2019 Conference Agenda

9:00	Welcome	Peter Robinson PegaSys / ConsenSys
9:05	Key Note Video, Slides	Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology
Real World Use Cases (1)
9:20	Introducing BeefLedger: A Design Driven Journey – Some Observations Video, Slides	Warrick Powell BeefLedger
	Blockchain technologies and supply chains sound like they are a match made in Heaven. The BeefLedger project is a “boots and all” application of blockchain technologies to the Australian red meat industry. Through our design-driven journey, we are learning the difference between Heaven and Earth. This paper describes elements of the journey, drawing lessons about user priorities, the grounded realities of industrial scale requirements and IOT interdictions and the potential of mechanism design to shape supply chain outcomes. Supply chain management and digitalised inventory control are mature technologies, and respecting this is imperative for industry adoption of blockchain’s potential. Blockchain as a dependable record of past events, forming a basis of common knowledge amongst actors that operate in low or non-trust environments, is but the beginning of the technology’s new frontiers insofar as supply chains are concerned.
9:50	Supply Chain Financing on Blockchain Video, Slides	Richard McKeon integratedCapital
	The objective of the presentation is to examine the application and use of blockchain in the current Supply Chain Finance Industry. It will provide a brief discussion on what constitutes Supply Chain Finance and how conceptually Blockchain could be implemented. The presentation will examine real use cases from across the world and see what can be learned from them. Finally, the paper will outline some suggested ways to implement Supply Chain Financing on Blockchain now and trends for the future.
10:20	Moving From Fast Fashion to Ethical Fashion: Provenance in the Fashion Industry Video, Slides	Sallyanne Astill Credentia Michelle Forrester University of Queensland
	Near cost clothing, rapid turnaround of garments exploiting consumer appetites for inexpensive and disposable clothing has created the problem of fast fashion. Competition between factories for contracts has resulted in workers toiling in appalling conditions, along with inappropriate compensation. According to research, consumers will pay slightly more for ethically produced clothing manufactured in a safe environment by legally compensated workers. Sounds promising? If only this could be proven.
10:50	Morning tea
Legal Perspective
11:10	Supply Chain of custody on the blockchain and the Electronic Transactions Act Video, Slides	Adrian McCullagh Odmob Lawyers
	The Electronic Transactions Act (ETA) deals with the use of electronic signatures to effect transactions. Part 2A was established in 2011 and it specifically deals with legal effectiveness of transactions/documents/records electronically signed through a software agent. With the advent of smart contract technology there needs to be some contractual framework that deals with governing law. In relation to chain of custody issues in supply chain mechanisms effected on a blockchain, these transactions need not be restricted to a single jurisdiction. In order to take advantage of the ETA the smart contract will need to have some governing law structures to ensure the smart contract and its effectiveness in interpreted under Australian law. The general misunderstood position is that code is law. Code is not law. All smart contract code must comply with some legal regime. Smart contracts do not exist in a legal vacuum. But how can the parties be confident that their expected smart contracts will be legally enforceable if the matter end up before a court. Further which court will have jurisdiction. This presentation will investigate the requirements of the ETA and jurisdictional requirements that could impact supply chain blockchain deployments.
11:40	Is this block a law or a rule? How to better understand the effect of your blockchain with a nudge. Video, Slides	Lachlan Robb Queensland University of Technology Felicity Deane Queensland University of Technology
	Designers of blockchain solutions are currently afforded a certain degree of power, which is an area not often considered in the literature. Indeed, a common theme that emerges is the need to decide what is off-chain or immutably on-chain. To address this from a legal and economic perspective we explore the effects of placing regulatory information on a supply chain blockchain. We warn against moving towards overly ‘concrete architecture’ and suggest complementary off-chain solutions, such as Nudging.
Real World Use Cases (2)
12:10	Building Integrity in the Lithium and Tantalum Supply Chain Video, Slides	Hugo O’Connor CSIRO’s Data61
	As part of the Supply Chain Integrity Mission, a cross-organisational effort to address major challenges facing Australia through innovative science and technology, Data61 has been developing solutions to increase trustworthiness in supply chains with a focus on the Lithium and Tantalum supply chains. This presentation will outline work, supported by the Science and Industry Endowment Fund, to address this challenge.
