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Who may attend? GS1 Global Forum is reserved for GS1 Member Organisations' staff, board members and invited guests from partnering organisations and sponsors.

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9:00 - 9:45

Knowledge & Skills

Are you involved in GS1 standards development? Are you uncertain of how the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) works? Learn more about the standards process from GSMP experts and hear from a member of the community who will explain why they participate. This is the place to bring your GSMP questions to be answered.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all| Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Andrew Hearn, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

Everyone was a newcomer once! We have all had that same overwhelmed feeling when looking around the GS1 Forum for the first time, trying to understand all of the pieces and parts that make up the GS1 community. The goal of this session is to provide you a brief introduction to GS1 Global Forum, share tips and tricks by experienced GS1ers and finally meet and assist you during the week to maximise your Forum experience. The newcomers’ session is a great opportunity to start building and expanding your GS1 network!

Hybrid (In-person and virtual) Open to all | Target audience: MO Staff, New to GS1 Forum | Session leader(s): (to be announced)

Healthcare

Learn about the GS1 Healthcare Strategy for 2023-2027, including focus areas, priorities and planned deliverables. 

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Tania Snioch, GS1

Digital Transformation

Join this fast paced early arrivers workshop to help evolve the Global Data Model (GDM) Value Story. Engage with likeminded colleagues and jointly work on the GDM Value Story drafting clear statements from the community to trading partners (brand owners and retailers), Data Pools and Service Providers, and GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) explaining why implementing GDM is key and how it creates value for the specific party. The statements will be recorded throughout the week with the help of MO and industry volunteers and bundled afterwards to be shared with local communities and business partners.

In-person only | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Markus Mueller

9:45 - 10:15

Coffee break

10:15 - 11:45

Knowledge & Skills

This session will help onboard newcomers and a refresher for those who want to know more on GS1, GS1 standards

Why do companies join GS1? What is our offering? a ONE stop shop session to know more on the NEW developed tools and material available for you. This session is tailored to our audience needs and expectations, it is built like a building block that emphasises each time a different angle/sectors. etc, How many identification keys are in GS1? A key to use where? Is the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) used to sell products online similar to the one used on products at retail shelves? So many questions and you may have more, come with your questions and let your voice be heard!

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Nora Kaci, GS1

Digital Transformation

GS1 expects that the Singapore Resolution will be fully delivered by the end of June 2023, enabling all GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) to offer services to issue and verify unique GS1 keys.

Join this session to learn and exchange best practices on:

  • What you can do to improve the quantity and quality of licence, Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) and Global Location Number (GLN) data that you share with the GS1 Registry Platform (GRP)
  • How to offer Verified by GS1 services to industry and government
  • How global GS1 Registry Platform service components can save you time and effort

You will leave the session with a clearer understanding of where your MO is on the MO digital journey and what is the next step you need to take, individually and collectively.

In addition, you will have the opportunity to get up to speed with the latest developments on the Product Roadmap, including the Global Data Protection Policy and Global Electronic Party Information Registry (GEPIR) integration.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Joe Horwood and Tom Knapen, GS1

Solutions & Innovation

This regional innovation sharing session will highlight speakers from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, presenting how they are organising innovation collaboration, as well as highlight topics that are being pursued.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Kevin Stark, GS1

10:15 - 11:15

Other Sectors

The construction industry today is facing big challenges as an emerging sector in the field of digitalisation. The sector today is expected to build more with less environmental impact, waste, CO2 emission and with increased traceability and productivity. These goals can only be achieved through the digitalisation of the sector which help the companies to comply with the upcoming regulations such as the Digital Product Passport. GS1 can play a role in supporting the industry in many areas, from identification to data sharing. Join our session to hear about projects where GS1 standards could successfully support the industry to achieve these ambitious goals.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Ildikó Lieber, GS1

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

In 1973, industry leaders in the USA selected a single standard for product identification. It is known as the GS1 barcode and is scanned six billion times per day. For 50 years, way beyond the well-known “check-out beep”, the GS1 identification standards have provided great efficiencies across the entire supply chain in retail and healthcare.

