 Well, thank you everybody. I hope you're enjoying the global forum so far. It's obviously, there's been a lot of great sessions for technical and business. Everybody's out there meeting new people and learning about how blockchain is being used to solve real problems. I think we heard some good examples this morning in today's keynotes, as well as yesterday's. I'm Isaac Kunkel, and I lead the consulting services at ChainYard, and I'm presenting today alongside Mohan Van Katamaran, who's our CTO. We also are a sponsor of the global forum and very pleased to be working alongside the Linux Foundation and Hyperledger to put on this event. Today, we are gonna provide a high-level perspective on how blockchain, in harmony with many other technologies, is and can improve supply chain security to help companies fight fraud, tackle compliance issues, identify counterfeits, and maybe most importantly, just protect their brands. The information presented today is based on many decades of experience across industries and more recently, the last five years focused on how blockchain can improve the harmony and manage risks in supply chains. We're gonna move very quickly, even though we're getting a late start, I apologize for the technical issues, but we're gonna move very quickly and just share key points. The deck is available for a download to you lower in the screen. Feel free to ask questions in the chat along the way, and if we can't get to them today, we'll get to them offline with you guys. We are a digital transformation company out of North Carolina. We're part of a bigger company called IT People Corporation. We have a global delivery center in Hyderabad, India as well, and we specialize in helping companies gain business value. We have a special focus on blockchain technologies, user experience, user interface design, cyber security. We have a deep practice in cloud and DevOps, and we are more recently focused on AI and automation, partnering with big companies globally to help them with different areas, including their robotics, cognitive and cognitive efforts. One other thing I'd like to point out about our company is that we have, and you may have heard of it in a couple of sessions this week, Truster Supplier. We operate the global network for supplier information management and customer onboarding. We've also recently joined the Linux Foundation Open IDL project, which is a property and casualty blockchain project focused on improving regulatory reporting, at least as the first use case. We think there'll be many other use cases as that advances. Next slide, please. So this is a high level picture of a storyboard that Milan's gonna walk you through today. It's gonna talk about some of the foundational elements for supply chain security, and hopefully at the time, we're beginning, we'll be able to engage with you and answer some questions about the presentation, as well as talk to you about our vision for the future based on our experiences. All right. So good afternoon, good morning, and everybody. Mohan Venkatraman, CTO of Chainian. So I'm gonna begin with what are today's problems with the enterprise supply chain. So most of the supply chains of today are centralized. It is enterprise-driven. Each enterprise has got its own ERP systems internally or some custom solutions that all go together in order to manage the supply chain. And information between enterprises is exchanged through the use of EDI or JSON or XML. And most often, they get lost in translation and lead to data quality issues but other kinds of problems. And finally, this supply chain today is controlled by the lead buyer or the seller who is in charge of that business collaboration. Now, if we look at all the issues of why there is a trust issue and the central issues in today's supply chain, yes, there is a trust issue. And the trust spans a number of areas. Some of it is like product authenticity. Do we know this product that we purchased is real? Do we know how the supply chain processes were handled? If a supplier goes out of business or if a supplier cannot deliver, can we quickly switch over to another supplier? What kind of quality of data am I getting, like in terms of the constituents of the product but in terms of the order, in terms of the invoice, compliance with good manufacturing practices? Am I complying, is my business process complying with good manufacturing practices that have been embodied? Siloed processes. Today, each partner in the business network is in a siloed way collaborating. Their systems are duplicated. The same processes are duplicated. Expensive IT infrastructure, disparate systems. And finally, you do not have standards consistently implemented across the supply chain, be it SOX compliance, be it privacy or any other requirement. So if you look at a typical supply chain, it's a relation, it's very simple. It's a relationship between a buyer and a seller, but yet it is very complex. A buyer places an order on a seller and the seller then acknowledges that order and then gets a factory or a contract manufacturer to manufacture the product. Now the contract manufacturer in turn issues, which is orders to suppliers. As they get all these components, they manufacture the product and then based on a delivery order, they move that product across the supply chain. Now along this process, there are a number of organizations and people handling this product. It goes through cross-borders. It is processed by transporters, by pickers, packers, shippers, logistics operators and many other folks. And so hence it is prone to problems in terms of errors. There could be fraud, there could be counterfeiting and there could be any type of other issues. Obviously we have seen this issue, right? In