30th UN/CEFACT Forum
Background
The United Nations Centre for Trade Facilitation and E-business (UN/CEFACT) organizes its 30th Forum at the Italian Trade Agency (ITA), Rome, Italy from 2-6 October 2017.
Priorities at the Forum are:
- Advancing current projects and domain activities;
- Ongoing maintenance tasks (such as UN/EDIFACT Data Maintenance Requests);
- Formulating and approving a series of new projects to be conducted within the framework of the approved programme of work;
- Continuing liaison and cooperation activities with external organizations (governmental as well as industry and standards consortia); and
- Advancing UN/CEFACT’s current and forthcoming technical framework.
Forum sessions are held bi-annually in different locations throughout the world.
For information on previous Forums, please follow the URL.
Schedule and Agendas
Schedule
Weekly Schedule (as of 27 September 2017)
Daily Schedule (as of 27 September 2017) Day1 Day2 Day3 Day4 Day5 All Days
Agendas
International Trade Procedures PDA
Buy / Pay PDA
Ship PDA
Regulatory PDA
Sectoral PDA
Presentations
Opening Session
Newcomer's Session
Communications Session
International Trade Procedures PDA
Project proposal - ITIS for MSMEs
SWD - Single Submission protal project
Ship PDA
Transport and Logistics domain
eCMR Project update
e-Data exchange via mobile tech
MMT Project
Smart Container Project
BIC Update
Data Pipeline
Buy/Pay PDA
Supply Chain Management and Procurement Domain
Reference Data Models (Semantic Models)
Sectoral PDA
Agricultural domain
eQuality Project proposal
Traceability Project PPT1 PPT2
FLUX
UN/CEFACT Conference on celebrating "30 years of UN/EDIFACT" (5 October 2017), Rome, Italy
UN/CEFACT Conference on "Blockchain" (4 October 2017), Rome, Italy
UN/CEFACT Conference on “Ethical and informed choices for sustainable clothing – Tracking and tracing textile supply chains” (3 October 2017), Rome, Italy
Conferences
Secretariat Contacts
Mr. Lance Thompson
Chief, UN/CEFACT Support Unit
Economic Cooperation and Trade Division
Contact e-mail: [email protected]
Ms. Amélia Delle Foglie
Programme Assistant
Contact e-mail: [email protected]