To celebrate our great past, former P&G CEO, US Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Chair of GS1, Bob McDonald will explain how the barcode has transformed retail and healthcare in the US market. Former GS1 Secretary General, Etienne Boonet will tell us how we expanded our reach around the world through the creation and growth of GS1 Member Organisations. Former Nestlé Data Standards Manager, Robin Kidd, will narrate the GS1 expansion into services and data.

GS1 also has a bright future. Rodney McMullen, CEO of Kroger and former GS1 US Chair, will explain why GS1 standards are needed more than ever in a world where supply chain and costs are under pressure and where digital transformation represents such an opportunity. Kathy Wengel, Executive VP & Chief Global Supply Chain Officer at J&J and GS1 Chair, and Renaud de Barbuat, GS1 CEO, will share the GS1 strategy related to patient safety, consumer transparency and sustainability.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries
 

14:00 - 14:30

Break

14:30 - 16:00

Solutions & Innovation

The Auto-ID Labs network was created to foster foundational research in the early days of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. Today, these six international labs not only produce new research in areas such as advanced logistics, sensors, and IoT, but also support collaborative programmes to apply GS1 standards in new applications. Learn more about their current work and explore ways you can get more involved with MIT, University of Cambridge, ETH Zürich/University of St. Gallen, Fudan University, KAIST, and Keio University.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Kevin Stark, GS1

Digital Transformation

Industry have taken clear steps to use Global Trade Item Numbers (GTINs) to uniquely identify the products they offer. Now their top priority is to get a clear answer to the question, "Is this number a GS1 GTIN?". Verified by GS1, based on data from the GS1 Registry Platform, is now seen as the main tool to do these GTIN checks. Join this session to hear from retailers, marketplaces and regulators about how they are using globally verifiable company and product information to create trust and efficiency amongst business partners.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Audrey Kelly, Chris Liu and Patrik Jonasson, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

In 2023 the barcode will mark its 50th anniversary…the day when industry leaders from over 250 companies in every grocery channel selected a single standard to identify products at checkout – and so GS1 was born. Join us to review our new year-long 50th anniversary campaign to celebrate the barcode—and GS1—while looking toward the future. In this session, we’ll share the 50th anniversary campaign idea, messaging framework and launch toolkit. Several GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) will also share local activation plans to demonstrate how to leverage and adapt the toolkit for your region. We will also discuss the need to continue evolving our digital marketing capabilities to deliver a great customer experience, including evolving our websites from information sites to ecommerce websites to make it easier to convert visitors into customers. Practical tips and actions that all MOs could start doing right now will be shared in this session as well. Join us to kick off the 50th anniversary campaign, together!

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Jennifer Gordon, GS1

Solutions & Innovation

Join our GO experts for this interactive workshop to identify needs and priorities for GS1 in sustainability and sircularity. We will convene as a group and explore what GS1 should be doing within our new Framework for sustainability/circularity, (which will have been announced earlier in the week). The framework will help us understand where to play and what priorities we should pursue. We will build on the MO Toolkit for Sustainability and develop a view into the work for the remainder of 2023.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Tim Marsh, GS1

14:30 - 15:30

Other Sectors

Discover how GS1 Standards and identifiers are enabling freight to talk and what resources are available to help you to pilot/implement the standards in your supply chain. Discover the standard benefits for the freight transport process through: Improved interoperability, Increased efficiency and resilience, Enhanced first and last mile processes, Richer ship-to location information, Improved agility, Smoother processes and greater customer satisfaction Speakers: Agata Horzela, GS1 Poland; Gianni de Ridder, GS1 BelgiLux; Michiel Ruighaver, GS1 Australia

In-person only | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Thierry Grumiaux, GS1

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 17:30

Solutions & Innovation

Want to know more about Data Matrix (GS1 DataMatrix), QR Codes or GS1 barcode syntaxes, or how about GS1 Digital Link?  This session is for you. Come discover how all the General Specifications barcodes and GS1 barcode syntaxes interconnect and discover new tools to help Industry and GS1 Member Organisations.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Steve Keddie, GS1

