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Ketan Sampat Appointed to Port of Portland Commission
Effective March 15, 2021, Ketan Sampat, Co-Founder and Chief Technology & Product Officer of the Provenance Chain™ Network (PCN) began...
Mar 26, 20211 min read


Embrace Technology
In one of my all-time favorite videos , Nike’s co-Founder Phil Knight provides the voice over to questions that plague the footwear and...
Mar 24, 20212 min read


A Billion Here, a Billion There...
American folklore holds that Senator Everett Dirksen once quipped: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real...
Mar 12, 20212 min read


Consumers are the Whole Problem; And it's Not Their Fault
What links climate change, pollution, child and forced labor, and deforestation?  The answer is very simple: Us.  The choices we make as...
Mar 9, 20213 min read


Trust, but Verify.
“Trust, but verify.”  This Russian proverb was made famous during the 1980s when Ronald Reagan used it to describe the process of...
Feb 16, 20212 min read


Shopping in 2025: Personalized, Intelligent, and Supported
In 2020, COVID sent us to our rooms to think about what we’d done. Flights were grounded, factories went silent, and human activity...
Feb 9, 20213 min read


With Technology Adoption - Timing is Everything
Exhibit A in “Timing is Everything” is: Telemedicine. I first gained experience with Telemedicine as a North American Healthcare sector...
Feb 2, 20212 min read


The Provenance Paradox
A paradox is when something runs contrary to one’s expectation. Familiar examples include M.C. Escher’s perspective-based drawings of...
Jan 27, 20215 min read


Are you Scared of Transparency? The Premise and the Promise.
In 2020 there were lots of scary things going on in the world, and perhaps more “transparency” is already on your radar screen as one of...
Jan 21, 20213 min read


Sustainable, Ethical Supply Chains: An interview with Steve Brown
Join Steve Brown, Futurist and Co-Founding member of the Provenance Chain™ Network, as he explores the future of consumer shopping with...
Jan 12, 20211 min read


Optimism is Warranted
While I have in the past been accused of being a compulsive optimist, it is a pejorative I gladly embrace. In my role, one needs to be...
Jan 5, 20212 min read
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