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40th UN/CEFACT Forum

40th UN/CEFACT Forum

Trade
08 May (9:30) - 12 May (17:30) 2023
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
40th UN/CEFACT Forum

Join us as at the 40th UN/CEFACT Forum as we create simple, transparent, and effective processes for global commerce! Over the years, the Forum has played a pivotal role in shaping the future of trade facilitation and electronic business, supporting global trade and value chains management for sustainable development, and fostering collaboration among professionals from around the world.

We look forward to hosting over 30 interactive sessions covering a range of topics that will contribute to a future of continued growth and progress, where the Forum will continue to lead the way in addressing emerging challenges and opportunities in global trade.

Introduction

The forum is filled with interesting domain sessions, panel discussions, conferences and lunch and learns. The in-person event will cover the work of UN/CEFACT across different domains and focus on the following topics:

40th UN/CEFACT FOrum Programme

♦ Cross Border Invoicing
♦ Standards Development Methodologies and the Role of Standards.
♦ Cross-border Trade in Agricultural Goods
♦ ESG Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains in the Circular Economy
♦ Transport and Logistics
♦ Verifiable Credentials for Traceability and Sustainability, API’s using the
   BSP Vocabulary
♦ BSP Data Exchange Structures for Trade Finance Facilitation and other interesting topics.

Download the programme as .PDF

Weekly Schedule with Room Number

* All sessions will have a short break at 10:30-11:00 and 15:30-16:00

Monday, 8 May 2023

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

09:30 - 17:30

♦ All-day Session: ToS on ESG Traceability of Value Chain: working meeting (in-person)  PPT
09:30 - 12:30

♦ Parallel Session 1: Single Window Domain Meeting: Reviewing the Final Draft Recommendation for the Methodology of Single Window Assessment (hybrid)

♦ Parallel Session 2: Accounting and Audit Domain Meeting (hybrid)
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch & Learn: Cryptocurrencies - Carbon Credit Treading Standardization Challenges: Implications on Traditional vs Blockchain Based Trading Platforms
14:00 - 17:30

♦ Parallel Session 1: Open Finance: Towards a Fully Open Ecosystem Serving Financial Innovation (hybrid)

♦ Parallel Session 2: UN/EDIFACT Review Session (hybrid)

♦ Special Session: eCITES Task Force Meeting (hybrid)
18:00 - 19:00 ♦ Evening Session: Active Private Sector Participation: A Factor for Successful National Trade Facilitation Bodies (hybrid)

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

09:30 - 12:30

♦ Parallel Session 1: eDATA Management Domain Meeting (in-person)

♦ Parallel Session 2: Digital Documents - Challenges to Transit (hybrid)

♦ Parallel Session 3: Accounting and Audit Domain Meeting (hybrid)
10:30 - 12:00

♦ Special Session: ESCAP-ECE-ICC-WCO-ADB Webinar (on-line)
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch & Learn: How to Respond to ESG Challenges   PPT
14:30 - 17:00 ♦ Forum Conference: Resilience of Global Supply Chains in Times of Crisis – Supporting a Sustainable Recovery with Green and Digital Solutions (in-person, with interpretation into French and Russian)
17:15 - 18:30 Anniversary Cocktail 

Thursday, 11 May 2023

09:30 - 17:30

♦ All-day Session: eDATA Management Domain Meeting (in-person)

♦ All-day Session: Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting (hybrid)
09:30 - 12:30

♦ Parallel Session 1: Designing APIs Using the UN Vocabulary (hybrid)   PPT
10:00 - 11:30 ♦ Special Session: UN/LOCODE Maintenance Meeting (hybrid)
11:00 - 12:30 ♦ Parallel Session 2: Finance and Payments Domain Meeting (hybrid)
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch & Learn: Standards and Regulations in a Rapidly Evolving Landscape: Leveraging standard data models for Efficient Compliance
14:00 - 17:30

♦ Special Session: UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting

♦ Parallel Session 1: Designing Digital Trust Graphs Using UN Tools and Methods (hybrid)  PPT

♦ Parallel Session 2: Specification Domain Meeting (hybrid)

♦ Parallel Session 3: Single Window Domain Meeting: Planning for the Next Project and Charting the Way Forward (hybrid)
18:00 - 19:00 ♦ Evening Session: Active Private Sector Participation: A Factor for Successful National Trade Facilitation Bodies (hybrid)

