Re-imagining the Future of Trade | 5 December 2024
The case for trade digitalisation is compelling but the transition to a cheaper, faster, simpler trading system is not a given.
This event is designed to share the latest market insights, developments and opportunities as well as share the latest thinking on role of the UK on making digitalised trade a global reality.
Arrival & registration
Opening remarks
Rebecca Shepherd, Clifford Chance
Keynote: VIP / Minister [TBC]
A keynote speech on government trade digitalisation and growth priorities and call to action to industry.
Scaling up the benefits of trade digitalisation
This session will include the formal, public launch of the International Centre for Digital Trade and Innovation and its role in global trade, the 2025-2028 roadmap to digitalise UK trade, guidance to SMEs on how to get started on the trade digitalisation journey including a directory of solutions providers, the impact of the WTO Ecommerce Agreement, who the movers and shakers are at global level and what to expect from the launch of the Tees Test Centre in 2025. It will also include all the latest insights and market developments on legal reforms, market opportunities, data standards harmonisation and multi-lateral development bank funding to digitalise global trade.
Chris Southworth, ICC United Kingdom
Nick Davies, HM Revenue & Customs
Ayesha Ali, Department for Business and Trade
Rebecca Shepherd, Clifford Chance
Lars Karlsson, Maersk
Oswald Kuyler, Asia Development Bank
Vashti Maharaj, The Commonwealth Secretariat
Are we being ambitious enough?
The way we trade has evolved organically over 200 years and resulted in layers of red tape, bureaucracy and ultimately barriers to trade, especially for SMEs. Much of the current information requirements are duplicative and unnecessary once we move to a data driven system. The risk is that we sleepwalk into just digitalising the existing system without grasping the opportunity to simplify the way we do business and trade when we have a once in a generation opportunity to re-shape the way we do business. This session will be the launch a thought leadership paper on what trade could or should look like in the future if we join up data points.
Professor David Hughes, Teesside University
Teodora Christou, Centre for Applied Sustainable Trade Law [CASTL]
Slido – market feedback
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Professor David Hughes, Teesside University
One year on from Electronic Trade Documents Act [Closing remarks]
Chris Southworth, Secretary General, ICC United Kingdom
Networking Drinks
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