Verifiable Credentials and the GBI

With more than $150B in additional funding now being made available through the bill that was recently passed by Congress, significantly more resources will focus on regulatory enforcement, country of origin authentication, and forced labor investigations.

 

Validating the facts around your products and their origins, your supply chain, and your partners is becoming imperative in both maintaining supply chain security and validating tariff access.  Our webinar highlighted some of the changes in place now as well as those that are on their way, and included what you can do to prepare your organization.  We touched on:

 

• Why authenticating Country of Origin is so important
• CBP's increased focus on regulatory enforcement, especially around forced labor 
• The importance of supply chain mapping and what to look for in solutions
• Introducing Verifiable Credentials and their role in the Global Business Identifier program and in supporting regulatory compliance, building trust, risk management and more
  
  

We also answered audience questions on these topics and more.

Watch the recording by playing the video above, and download the presentation we used by clicking the link.

 

Karyl Fowler is Chief Policy Officer at Tradeverifyd, a supply chain intelligence company advancing transparency and security in global trade. Previously CEO and Co-Founder of Transmute, Karyl built the company from inception to acquisition over 8 years, during which her team pioneered the use of verifiable data in cross-border trade. Her earlier career instilled an appreciation of public-private collaboration, spanning strategic marketing and commercialization roles for biotech and semiconductor startups with high regulatory burdens like FDA, HIPAA, and ITAR.

 

Karyl holds an MS in Technology Commercialization from UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business and a BA in English and Political Science from Southwestern University. Karyl co-chairs the C26+ Smart Borders policy working group at the US-Mexico Foundation, is a founding advisory member of Bridge49, serves on the Leadership Council of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group, and previously served two elected terms on the Steering Committee for the Decentralized Identity Foundation.

 

Vince Iacopella is a licensed Customs Broker and past president of the Los Angeles Customs Brokers and Forwarders Association. He's now Chairman of the Pacific Coast Council of Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders. In March 2013, he was appointed to the 13th Commercial Customs Advisory Committee for Customs and Border Protection, better known as COAC.

 

Vince served on the 14th COAC as Trade Co-Chair. While on COAC, Vince worked on customs broker regulations, automation of trade data in ACE, and e-commerce Sec 321 de minimus policy. Vince serves as the Los Angeles Vice Chair of the District Export Council of Southern Council, and is on the Board of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce. Vince is also on the Board of Governors of the American Association of Exporters and Importers (AAEI).

 

At Alba, Vince works on growth strategy initiatives that drive value to Alba's mid-market and global customers.  Vince focuses collaboration with US Government agencies, such as the COAC, which allows the trade to influence CBP policy and align it to the commercial interests of the private sector.