Using Blockchain to Track Carbon Impact of Fashion Goods - Hyperledger Social Impact SIG
Channel: Hyperledger Foundation
Date: 16/02/2021

The Hyperledger Social Impact Special Interest Group welcomes Deborah, Mark, and Ron to share about their fascinating project on using blockchain to track carbon in the fashion supply chain.

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Ron Argent
Founder and CEO, Cognition Foundry
Ron is a seasoned IT professional and business owner. With over 40 years in the IT industry, covering sales, design and engineering he has worked with many of the largest companies in the world. Recently he has focused his attention on helping start-ups take an enterprise view of application design early in their program cycle enabling their applications to be scalable and highly secure. Passionate about innovation and talent he founded Cognition Foundry in 2015, a company designed to provide easy and affordable access to an enterprise scale computing platform along with mentoring, design and architectural expertise. Working with incredibly talented individuals, with a strong focus on environmental and social impact initiatives, Ron enjoys an interesting and (very) busy life. Ron is also Co-founder of TES Enterprise Solutions Ltd, an IBM Platinum Business Partner. TES is an accredited IBM reseller specialising in IBM Enterprise Class systems - z Systems, Power Systems and Storage.

Mark Herrema
Co-founder and CEO of Newlight Technologies.
In 2003, Mark co-founded Newlight with a vision of using greenhouse gas as a resource to make high-performance sustainable materials. After a decade of research, Mark and his team developed a technology that uses a natural process found in the ocean to make a material called AirCarbon. AirCarbon is a meltable energy storage molecule made in almost all known living things that is strong, meltable, and ocean-degradable.
AirCarbon is now being used to replace plastic in single-use foodware, fashion products, and a variety of other applications. Newlight has been honored to receive recognition as “Biomaterial of the Year” by the Nova Institute, “Innovation of the Year” by Popular Science, and “Technology Pioneer” by the World Economic Forum. In 2016, Newlight was awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mark graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University, and has since garnered over 15 years of expertise in process engineering, polymer functionalization, and strategic business development.

Deborah Kestin Schildkraut
Global Program Director – IBM AI Applications & Blockchain Ecosystem Marketing Leader
Deborah is currently the IBM AI Applications & Blockchain Ecosystem Marketing Leader focused on Blockchain-for-good and Business Partner ecosystem development. She has been recognized with the 2020 CompTIA Woman in Technology Leadership Award for technology leadership, mentoring women in tech, and deep involvement in community service initiatives. She was also recognized as one of the CRN Women of the Channel for 2019 & 2020. She serves on the CompTIA Blockchain Advisory Council as Co-Chair and has served in a variety of global channel leadership roles for Business Partner Strategy & Communications, Digital Content Marketing, and Value Added Distributor marketing. She developed and launched the IBM Business Partner Innovation Center program with 100 cross-brand centers worldwide.

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