Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions account affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? We have assembled for this discussion a builder of blockchain-based traceability solutions, a traceability entrepreneur via blockchain and other means, and an intellectual property attorney (and former software engineer) who advises clients on technology-driven transactions.
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-supply-chain-2020/
A Blockchain-Based Framework for Apparel & Footwear Supply Chain TraceabilityCognizant
Distributed ledger technology solutions enable fashion brands and retailers to improve supply-chain visibility across their diverse ecosystems, helping them to communicate product provenance to partners and customers, as well as mitigate environmental and reputational risk.
Blockchain Supply Chain : Supply Chain Blockchain Use CasesLeewayHertz
By enabling transparency across the involved parties in the supply chain blockchain, the blockchain establishes the trust level which has been challenging for the last many years.
With Supply Chain blockchain, you know who you are trading with, where the product has been originated from, who refined it and if the payment is fair or not.
Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chainsJamie Sandhu
We live in the world we buy into. How brand and supply chain transparency will enable conscious consumerism ethical business practices to thrive and how blockchain technology can make it happen. A summary of the whitepaper by Provenance.org.
The Role of Blockchain and New Technologies in Supply Chain in 2019Henrique Centieiro
How Blockchain is adding more visibility, transparency and traceability to the supply chain and at the same time removing the trust issue.
Supply chain is a big use case for blockchain.
Zensoft develops blockchain enterprise solutions for clients.
Henrique Centieiro presentation.
Reach out here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriquecentieiro/
A Blockchain-Based Framework for Apparel & Footwear Supply Chain TraceabilityCognizant
Distributed ledger technology solutions enable fashion brands and retailers to improve supply-chain visibility across their diverse ecosystems, helping them to communicate product provenance to partners and customers, as well as mitigate environmental and reputational risk.
Blockchain Supply Chain : Supply Chain Blockchain Use CasesLeewayHertz
By enabling transparency across the involved parties in the supply chain blockchain, the blockchain establishes the trust level which has been challenging for the last many years.
With Supply Chain blockchain, you know who you are trading with, where the product has been originated from, who refined it and if the payment is fair or not.
Blockchain: the solution for transparency in product supply chainsJamie Sandhu
We live in the world we buy into. How brand and supply chain transparency will enable conscious consumerism ethical business practices to thrive and how blockchain technology can make it happen. A summary of the whitepaper by Provenance.org.
The Role of Blockchain and New Technologies in Supply Chain in 2019Henrique Centieiro
How Blockchain is adding more visibility, transparency and traceability to the supply chain and at the same time removing the trust issue.
Supply chain is a big use case for blockchain.
Zensoft develops blockchain enterprise solutions for clients.
Henrique Centieiro presentation.
Reach out here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriquecentieiro/
The conventional supply chain is plagued with various issues, most pressing among which is transparency or the lack of it thereof. Being a self-auditing distributed ledger that is accessible to all participants in the network and updated in real time, Blockchain brings in unprecedented levels of transparency to the supply chain. Moreover, its decentralized nature ensures that no single participant along the supply chain holds an unfair advantage or any influence on the data pertaining to the shipment.
Experion Technologies is an IT solutions & services company with a focus on software development, product engineering, digital transformation and technology consulting.
Agriculture is one of the areas where blockchain technology could bring a revolution by solving the
existing problem of Agri-product fraud, its traceability, price manipulation, and lack of customer trust in
the product. This paper aims to demonstrate the potential application of blockchain technology in the
agriculture industry and how it could address the existing issues by surveying the existing paper and
following case studies of the blockchain start-up companies. Blockchain technology shows a promising
approach to fostering a safer, better, more sustainable, and dependable agri-foods system in the future.
While the application of blockchain in agriculture is in the initial phase and faces various issues like cost
of implementation, privacy, security scalability, performance, and infancy, it can bring a revolution in the
agriculture industry.
Blockchain with IoT's in the supply chain can make SCM process as easier. Just using the micro IoT's chip to monitor the movement of products and use of blockchain to store the tracking records can provide proper supply chain management. This could also increase product usage and demand.
How to Apply Blockchain to Supply-Chain ManagementFluence.sh
Today, supply chains are inherently complex. They sometimes face difficulties in terms of cost, speed, or quality. Still, the benefits of the supply-chain system are obvious, and there are certain ways to improve its efficiency with the blockchain technologies.
Future of Supply Chain with AI and Blockchain in the Semiconductor IndustryChristophe Begue
Krish Dharma and I presented at 2019 Semiconwest on the role of AI and Blockchain in the management of supply chains in the Semiconductor industry. https://www.semiconwest.org/en/programs-catalog/manufacturing-pavilion-supply-chain-integration/future-supply-chain-ai-and-blockchain
The use of blockchain technology is being adopted by more and more industries.
Thus, many companies (many of them known) are already using it in order to offer greater transparency and security to their customers, as well as to have greater control over the supply chain.
The Evolution of Supply Chain | James HeidrichJames Heidrich
In his latest article, James Heidrich describes the evolution of supply chain. To keep up with James Heidrich, visit his website, JamesHeidrich.co or follow him on Twitter, @JamesHeidrich1.
¿En qué aspectos la Blockchain podría ser útil en los procesos, productos, información y flujo de efectivo de cadenas globales de suministro? El 90% de los productos en el comercio internacional se mueven por mar.