Friday, 12 May 2023

09:30 - 12:30 ♦ Special Session: UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting (hybrid)
09:30 - 14:00 ♦ SEMINAR: The Future of Digital Standards for Sustainable Supply Chains (hybrid)
09:30 - 10:30 ♦ Parallel Session 1: Cross-border Domain Meeting (hybrid)  PPT
14:00 - 15:30 ♦ Closing Session (in-person)  PPT
14:30 - 17:30 ♦ UN/LOCODE Workshop (hybrid)

Presentations

49423 _ Newcomers Session _ 382485 _ English _ 773 _ 391503 _ pdf
49423 _ Introduction to UN/CEFACT Standards Development _ 382489 _ English _ 773 _ 391509 _ pdf
49423 _ Opening and Overview of Forum’s Activities _ 382490 _ English _ 773 _ 391510 _ pdf
49423 _ Lunch and Learn - How JSON Schema NDR and Open API NDR Can Enhance the Interoperability and Accessibility of UN/CEFACT Standards _ 382491 _ English _ 773 _ 391511 _ pdf
49423 _ Open Travel and Tourism: Deliverables of Business Standards for Sustainable Tourism by Anthony Chien, Wanchin Hsiung, and Kazuyoshi Itagaki _ 382492 _ English _ 773 _ 391512 _ pdf
49423 _ Open Travel and Tourism: Deliverables of Experience Programs Technical Artefacts Project and Its Further Upgrading Efforts by Akio Suzuki _ 382493 _ English _ 773 _ 391513 _ pdf
49423 _ Open Travel and Tourism: Travel Agency and DMC & DMO Package Tour Project _ 382494 _ English _ 773 _ 391514 _ pdf
49423 _ Open Travel and Tourism: Tourism Industry and Travel Trends Transformation Post COVID-19 Some overview of New Technologies affecting travel business globally by Sachin Mehta _ 382495 _ English _ 773 _ 391515 _ pdf
49423 _ Trusted Product Conformity - Towards Digitally Traceable Quality, Safety, Social, Environmental Data for Products Cross-Border Sustainable Trade by Brett Hyland, Jie Huang, Jaco Voorspuij and Steve Capell _ 382497 _ English _ 773 _ 391518 _ pdf
49423 _ Third Working Meeting - Team of Specialists on EGS Traceability of Sustainable Value Chains in the Circular Economy _ 383243 _ English _ 773 _ 393199 _ pdf
49423 _ Single Window Domain Meeting Presentation _ 383245 _ English _ 773 _ 393201 _ pdf
49423 _ Single Window Domain Meeting: Key Findings from the Pilot Testing of the SW Assessment Methodology _ 383246 _ English _ 773 _ 393202 _ pdf
49423 _ Accounting and Audit Domain Meeting Presentation _ 383248 _ English _ 773 _ 393204 _ pdf
49423 _ Lunch & Learn - Cryptocurrencies - Carbon Credit Treading Standardization Challenges: Implications on Traditional vs Blockchain Based Trading Platforms - Risk, Carbon Credits and Blockchain by Lois Tullo _ 383249 _ English _ 773 _ 393206 _ pdf
49423 _ Open Finance: Towards a Fully Open Ecosystem Serving Financial Innovation - Finance and Payment Domain Meeting Presentation by Fabio Sorrentino _ 383252 _ English _ 773 _ 393209 _ pdf
49423 _ Open Finance: Towards a Fully Open Ecosystem Serving Financial Innovation - Finance and Payment Domain Meeting Presentation by Fabio Sorrentino _ 383254 _ English _ 773 _ 393212 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/EDIFACT Review Session UN/EDIFACT D.23A DMR Review Session Presentation by Kevin Bishop and Gait Boxma _ 383257 _ English _ 773 _ 393216 _ pdf
49423 _ eDATA Management Domain Meeting - Agenda _ 383266 _ English _ 773 _ 393231 _ pdf
49423 _ eDATA Management Domain Meeting - Digital Identity Standardization for Trade Facilitation _ 383268 _ English _ 773 _ 393234 _ pdf
49423 _ eDATA Management Domain Meeting - eData Management Domain Discussion Presentation by Tahseen Ahmad Khan and Kaushik Srinivasan _ 383269 _ English _ 773 _ 393235 _ pdf
49423 _ Digital Documents - Challenges to Transit - Trusted Product Conformity - Towards Digitally Traceable Quality, Safety, Social, Environmental Data for Products Cross-Borders Sustainable Trade _ 383270 _ English _ 773 _ 393236 _ pdf
49423 _ Lunch & Learn - How to Respond to ESG Challenges - How to Respond to ESG Challenges by Hanane Becha, Gerhard Heemskerk, Brett Hyland and Maria Teresa Pisani _ 383271 _ English _ 773 _ 393237 _ pdf
49423 _ eDATA Management Domain Meeting - eData Management Domain Discussion Presentation by Tahseen Ahmad Khan and Kaushik Srinivasan _ 383272 _ English _ 773 _ 393238 _ pdf
