Knowledge Transfer | Consultancy | Speaker | Panellist | Advisory | Academia

NeXTRADE offers fee for service consultancy and speaker/panellist roles drawing on the NeXTRADE founder’s 28 years of experience and international network of experts developing trade digitalization standards at international standards development organizations.

Consultancy Opportunity: Awareness & Change Management

Global Supply Chain digital visibility, transparency and trust, made possible with application-to-application integration requiring CAPEX investment, predominantly exists only at the level of Corporations and Authorities.

The 'long-tail' of upstream SME/MSME and Emerging Economies suppliers is not yet digitally visible, requiring international standards underpinning interoperability and on flexible opt-in/opt-out cost-to-service expense basis.

There is global recognition, and call to action to meet ESG and UN SDG obligations for global supply chains to transition from the 400-year-old document driven 'Data-Push' across disparate data-silos approach to include the Industry-4 Web3 shared processes and data ecosystem 'Publish-Subscribe' re-use approach.

NeXTRADE Founder Bio

  • 2023-ongoing: ‘Knowledge Transfer’ Tutorial briefing Trade Law Post Graduates on considerations as global supply chains transition from traditional paper documents and the equivalent DIGITISED eDocuments TO global supply chains transformation enabled by Web3 technologies and the international trade facilitation standards supporting supply chain DIGITISATION in support of UN SDG’s and ESG. 
  • 2023: AFACT nominated evaluator (1 of 9) on the AFACT eASIA ICT Awards 2023.
  • 2022-ongoing: Contributor to the IAB: ICC/DSI KTDDE initiative
  • 2016-2023: Vice Chair UN/CEFACT Bureau – Program Development Areas | Sustainable International Supply Chain & Procurement | Agriculture, Fisheries & Agrifood | Travel & Tourism
  • 2009-ongoing: International speaker Asia-Pacific Trade Facilitation Forums (APTTF) since inception (2009) as organised by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP)
  • 2009: Founding member (1 of 5) of the United Nations “Network of Experts in Trade Facilitation” (UNNExT) 
  • 2009-2010: Chair Australia & Taiwan ICT Cluster, Track & Trace (RFID)
  • 2005-2008: Head of Delegation for Australia to UNECE UN/CEFACT
  • 2005-ongoing: Head of Delegation Australia Asia Pacific Council for Trade Facilitation and Electronic Business (AFACT). 2023 eAsia Awards evaluation/selection panellist
  • 2005-2008: Chairperson of the UN/CEFACT business process analysis working group developing the International Supply Chain Processes Reference Model | Founding Chair UN/CEFACT Modellers Reference PoC Initiative
  • 2005-2008: Member CITeC: Communications IT and eCommerce Standards Sector Board (Standards Australia)
  • 2005-2007: Chairperson IT-033 e-Business Architecture and Data Exchange. (Standards Australia)
  • 2005-2006: Chairperson IT-034 Automatic Identification and Data Capture Techniques (Standards Australia)
  • 2005-2007: Chairperson and founding director Radio Frequency Identification Association of Australia (RFIDAA)
  • 1998-2002: Edifecs Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Australia based representative. EDI design time tools SpecBuilder and CommerceDesk
  • 1996-2005:  Private practice ICT consultancy. Significant clients including establishing and managing the Program Management Office for the building of V1 Telstra.com 
  • 1969-1995:  Corporate ICT career developing and implementing ERP software suites and EDI integrations.