- Trazabilidad de los productos
- Resolución de controversias
- Integridad y seguridad de la mercancía
- Cumplimiento
Paper de Yanling Chang, Eleftherios Iakovou y Weidong Shi
Blockchain technology coupled with One Network's Real Time Value Network has the power to help in food tracking and traceability in multi-party supply networks. From provenance to table, food safety and security is imperative and there is a urgency for full end-to-end traceability, agile and efficient food recalls, enhanced supply chain performance and automatically coordinated transactions and processes with smart contracts.
Build a Supply Chain 4.0 ecosystem using BlockchainBluecrux
Blockchain technology allows partners in the Supply Chain to share data in a trusted and immutable way. The presentation features how you can use blockchain to optimize your E2E Supply Chain, using concrete illustrations. Two operational blockchain projects are described, from the development to the key decision process, resulting in an eco-system oriented solution with benefits for all participants. In short: get ready to start building a Supply Chain 4.0 ecosystem using Blockchain!
Presented by Walter Stiers, Industry Architect IBM on Supply Chain 4.0 : ready to operate in the digital era? (29 Nov, 2018)
How Blockchain could improve your supply chain?
- Deliver better customer experiences like GAFA
- Increase visibility and collaboration with your partners
- Manage IP and GDPR data
- Improve your forecast accuracy
Cell therapy use case
Will blockchain technology prove to be the biggest disruptor the digital industry has yet faced? Or is it the salvation for creatives and content creators? What exactly is the blockchain? This breakfast briefing will unlock the mystery as you hear from thought leaders and digital practitioners on what the next big thing means for digital.
Benjamin discusses some of the issues with identity fraud in the UK and how blockchain can be used to combat this problem.
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-supply-chain-2021/
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
Part of the webinar series: BLOCKCHAIN BASICS 2022
See more at https://www.financialpoise.com/webinars/
The conventional supply chain is plagued with various issues, most pressing among which is transparency or the lack of it thereof. Being a self-auditing distributed ledger that is accessible to all participants in the network and updated in real time, Blockchain brings in unprecedented levels of transparency to the supply chain. Moreover, its decentralized nature ensures that no single participant along the supply chain holds an unfair advantage or any influence on the data pertaining to the shipment.
Experion Technologies is an IT solutions & services company with a focus on software development, product engineering, digital transformation and technology consulting.
Agriculture is one of the areas where blockchain technology could bring a revolution by solving the
existing problem of Agri-product fraud, its traceability, price manipulation, and lack of customer trust in
the product. This paper aims to demonstrate the potential application of blockchain technology in the
agriculture industry and how it could address the existing issues by surveying the existing paper and
following case studies of the blockchain start-up companies. Blockchain technology shows a promising
approach to fostering a safer, better, more sustainable, and dependable agri-foods system in the future.
While the application of blockchain in agriculture is in the initial phase and faces various issues like cost
of implementation, privacy, security scalability, performance, and infancy, it can bring a revolution in the
agriculture industry.
Blockchain with IoT's in the supply chain can make SCM process as easier. Just using the micro IoT's chip to monitor the movement of products and use of blockchain to store the tracking records can provide proper supply chain management. This could also increase product usage and demand.
How to Apply Blockchain to Supply-Chain ManagementFluence.sh
Today, supply chains are inherently complex. They sometimes face difficulties in terms of cost, speed, or quality. Still, the benefits of the supply-chain system are obvious, and there are certain ways to improve its efficiency with the blockchain technologies.
Future of Supply Chain with AI and Blockchain in the Semiconductor IndustryChristophe Begue
Krish Dharma and I presented at 2019 Semiconwest on the role of AI and Blockchain in the management of supply chains in the Semiconductor industry. https://www.semiconwest.org/en/programs-catalog/manufacturing-pavilion-supply-chain-integration/future-supply-chain-ai-and-blockchain
The use of blockchain technology is being adopted by more and more industries.
Thus, many companies (many of them known) are already using it in order to offer greater transparency and security to their customers, as well as to have greater control over the supply chain.
The Evolution of Supply Chain | James HeidrichJames Heidrich
In his latest article, James Heidrich describes the evolution of supply chain. To keep up with James Heidrich, visit his website, JamesHeidrich.co or follow him on Twitter, @JamesHeidrich1.
¿En qué aspectos la Blockchain podría ser útil en los procesos, productos, información y flujo de efectivo de cadenas globales de suministro? El 90% de los productos en el comercio internacional se mueven por mar.
- Trazabilidad de los productos
- Resolución de controversias
- Integridad y seguridad de la mercancía
- Cumplimiento
Paper de Yanling Chang, Eleftherios Iakovou y Weidong Shi
Blockchain technology coupled with One Network's Real Time Value Network has the power to help in food tracking and traceability in multi-party supply networks. From provenance to table, food safety and security is imperative and there is a urgency for full end-to-end traceability, agile and efficient food recalls, enhanced supply chain performance and automatically coordinated transactions and processes with smart contracts.
Build a Supply Chain 4.0 ecosystem using BlockchainBluecrux
Blockchain technology allows partners in the Supply Chain to share data in a trusted and immutable way. The presentation features how you can use blockchain to optimize your E2E Supply Chain, using concrete illustrations. Two operational blockchain projects are described, from the development to the key decision process, resulting in an eco-system oriented solution with benefits for all participants. In short: get ready to start building a Supply Chain 4.0 ecosystem using Blockchain!
