The Digital Farm Wallet: Creating Trusted Data Sharing for Agriculture

There are roughly 50,000 farmers in New Zealand. Every one of them needs to fill out, keep, and be able to share a variety of kinds of paperwork from the origin of their livestock or produce, to the emissions of their farm, to several other key aspects of their products. Verifiable credentials provide a huge service to this industry by allowing for easy digital storage, simple sharing with the touch of a button, and removing the need to fill out the same information multiple times across different forms, reducing the total amount of paperwork to be filled out

Klaeri Schelhowe, an executive director at the Trust Alliance New Zealand joins us to share about her efforts to implement this technology for farmers across New Zealand. Come learn about:

• The Trust Alliance New Zealand's strategy for implementation
• What the farmers think and their experience with the technology
• Where the project is today and where they are going

Come ask questions, share your thoughts, and learn about this exciting project!

Speakers:
Klaeri Schelhowe, Executive Director, Trust Alliance New Zealand (TANZ)
Klaeri has worked for over two decades in technology companies focused on product identification and traceability with a strong involvement in the complexities of the food supply chain. Through her recent work as Delivery Director for the Trust Alliance New Zealand (TANZ) she has seen the amazing potential for the application of new technology to reduce costs and eliminate friction in the global supply chain for food products. Developing solutions to easily enable sharing of information in a trusted and permissioned manner within the supply chain is her current key focus area. Klaeri brings a broad knowledge of the value chain for FMCG, food processing and the supply chain, with a strong focus on data management, manufacturing process, and end-user engagement. She has comprehensive experience working for international corporations within the technology industry with strong competence in complex business operations, process optimisation and continuous improvement, working internationally and running diverse teams spread across multiple countries. Currently, Klaeri is leading several workstreams for TANZ such as Digital Identity, Digital Farm Environmental Planning, and IoT Sensor Networks for Sustainable Farming. This work is complementary to the work she is performing with the New Zealand Government’s Ministry of Primary Industry (MPI), Department of Internal Affairs, and for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. As a selected technical advisor Klaeri is part of the Data Reference Group and the Geospatial Working Group of AgriTech NZ. Internationally she is taking an active role in the UN/WHO-driven Food System Summit/Dialogue.

Trevor Butterworth, VP Governance, Indicio
Trevor Butterworth has spent two decades looking at how data is used and communicated in society, first as a journalist, then as founding director at a think tank, and now as co-founder and VP for Communications and Governance of Indicio. He is chair of the Steering Committee for the Cardea Project at Linux Foundation Public Health, an open source project for sharing verifiable digital health credentials in a privacy preserving way. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the Covid Credentials Initiative, also at Linux Foundation Public Health, and he is on the Stewards Governance Committee of the Velocity Network. Prior to Indicio, Trevor was a consultant to the Sovrin Foundation, and Director of Research at Cynja.tech. He was the founding Executive Director of Sense About Science USA, a nonprofit which developed innovative and collaborative projects on communicating the complexity of scientific and statistical evidence with, among others, the American Statistical Association, the Annals of Internal Medicine, MIT, and the Library of Congress.

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