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Do Van Long and the mango with a paper trail
A Vietnamese mango helped make his case for blockchain. Today, Do Van Long is applying the same question - how do you prove a claim? - to trade and business verification between Vietnam and Australia.
Craig Collins
Craig Collins is the CEO of GraniteWMS, a South African warehouse management software company that has grown from a Cape Town product into a system running in 240-plus warehouses across more than 40 industries and four continents. A University of Cape Town science graduate and one of the early figures in South African barcoding, Collins spent roughly three decades in warehouse operations before leading GraniteWMS's push into the United States, Europe, the Middle East and the Caribbean. He hosts the company's 'What The Warehouse' show and is known for a hands-on, floor-level style: he spends much of his time inside actual warehouses looking for practical ways to improve how goods move.
Ophir Gaathon
Ophir Gaathon is the co-founder and CEO of DUST Identity, a Massachusetts deep-tech company that sprinkles microscopic, industrial diamond dust onto physical objects to give them an unclonable fingerprint. A Columbia-trained applied physicist who once chased the quantum properties of diamonds for computing, he turned that research into an identity layer for the physical world, used across defense, aerospace, automotive and luxury supply chains. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Airbus Ventures, Lockheed Martin and Castle Island Ventures, his company has raised more than $50M and works on problems originally posed by DARPA.
Leonardo Bonanni
Leonardo Bonanni is the founder and CEO of Sourcemap, the supply chain mapping company he spun out of his PhD research at the MIT Media Lab. What began in 2008 as a 'Wikipedia for supply chains' became enterprise software that helps the world's largest brands in food, apparel, electronics, pharmaceuticals and automotive trace their products down to raw-material origins - tanneries, farms, mines and slaughterhouses. He testified before the US Senate and the French Senate on traceability, spoke at TEDxMilano, and has been named among the most influential people in business ethics.