What is Blockchain? IBM Food Trust Overview - Gary B. Rodrigue, Blockchain WW Food Safety Leader, IBM, from the 2018 NIAA Antibiotic Symposium: New Science & Technology Tools for Antibiotic Stewardship, November 13-15, 2018, Overland Park, KS, USA. More presentations at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8ZKJKD9cmEffjOrjbBvQZeN2_SZB_Skc

1. What is Blockchain?
IBM Food Trust
Overview

2. 2
The challenge – visibility across the supply chain
Wholesaler
records
CPG / Supplier
records
Distributor
records
Consumer
Demand Drivers
Retailer
records
Producer’s
records

3. 3
… with consensus, provenance, immutability and finality
Blockchain provides the shared, replicated, permissioned
ledger …
Wholesaler
records
CPG / Supplier
records
Distributor
records
Consumer
Demand Drivers
Retailer
records
Producer’s
records
Blockchain

4. 4
Is Blockchain the same as Bitcoin?
– The first blockchain application
– Defines an unregulated shadow-currency
– Resource intensive
≠
Blockchain
is an example of an
unpermissioned, public ledger:
• Blockchains for business are
generally permissioned and
private, and prioritize:
– Identity over anonymity
– Selective endorsement
over proof of work
– Assets over
cryptocurrency

5. 5
Trade Finance Pre and Post Trade Complex Risk Coverage Commercial Real Estate
Identity/ Know your customer (KYC) Unlisted Securities / Private Equity Funds Loyalty Program Mgt. Distributed Energy & Grid Mgt.
Medical Health Data Exchange Anti-Fraud & Port Mgt. Carbon Credit Mgt. Asset Tracking
Supply Chain & Logistics Food Safety Audit Digital Rights & Copyright Mgt.
IBM is making Blockchain real for business with diverse
engagements delivered across industries

6. 6
Where are we on the IBM Food Trust journey?
Pork
Traceability /
safety
Mango
Traceability /
global trade
Onboarding agriculture, ingredient
suppliers, retailers, CPGs, QSRs
and others to provide bi-directional
flow of information
2017 2018
Additional partners joined the IBM
Food Trust™ network, with growing
food data transactionsconducts traceability pilots
2016

7. 7
The IBM Food Trust solution is a set of modules built for the
industry
Future IBM Modules
Future 3rd Party
Modules / Capabilities
 Manage Recalls
 Recall Post-Analysis
 Trace-forward & back
 Recall Simulator
Trace & Recall
 Version Control
 Authenticity
 Automated lifecycle
management
 Real-time Sharing
Certificate Management
IBM Blockchain Platform
Hyperledger Fabric
 Permissioned Data Access & Entry
 IBM Blockchain Provenance Engine
 Secure Document Storage
 API Integration
Data Entry & Access
IBM Food Trust
Solution Core

8. 8
IBM Food Trust is a modular solution that will continue
to grow in functionality
• IBM Food Trust provides a blockchain platform for the food industry as well as a variety of modules targeting real business needs for
all players in the ecosystem
• We are working with 3rd party providers to further increase value by providing them the ability to build and distribute modules
Data Entry & Access Certifications
Freshness* Consumer*
Trace
. . .
Coming soon
IBM Module
3rd Party Module

9. 9
Example data integration points between animal protein
producer’s existing systems and IBM Food Trust
… …
BusinessSystems
Silo’d Transactional Systems Smart Scanner
Camera Consumer AppData
Capture App
Consumer
Farm /
ProductionTransport
Inputs Retail StoreProcessing Retail DCManufacturer
DC Transport TransportTransportTransport
CertificatesProduction Info Process and Operation Info Shipping Info
Food Trust App
Blockchain
Block 1 Block 2 Block 3 Block 4 Block 5 Block 95 Block 96 Block 97 Block 98 Block 99 Block n

10. 10
Data Elements available of IBM FOOD TRUST™
IBM Confidential

11. 11
How are our clients leveraging IFT?
Produce
traceability from
farm to store
Traceability for
agricultural inputs
End-to-end
traceability and
provenance
Traceability and
certificate
management for
multi-ingredient
products
Grain
Company

12. 12
Dynamic Freshness/Expiration Management
CONVERGENCE OF TECHNOLOGIES: Blockchain + IoT + Analytics

13. 13
Platform for Data Capture and Data Sharing
Manufacturing Shipping
Received
Issued to
Production
Formed &
Cased
Palletized
Exit
QA Storage
Loaded
onto Truck
Arrived
At DC
Enter
Zone 4
Exit
Zone 4
Shipped to
Restaurant
Arrived at
Restaurant
Consumed
EPCIS
Event
Commission Transformation Transformation Payload Observation Observation Observation Observation Observation Observation Observation Decommission
Temp
Type
Product Ambient Product N/A Ambient Ambient
Ambient +
product
Ambient Ambient Ambient Ambient Ambient
RFIDVendorIoTVendors
N/A Digi Digi N/A Digi Digi JDE iMonnit iMonnit iBright Coris N/A
ShippingDistribution Restaurants
We will capture ERP, RFID, and IoT temperature data, map to GS1 events and formats, and send to Blockchain
+N/A N/A
PPP
= “proactive” temp monitoring

14. © Copyright IBM Corporation 2018. All rights reserved. The information contained in these
materials is provided for informational purposes only, and is provided AS IS without warranty
of any kind, express or implied. Any statement of direction represents IBM's current intent, is
subject to change or withdrawal, and represents only goals and objectives. IBM, the IBM
logo, and other IBM products and services are trademarks of the International Business
Machines Corporation, in the United States, other countries or both. Other company, product,
or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others.