Presented by Walter Stiers, Industry Architect IBM on Supply Chain 4.0 : ready to operate in the digital era? (29 Nov, 2018)
How Blockchain could improve your supply chain?
- Deliver better customer experiences like GAFA
- Increase visibility and collaboration with your partners
- Manage IP and GDPR data
- Improve your forecast accuracy
Cell therapy use case
Will blockchain technology prove to be the biggest disruptor the digital industry has yet faced? Or is it the salvation for creatives and content creators? What exactly is the blockchain? This breakfast briefing will unlock the mystery as you hear from thought leaders and digital practitioners on what the next big thing means for digital.
Benjamin discusses some of the issues with identity fraud in the UK and how blockchain can be used to combat this problem.
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-supply-chain-2021/
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? This webinar examines blockchain and the role it plays in supply chain by providing traceability.
Part of the webinar series: BLOCKCHAIN BASICS 2022
See more at https://www.financialpoise.com/webinars/
Blockchain and Smart Contracts (Series: Blockchain Basics)Financial Poise
Blockchain is a tool. Samson Williams likens blockchain to a group text message, in which each participant receives a distributed, time-stamped, tamper-resistant (and encrypted) record of data transactions. Each group text has these characteristics. Everyone in the group “sees” the data, and none can change or gainsay any group message. Smart contracts are computer code put on the blockchain (how, exactly?) that establishes self-executing terms and conditions of a transaction. Are smart contracts smart? If certain data comes in and fulfills a pre-set term or condition, then rights and responsibilities are formed, terminated, modified, or shifted among the parties. Ah certainty and transparency, but also ah garbage in and garbage out. Are some contractual terms not amenable to smart contracting? And are smart contracts necessarily contracts? If not, can they still be useful? If a smart contract is a contract, what is the governing document? Is it the words business people and lawyers use, or is it the code that is supposed to reflect the words?
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-smart-contracts-2021/
Blockchain and Smart Contracts (Series: Blockchain Basics 2020) Financial Poise
Blockchain is a tool. Samson Williams likens blockchain to a group text message, in which each participant receives a distributed, time-stamped, tamper-resistant (and encrypted) record of data transactions. Each group text has these characteristics. Everyone in the group “sees” the data, and none can change or gainsay any group message. Smart contracts are computer code put on the blockchain (how, exactly?) that establishes self-executing terms and conditions of a transaction. Are smart contracts smart? If certain data comes in and fulfills a pre-set term or condition, then rights and responsibilities are formed, terminated, modified, or shifted among the parties. Ah certainty and transparency, but also ah garbage in and garbage out. Are some contractual terms not amenable to smart contracting? And are smart contracts necessarily contracts? If not, can they still be useful? If a smart contract is a contract, what is the governing document? Is it the words business people and lawyers use, or is it the code that is supposed to reflect the words?
To view the accompanying webinar, go to: https://www.financialpoise.com/financial-poise-webinars/blockchain-and-smart-contracts-2020/
Blockchain is a tool. Samson Williams likens blockchain to a group text message, in which each participant receives a distributed, time-stamped, tamper-resistant (and encrypted) record of data transactions. Each group text has these characteristics. Everyone in the group “sees” the data, and none can change or gainsay any group message. Smart contracts are computer code put on the blockchain (how, exactly?) that establishes self-executing terms and conditions of a transaction. Are smart contracts smart? If certain data comes in and fulfills a pre-set term or condition, then rights and responsibilities are formed, terminated, modified, or shifted among the parties. Ah certainty and transparency, but also ah garbage in and garbage out. Are some contractual terms not amenable to smart contracting? And are smart contracts necessarily contracts? If not, can they still be useful? If a smart contract is a contract, what is the governing document? Is it the words business people and lawyers use, or is it the code that is supposed to reflect the words?
Part of the webinar series: Blockchain Basics 2022
See more at https://www.financialpoise.com/webinars/
It explains the concept of Blockchain which is going revolutionize the world economy. Blockchain is going to change money, business and thus the world.
Blockchain in Banking, Business and BeyondMichael Novak
An introduction to Blockchain, Smart Contracts, and use cases in industries such as Digital Identification, eCommerce, Healthcare, Government, and Finance.
Blockchain in Banking: A Measured ApproachCognizant
Here's our foundational view on what the financial services industry needs to consider as organizations move from ideation to experimentation to pilot deployments of blockchain.
Blockchain Innovation In Healthcare & Life SciencesIFAH
A session by Michael Irish, CEO, Vivacitas Healthcare on the topic of 'Blockchain Innovation In Healthcare & Life Sciences' at IFAH USA 2019 held at Caesars Palace, 18-20 June, 2019.
A blockchain is essentially a distributed database of records or public ledger of all transactions or digital events that have been executed and shared among participating parties. Each transaction in the public ledger is verified by consensus of a majority of the participants in the system. And, once entered, information can never be erased. The blockchain contains a certain and verifiable record of every single transaction ever made. To use a basic analogy, it is easy to steal a cookie from a cookie jar, kept in a secluded place than stealing the cookie from a cookie jar kept in a marketplace, being observed by thousands of people. In the report, it distinguishes between multiple types of blockchains and explains the two biggest platforms, namely Bitcoin and Ethereum. While introducing those two platforms we explain the most important technology and algorithms used such as proof of work concept. Some of the security issues and solutions are also covered. We conclude with some concrete Ethereum based applications that demonstrate the usage of blockchain technology beyond cryptocurrency and illustrate current developments in this field.
