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All times are in Central European Time (CET)

13:00 - 13:50

Plenary sessions

Join us for an engaging panel discussion as we explore the rapidly changing landscape of the retail industry. Over the past five years, retail has undergone a staggering transformation, driven by the pandemic and evolving consumer demands. In addition, supply chain disruptions and regulatory developments have further impacted the sector.

Recognising these significant changes, GS1 is rolling out a new retail strategy in 2023, aiming to enhance accessibility and understanding of GS1 standards, and the value they bring to companies addressing emerging and future challenges. Our panel, representing various retail communities, will share their unique perspectives on retail, their business needs, and the vital role GS1 plays in supporting their operations and future adaptability. The session will delve into the industry's transformative forces, discuss the key issues our users face, and explore how GS1 can effectively continue to be an integral part of the global retail ecosystem and local retail communities worldwide.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Speakers: Romain Brancher, Petit Boucan; Paul Masilo, Freshmo Brands Pty Ltd; Richard Plunkett, Woolworths Group and Patrik Jonasson, Marie Burnay, and Andrew Hearn, GS1

14:00 - 16:00

Community engagement

Come hear the latest industry stories for continued retailer scale-up, as well as the latest updates for the 2D programme.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Kevin Stark and Tania Snioch, GS1

Industries impacted: Retail - Apparel, Retail - CPG, Retail - Fresh foods, Retail - General merchandise

Training & Education

This is an educational session for those interested in learning about GS1, as an organisation, our purpose and our standards and services.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Nora Kaci, David Buckley, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

One area which has great potential to help reduce waste and increase recycling is RFID technology. Together with new EPC encodings introduced in Tag Data Standard (TDS 2.0) RFID can help identify short sell by dates for food products or medications that can be brought forward and sold or used well within those dates. When embedded in packaging, RFID tags can also help deliver clear, localised information about the composition and recyclability. From a supply chain point of view, RFID can help create a more sustainable warehouse by preventing overstocking, minimizing unnecessary labour and reducing inefficient transportation. RFID tags can also serve as a carrier for permanent identity which enables any product to be easily refurbished and re-used.

Join this session to know more about how different sectors like apparel, fresh food and healthcare are already leveraging RFID to reduce waste and achieve sustainability goals.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Claude Tetelin, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

16:30 - 17:30

Standards Development

Are you new to 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.   

Who may attend: All

Session leaders (s): Andrew Hearn, David Buckley, Greg Rowe, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

GS1 is working to ensure that GS1 standards and services evolve to support the rapidly changing world of online marketplaces. 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. As the GS1 Marketplace Programme continues to grow, join this session to hear about the latest developments and improve your understanding of the:

  • NEW GS1 standards for Bundles and Non-branded products
  • Ongoing work to advance the engagement of the marketplace community
  • How marketplaces are driving the use of Verified by GS1

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Darren Edels, GS1

Industries impacted: Marketplaces, Retail - Apparel, Retail - CPG, Retail - General merchandise

Community engagement

Transforming food systems requires collaboration across companies, industries, governments, and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). Join this informative, thought-provoking session to learn from a diverse group of experts who will share their knowledge and experience. You will leave the session energised by the work of these organisations and keen to answer the question: how can GS1 standards and the Global Registry Platform help?

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Elena Tomanovich, GS1

Industries impacted: Retail - Fresh foods, Retail - CPG

11:00 - 12:30

Training & Education

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!

Who should attend: Only GS1 MO and GO staff may attend

Session leader(s): Sara Cavallucci and Simona Scaringi, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Standards Development

The GS1 Global Product Classification (GPC) standard helps global trading partners to group products in the same way, everywhere in the world. The resulting common business language is clear and instantly understandable.

The business benefits of using GPC are: gives buyers and sellers a common language for talking about their products – within countries and regions as well as across the world, improves data accuracy and integrity, speeds up the supply chain responsiveness to consumer needs and simplifies reporting across product categories.

This group will share new implementations of GPC and work on changes and updates to the standard.

Who should attend: Opted-in only

Session leader(s): Eileen Harpell and Elsa Braz, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

11:00 - 12:00

Community engagement

You will gain an insight into how Center of Excellence (CoE) Rail works at local, regional and global levels on how each level benefits from the other. We will also integrate use cases to show how we cover the lifecycle process of objects in this industry, using the full GS1 portfolio for identification, capture and sharing. 

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Thorsten Kirschner, GS1

Industries impacted: Technical industries, Transport & Logistics

Community engagement

Adding Links to other sources of data in Verified by GS1 allows us to unlock a broad range of use cases.

