NFTC Hosts WTO Public Forum Panel: “AI and Data-Driven Supply Chains: Efficiency, Resilience, and Global Collaboration”
This panel, moderated by NFTC Chair Amb. Susan Schwab, brought together business and policy perspectives to explore how data tools and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping global supply chains. Experts addressed how AI can analyze vast data sets, optimizing supply chains through manufacturing processes, quality control, waste reduction, and logistics. AI also helps bring visibility to risks and helps to predict trends. At the same time, AI brings new regulatory challenges for policymakers to balance AI’s potential with worker and consumer protection. Getting the policy ecosystem right will unleash the power of AI to build resilience and a more inclusive global trade system.
The video and audio recording of the panel, as well as panelist information, can be found here.
Speakers on this panel were:
- Amb. Susan Schwab (Moderator), Board Chair, NFTC
- Elissa Alben, Vice President and Head, Global Innovation and Trade Policy and International Government Relations, Pfizer
- Ashutosh Chadha, Senior Director UN Affairs and International Organizations, Microsoft
- Torbjörn Fredriksson, Head, E-commerce and Digital Economy Branch, UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
- Johanna Hill, Deputy Director General, World Trade Organization