Blockchain Introduction - Canada Nov 2017.pptxAntony Welfare
Back in 2017 I joined the world of #Blockchain and presented my first ever Blockchain presentation on 14th November 2017 at a Tech meetup in Penticton, BC (Canada)
A few key highlights:
* The fundamentals of Blockchain technology have not changed (Trust, Transparency, Security, Quality/Certainty, Reduced costs)
* We were talking about Web 3.0 back in 2017 😉
* People still miss define Blockchain
* Janet Yellen and Christine Lagarde were commenting on Blockchain back in 2017
* Checkout the Dapps section – I was ahead of my time there!
* And the last three slides on the Market cap and increases – I was excited to tell people the market cap was $200bn, BTC was $8,000 and ETH was nearly $400 ……… Ahhh the good old days 😉
And finally – my “leaders comment” back in 2017 still stands “Blockchain is the next disruptive technology to transform the lives of our customers and our business operations”
What a journey so far…and guess what…its only just begun 👍👍👍
Blockchain in Media. Description of blockchain and smart contracts. Presented Media pain points and possible solutions. Peeped into various frameworks built on Hyperledger fabric and ethereum for media
IP-301 POST-GRANT REVIEW TRIALS 2022 - Things to Consider Before You FileFinancial Poise
This segment will delve into considerations that come into play when filing or responding to post-grant review proceedings. These considerations include issues of real party in interest, timing, and substantive arguments.
Part of the webinar series: IP-301 POST-GRANT REVIEW TRIALS 2022
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This segment will discuss the statutory and procedural background of post-grant review proceedings. It will discuss the types of proceedings available and provide a high-level discussion of how the proceedings are conducted.
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IP-301 POST-GRANT REVIEW TRIALS 2022
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THE NUTS & BOLTS OF BANKRUPTCY LAW 2022: The Nuts & Bolts of a First Day HearingFinancial Poise
Even when a bankruptcy petition is the result of a soft-landing rather than a freefall, filing a chapter 11 petition is a disruptive event. To facilitate the debtor’s entry into chapter 11 with as little disruption as possible, first day motions are filed to ensure that a debtor-in-possession can minimize interruptions and continue operating its business in order to achieve its goals in chapter 11. This webinar provides an overview of the administrative and operational first day motions typically filed by chapter 11 debtors and the process for requesting a first day hearing, providing notice of the hearing, and ensuring that the hearing runs smoothly.
Part of the webinar series: THE NUTS & BOLTS OF BANKRUPTCY LAW 2022
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RESTRUCTURING, INSOLVENCY & TROUBLED COMPANIES 2022: Bad Debtor Owes Me Money!Financial Poise
Sometimes it begins when a client, tenant, or customer starts to slow-pay, with the result that your accounts receivable start to accrue gradually. Other times the issue presents itself more suddenly. Either way, you find your company owed a great deal of money that looks like it may not be collected because your client/tenant/customer has filed bankruptcy, has commenced an assignment for the benefit of creditors, has been put into receivership, or is otherwise just plain insolvent. What do you do? What should you not do? The topics discussed in this webinar include the pros and cons of putting a counterparty into involuntary bankruptcy; when and how you may be able to pursue third parties (like guarantors, directors, or officers) for the amount owed; risks related to preference attack; pros and cons of sitting on a “creditors’ committee” in a Chapter 11; how to negotiate for “critical vendor” protection in Chapter 11; and practical guidance for continuing to provide goods or services to an insolvent counterparty.
Part of the webinar series: RESTRUCTURING, INSOLVENCY & TROUBLED COMPANIES 2022
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We’ve all long heard about writing practices to avoid, including run-on sentences, excessive passive voice, and nominalization. This webinar not only discusses how those habits can damage briefs, but also explores a key habit brief-writers should embrace: using strong, precise verbs, which are the engine of a persuasive sentence. Panelists also exchange views about finding the most persuasive voice and tone, as well as the right temperature for rhetoric.
Part of the webinar series: PERSUASIVE BRIEF WRITING 2022
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CYBER SECURITY and DATA PRIVACY 2022: Data Breach Response - Before and After...Financial Poise
You’ve received the dreaded call that your company has just suffered a data breach – what do you do next? Who do you call for help? What notification obligations do you have?
With proper preparation, you can mitigate the damage caused by this unfortunate event and put your business in a position to recover. Your company may have already implemented its information security program and identified the responsible parties, including applicable outside experts, to be contacted in the event of a breach. However, now you must call up your incident response team to investigate the extent of the breach, evaluate the possible damage to your company, and determine whether you must notify your clients, customers, or the public of the breach. This webinar will help prepare you to take action when the worst happens.
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CYBER SECURITY and DATA PRIVACY 2022
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CYBER SECURITY and DATA PRIVACY 2022_How to Build and Implement your Company'...Financial Poise
Data is one of your business’s most valuable assets and requires protection like any other asset. How can you protect your data from unauthorized access or inadvertent disclosure?