Explore how brand owners can augment the thin number of attributes in the GTIN and GLN registries with links to more and richer information about their products, brands or locations. Additionally, how GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) can get started to enable this powerful capability for their users.

Who should attend: Only GS1 MO and GO staff may attend

Session leader(s): Birgit Mahler, GS1

Industries impacted: Marketplaces, Retail - Apparel, Retail - CPG, Retail - General merchandise

13:00 - 13:50

Plenary sessions

Join us for an exciting session, where we will dive into the latest consumer trends and how they impact consumer choices and behaviours. We will explore new technologies such as the next generation barcodes powered by GS1 that will transform the retail industry, thereby enabling an unprecedented level of consumer engagement.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend 

Speakers: John S. Phillips, Senior Vice President, Customer Supply Chain and Go-to-Market for PepsiCo, Inc. and Nicolas Frerejean, Director Global Marketing, GS1

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14:00 - 16:00

Standards Development

The group will draft an Implementation Guideline to assist our community in implementing the three aspects of 2D in Retail: human-readable codes, multiple barcodes, and barcode placement. Seeking input from end users and solution providers.

Who should attend: Opted-in only

Session leader(s): John Ryu, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

The Auto-ID Labs Network was created to foster foundational research in the early days of RFID technology. Today, these six international labs not only produce new research in areas such as blockchain, sensors, and Internet of Things (IoT), but also support collaborative programs to apply GS1 standards in new applications. Come to 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.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Kevin Stark, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

GS1 fully delivered the Singapore Resolution by successfully building a registries infrastructure that contains Licences, GTINs, GLNs and Links. However, this achievement is only the beginning. With the registries in place, our focus now shifts towards mobilising the GS1 community to grow coverage, relevance and use of the GS1 Registries. Remember that “chicken and egg” problem that everyone has been talking about? We now recognise that data will only be provided into the registries at scale if it is used by industry and government. Therefore, the “solution” to the “chicken-and-egg” problem is to focus our efforts on growing use of the data. In this session, you will learn from GS1 Global Office (GO) and your GS1 Member Organisation (MO) peers, about the use-case driven approach towards more purposeful sector engagement that supports our vision for the GS1 Registries. This vision is to enable users to access one source of trusted data about GS1-issued identity that is enriched with deeper information about products, locations or entities to solve the most pressing industry challenges over time.

Who should attend: Only GS1 MO and GO staff may attend

Session leader(s): Michael James, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

14:00 - 15:00

Standards Development

This Mission-specific Working Group (MSWG) is in the process of developing standards to support positive patient identification using additional patient demographic information that can be encoded in a GS1 barcode whether that is a patient wristband, a patient's medicinal product, or other things relating to the patient. During this session, we will explain what has been completed to date by the MSWG, what business requirements have been agreed and how they are being addressed, what we still need to accomplish and future activities to support the introduction and use of these new identifiers.

Who should attend: Everyone

Session leader(s): Greg Rowe, GS1

Industries impacted: Healthcare

16:30 - 17:30

Standards Development

GS1's recently published EPC Tag Data Standard (TDS) 2.0 and Tag Data Translation Standard (TDT) 2.0 enable the seamless interoperability of EPC/RFID encodings with barcoded GS1 element strings and GS1 Digital Link URIs.

This interoperability will be further enhanced by GS1's forthcoming Gen2v3 UHF standard, which improves RFID performance and simplifies capture of GS1 Application Identifiers on RFID tags, making it easier to find the right products faster.

The comprehensive modernisation of GS1's foundational EPC standards is the result of practical experience gained from over a decade of EPC/RFID deployments by implementers across a wide range of sectors and applications. It will lower adoption hurdles and boost the practical applicability of RFID, as well as underpin the importance of EPC/RFID alongside GS1 barcodes in cohesion with the Global Migration to 2D.

Join us to learn more about this exciting convergence of GS1's AIDC standards!

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Craig Alan Repec, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

Join this "No agenda" session - Bring your questions to "ask the experts" about the global migration to 2D. Want to know more about QR codes? Have questions about scanning and printing 2D barcodes? Curious about what data you might need to solve for your use case? Wear your propeller hat and join the fun! Also check out our 2D barcodes page for additional background information on the 2D Programme and other technical details.