16:30 - 18:30

Retail

Marketplaces continue to dominate the global retail landscape. Online sales now account for 20% of worldwide retail transactions with global ecommerce predicted to grow by more than $500 billion in the next year alone. As GS1 celebrates its 50th year, it continues to ensure that GS1 standards and services evolve to support this rapidly changing digital world. Since consumers cannot physically interact with the products they buy through a marketplace, globally unique identification of those products is a fundamental element in creating trust between online buyers and sellers. Join this session to hear more about the following:

  • Value brought to marketplaces, sellers and buyers by using the GS1 GTIN online 
  • Opportunities which the enhanced Verified by GS1 service has to offer – we’ll hear testimonials directly from industry
  • Evolution of GS1 standards to better support bundles and non-branded products 
  • Ongoing work to advance the engagement and education of the marketplace community

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Marketplaces, Retail - Apparel, Retail - CPG, Retail - Fresh foods, Retail - General merchandise | Session leader(s): Darren Edels, GS1

16:30 - 17:15

Healthcare

An overview for those looking to commence engaging their healthcare sector. How to get started, resources available, etc;

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Healthcare | Session leader(s): Nuran Idris, GS1

16:30 - 18:00

Knowledge & Skills

Join this session to learn about some of the most successful communication initiatives of the last year. We will share examples of best practices, including new communication formats such as podcasts that are helping GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) to reach new audiences. Get ready for an exciting session with a lot of practical information, useful tips and easy must do’s to make the most of social media and other communication tools that will help you connect with potential new customers in a different way.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Carlos Carnicero Urabayen, GS1

17:30 - 18:15

Healthcare

Join the session and learn how GS1 standards are used within Health IT and how GS1 standards complement other standards use (Transport Standards, Content Standards and Terminology Standards).

Hybrid (In-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Healthcare | Session leader(s): Neil Piper, GS1

18:00 - 19:00

At Global Forum, we have a passion for networking and building lasting business relationships. We’ll play matchmaker, pairing you with six different people for face-to-face networking – all in one hour. Don’t miss this chance to expand your circle of like-minded GS1 peers around the world.

Virtual only session | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target Audience: All industries

8:30 - 10:00

Knowledge & Skills

Join this session to discover how training is managed across GS1, globally and locally. GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) will present new training initiatives, best practices, and success stories to inspire each other!

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Sara Cavallucci and Simona Scaringi, GS1

Digital Transformation

The need for accurate and complete information about parties and locations on a global scale is stronger than ever. Join this dynamic session and learn how to be part of the GLN Registry journey, the next step in the GS1 Registry Platform evolution. Learn all about the two options available for your GS1 Member Organisation (MO) to achieve GLN Activate-grade. Hear about MO experiences, plans and best practices for engaging with Industry about GLN services. By the end of the session, you will be able to analyse your MO’s readiness to get started on the GLN Registry journey.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Michael James and Naoki Van Acker, GS1

Solutions & Innovation

This session will provide an overview of GS1’s collaborative work within the Global Traceability Strategy. Our revised and comprehensive methodology for design and implementation of traceability will be presented and discussed.  Join this session to learn the latest on the developments of the strategic workstreams including the Trace & Train Programme and the Global Traceability Programme. We will also briefly touch on the work GS1 Global Office is facilitating regarding sustainability and circularity.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Tim Marsh, GS1

Healthcare

Find out what new materials are available and how to use it to support your engagement with healthcare providers through the new Imagine 2.0 project, including international stakeholder engagement. What are the keys for a successful partnership between MOs and Clinical/ Supply chain solution providers? Listen to use cases to help you to build your SP programme.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Healthcare | Session leader(s): Claire Clark, Sophie Molle, Monica Soler, GS1

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee break

10:30 - 11:45

Digital Transformation

Join this session for a deep dive into governments' data needs and how GS1 standards and services need to work with others including solution providers, standards organisations and public-private partnerships to support solutions for the public sector.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Elizabeth Board, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

This session will be a workshop for all interested on the future of talent and employer brand. We will identify internal/external speakers to lead a discussion that focuses on how GS1 can move from “GS1 who?” to “GS1 wow”. Hear tools and tips for how we can work together to build and share our GS1 culture.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Robyn Burke, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

Today, the Industry is driving an evolution of GS1 standards with the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) modernisation workgroup launched in January 2022: the focus is making product identification simpler and more effective for bundles, non-branded, refurbished, and variations.