An information security program is designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your company’s data and information technology assets. Federal, state, or international law may also require your business to have an information security program in place.
This webinar will provide the basics of how to create and implement an information security program, beginning with identifying your incident response team, putting applicable insurance policies into place, and closing any gaps in the security of your data.
Part of the webinar series:
CYBERSECURITY & DATA PRIVACY 2022
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NEWBIE LITIGATOR SCHOOL - 101 Part 3 2022 - Enforcement: Post-Judgment Procee...Financial Poise
Obtaining a final and enforceable judgment is often just the first phase of the civil litigation process; without effective enforcement and collection, a judgment is merely a piece of paper (or electronic docket entry). This webinar provides an overview of the technical, procedural and strategic considerations necessary to monetize judgments and make litigation worthwhile.
Part of the webinar series: NEWBIE LITIGATOR SCHOOL - 101 Part 3 2022
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NEWBIE LITIGATOR SCHOOL - 101 Part 3 2022 -Appellate Practice- 101 Financial Poise
When is an appeal permitted and when should you take one? What rules and procedures govern appellate practice and how can you best avoid technical and procedural mistakes. How are appellate briefs different from those filed with the trial court and what are some keys to making them successful? And how can you best prepare for appellate oral argument? This webinar explores these questions and more with a panel of experienced appellate litigators.
Part of the webinar series: NEWBIE LITIGATOR SCHOOL - 101 Part 3 2022
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MARKETING TIPS FOR THE NEW (OR OLD!) BUSINESS OWNER 2022: Learn How to Do Con...Financial Poise
There's creating content; then there's creating great content; and then there's creating great content that actually gets seen by the ideal audience. Each of those layers has its own unique challenges. In this webinar episode, we share insights from a variety of highly experienced content creators. Each panelist member provides their own unique spin on how to create great content that gets seen by the intended audience. By the completion of this episode, the audience member will have a clear and actionable plan on how to create outstanding content that meets their unique marketing needs.
Part of the webinar series: MARKETING TIPS FOR THE NEW (OR OLD!) BUSINESS OWNER 2022
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CHAPTER 11 - INDUSTRY FOCUS 2022 - Focus on Oil and Gas Financial Poise
Although issues in oil and gas chapter 11 cases vary from case to case, there are, nonetheless, certain issues that tend to arise in most oil and gas cases. Among them: treatment of oil and gas leases, the payment of royalties, hedging agreements, and valuation. This webinar addresses such issues.
Part of the webinar series: CHAPTER 11 - INDUSTRY FOCUS 2022
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BUSINESS LAW REVIEW- 2022: Selling a Business Financial Poise
A Startup is the Founders’ baby - they dream it, created it and worked tirelessly to make it successful. Deciding it may be time to sell all or part is the easy part - acknowledging and addressing the financial and emotional issues can be challenging.
Negotiating with potential buyers or investors is time intensive, to say the least. Positioning a business for a value maximizing transaction requires planning. What professionals need to be engaged? How do the parties come to a valuation? What is the profile of the likely investor or buyer? These are just some of the questions this webinar addresses.
Part of the webinar series: BUSINESS LAW REVIEW- 2022
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BUSINESS LAW REVIEW- 2022: Immigration Law for Business-101Financial Poise
A basic understanding of immigration law is critical to a vast array of businesses operating in today’s economy. Foreign employees and their sponsoring companies will navigate a complex maze in the attempt to achieve the desired goals of the employee maximizing their ability to provide services and value to the company. One of various determining factors as to which pathway to attempt is whether the goal is an immigrant visa (also known as a “green card”) which may ultimately allow lawful permanent residence in the United States or a non-immigrant visa. The need for foreign labor affects various industries and applies to large segments of skilled, unskilled and semi-skilled workers in jobs ranging from farm to seasonal to high-tech. This webinar explains what businesses need to know in the current environment as well as how political and globalization issues will affect immigration laws going forward.
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BUSINESS LAW REVIEW- 2022
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NEWBIE LITIGATOR SCHOOL - Part I 2022: Working With Experts Financial Poise
Expert witnesses are an integral part of modern commercial litigation. They can be used for everything from calculating damages to explaining software workflows to establishing industry standards. This webinar begins with an exploration of the common types of cases that call for use of expert testimony. From there, we discuss the rules governing experts, including expert disclosures, discovery, and expert depositions. We also discuss the Daubert standard for excluding expert testimony, and discuss how a successful Daubert motion may be brought. This hour will help you figure out when and how to hire your own expert, and will give you some ideas on how to challenge your opponent’s expert when the time comes.
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NEWBIE LITIGATOR SCHOOL - Part I 2022
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Executive compensation continues its movement towards performance pay as the standard. Compensation structures and proxy disclosures are more and more complex. Investors and proxy advisors continue to increase influence on compensation issues. This webinar examines executive compensation, including equity-based compensation plans and executive employment and severance agreements. The importance of disclosure, alignment of risk, and metrics is also examined. Practical guidance on pay-for-performance and supplemental pay definitions is provided. The panelists discuss the effect of the Dodd-Frank Act on executive compensation, including SEC regulations. Exchange rules are compared to applicable federal law. Best practices regarding executive compensation committees and regulatory requirements for those committees are examined. Shareholder advisory groups promulgate executive compensation related advisory policies for their institutional shareholder clients annually and these policies are also discussed. Issues regarding board composition and leadership structure issues are discussed in relation to executive compensation.