Featuring experts from GS1 Global Office: 

  • Steven Keddie B.Eng, Sr. Director, Automatic Identification & Data Capture (AIDC), SME lead
  • Phil Archer, Web Solutions Director 
  • Pedro (Pete) Álvarez, Sr. Director, Identification & Master Data, Healthcare

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Kevin Stark, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

Learn about the role GS1 standards can play in trade digitalisation processes being addressed in intergovernmental organisations and in industry initiatives such as the International Chamber of Commerce Digital Standards Initiative.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Elizabeth Board and Daniel Giles, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

10:30 - 12:30

Standards Development

This GSMP Standards Maintenance Group processes all work requests impacting EANCOM, GS1 XML, GS1 UN/CEFACT XML or any other transactional messages.

Who should attend: Opted-in only

Session leader(s): David Buckley, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

11:00 - 12:30

Community engagement

The future is data driven, circular and digital for all stakeholders: consumers, regulators, manufacturers, retailers, marketplaces, solution providers and standardisation bodies. The GS1 standards have the potential to enable persistent product identification, decentralised data systems, trustful standardised data, upstream and post sale data access through the new generations of barcodes. GS1 has opened a Mission-specific Working Group (MSWG) on circularity/Digital Product Passports to support some parts of the bigger vision and so this session is going to focus on the bigger picture and provide both policy and technical background to support the standards work.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Francesca Poggiali, Andrew Hearn, Nadi Gray, and Steven Keddie, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

13:00 - 14:00

Training & Education

Join our session to learn more about engaging your members by leveraging the GS1 e-Academy. Hear inspiring stories from GS1 Healthcare and MOs that have set up the GS1 e-Academy successfully to meet their learning needs.

Who should attend: Only GS1 MO and GO staff may attend

Session leader(s): Jeanette McVeigh, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

GS1's innovation teams from around the world will share information on their projects, trends, technologies and innovation processes. Additionally, come hear about the latest 3rd edition Trend Research Report.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Kevin Stark, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

13:00 - 14:30

Standards Development

Join this session to provide your regional and sector requirements as we are finalizing the requirements related to circular economy.  This will be used to develop and update GS1 standards to support regulatory requirements for the circular economy model.

Who should attend: Opted-in only

Session leader(s): John RYU, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

15:00 - 16:30

Training & Education

During the session, we will explore the pivotal role of customer service professionals empowering organisations from the frontline. We will delve into the strategies and best practices that enable GS1 Member Organisations to find the right people, empower them, and build a successful customer service team.

Join us to discover the transformative potential of empowered customer service people and unlock new possibilities for your organisation's success.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Donna DiPietro and Simona Scaringi, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

15:00 - 17:00

Community engagement

Companies, consumers, regulators, and others are demanding greater visibility and transparency to make better informed decisions. Stakeholders across the Fresh foods value chain are concerned about food safety and freshness, brand protection and connecting with consumers about the foods they purchase and consume. GS1 standards provide the foundation for interoperability and improve the efficiency, safety, and visibility of supply chains. Attend this session to learn about best practices in implementation from a diverse group of senior industry leaders and GS1 Member Organisations (MOs).

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Elena Tomanovich, GS1

Industries impacted: Retail - Fresh foods

15:00 - 16:00

Standards Development

Are you curious whether retail barcode scanner manufacturers are rising to meet the 2D in Retail 2027 Ambition? Join this session to:

  • Learn about the main point-of-sale 2D barcode scanning solutions and how retailers are selecting what makes sense for them.
  • See live demos from four scanners that are already able to support Ambition 2027 requirements.
  • Discover how the scanners were updated to the new software and see the scanner reprogramming process.

Questions on 2D in retail capable scanners are welcome during this session and the Ask the Experts Session.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Steven Keddie, GS1

Industries impacted: Retail - Apparel, Retail - CPG, Retail - Fresh foods, Retail - General merchandise, Healthcare

17:00 - 18:00

Standards Development

This session is for co-chairs of GSMP work groups only. GS1 will provide an update on key priorities. The GS1 Global Office Leadership Team will attempt to answer your questions.

Who should attend: GSMP Co-Chairs or by invitation 

Session leader(s): Andrew Hearn, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

10:30 - 12:30

Standards Development

In an evolving scenario, where new legal requirements or obligations are introduced by regulators and new digital processes and technologies are emerging in the market, it's important, for the GS1 community, to define the priorities for future implementations of EDI standards.

This session offered by the EDI Advisory Team is open to everyone. 

Who should attend: Everyone may attend.