While the marketplace ecosystem has initiated this work, we expect it will impact many sectors and stakeholders—both online and in traditional physical commerce channels—and encourage everyone to participate and learn about the work done and ahead.

During the session, you will learn the new rules on bundles and non-branded and discover the accompanying training material built for the GS1 Member Organisations (MOs)

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Marie Burnay and Simona Scaringi, GS1

10:30 - 23:45

Retail

COVID, sustainability, omnichannel, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) - all of these are buzzwords in the apparel & general merchandise industries today when it comes to accommodating the present and future consumer. How do brand owners, retailers and manufacturers create seamless lines of communication and data transmission? How do they enhance interoperability in an increasingly connected retail environment? This is where GS1 standards enter the picture! This session will take a tour of the AGM supply chain through the lens of GS1 identifiers, with key stops and industry stories along the way. After this session, you will be able to better identify key industry issues and GS1's enormous opportunity to make a difference for the end consumer.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Eleanor (Nellie) Gayle, GS1

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

To better enable the digital consumer, the retail industry has embarked on one of the biggest changes since the original introduction of the barcode: the adoption of 2D barcodes. 2D barcodes have the potential to create massive new value for everyone, from consumers to regulators, from retailer and marketplaces to the largest and smallest brands. We’ve been partnering across industry to build global momentum around this migration and are excited to share with you some new tools that we can all use to accelerate our work in every country around the world.

In this plenary session we will explore how one barcode unlocks infinite possibilities for everyone. We’ll hear directly from brands, retailers, regulators and recyclers about how they see our 2D future. This plenary will be an eye-opener and you will walk away with real-world tools that you can use to engage in your local market.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries

14:00 - 14:30

Break

14:30 - 16:00

Retail

In this GS1 Member Organisation (MO) only session, we will be providing more details on the 2D pilot toolkit to empower MOs to accelerate their engagement with industry and engage in pilots. We will be doing interactive exercises to help MO-to-MO learnings to maximise opportunities for pilots in 2023.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Lori Schrop and Kevin Stark, GS1

Digital Transformation

This session will be dedicated to a Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) coverage initiatives discussion and how GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) are using the coverage for industry engagement.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Paulo Barata, GS1

Other Sectors

Already more than 100 leading rail operators, manufacturers and solution providers are on track to implement GS1 in rail application standards to improve various business processes. Get an impression of how extensively our GS1 standards are used in the areas of rolling stock, infrastructure and maintenance, repair and overhaul parts. We will provide many use cases and even a demonstrator, so hopefully we will create many aha moments. You will learn that rail is indeed a driving force for the introduction of GS1 standards in new industries and that these implementations must also be supported professionally.

In-person only | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Thorsten Kirschner, GS1

14:30 - 15:45

Knowledge & Skills

This session is intended to bring together GS1 human resources (HR)/people leaders to share best practices, innovation, tools, and focuses on how we can come together as ONE GS1.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Robyn Burke, GS1

16:30 - 18:00

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: For MO staff from the Latam region or by invitation only.

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: For MO staff from the North American region or by invitation only.

8:30 - 11:45

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: For MO staff from the Asia-Pacific region or by invitation only.

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: For MO staff from the EU region or by invitation only.

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | For GS1 MO staff from the MEMA region or by invitation only.

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

11:45 - 12:45

At Global Forum, we have a passion for networking and building lasting business relationships. We’ll play matchmaker, pairing you with six different people for face-to-face networking – all in one hour. Don’t miss this chance to expand your circle of like-minded GS1 peers around the world.

