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Leveraging IoT and Blockchain to Digitize your Supply Chain

Abstract

Leveraging Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT) to Digitize your Supply Chain Samantha Radocchia, Co-Founder, Chronicled This session examines the current and future roles blockchain technology is playing in supply chain applications. Learn how supply chain applications - when combined with items like IoT microchips and sensors - can create a powerful smart supply solution used across a variety of applications, including product authentication, identification, track and trace, smart sensors and regulatory compliance, and machine to machine interactions. By attending this session, you will: • Understand how IoT x Blockchain consortia are working towards a global protocol with Trusted IoT Alliance covering: o Register o Verify o Transfer o Ledger o Wallet (Machine to Machine) • Explore a use case for securely and cryptographically sealing a package and giving a unique identity to a product in the supply chain with Gold • Learn how blockchain technology can be used to track temperature data through the last mile in the pharmaceutical supply chain • Hear a case study that explains how pharma serialization can be used to achieve Drug Supply Chain Security Act (DSCSA) compliance

Profile

Co-Founder @ Chronicled // Forbes 30 Under 30 Sam is a Co-Founder at Chronicled, which leverages blockchain and IoT technologies to deliver smart supply chain solutions. Prior to serving as CMO, she led product development and architecture as Chief Product Officer for 3 years. She is also a Co-Founder at Better Kinds, a global blockchain-based value network of brands, manufacturers, and consumers building innovative, sustainable, and transparent production and consumption ecosystems. Better Kinds offers a suite of tools used to measure and score a company or product’s social impact and sustainability performance. The Company delivers a holistic overview that empowers consumers to make positive choices and businesses to make meaningful improvements that protect the well-being of factory workers, local communities, and the environment. Recently named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List, Sam is a thought leader in the blockchain sector and the founder of Machine Elf Consulting, an emerging technology and product development consulting firm based in Brooklyn, NY. The firm focuses on blockchain, IoT, and additive manufacturing advisement to enterprises and individuals. Sam has an entrepreneurial background that spans several technology companies. She became interested in blockchain as a mechanism to facilitate trusted interoperability, a challenge she sought to overcome leading her first two companies. Before founding Chronicled and Better Kinds she previously served as the CTO of Huckabuy, a consumer product metadata aggregator and standards company, and Founder and CEO of Stunable, a provider of inventory management and marketing software utilized by consumer products brands to integrate e-commerce sales with cross-channel interactions. Sam attended Colgate University, graduating Magna Cum Laude with a BA in English and Anthropology—focusing in Critical Theory, Linguistics, and Symbolic Systems. She continued her academic pursuits at King's College in London where she studied Management & Entrepreneurship and at the London School of Economics where she studied organizational culture. Samantha graduated from NYU Summa Cum Laude in the spring of 2013 with a MA in Media, Culture, and Communications, focusing on the socio-political analysis of emerging technologies. On the personal side, Samantha is an avid risk-taker and daredevil, attaining her pilot's license at the age of 17 and accumulating over 700 jumps as a competitive skydiver. samantharadocchia.com