2020-09-17 Meeting notes

2020-09-17 Meeting notes

Date

Sep 17, 2020

Attendees (17)

  • @Marco Carvalho

  • @Mary Hall

  • @Bala

  • @Clive Boulton

  • @Doug Johnson-Poensgen

  • @George Huang

  • @Lindsay Nuon

  • @Allan G

  • @Bret Carpenter

  • @Deepak Gunasekaran

  • @Eric Somitsch

  • @Eric Valiquette

  • @Katharina Theobald

  • @Marta Piekarska-Geater

  • @Miloundi Marquane

  • @Peter Bambridge

  • @Simeon MacMillen

Goals

On this Thursday’s call we’ll hear from Circulor and Oracle about the project to track cobalt supplies used in EV batteries.

With Volvo’s plan to switch 50% of their car production to EVs by 2025 and 10-20kg of cobalt required per car battery, both mining and recycling sources of cobalt are critical to their success. Circulor had developed a tracking solution on Oracle Blockchain Platform that integrates identity, GPS, yield, and mass-balance calculations to ensure that only safe and sustainable sources of cobalt make it through the extensive supply chain involving the largest battery suppliers in the world, their recycling ecosystem, logistics vendors, and Volvo cars manufacturing facilities. Learn the real challenges in implementing complex blockchain tracking solutions across multiple materials transformation phases and how Circulor and Oracle provided Volvo Cars a solution to scale this for 1M cars. Hear from the Circulor and Oracle experts who are enabling this digital supply chain transformation at Volvo Cars.

Speaker Bio

Douglas Johnson-Poensgen founded Circulor in 2017. He bring 25 years international experience as an executive and non executive director, operating in TMT, financial services, IT and management consultancy sectors, to his role as CEO. His leadership experience spans roles in large corporates (Barclays, BT, Serco, AIMIA), scale-ups (Cadence, ISD) and start-ups (Circulor, Snapdragon). He has broad functional experience with consistent themes being innovation (both new product and to drive transformation), delivering growth and regulation.

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Who

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25 min

Presentation

Douglas Johnson-Poensgen

Track cobalt supplies used in EV batteries overview

5 min

Q&A

Attendees

 

10 min

Presentation

 

Track cobalt supplies used in EV batteries detail

10 min

Q&A

Attendees 

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