The COVID-19 pandemic and the rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape revealed profound fragilities in cross-border supply chains, which pushed them to the forefront of global concerns. Widespread and sustained disruptions opened a rare opportunity to reconsider investment strategies, modernize supply chain management, and reform the archaic paper-based system on which international trade still depends. How will companies simultaneously increase supply chain resilience and sustainability? What are the benefits of the digitization of international trade and what efforts are underway to accelerate wholesale adoption? What role could an improved trade finance ecosystem assume in creating new opportunities for SMEs and emerging-market economies? 

Moderator

Pamela Mar

Managing Director, Digital Standards Initiative, International Chamber of Commerce

Speakers

Keyvan Esfarjani

Executive Vice President and Chief Global Operations Officer, Intel Corporation

Samuel García Sepúlveda

Governor of Nuevo León

Kevin Klowden

Chief Global Strategist, Milken Institute

Phil Levy

Chief Economist, Flexport

Marna Ricker

Global Vice Chair – Tax, EY

Stephen Shaya

Managing Director, Akkad Holdings