovators and solution providers at the bleeding edge of supply chain technology.

Why attend?

This showcase event is an excellent opportunity to explore the future of resilient, sustainable end-to-end supply chains and how the Made Smarter | Digital Supply Chain Hub programme delivered by Digital Catapult, has become a leading initiative for UK supply chain innovation.

Attendees will leave the event with:

• Knowledge of how the deployment of deep tech applications can help overcome barriers in global trade with support from digital tools for data standardisation, trade document management, and improved visibility
• Understanding of how the global net zero goals can be met through the decarbonisation of global supply chains through better reporting and monitoring of Scope 3 emissions
• Awareness of how UK innovators have addressed challenges from UK industry including Leonardo UK, BAE Systems and Unilever.
• Insights into how initiatives between industry, technology innovators and research centres have validated the importance of collaboration and interoperability

Who should attend?

This event will be of interest to CEOs, CTOs, Supply Chain Leads, Supply Chain Directors, Procurement Directors and Heads of Innovation working in supply chains across all sectors as well as technology companies working across manufacturing and supply chains.

Agenda

09:30 Arrival and Registrations

10:00 Welcome and Introduction – Tim Lawrence, Director – Digital Supply Chain Hub, Digital Catapult

10:10 Keynote – Belinda Howell, CEO, Decarbonize Limited & Priya Murthi, Innovation Portfolio Lead, Unilever

10:20 Digital Supply Chain Hub – International Supply Chain Accelerator

• Taras Kovtun, Innovation Delivery Manager, Digital Catapult
• Jonathan Jones, CRO, Siccar
• Caroline Wood, Senior Product Manager, Altruistiq

10:45 Panel Discussion: Sustainability in Supply Chains

• Chair: Belinda Howell, CEO, Decarbonize Limited
• Alex Catlin, CEO, Offshorly
• Jamie Dujardin, Head of Product Delivery, Altruistiq
• Jonathan Jones, CRO, Siccar
• Tamsin Lejeune, CEO and Co-Founder, Common Objective (CO) Tech

11:35 Break

11:45 Insights from Cutting-Edge Solution Providers

• Lizzy Parker, Calculator Manager, Farm Carbon Toolkit
• Chris Pointon, Product Manager, Icebreaker One

12:15 Lunch

13:20 Digital Trades and Enablers Keynote – Chris Southworth, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom

13:30 Seamless Trade Across Borders with BAE Systems, Leonardo and BT

• Eduard Oboimov – eTEU
• Anam Rahman – Kavida.ai
• Chris Felder – LinearWorks
• Ramin Takin – Exabler

14:00 Insights from Cutting-Edge Solution Providers

• Oliver Church, CEO and Founder, Orpehus Cyber

14:05 Challenges to delivering Digital Supply Chains – Tim Lawrence, Director – Digital Supply Chain Hub, Digital Catapult

14:10 Break

14:20 Panel Discussion: Overcoming Challenges in Cybersecurity, Business Cases, and Data Interoperability

• Chair: Mei Huang, Senior Innovation Partner, Digital Catapult
• Dr Helena Diffey, Policy Team Lead, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
• Oliver Church, CEO and Founder, Orpehus Cyber
• Nick Davies, Director ICC United Kingdom Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation
• Prof Mohan Sodhi, Professor – Operations and Supply Chain Management, Bayes Business School (London)
• Glen Worrall, Director of Digital Twin Solutions, Cohesive

15:10 Next steps and closing notes – Tim Lawrence, Director – Digital Supply Chain Hub, Digital Catapult

15:15 Networking and demos

16:00 End

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