An on-demand video of “Interoperable Traceability in Seafood is a Business Imperative Becoming More Essential Every Day: The GDST Standard is the Path” is available free for SeafoodSource Premium members and for USD 350 (EUR 315) to non-members through the Complete Digital Ticket: Seafood Expo North America 2024.
Featuring New Seasons Market Program and Category Manager-Seafood Daisy Berg; Trace Register President Heath England; Wholechain CEO Jayson Berryhill, Wegmans Food Markets Group Manager, Seafood Steve Philips; and Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability Stakeholder Engagement, Communications and Dialogue Lead Richard Stavis, the panel was held on Monday, 11 March, with the following description:
NOAA is taking a fresh look at SIMP requirements. FSMA section 204 comes into effect in less than two years. Additionally, customers need actionable, usable traceability data as they work to achieve their public-facing ESG goals. This data must be presented to them in a uniform, interoperable format. The majority of the supply chain has yet to tackle this issue.
Our panelists consists of a current GDST retail partner and another retailer not yet on the GDST implementation journey. They will each outline the current limitations that they face within their supply chain, identify how the GDST standard functions and how software solutions utilize it to provide customers with the data that they need in the format that is required. Additionally, the President of TraceRegister and CoFounder of Whole Chain, two leading Traceability Solution Providers, will outline the basics of digitally interoperable traceability in Seafood and discuss how they have used the standard to make their systems share data interoperably for their customers.
The 2024 Seafood Expo North America, which took place 10 to 12 March in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., featured a comprehensive conference program of live panel events focusing on topics chosen to be of vital interest to the seafood industry.
The 31 individual presentations from SENA featured exclusive information and insight from seafood industry experts, on a range of topics including diversity in the seafood industry, how artificial intelligence could be used in the industry, what impact FDA FSMA 204 updates will have, traceability, and more.
Calls for proposals for the 2025 editions of both SENA’s conference and for the conference at Seafood Expo Global in Barcelona, Spain are now live. Running from 16 to 18 March 2026, an overview of the SENA conference program is available online and proposals can be submitted through 30 August. A program overview is also available for Seafood Expo Global – which is running from 6 to 8 May 2025 – and conference proposals can be submitted through 13 September.