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CORPORATE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE BOOT CAMP 2022 - PART 2
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CORPORATE REGULATORY COMPLIANCE BOOT CAMP 2022 - PART 2: Securities Law Comp...Financial Poise
The Securities and Exchange Commission has been entrusted with a significant corporate compliance regulatory function, which has been expanded by seminal legislation in the recent past such as the Sarbanes-Oxley (“SOX”) and Dodd-Frank Acts. This webinar discusses board fiduciary duties and the tension between state corporate law standards and federal law. Board composition, independence, structure and processes (including best practices in regard to committees) are analyzed. Specifically, director independence is discussed as is audit committees and related requirements, regulations and exemptions. NASDAQ and the NYSE also have similar requirements for director independence and those are also discussed. The webinar also covers disclosure matters related to SOX compliance, including timing and content of an issuer's periodic disclosures. Both the legal requirements and best practices related to disclosure procedures and internal controls under SOX are examined. Means of controlling the costs of SOX, especially for smaller public companies, are also discussed, including trends in the industry related to high regulatory compliance costs. Finally, the applicability and best practices for privately held companies and SOX are considered.
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6. Meet the Faculty
MODERATOR:
Chris Cahill - L&G Law Group LLP
PANELISTS:
Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena - Elliott Greenleaf
Michael Baumert - Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jennifer Hanania-Cohen - PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC
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7. About This Webinar – Blockchain and Supply Chain
Traceability of components of products - from food to fashion - is central to the promise of
using blockchain to organize and operationalize data from the web of supply chains. How
would traceability bring value? How do blockchain and smart contracts work? And how would
these foster traceability? What has been done so far in this regard? What issues and tensions
account affect adoption of traceability, whether by blockchain or other means? We have
assembled for this discussion a builder of blockchain-based traceability solutions, a
traceability entrepreneur via blockchain and other means, and an intellectual property
attorney (and former software engineer) who advises clients on technology-driven
transactions.
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8. About This Series – Blockchain Basics
In Dr. Strangelove, a party created a “doomsday machine” that would automatically destroy all life if the machine
detected a nuclear attack on that party. There was no override, and, well, let’s just say that the film is hilarious but
probably not a comedy in a conventional sense. There, if the “network” received certain information, the device would
activate. Like a smart contract on a blockchain. The problem in Dr. Strangelove was that the party that created the
doomsday machine activated it before telling its adversary (i.e., the other network participant). That “smart contract” was
critically not smart. Blockchain smart contracts (with much smaller but still meaningful stakes) are computer code
designed to adjust automatically the rights and obligations of network participants based upon the inputting of information
to the network, with such information visible to all and inputted per means and procedures agreed upon by all before the
contracts become effective. And thus paper-intensive, multi-step and multi-party transactions, like securities sales,
supply chain coordination, and supply chain finance, might proceed with greater ease and security. Costs could be
lowered, transactional speed quickened, and litigation simplified or evaded entirely. We will examine these areas of
promise.
Each Financial Poise Webinar is delivered in Plain English, understandable to investors, business owners, and
executives without much background in these areas, yet is of primary value to attorneys, accountants, and other
seasoned professionals. Each episode brings you into engaging, sometimes humorous, conversations designed to
entertain as it teaches. Each episode in the series is designed to be viewed independently of the other episodes so that
participants will enhance their knowledge of this area whether they attend one, some, or all episodes.
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9. Episodes in this Series
#1: Blockchain and Smart Contracts
Premiere date: 7/23/20
#2: Blockchain and Supply Chain
Premiere date: 8/20/20
#3: Evolution of Trade Finance Technology
Premiere date: 9/17/20
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11. What is Blockchain?
• A ledger
• Not stored in any one place
• Composed of a decentralized network of nodes
• New data on the blockchain must be verified by a majority of nodes
• Verification occurs by executing energy-intensive cryptographic calculations
• Once validated, a block of data is added to the chain
• Blocks may never be removed or edited
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12. What is Blockchain?
• Decentralized – data on the blockchain is not stored in any single place but distributed
across many nodes
• Immutable – once data is added to the blockchain, it cannot be removed, edited or
backdated
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13. Types of Blockchains
• Public Blockchains (permission-less)
• Private Blockchains (permissioned)
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14. From Centralized Ledger to Decentralized
• Blockchain establishes a decentralized ledger, by contrast to the familiar centralized
ledger, with a custodian or administrator being trusted to process monetary transactions and
manage the transfer of property
• See the two diagram on the following pages, from David Sneyd, “Blockchain solutions to
ESG problems” (BMO Global Asset Management, Oct. 2018)
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16. How Does Blockchain Establish a Decentralized Ledger?