the recent COVID pandemic, we did see there was a supply chain disruption in the PPE or the supply of, you know, sanitation products. We also saw recently the Suez Canal was blocked and therefore the entire supply chain was disrupted or more importantly, the lack of availability of chips is disrupting the automobile industry and many other industries, right? So we do have to see how can we have a better supply chain that can be trusted. In our experience or in our vision, the supply chain trust is built across four pillars or four legs, you know, it starts with the supplier. Supply chain is about, begins with the supplier. The supplier is the one that delivers, you know, that supplies components or delivers a product, we need to trust the supplier. The second is we need to trust the product, right? The product that we purchase, we wanna make sure it has been manufactured with the right quality. You can trace where the product, the provenance of the product, what were the pieces, where did they originate and how they were all put together? Or we do want to know if it is, you know, proof of quality or it doesn't include conflict minerals bad in a child level practices. We also wanna trust the process because most of the problems in the supply chain happens along the way where a fake product is injected into the supply chain or some of the cross-border compliance issues like lack of documentation. So how can we bring more trust into the process? And finally, identity, which means we not only do we need identity of the suppliers or the business participants in the network, which is people, we also need product identity, you know, by looking at the product, can we correlate it to all the events around the product, including proofs that the product was manufactured but any other verifiable claims. And the third thing is things, you know, IoT devices and other sensors are watching this entire process, right? You have cameras in the shop floor to all over. So all these we have to be able to trust that they did the right things along the way. So let's see, if we have to tackle the problem of supply chain, we have to take a very holistic approach. It's not blockchain alone or it's not AML alone or it's not IoT alone, right? So we do have to look at all the technologies that are available and depending on the product and the type of supply chain, we need to have a holistic solution, like whether it's a petroleum supply chain, a retail supply chain, manufacturing technology supply chains, media supply chains, each one of those supply chains require a combination of solutions, but they require current technologies to be applied very effectively. So moving forward, let's see the first technology that we've always got used to is blockchain. That's why we're all here. Blockchain allows us to bring trust, transparency, modability, privacy into the mix and that's a very key element of the trust and supply chain. We also rely on price certificates, like X519 certificates that can be associated with products and parts and so they can all be correlated and can be cryptographically verified. The third is how do we track the asset itself? You know, the asset lifecycle, we also want to track the asset provenance. We want to make sure that the asset is compliant and it is sustainable in terms of the manufacturing process and so we do want to have some auditability and that is all provided by the blockchain. The second key technology is IoT and AML. We did talk about it briefly, but IoT in the sharp floor keeps track of the manufacturing process and how labor is treated on a truck or on a supply chain. It is looking at whether the truck left the geo fence that it was supposed to be in. It also looks at whether the product was opened and exposed to light or subjected to temperatures that it is not supposed to be. Very critical and the supply chain, the IoT data then gets translated and recorded on the blockchain but also gets translated into verifiable claims that one can associate with a container or a consignment or a shipment or a ship unit and finally to the product itself. Machine vision is another important technology supported by AML. If pictures are taken of the manufacturing process or all along the supply chain, those pictures can be associated with the batch or the lot or the product itself and if an end consumer receives this product, they can take images of their product and they can compare it with what AI says and verify if the product is truly authentic, whatever they receive. And this has been applied, right? So there are companies that actually apply this like Gucci and Louis Vuitton. The next one is about tags. And today, tagging technology has come a long ways. There are copy proof tags that cannot be duplicated. For example, in this picture, what you see on the top is a medical product. It is actually a carton of a Zempik. It has got the copy proof tag on the left side. It's a Zoltag. The Zoltag has got a 3D image, a 3D section in the circle, which is created by molecule droplets and that has been encapsulated into the QR code on the site. So there are different tagging technologies available. There are thermal sensitive tags, there are RFIDs, NFCs, 3D based tags and also standards, GS1 standards define how do you package and how do you label a product. Finally, we do have digital identity standards. You know, everyone in Hyperlegionano's, Ares and Indy, they all apply the digital identity standards defined by the Digital Identity Foundation and it's all about a digital identity that can be universally resolved and they can all point to verifiable credentials and these credentials can be applied and the identity can be applied to product things and people. So applying their digital