49423 _ eDATA Management Domain Meeting - MLETR Compliant Title Transfer Project Presentation by Ren Yuh Kay _ 383273 _ English _ 773 _ 393239 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics PDA Presentation by Hanane Becha _ 383274 _ English _ 773 _ 393240 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting Presentation by Sue Probert, Hanane Becha, and David Roff _ 383275 _ English _ 773 _ 393241 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: Bureau International des Containers - BIC Facility Codes - BIC SMDG API and Geofencing _ 383276 _ English _ 773 _ 393242 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: Standardising and Securing Multimodal BLs _ 383277 _ English _ 773 _ 393243 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: Requirement for the Trade Finance Project by Hisanao Sugamata _ 383278 _ English _ 773 _ 393244 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: Standardization on Cargo Insurance Data _ 383279 _ English _ 773 _ 393246 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: Problems Encountered When Matching Data Items Handled by Trade Pracitioners with UN/CEFACT _ 383280 _ English _ 773 _ 393247 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: Geofencing Paper Project by David Roff _ 383281 _ English _ 773 _ 393248 _ pdf
49423 _ Transport and Logistics Domain Meeting: IFTDGN Project Update by IPCSA _ 383282 _ English _ 773 _ 393250 _ pdf
49423 _ Designing APIs Using the UN Vocabulary: Sustainability Trust Graphs by Nis Jespersen _ 383283 _ English _ 773 _ 393251 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Maintenance Guidelines _ 382725 _ English _ 773 _ 392076 _ pdf
49423 _ Finance and Payments Domain Activities Presentation by Fabio Sorrentino _ 383285 _ English _ 773 _ 393256 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting: Report from the Secretariat by Yan Zhang _ 383286 _ English _ 773 _ 393259 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting: Updates from the IMO on the Facilitation Committee _ 383287 _ English _ 773 _ 393260 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting: Presentation on Geofence by BIC _ 383288 _ English _ 773 _ 393261 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting: Updates from the FAO – International Tools for Information Exchange _ 383289 _ English _ 773 _ 393262 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting: Fast-track of an ISO standard by ISO TC 154 _ 383290 _ English _ 773 _ 393264 _ pdf
49423 _ UN/LOCODE Advisory Group Meeting: UN/LOCODE & UN/CEFACT JSON-LD Web Vocabulary by Kevin Bishop and David Roff _ 383291 _ English _ 773 _ 393265 _ pdf
49423 _ Designing Digital Trust Graphs Using UN Tools and Methods: Trust Graphs Design – Hands on Technical Session by Nis Jespersen _ 383293 _ English _ 773 _ 393268 _ pdf
49423 _ Single Window Domain Meeting: Planning for the Next Project and Charting the Way Forward by Neelima Pamulapati _ 383294 _ English _ 773 _ 393269 _ pdf
49423 _ Single Window Domain Meeting: WP.6 Project - Integrated Risk Management in Single Window Systems by Lance Thompson and Valentin Nikonov _ 383295 _ English _ 773 _ 393270 _ pdf
49423 _ The UNECE Vision for digital standards for sustainable supply chains by Maria Theresa _ 383296 _ English _ 773 _ 393271 _ pdf
49423 _ The British Columbia Experience with digital trust and critical minerals by Nacy Norris _ 383300 _ English _ 773 _ 393278 _ pdf
49423 _ Recent developments concerning the EU Digital Product Passport (DPP) by Michele Galatola, Senior Policy Officer at European Commission DG GROW: _ 383303 _ English _ 773 _ 393282 _ pdf
49423 _ Implementing Digital Trust - guidance for national policymakers by Steve Capell _ 383304 _ English _ 773 _ 393283 _ pdf
49423 _ Using the UN tools, a live demonstration by Chris Gough _ 383306 _ English _ 773 _ 393286 _ pdf
49423 _ Digital trust to the next level, Linked Data Graphs as a sustainable supply chain digital twin by Nis Jespersen _ 383310 _ English _ 773 _ 393324 _ pdf
49423 _ The eCMR as Verifiable Credential _ 383311 _ English _ 773 _ 393325 _ pdf
49423 _ Cross-border Domain Meeting: Digital Corridors by Amar More _ 383312 _ English _ 773 _ 393326 _ pdf
49423 _ Closing Session Presentation by Vice Chairs _ 383313 _ English _ 773 _ 393328 _ pdf