 First of all, thank you Hyperledger for inviting me today to speak here at the Hyperledger Global Forum. I'm Robin, founder of Distribute, which is a specialized IT consulting company that helps connected industries with the digital transformation journeys by utilizing distributed technologies. I got in touch with Hyperledger the first time when I was still working at Daimler where I built the mobility blockchain platform together with four European blockchain startups that was just spinned off out of Daimler by my ex-boss, Dr. Harry Barron. Today I work mostly on different activities in automotive pharmaceuticals and supply chains and I'm still in touch with Hyperledger as part of my activities at the Mobility Open Blockchain Initiative where I help as a technical lead to connect working group efforts with the deployment of what we so-called Mobinet, a joint service infrastructure for future mobility. If you're interested in that, you can also find a speech that I've done together with Jim Mason in the Hyperledger Public Special Interest Group. Before getting involved with Enterprise Blockchain, I was a development engineer at Daimler Mercedes-Benz where I mostly focused on the development of autonomous vehicle concepts for future transportation solutions. My first exposure was decentralized technologies and distributed systems was actually in 2014 when I was still a graduate researcher at National Taiwan University and working on payment mechanisms for intelligent power networks. But today we don't wanna talk that much about automotive or power networks. We will want to take a look on integrated supply chain ecosystems and how open and trusted data sharing can lead towards more integration in the industry. So, I mean, the corona pandemic has shown us to be not only a crisis of public safety, but also a crisis of collaborative data sharing. It's clear that the effect of the corona virus in society and the global economy was unprecedented with serious consequences for the entire industry. Similar to past crisis, again, it has not only questions of public supply systems, but also data sharing mechanisms across companies, institutions and economies. Taiwan, where I've studied, for example, has demonstrated how to protect the country against the outbreak of the virus by utilizing more transparent and more integrated data sharing mechanisms that can help economies to protect its industry during times of uncertainties and crisis. So, what is the problem that industries still face today with supply chains becoming more and more integrated? And I mean, it's clear throughout all the industries that we are living in a world that is becoming increasingly complex and interdependent, not only across companies, but also industries. And what the pandemic especially has shown here is that most companies still think siloed rather than understanding themselves and their supply chain processes as part of an entire value chain. In contrast to supply chain of a single company, though, a value chain describes all the activities that are needed within an entire ecosystem to create a product from its early raw material inputs to the delivery of the finished goods to the customer. So, there definitely is a tremendous potential for integrated supply chain ecosystems to power economic growth. However, industries still seem to struggle with sharing data across multiple companies as a key driver of those ecosystems. So, before we are talking about the struggle and the problems that I have seen working together with these companies, let me provide you with a concrete example from the automotive world that I came across or worked together with BMW as part of the supply chain working group at Moby. So, supply chain networks in the automotive industry deal with numerous participants and parts on multiple tiers that are spread across several geographical locations similar to the picture that we've just seen before. Due to their high complexity and more and more government focusing on data protection, automotive supply chains often lack transparency and responsiveness. However, today, legal authorities such as the Federal Motor Transport Authority of Germany or the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the NHTSA of USA, start to require more end-to-end traceability of parts in order to not run again into scandals like the diesel gate that we have experienced over the last years, right? So, this is particularly important for the identification of defective and then manipulative parts and recalls that involve multiple suppliers around the world. So, what you're seeing here basically is the part chain solution, which BMW proposed as a decentralized supply chain traceability application that enables the creation, monitoring, and sharing of a unique digital representation of all physical parts across a supply chain network using hyperlegia fabric, right? So, what you see in the bottom is the physical parts. Then you have an interface and what BMW proposed in their solution and demonstrated in the study is basically the digital backend of beckons or the enterprise blockchain solution where they have shown that enterprise blockchain technologies or hyperlegia can indeed help with trusted data processing and sharing of critical automotive parts across various supply chain participants in a reliable and immutable manner. So, integrated track and trace applications already exist, but how come they still struggle to being adopted, right? So, I mean, data sharing is not new or a new idea in supply chains. However, most of the past initiatives focused mainly on bilateral supply agreements and point-to-point data sharing. So, although we may have beckons or a business support system, a decentralized business support system for a supplier network, integration and interoperability by setting industry standards is still far away, right? So, it's not the technology itself so much, but companies that I have worked with are mostly concerned about protecting confidential data defining a common data standards, which basically are centered around data operability and data control. I mean, having talked to various clients, what I've seen over and over again is due to the changing dynamic and real-time data requirements of global supply chains. Participants really struggle to align on dynamic data ontologies and industry standards. And mostly, that makes them often go back to negotiating standards bilaterally that then don't help ecosystems to scale. Besides, I mean, we have, but I think especially in the enterprise blockchain world, we are getting better and better by this. And now we have understood that supply chain ecosystems by nature are more than decentralized. And the blockchain enterprise solutions, such as Hyperledger Fabric can definitely help with a consistent view of data and lineage across multiple organizations by utilizing blockchain logic. And this brings us actually to the opportunity that we have right now, I'm saying. We have understood that solving the integrated supply chain problem is not necessarily something that you will get done with a centralized platform, right? So advising different customers and industries on next generation IT technologies, I learned that the success of supply chain ecosystem lies in cooperatives, which depend on a clear definition of joint and mutually accepted business use cases that arise from these ecosystem activities. As industry consortia around the world share similar business and governance problems that you see here, they have together come up with best practices or best practice sharing within already established industry consortia. In Pharma, you see Pharma Ledger, in the mobility world, you see Moby, in the Telco world, you see Sieben, and in the German industry around German automotive makers, you also see the Katena X automotive network and Gaia X coming up right now. And I mean, those organizations by now already have helped global supply chain ecosystems to accelerate by the standards they have defined. What we need to do today is we need to leverage the work those organizations have done, encourage a best practice sharing between industry consortias that I see very important to develop globally accepted standards and mechanisms for cross industry data sharing in the future. But setting standards is only one part or only one side of the coin, right? So it's all good that standards have been developed but they only get being implemented and being adopted when they move from paper to code. So what I want to encourage the Hyperledger community that we have here, where we have incredible developers and so on is to work together with cooperatives to find a way to transfer the knowledge that has been defined through industry standards into code and to repositories where we can contribute together. This is what I wanted to share with you. So it's blockchain, enterprise blockchain is not a single, like a single sports as a team sports. So it's Hyperledger. So let us connect, let's come together, let's contribute code together, let's connect standards. And that's why I am at least here and I want to thank you for tuning in to my presentation. If you have any more questions or want to talk bilateral, feel free to shoot an email to ourpillingatdistribute.com and I'll see you later.