identity as a way, an example of a digital identity is shown in that little square box. It's got DID and it's got the namespace and then the actual identity in the last part and it can be connected to profile of the product. It can also be connected to other verifiable claims. So using this method and tying it to the serial number or the model number or the lot number package, we do have a truly traceable mechanism for the product or the asset. Now, lastly, if you don't have a great user experience, your entire, you know, supply or trusted supply chain mechanisms are going to fail. People want a very simple interface by which either they can scan a QR code, that's QR code, maybe a digital identity or a serial number. It takes it automatically to the manufacturer's database for the product profile, to a blockchain database for supply chain events and any other AIML database for proofs of authenticity or verification. So it has to be very simple and even the proof of which is this have to be with embedded secrets that only the which is it knows so that nobody can tamper with it. Now, if you apply all these things that we see in the four legs, you can see it a laid out process, right? At the top, you know, the box, first is to qualify all of our suppliers and partners. So once we have qualified our business partners, the next step is to make sure that the product is properly labeled tagged. So whether we apply a serial number and assign that tag, we can also assign digital identities. We can assign prior certificates, X519 certificates or root certificates that tie the product and the components together. We can also apply digital identity and we can finally tie the IoT machine vision images to the product itself. So now the product has been secured with identity and standards and verifiable claims created by IoT and AML. As the product moves along the supply chain that the DID can be used to resolve the product authenticity at any point in time. You can also scan the process and the events that happen by the driver at the warehouse, by the 3PL in a distributed location. All those scans are captured. And finally, you know, at the end retail level, one can use a simple scan to go and retrieve all this information universally so that one can determine whether the product or the retail store is authentic or not. And the end customer can get a proof of purchase that is embedded with secrets. And that secret can also point to the authenticity of the product that they purchased. A very simple architecture here is combining all these things together is you have the blockchain here, you have the client application and the connected to the IoT gateway, the API gateways to the enterprise ERP systems, a beautiful user interface, off-chain, on-chain IoT databases that are connected to AML and that can process and give us predictive analytics and classification data. And finally, key management so that there is security in the system. So in our view, I think like it is possible to have a trusted supply chain. The cost of trying, you know, securing the supply chain depends on the type of product and how much we want to invest in each one of these technologies. But then I'm going to hand it off to Isaac to take us through the rest of it. Hey Isaac, hello. Turn off mute to avoid the echo. I think you missed the, there's a vision slide before this but our vision is to basically take a look at all of these different areas that are pretty siloed today. And we do think that some, at some point there will be different solutions that will come together to bring more transparency to the whole supply chain. And we have, we see this today in solutions that are out there like trade lens who's helping with the cross border problem supply chain financing solutions that are out there, trust your supplier, the Walmart, Canada logistic solutions. We see blockchain being applied in different silos today but we see that those things will come together and work together. Whether they're through a blockchain interoperability or just through APIs, we don't know but we know that this is part of the journey is to take off small chunks and find business value in the near term. So this is our perspective where things are going in the vision. You know, and it just goes on and on in terms of lifecycle of products and recovery of products. And we do see it as all highly connected even though today we treat these things as silos. On the next slide, Mohan, we are basically, this is something we've been researching and working on for years now. And there are certain projects that we have worked on that are part of the different supply chain and helping to secure the supply chain. Sometimes upstream, sometimes downstream and sometimes in life. But these are just examples of some of the things we've done that are part of, for the most part, supply chain related solutions or I'm sorry, supply chain related projects and or complimentary to the supply chain in terms of business and functional needs. Beam is one that's about asset and lifecycle management worked on. A couple that I won't go through all of them but secure document sharing. Key to so many different projects not just supply chain and having being able to have immutable and trusted documents that you can go back on can improve transactions and trust so much. Part certification that Mohan alluded to earlier, the X509 certificates, that could be part of your blockchain. We mentioned trust your supplier earlier. Having wallets that can store different credentials or tokens that are related to what you're doing. This one's a little skewed to supply chain specifically but there's some opportunities there. Trust your product is a solution that's specifically about brand