Virtual only session | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target Audience: All industries

13:00 - 14:00

More information would be provided later

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries

14:00 - 14:30

Break

14:00 - 18:30

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: For GS1 Management Board members and guests. This meeting is not in the event registration system – it is by invitation only.

14:30 - 15:30

Digital Transformation

Everyone is invited to attend this session to hear about how to get started on Product Master Data and Structured Data Sharing. The session will feature best practices on fast establishing so-called Local Target Market profiles with the help of the Global Data Model (GDM). Speakers will report on challenges and successes regarding their local activities and give idea about how the GDM can be used to prevent having to start from scratch. Understand in what way the GDM is an opportunity for industry, service providers and MOs alike to get their hands on structured data sharing.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Retail - CPG, Retail - Fresh foods | Session leader(s): Markus Mueller and Mark Van Eegham, GS1

14:30 - 16:00

Digital Transformation

Finding the right product faster and determining the condition and origin of those products is becoming increasingly important in supply chain operations. EPCIS 2.0 and Tag Data Standard (TDS) 2.0 - two of GS1's most significant major releases of the past year - are game changers for supply chain visibility. New features provide for increased interoperability with GS1 barcodes and GS1 Digital Link, as well as increased focus on the provision of critical information for the perishable supply chain and sustainability efforts.

Avery Dennison's Jeanne Duckett will present actual deployments of TDS 2.0 in the perishable food sector.

GS1 Germany's Ralph Tröger will present an implementation of EPCIS 2.0 to enable the "lastics and Circular Economy" recycling project

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries| Session leader(s): Craig Alan Repec, GS1

Digital Transformation

This session will supply insights for industry members and our GS1 Member Organisation community on current and emerging printing technologies.  In the session, the participant will discover "what you need to know" to print 2D barcodes across various technologies. The participant will also discover what scanners updates are need to be successful in pilots and during the 2D in retail transition phase. Experience live demonstrations of "what's possible" for today's printers and scanners both for general retail and over the counter healthcare.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Steven Keddie, GS1

Healthcare

Learn about the latest global Unique Device Identification (UDI) developments, be reminded of how the standards can be used to comply with these UDI requirements, and together zoom in on some UDI case studies and frequently asked questions.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Healthcare | Session leader(s): Elisa Zwanevald, GS1 

16:00 - 16:30

Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00

Digital Transformation

With the world moving more and more towards a complete digitization, the digital data sharing is becoming essential not only in the traditional processes like, for instance, the order-to-cash between a food supplier and a retailer. Other processes are interested by this innovation process and local and global organizations are pushing in this direction.

In this session we will explore use cases, normative evolutions or global initiatives happening around the world in the transactional data sharing domain, with the goal to extend the knowledge on actual trends and the achievable benefits in the adoption of GS1 standards.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Piergiorgio Licciardello, GS1

Solutions & Innovation

Governments, regulators, customs agencies, logistics and industry partners are less and less willing to trust data, and everyone wants to reduce or eliminate the need for physical paper certificates. We want proof: proof that the data has not been tampered with and that it came from the person or organisation who claims to have provided it. In this session, you'll hear from some of the regulators and industry partners developing and deploying the technology to achieve this and how we see it becoming an integral part of everything we do at GS1.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Phil Archer, GS1

Retail

Does your GS1 Member Organisation (MO) wish to improve its engagement with marketplaces and online sellers? Want to better understand how to position GS1’s value proposition to the marketplace community?

This MO only training session will help you become more familiar with the "GS1 GTIN - Introductory Pitch to Marketplaces" presentation, which you can re-use when talking to marketplaces as well as sellers and integrators in your territory. Topics covered will include understanding the different marketplace personas, introducing GS1 to a marketplace, the value to marketplaces in using the GS1 Global Trade Item Number (GTIN) online and the value to sellers in using the GTIN online. This presentation is designed to work as a standalone and in conjunction with the Verified by GS1 for marketplaces pitch deck.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Marketplaces, Retail - Apparel, Retail - Fresh foods, Retail - General merchandise, Retail - CPG | Session leader(s): Darren Edels, GS1

