As global supply chains grow ever more complex and interconnected, governments and industry leaders face growing challenges in enforcing trade regulations, verifying the origin and movement of goods, and protecting supply chains from illicit activity. Government enforcement efforts, which are based on self-certification of paper documents, have struggled to keep pace with the scale and sophistication of modern trade, creating vulnerabilities that can enable third-country circumvention and other types of customs fraud, use of products of forced labor, and other violations of trade rules.
Standards-based supply chain traceability – enabling stakeholders to verify provenance and track products and materials across the supply chain in a vendor- and technology-neutral manner – is becoming an increasingly important tool for strengthening trade enforcement, improving accountability, and supporting secure and lawful global commerce.
What is standards-based traceability? How can traceability systems help governments and industry better enforce trade legal frameworks, verify compliance, and strengthen supply chain security without unnecessarily burdening economic growth and efficiency? Join us on June 18th for a conversation exploring the technologies and standards shaping the future of secure global trade.
Featured Speakers
Arielle Brown, Director of Government Affairs, Wacker Chemical Corporation
Arielle Brown is Director of Government Affairs at Wacker Chemical Corporation, where she leads U.S. trade and industrial policy engagement for the company’s polysilicon business—an essential upstream input to semiconductor, solar, and advanced manufacturing supply chains. She works closely with the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, and Congress on trade enforcement, supply chain resilience, and critical materials policy, including Section 232 and Section 301 actions.
Jeffrey Weiss, Partner, Steptoe LLP
Currently co-chair of Steptoe’s International Trade Policy practice and leader of the firm’s Supply Chain team, Jeff Weiss spent more than 15 years in senior legal, policy, diplomatic, negotiation, and political roles in the U.S. government across three administrations – including at the White House, Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR), and the Office of the Secretary of Commerce.
Mike Conor, Founder and CEO of Blockticity
Mike Coner is the founder and CEO of Blockticity and serves as Vice Chair of ASTM International Committee F49.06 on Clarity, Measurement, and Authenticity of Information. For more than 15 years, Mike has focused on developing technology and standards that improve supply chain transparency, trade compliance, and document authentication across global industries. His current work focuses on helping governments and industry implement trusted, interoperable traceability systems for critical minerals, agriculture, manufacturing, medical products, and other strategic supply chains.
Robert Rosenberg, Distinguished Fellow, Stimson Center and CEO, NTELX (Moderator)
Robert Rosenberg is a Distinguished Fellow with Stimson’s Security and Trade Efficiency Platform (STEP). Rob is a recognized leader in the global trade facilitation and security space, advising both domestic and international agencies. Rob has 25 years of financial, trade and organizational development experience and over 15 years of developing and delivering projects in the public sector. Rob’s expertise in connecting vision to strategic re-positioning and operational restructuring has helped positively transform companies, NGOs and government enterprises. Prior to being named CEO, Rob was NTELX’s CFO and Managing Director overseeing NTELX’s Public Sector Solutions.