protection, fraud prevention and being able to use some of those unique IoT devices and different tags to help manufacturers protect their brands and avoid fraud that's going on in marketplace heavily today in some industries more than others. We even see things that in life in terms of assets being able to track software licensing as a service and this is something we worked on as well in terms of in life of assets that are deployed. And then one other project we worked on was business compliance. It's not so much supply chain as much as making sure that when a manufacturer's putting business terms out to one of their distributors, making sure that those business terms are being followed when they're selling it out to their clients and that there's, that can be trust across that set of transactions. Next slide. And I mentioned trust your supplier again. This is one that's nearing through our hearts but I don't know, there was a couple of presentations on this already but this is one that's a global network. It's got more than 30 Fortune 500 companies operating as buyers, another dozen or so third party verifiers and over 5,000 suppliers who are working together to facilitate their transactions in terms of there's supplier information management and the onboarding process. It's not doing any of the transactions in terms of the actual invoicing and those kinds of things but that is obviously part of supply chain as well that taking care of getting the payments done in a trusted way. But this is a great network about qualifying verifying and onboarding and this is significantly reduces risk for many, excuse me for buyers and manufacturers and it more importantly accelerates the times of that first transaction. So there's big value in it for suppliers as well not to mention the operational efficiencies that these companies are saying. And I'll try this one back over to you for our future. So yes. So what we see in the future and we have to be prepared for it, right? So as we architect these solutions we don't want these solutions to become siloed. So the way we see it is that blockchain powered ecosystem new ones are constantly evolving, right? There is a cold chain which has been built by Chronicle but then Hyperledger has got a trusted supplier and built in fabric and there are many other solutions but there will be some level of maturing of each one of these networks. We also see that supply chain documents such as POSO and a bill of lading and others essentially will become contracts that are smart contracts and those smart contracts will be universally agreed upon by all the business partners. So there is no issues around will become ultimately law, right? We also see the role of the ERP will get reduced to serve more internal business processes as opposed to working outwards with other organizations. Tokenization of identity, process, assets and powering transactions using stable coin will become more prevalent. We already see assets have been, I have a digital twin, the assets, the transactions around the assets and so on. In future there is a potential for, I've gone the opposite way, so forgive me for that but in the future there is a potential for networks to converge, expand, exist or coexist, migrate, interoperate. So we cannot have, there will be many different supply chain projects but then they all have to coexist together on either they have to migrate or merge with other engineered, you know, other blog networks. Then you obviously AI, ML, IoT and even augmented reality and virtual reality will start playing a role because virtual reality and augmented reality are already helping in terms of service management manufacturing processes but then the blockchain will help secure whatever decisions were made using AR, VR and there is trust in the actions that have been taken. And finally, another aspect is decentralization will drive more focus on addressing supply chain errors, fraud, counterfeiting, that is what we discussed so far. Finally, the expansion of data privacy and protection of intellectual property rights will become pervasive. So every solution that we build where there is collaboration in a public space will have to apply these regulatory requirements. So that's how we see things going in the future. And so our architectures have to support this in the supply chain space. With that, I do wanna say thank you and I'm gonna turn it over to Isaac and myself again to answer questions that may be coming up. Yeah, thank you, Milan. So everybody, there's, you know we've had about 35 people on the session today and we're happy to answer any questions through the chat. There's a Q and A button on the right side and we can answer those questions. We're happy to share the slides either directly or through Hyperledger. There's links provided. And if you wanna have a chat about any of this or other blockchain projects that you're doing, feel free to visit our booth at the expo and talk to either G. Joe Joseph, Tom Hickman or myself. And of course, you're free to reach out to Milan or myself anytime, email. That's available at Hyperledger as well. So with that, are there any Q and A? So I don't see any questions in the, I don't see any questions. But, you know, so, you know, in the interest, you know, we do have, do we have time or have we consumed our time? We have, we are actually right at time now. So we started a little bit earlier than that. All right. So thank you so much, you know and as Isaac said, you know, any questions that are there, please shoot it over to us and we will be very happy to answer questions or even have a brainstorming and talk to a provoking discussion. All right, thank you everybody. Have a great rest from your Hyperledger to the little forum event.