• Participant makes an entry, i.e., creates a new block
• Proposed transaction is broadcast to each participant on the network
• Validity of the new block is subject to pre-set criteria and a complex algorithm called
“proof of work”
• A majority of miners conclude that transaction is valid
• New block is created and time-stamped
• All are provided with an updated version of the ledger:
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18. Some Components of a Blockchain
• Each block contains:
A “hash,” which is a digital fingerprint or unique identifier
Time-stamped batches of recent valid transactions
And the hash of the previous block
• The previous block hash links the blocks together and prevents the past form being
altered or rewritten
• Each subsequent block strengthens the verification of previous blocks (and the entire
blockchain)
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19. Some Components of a Blockchain, 2
• Proof of work requires high computational capacity, provided by “miners”
• Miners supply the network with computing power, to allow the updating of the database
• A majority of mining power must be able to confirm the new blocks by decrypting the data
• Once a “block” (a record of a purchases and sales created by miners by solving a
mathematical puzzle that validates the transactions) is added to the network ledger of
older transaction (the “chain”), such record on the blockchain can’t be changed or
reversed (i.e., the transaction is immutable)
• Thus a blockchain, to be non-falsifiable, must not have any operator holding at any time
more than half of the computational power of the chain
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20. According to Satoshi
• A coin can be defined as a chain of digital signatures
• The input to each transaction is the output of one or more other transactions
• The balance in your Bitcoin wallet is the sum of your unspent transactions
• The coins in your wallet can be traced all the way back to the miner that mined it
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21. So What is Gained by Going from a Centralized to a
Decentralized Ledger?
• If a bank or credit card company keeping a centralized ledger is hacked, then other
participants lose access to their data
• With a decentralized ledger, all participants keep a copy of the data
• With a decentralized ledger, there is no extra cost of (or litigation from) efforts to
synchronize records kept by counterparties to a transaction
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22. Smart Contracts
• Smart contracts are “self-executing contracts with the terms of the agreement between [a]
buyer and seller being directly written into lines of code. Once a smart contract has been
created, computer transaction protocols will execute the terms of a contract automatically
based on a set of conditions.” Rensel v. Centra Tech, Inc., 2018 WL 4410110 at *10 (S.D.
Fla. June 14, 2018). The promise re smart contracts:
Self-executing
Additional parties not needed to monitor the transactions
Greater cost efficiency and faster transaction speed
• To determine whether contractual conditions are met, smart contracts use “oracles,”
which are agreed-upon real-time data providers which confirm triggering events
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23. According to the CDC
• Each year, 48 Million Americans are sickened by a Food Bourne Illness.
• Globally, over 600 Million People are affected.
• The problem causes $55 Billion to $90 Billion in economic loss Each year.
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24. Blockchain Solution
• Food Traceability is a series of inputs & outputs.
• Blockchain stores data in terms of inputs and outputs.
• Blockchain transfers assets across identities.
• Blockchain nodes are public, protected, and easy to implement.
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26. A Proposed GS1 Numbering System that Works with
Blockchain
• PTI label is the GS1 formatted label that goes on around 60% of all produce sold in the
US. GS1 is a worldwide organization: its website for the US is https://www.gs1us.org/
All companies that sell in a store are members of GS1: the UPC barcode is managed by
GS1
The GTIN (Global Trade Identification Number) uniquely identifies items worldwide
Items can be identified on the blockchain by address, GTIN, and lot number
GLN is global location number representing each factory or shipping location
Companies that sell at retail and need UPC codes for their products must join GS1
Others on the supply chain join because a party requires it (adoption rate declines earlier
in the supply chain)
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27. Supply Chain, End to End
• Hundreds of shipping links
• Thousands of vendors, manufacturers, distributors, customers
• Data validation, chain-of-custody reporting, supplier
benchmarking, risk heat maps and alerts, emergency response
• The above parties and factors interact dynamically
• A dashboard display might be needed for “visibility” of a simple supply chain, with data
shifting in real-time
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28. Supply Chain Desiderata
• Provenance of goods (quality, safety, compliance with norms and regulations re:
environmental and labor and other factors)
• More accurate forecasts and product adjustments
• More efficient allocation of talent and capital assets
• More accurate and efficient inputs for financing supply and insuring credit
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29. Blockchain-Managed Supply Chain: A Few Key
Components
• Purchase Orders
• Ocean Bill of Lading
• Automated Manifest System (required to be field for goods entering the US)
• Importer Security Filing (same)
• Customs Clearance (same)
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30. Blockchain-Managed Purchase Orders on Blockchain
• Create indelible record of each step (block)
• Execute encrypted actions (identification of parties, authentication of transaction, time-
stamping blocks)
• Digitization upon the ledger of aspects of the contractual agreements, i.e., smart contracts
• Purchase Orders embed within them many business rules (cover price, currency,
quantities, ship date, Incoterms Rules – which may change over the course of the
movement of goods and components (e.g., production capacity of supplier, changes in
raw material costs)
• As each step in the process is verified, invoices can be triggered by smart contracts upon
proof of delivery, the ID of goods can be verified (or not)
Per “Blockchain for Supply Chain: Smart Contracts & Purchase Order Management” (Amber Road White Paper)
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31. Smart Contract: Smart Invoices
• Euler Hermes has provided trade credit insurance for over 100 years, and is looking at blockchain-
based “smart invoices” (to help manage transaction for which it provides insurance)
