 Welcome to the next episode of Digital Supply Chain Institute Insights. Today, with me, I have a pleasure to speak with Sean Mumma, who is the Director for New Technologies in Digital Supply Chain Institute. And the topic we would like to cover is the topic of how Digital Supply Chain Institute is trying to stay on top of the new technologies, and then as well, open up opportunities for companies who are scaling up mobile solutions in supply chain. Sean, welcome. Thank you, Marco. It's a pleasure to be here. Looking forward to our conversation. So Sean, let's dive immediately into the arena of what and why Digital Supply Chain would like to do in the area of helping scaling up companies and how we came to that idea. Okay. Well, thank you, Marco. We have announced in our accepting members into our new accelerator. The accelerator is designed to assist companies in scaling. What we're looking for is companies that have a proven platform, supply chain capabilities that we can help them move to the next level and help them scale. We came to recognize the need for this as a result of membership in the Digital Supply Chain Institute. We found that we had a couple different classes of membership, for lack of a better word. We had the enterprise members on the larger end of the scale. Of course, large companies, large supply chains, global in nature. And then we had a group of what we call scale up members who are smaller companies with interesting technologies, interesting ideas in the supply chain area who were of interest to the enterprise members from a technology standpoint, but lack some of the management expertise and capabilities that they needed to succeed in the market. So we said we could bring those two together, along with the skills and the capabilities that DSCI has as an organization and hopefully have an outcome that benefits all parties within the institute. Very, very exciting and interesting Sean and I think the learnings from the current scale up members as you shared. Basically, it's great to hear that they have built the program from learning and understanding with them, you know, what is the real need and then what is the capability missing. Can you share please for the people listening is is there any criteria of selecting companies for the accelerator. There's a criteria for selecting companies and that we're looking for companies that of course our supply chain focused can be and really in any sector within the supply chain but offers some unique technology or capabilities that would benefit others in the as as customers in the supply chain arena. You know, number one is we're not looking for startups were we're not we're not looking for to to provide office space and and those sort of resources to companies what we're looking for is companies that have proven capabilities that that need to scale those capabilities and improve them out globally. So that's, that's the focus. We're a little bit different than a lot of accelerators out there, and that we are, we're going to be company specific the programs will be tailored to the individual company and customized we're not. We're not cohort based, like a lot of accelerators are where we're not looking to, to run people through a classroom and give them a certificate at the end where we're very outcome oriented. We're looking to provide tangible ideas. Instead, a set of series of outcomes for the, the accelerator member that is in line with where they want to take the business and then provide the support to help them. And achieve those objectives and and we'll measure our our path towards those, those objectives over time. And in addition, of course, we have various, a lot of talent that we can make available. So we have diverse, deep seasoned experience, and they can provide seasoned strategic insight to these companies so we think we're uniquely positioned and in well positioned to help these companies achieve their next level growth. So it really crystallizes the view in a sense of being supply chain and to end innovation focus that it's a hands on approach which is tailor made based to the needs of the selected companies in it. So having all these exciting things in mind. How do people can look into more information and then potentially apply for the evaluation for the membership in the accelerate. Well, of course, if for those who are interested, go to the DSCI website there's a accelerator landing page there and you'll find some more details about how to contact either myself or you Marco, or Sega three color who was another one of our associates that's involved with the accelerator. And we can take it from there once once you reach out to us. Thank you very much Ron and before we close this session. Is there anything else you would like to add to the audience again. Well, I think it's important for those who are interested to understand what they, what they receive and in the way of benefit. So the accelerator will will provide an advisory board the advisory board will will be staffed with with with folks that are experienced from the CGE DSCI network, and we'll manage and administer that advisory board on behalf of members they can have quarterly workshops with that selected advisory board. In addition, we're going to be providing mentoring for the CEO. Again, we'll work with the CEO to select the right mentor mentor that matches their company and where they want to go will provide targeted client introductions with our existing members or beyond that. Access to investors and stakeholders that going forward. So we, we're going to be a full service accelerator. We're, we're deep in talent, we're deep in connections, we're deep, deep and I'm being able to provide introductions to to scale up members. So I think that there's a lot of benefits here that that accelerator members can expect as as a result of being part of the DSCI accelerator. Thank you very much Sean for being with us today in this digital supply chain Institute session, the DSCI insights, and we really look forward to the start of the accelerator and it correlates directly with digital supply chain transformation to help transformation of supply chains globally. Thank you for being with us, and we come back soon. Okay, thank you Marco was a pleasure being here with you today and we certainly look forward to welcoming new accelerator members to our, to our Institute and also to the yearly accelerator meetings that will be holding face to face in the future. So thank you once again it's a pleasure being here. Thank you Sean and thank you all for listening digital supply chain Institute insights will continue.