16:30 - 17:45

Digital Transformation

GS1 Member Organisation (MO) IT managers are invited to join this interactive session to get an overview of the cybersecurity measures being incorporated by GS1. GS1 Global Office (GO) will also provide an update on the technology framework that power the GS1 Registry Platform, public Verified by GS1 query, Global Activate and Data Out services, and other data services which support healthcare and Global Standards Management Process GSMP.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Maneesh Naganand, GS1

19:30 - 23:00

Join us for an action-packed evening of networking in a fun environment. Come to celebrate, enjoy delicious cuisine and make new friendships. We hope to see YOU on the dance floor!

In-person only | Attendees: Everyone | Type: In-person only

9:00 - 10:30

Regional forums & CEO session

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: For GS1 presidents and CEOs only or by invitation.

9:00 - 10:15

Knowledge & Skills

Join us as we have a conversation with GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) from the Asia-Pacific, European and MEMA regions about how they are leveraging the GS1 e-Academy to meet their learning needs. The GS1 e-Academy provides a variety of learning solutions and has customisable options to meet those needs. Join us and find out what the GS1 e-Academy can do for your MO.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Jeanette McVeigh, GS1

Retail

GS1 is helping the Fresh foods sector to improve supply chain efficiency and resiliency and provide more transparency to consumers. Attend this session to learn more about the Fresh foods sector’s use of GS1 standards, as well as gain knowledge and insights from GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) peers to begin or advance your local journey. This session is recommended for those who are new to GS1 and/or working with the fresh foods sector.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Retail - Fresh foods, Marketplaces | Session leader(s): Elena Tomanovich, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) applies the power of agile, along with the contemporary knowledge found in systems thinking and lean product development to help businesses address the significant challenges of developing and delivering enterprise-class technology-based solutions with high quality and fast time-to-market. It is an online, freely-revealed knowledge base of proven success patterns for achieving business agility.

Join us for a brief introduction to the SAFe Framework and how it enables business agility and improves business outcomes for organizations of all sizes across the world.

Hybrid (In-person and virtual) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): David Holzberg, GS1

9:00 - 10:00

Solutions & Innovation

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is more and more widely used to make omni-channel retail, supply chain visibility, sustainability and circularity, product authentication, consumer engagement and much more become a reality.

Since the number of RFID tags is drastically increasing, RFID implementations are facing new challenges like tag clutter, tag selection and filtering, inventory speed and accuracy. This is a non-exhaustive list of the business requirements the new protocol Gen2v3 will resolve.

Join us and discover how the updated Gen2v3 GS1 standard will make RFID deployments more easy and efficient.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all| Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Claude Tetelin, GS1

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee break

10:45 - 11:45

Healthcare

Join this session and learn how the healthcare sector is positioning the use of the GS1 Digital Link standard to access electronic patient information leaflets (ePILs) and electronic Instruction for Use (eIFUs) with the existing GS1 barcodes on the products or packs.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all| Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Pete Alvarez, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

How to enhance your customer experience with social media.

Today customers are tech-savvy and want to reach out using social media. They are enjoying the new way to interact with agents through channels like chat. Many GS1 Member Organisation’s (MO) customer service departments are using or developing processes to work with social media to enhance the overall customer experience.  Join us in this informative session where we invite you to learn about how MOs develop and are using these channels.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all| Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Donna DiPietro and Sara Cavallucci, GS1

Other Sectors

With more than 2.2 million legal entities, the LEI system has become a globally accepted identifier in the financial world in recent years. GS1 is an officially recognised issuing body accredited for over 100 countries. Furthermore, it is becoming apparent that the LEI will be used more in other areas outside the financial world, such as cross-border transactions. Therefore, in this session, we want to bring you up-to-date information on the LEI developments and present projects already underway.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Tilo Arnold, GS1

Digital Transformation

The European Union (EU) Digital Product Passport (DPP) is going to change the requirements to:

  • Position products on the European market
  • Exchange data along supply chains
  • Inform consumers
  • Share data B2B, B2G and B2C

All this is going to happen per sector and according to different timelines.