• It experimented with having companies upload their invoices onto the Ethereum “Smart Contract”
blockchain
• When a supplier’s invoice is uploaded, the smart contract “reads” it to learn payment due date,
amount, and the purchaser’s identity
• Smart contract then identifies the network of suppliers for that purchaser
• If the supplier is not paid timely, the smart contract can “decide” (based upon rules coded into it),
whether to send an alert (and what kind of alert) to the other suppliers in the network
• PURPOSE: to forestall other payment defaults, lessen trading with insolvent purchaser, and lower
risk of insurable events
• Pierre Sein, “Invoices on Blockchain at EHDA” (Medium, July 27, 2017) at
https://medium.com/@pierresein/invoices-on-blockchain-at-ehda-85d03a929062 (visited Aug. 21, 2019)
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32. Blockchain 50: Billion Dollar Babies (Forbes, April
16, 2019)
Note: the article includes links to “full profile” of each enterprise described
• Bumble Bee Foods: transparency in the tuna supply chain form catch to grocery stores
• Cargill: using Intel’s Hyperledger Sawtooth to track turkeys through its supply chain;
worked with Intel and Bitwise to build Hyperledger Grid to sell to others
• Foxconn: pilot projects to use blockchain to streamline supply chains and provide working
capital to suppliers
• Golden State Foods: participating in IBM’s Food Trust (consortium of companies seeking
to track food across entire supply chain) and leading effort to track temperatures at which
beef is kept
• IBM: created “IBM Blockchain” and has filed for >100 patents
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33. Blockchain 50: Billion Dollar Babies (Forbes, April
16, 2019)
• Maersk: with IBM developed TradeLens platform, a global blockchain for shippers contra
paperwork – 100+ organizations have signed up to use TradeLens
• Nestle: testing use of IBM Food Trust to track provenance of food ingredients in baby food
and other products
• Seagate Technology: working with IBM on blockchain to track products through distribution
and life, to ensure that fake hard drives are not returned to its warehouses (and re-sold by
mistake)
• Walmart: has filed for 50 blockchain patents for tracking shipments, operating drones, and
other; focused on finding the culprit in food-safety scares; helped create the IBM Food
Trust; plans to require all lettuce and spinach suppliers to log shipments on blockchain
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35. About The Faculty
Chris Cahill - ccahill@lgcounsel.com
Christopher Cahill is Head of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice Group at Lowis &
Gellen LLP, in Chicago. He advises businesses on relationships with vendors, customers,
and lenders, to maximize market share, return, and liquidity. He also litigates on behalf of
secured creditors, trade creditors, and in chapter 11 cases and advised more generally on
corporate restructuring, including workouts, loan forbearance, assignments for the benefit of
creditors, UCC Article 9 foreclosure sales, and avoidance litigation. Mr. Cahill also publishes
and speaks frequently on commercial insolvency and commercial transaction issues. He is an
Executive Editor of Commercial Bankruptcy Litigation, 2d Edition (Jonathan P. Friedland,
Elizabeth Vandesteeg & Christopher M. Cahill eds., 2020), a comprehensive treatise that is
updated annually and published by Thomson Reuters. In addition, Mr. Cahill is the host of
Financial Poise Radio, a weekly interview and commentary podcast for investors and other
market participants, with 100 episodes and counting.
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36. About The Faculty
Rafael Zahralddin-Aravena - rxza@elliottgreenleaf.com
Rafael X. Zahralddin-Aravena is a Shareholder, Director, and Chair of his firm’s Commercial
Bankruptcy and Restructuring Practice. He founded the Elliott Greenleaf Delaware office in
2007, which specializes in business law, as its first Managing Shareholder. He works as a
litigator and advises businesses on issues of compliance, corporate formation, corporate
governance, insolvency, distressed mergers and acquisition, commercial transactions, cyber
law, and international and cross border issues. He has been lead counsel in several
significant matters including serving as special litigation counsel in Washington Mutual, the
largest bank insolvency in U.S. history. In the Nortel bankruptcies he successfully secured a
settlement of more than $50 million for the permanently disabled former employees of the
company. The firm and Mr. Zahralddin were named among the firms that received multiple
awards in 2014, culminating in the Large Company Transaction of the Year Award from the
Turnaround Management Association for their work in the AgFeed USA, Inc. bankruptcy,
which involved the sale of the U.S. and China assets of a publicly traded company.
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37. About The Faculty
Michael Baumert - mbaumert@btlaw.com
Michael Baumert is an associate in Barnes & Thornburg’s Chicago office. As a member of the
Intellectual Property Department and Corporate Department, Michael focuses on technology-
driven transactions, sourcing, cloud computing, and data privacy and security. Michael has
earned a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) certification
offered by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Michael also
counsels clients in technology and intellectual property transactions, and has developed a
focus on blockchain and distributed ledger technologies, autonomous vehicles, machine
learning, and other artificial intelligence-related concepts. Prior to becoming an attorney, he
worked as a software engineer designing and developing business intelligence, warehousing,
and customer relationship management software.
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38. About The Faculty
Jennifer Hanania-Cohen - jennifer.hanania@pwc.com
Jennifer Hanania is a Manager in PwC’s New Services and Emerging Technology Practice.
Jennifer is also responsible for cross-sector blockchain product management efforts and has
spent over three years dedicated to supporting the set-up of PwC’s blockchain practice.
Jennifer has delivered on a number of client engagements related to blockchain and digital
transformation. These engagements include strategic assessments, product design,
innovation workshops, program management, pricing strategy, prototype development,
process implementation, and operating model development. Jennifer is skilled in agile
delivery and frequently works with large, global technical teams. Jennifer also works
frequently with PwC’s cloud alliance partners and joint business relationship partners and
has driven a number of collaborative go-to-market strategies.
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