Date: 6 March 2025 09:30 - 16:00
Register your interest to join Digital Catapult to discover the latest in supply chain innovation as the art of the possible is demonstrated through the projects of the Made Smarter Innovation | Digital Supply Chain Hub.
The complexities of modern day international trade, against a backdrop of global climate change, presents many UK manufacturers and exporters with new and immediate challenges. The International Supply Chain Accelerator, part of the Digital Supply Chain Hub programme, was specifically designed to address challenges impacting international supply chain ecosystems.
At this showcase event, the tech solutions developed in response to challenges set by industry challenge owners, will demonstrate how UK businesses can benefit from the practical application of deep tech solutions within their supply chains to make a global impact. Key stakeholders from across UK and international supply chain landscape are invited to Digital Catapult’s office in London on Thursday 6 March 2025 to:
This showcase event will feature presentations and demonstrations from the innovators and solution providers at the bleeding edge of supply chain technology.
This showcase event is an excellent opportunity to explore the future of resilient, sustainable end-to-end supply chains and how the Made Smarter | Digital Supply Chain Hub programme delivered by Digital Catapult, has become a leading initiative for UK supply chain innovation.
Attendees will leave the event with:
This event will be of interest to CEOs, CTOs, Supply Chain Leads, Supply Chain Directors, Procurement Directors and Heads of Innovation working in supply chains across all sectors as well as technology companies working across manufacturing and supply chains.
09:30 Arrival and Registrations
10:00 Welcome and Introduction – Tim Lawrence, Director – Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub, Digital Catapult
10:10 Keynote – Belinda Howell, CEO, Decarbonize Limited & Priya Murthi, Innovation Portfolio Lead, Unilever
10:20 Digital Supply Chain Hub – International Supply Chain Accelerator
10:45 Panel discussion: Sustainability in Supply Chains
11:35 Break
11:45 Insights from Cutting-Edge Solution Providers
12:15 Lunch
13:20 Digital Trades and Enablers Keynote – Chris Southworth, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom
13:30 Seamless Trade Across Borders with BAE, Leonardo & BT
14:00 Insights from Cutting-Edge Solution Providers – Oliver Church, Director, Orpehus Cyber
14:05 Challenges to delivering Digital Supply Chains – Tim Lawrence, Director – Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub, Digital Catapult
14:10 Break
14:20 Panel discussion: Enabling Digital Trade
15:10 Next steps and closing notes – Tim Lawrence, Director – Digital Supply Chain Innovation Hub, Digital Catapult
15:15 Networking and demos
16:00 End
Non Executive Director
Belinda Howell is the Founder & Managing Director of strategic sustainability consultancy Decarbonize Limited, and brings extensive experience at board level across a range of industrial sectors.
Director, Digital Supply Chain Hub
Tim has extensive experience in improving global supply chains working within the Automotive, Consumer Goods, Aerospace, Defence, Construction, Life Science and Industrial Sectors..
Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom
Chris Southworth is Secretary General at the International Chamber of Commerce UK and a regular voice for business in the international media speaking on a wide range of business issues including trade, sustainability, international priorities and government policy.
CEO, Offshorly
Digital visionary with 20+ years transforming and delivering complex business needs into frictionless and productive platforms. For a decade, he’s successfully run a boutique agency serving brands of all sizes and grown it to specialise in the AI space.
CEO and Co-Founder, Common Objective
Tamsin is the CEO and founder of Common Objective (CO) Tech, a consultancy and AI technology solution dedicated to advancing business action on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She specialises in harnessing technology and collaboration to drive industry-wide change, and in 2024 was awarded “Tech Entrepreneur for Europe” by Globant, the global leader in AI-driven digital transformation.
Director, International Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation
Nick has been in HMRC for 39 years as a policy advisor, investigator, Director and latterly as an Innovation Lead, looking at how new technology can help public policy delivery. He has advised on a parliamentary report into Distributed Ledger Technology, is Chair of the Independent Advisory Board for the University of Surrey’s Digital Economy Programme, is a founding member of the Digital Pound Foundation and was government representative on the UK Payments Strategy Forum. For the past 3 years he has been on secondment as the Director of the International Centre for Digital Trade & Innovation which is looking to lead on trade and trade finance digitalisation across the globe.
Policy Team Lead – Food Data Transparency Partnership, Defra
Helena is a policy advisor at Defra who has been working on the eco workstream of the ‘Food Data Transparency Partnership’ (FDTP) for the past two years. The FDTP aims to improve the transparency and quality of data describing the health and environmental sustainability of food products and businesses to promote accountability, flow of investment and improve resilience, health and environmental outcomes of the food system.
Creating a virtual hub, data observatory and network of industrial living labs to optimise information flows across manufacturing supply chains.
Digital Catapult has today announced that four leading businesses have joined the Made Smarter Innovation Digital Supply Chain Hub programme…