Join this session to learn about the DPP directly from the sectors representants involved in the new European legislation like garment, footwear, cosmetics, batteries, and construction. Industry speakers from our three key sectors, retail, marketplace and healthcare, will share their use cases, ranging from consumer transparency to end-to-end traceability and sustainability.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: Technical industries | Session leader(s): Francesca Poggiali, GS1

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:00

Join us to hear from our CEO, Renaud de Barbuat, as he shares insights from the GS1 Executive Committee of the Board and we'll hear from GS1 regional MO CEOs about what's happening in their regions. The highly prestigious Everyone Makes a Difference Awards will be announced. Don't miss the exciting closing plenary!

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all | Target audience: All industries | Speaker(s): Renaud de Barbuat, GS1; Tim Smucker, The J.M. Smucker Co., GS1 Chairman Emeritus and regional representatives

14:00 - 14:30

Break

14:30 - 15:15

Healthcare

Join this session and learn why every GS1 Member Organisation (MO) staff involved with Activate, and other components, of the GRP and the healthcare sector needs to have a clear understanding of this topic and most important what it means to you as an MO and your healthcare members.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: Healthcare | Session leader(s): Pete Alvarez, GS1

14:30 - 17:00

Solutions & Innovation

Join our GS1 Global Office(GO) experts for this interactive workshop to identify needs and priorities for GS1 in sustainability and circularity. We will convene as a group and explore what GS1 should be doing within our new framework for sustainability/circularity, (which will have been announced earlier in the week). The framework will help us understand where to play and what priorities we should pursue. We will build on the MO Toolkit for Sustainability and develop a view into the work for the remainder of 2023.

In-person only | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Tim Marsh, GS1

14:30 - 15:30

Digital Transformation

Knowledge & Skills

Learn about the exciting ways we're driving engagement with our standards.

GitHub is home to a huge number of collaborative projects from across the world where contributors can discuss, propose and explore ideas on the road to consensus. Separately, ref.gs1.org provides a permanent home for our standards, machine-readable artefacts and other formal publications, as well as tools that help make implementing GS1 standards both easier and more consistent.

Developing and publishing our standards using these tools requires special consideration but, done right, they provide exciting opportunities to substantially improve and modernise the Global Standards Management Process (GSMP) process. In particular, it becomes much easier to re-use authoritative data tables and glossary terms rather than duplicating them. Come and see how GS1 Global Office is leveraging these tools and have your questions ready!

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Open to all| Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Phil Archer and Andrew Hearn, GS1

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00

Knowledge & Skills

Status reports on projects are critical for effective communication and project management. They help you avoid risks and update your project team, sponsors, and stakeholders by providing the right status information to the right people at the right time. When done with a simple process for rolling up information, they can provide essential information at the right level to various audiences for your projects, programmes, and even drive strategic portfolio status reporting. 
This session will cover the value of simple status reporting in use across GS1, the processes and tools being employed, and how simple status reports can both strengthen a project's planning & communication, as well as build a foundation for driving strategic portfolio visibility.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): David Holzberg, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

Join us as we have a conversation with GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) from the North and South America regions about how they are leveraging the GS1 e-Academy to meet their learning needs. The GS1 e-Academy provides a variety of learning solutions and has customisable options to meet those needs. Join us and find out what the GS1 e-Academy can do for your MO.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Jeanette McVeigh, GS1

Knowledge & Skills

The relevance of GS1 identifiers is expanding to new use cases. For most questions, GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) advice on which GS1 identifier to use is simple because the GS1 member is asking about something GS1 identifies today. In new use cases though, different MOs may arrive at different advice which leads to divergent implementations. This session explores ideas, discussed within the GS1 Architecture Group, to help GS1 MOs find a common answer. The session will ask MOs to give their feedback on increasing visibility across MOs for new use case questions and using a new approach to arrive at one answer.

Hybrid (in-person and virtual session) | Restricted: GS1 MO and GO staff only | Target audience: All industries | Session leader(s): Nadi Gray, GS1