Session leader(s): Piergiorgio Licciardello, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Standards Development

The creation, storage and sharing of GS1 standard-compliant Product Images have become increasingly important in retail supply chains and e-commerce applications. This session will focus on some of the strategic challenges facing image recipients and image providers including:

  • Ensuring the latest product image provided is used
  • Structured meta data for image sharing
  • Updates to the GS1 standards & guidelines for product images and other digital assets (e.g., product videos)

Who should attend: Opted-in only

Session leader(s): David Buckley, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

10:30 - 11:15

Community engagement

We know that GS1 standards will play an increasingly important role in company's goals to enable supply chain visibility and allow for sustainability information to identify, capture, share and eventually reduce waste. But what is industry telling us it needs most urgently? What are the current supply chain visibility challenges that GS1 standards and services can address? In this 45-minute roundtable, we will engage a wide range of apparel industry experts to discuss topics like Digital Product Passport compliance, data carrier usage, and supply chain partnerships. We will discuss the future plans for making apparel and textile data interoperable and learn about GS1's current and future impact.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Nellie Gayle, GS1

Industries impacted: Retail - Apparel, Retail - General merchandise

11:30 - 12:15

Community engagement

Trust is an important part of any customer journey. But building consumer trust and assuring it through data will be increasingly important and complex as products multiply and so do their paths to you. In this session, using luxury retail as a starting point and test case, we will walk through GS1's work to build federated trust via Verifiable Credentials and Digital Signatures. This is industry's chance to give feedback on potential adoption hurdles, technical guideline necessities and more!

Who should attend: Everyone may attend | Session leader(s): Nellie Gayle, GS1 

Industries impacted: Retail - Apparel, Retail - General merchandise | Track: Community engagement

13:00 - 14:00

Standards Development

Following the work of updating the GS1-Conformant Resolver specification, an Implementation Guideline is needed. During this session, the Web Technology SMG will begin socialising the work of developing that Implementation Guideline.

Who should attend: Opted-in only

Session leader(s): Greg Rowe, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

Community engagement

In our industry roundtable, we'll hear about the most pressing challenges where the apparel and textile industries are asking for GS1's involvement. In this follow up, we'll discuss the GS1 Retail Strategy, how these challenges fit in and most importantly showcase GS1 Member Organisations (MOs) existing collaboration with industry to address the next big questions.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Nellie Gayle, GS1

Industries impacted: Retail - Apparel, Retail - General merchandise

13:00 - 16:00

Community engagement

The GDSN User Group will meet to focus on the area of data synchronisation and data quality across all sectors to increase the implementation, growth, and adoption of GDSN globally. Everyone is invited to participate.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Nadja Minich, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

15:00 - 16:00

Standards Development

This session will show you how to begin using GS1's new EPCIS Sandbox to support your EPCIS 2.0 deployment.

The EPCIS Sandbox implements EPCIS-Core Business Vocabulary (CBV) 2.0 and is the next-generation successor to the legacy EPCIS Workbench, which was based on EPCIS 1.2. It has been developed to raise EPCIS/CBV 2.0 awareness and promote best practices for EPCIS 2.0 deployments.

Initial EPCIS Sandbox features include:

  • EPCIS 2.0 Event Test Data Generator
  • Conversion of EPCIS syntax (XML <-> JSON-LD)
  • Conversion of EPCIS version (EPCIS/CBV 1.2<-> EPCIS/CBV 2.x)
  • Conversion of EPCIS identifiers (EPC URN <-> GS1 Digital Link URI/WebURI) 
  • Generation of EPCIS Event HashID 
  • Validation of uploaded XML/JSON-LD EPCIS files against normative EPCIS 2.0 artefacts (i.e., XSD, JSON Schema, JSON Context)

Join us on this introductory walkthrough to get started!

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Session leader(s): Craig Alan Repec, GS1

Industries impacted: All industries

16:30 - 17:20

Plenary sessions

Join us for an exceptional closing plenary as we honour the incredible individuals who have driven transformation and innovation. We are delighted to present the prestigious Ken Traub Award, recognising outstanding individuals who have played a pivotal role in the creation and implementation of global standards and data services like Verified by GS1, GEPIR, GDSN and more. Don't miss this special moment as we acknowledge and applaud these trailblazers.

We will also introduce the GS1’s “Year in Review”: the new digital annual report, highlighting the power of GS1 in creating value across industries such as Marketplaces, Retail and Healthcare. Discover the profound impact GS1 has had on these sectors and how it continues to shape their future.

Don't miss this remarkable session that will leave you inspired and excited about what is next.

Who should attend: Everyone may attend

Speakers: Marianne Timmons, Robert Beideman, Andrew Hearn, Julien Degobert, GS1