12:40	Lunch
Application Design
13:25	Supply-chain Agnostic Blockchain Modelling Video, Slides	Claudio Lisco ConsenSys Solutions
	Determining how to map supply chains to blockchains is a complex process. This talk describes generic blockchain patterns that can be used to map and track nearly any supply chain. Viant, a blockchain-based platform for modelling business processes and tracking assets, is used to demonstrate how to apply these patterns.
13:55	Blockchain, technological tool to optimize the logistics chain of tourist operators in post-conflict zones of Colombia Video, Slides	Oscar Eduardo Sarmiento Saavedra Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje – SENA Willian Eduardo Mosquera Laverde Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia Juan Camilo Bohorquez Rodriguez Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje – SENA Carlos Hernan Cruz Castro Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje – SENA
	Blockchain can be implemented in tourist companies in post-conflict areas in Colombia. For this, it is based on the results obtained in previous investigations, where little office management was found and registration of the information, therefore, with block chains, the problem can be substantially improved and provide the necessary security to foreign tourists, tools are developed to diagnose the handling of information, to define systematization protocols and finally , provide a web tool that allows tour operators to optimize the management of their information, improve decision making and, therefore, aprotar to the development of the regions.
14:25	Enabling Supply Chains using Crosschain Transactions and Private Sidechains Video, Slides	Peter Robinson PegaSys / ConsenSys Sandra Johnson PegaSys / ConsenSys
	Atomic Crosschain Transactions & Ethereum Private Sidechains are emerging technology which should allow supply chain users to provide selective transparency while maintaining selective privacy. This talk will briefly introduces the technology and then describes usages in the provenance, supply chain financing, logistics, and automated deal negotiation spaces.
14:55	Afternoon tea
Design & Ethical Challenges
15:10	When the buyer changes their mind: how smart contracts can help Video, Slides	Warrick Powell BeefLedger Charles Turner-Morris BeefLedger
	From time to time, buyers change their mind. Sometimes, it’s because of changing market conditions. On other occasions, it’s driven by concerns about product veracity. Either way, non-payment results wherein disputes over product quality become central to re-negotiated price and payment conditions. The problem is the product is already sitting on the docks. Can Smart Contracts alleviate these kinds of disputes? We introduce a scenario “based on a true story” and seek the thoughts of conference attendees.
15:40	Blockchain-based Solutions for Traceability and Trust Management in Supply Chains Video, Slides	Kamran Najeebullah CSIRO’s Data61
	Supply chains (SC) have become complex due to multiple stages of production, geographic distribution, and volume of transactions. Blockchain (BC) has the potential to improve SC traceability, auditability, and prove- nance. We propose: (i) ProductChain to promote food SC provenance using a permissioned BC, and (ii) TrustChain to track SC interactions and dynamically assign trust and reputation scores using a consortium BC based trust management framework.
Real World Use Cases (3)
16:10	Water Trading and Blockchain Technology Video, Slides	Katrina Donaghy Civic Ledger
	Since the introduction of regulated water markets in Australia in 2000, the volume of Water Entitlement and Water Allocation trade has significantly increased. However, in recent times, the Australian water market has been criticised largely due to a lack of transparency and timely reporting on who is trading what, where and when. Further, reporting on trades is currently fragmented, may take weeks to be published, may not even appear on a public website, raising concerns that “fictitious” trades could be used to prop up the market in the wake of increased allocation announcements or rainfall. This presentation will unpack these challenges and introduce an end-to-end registration and trading system built around blockchain technology.
16:40	The rise of blockchain for port-related logistics Video, Slides	Elnaz Irannezhad University of Queensland
	Blockchain technology has been identified globally as a potential tool to improve efficiency across port logistics by reducing costs caused by information asymmetries and to fundamentally transform the entire trade process. This paper aims to investigate the existing blockchain platforms, properties and challenges and specifically determines the inefficiencies is the status quo that can be managed with blockchain.
17:10	Closing	Peter Robinson PegaSys / ConsenSys
17:15	Conference Ends