Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen joined a fast-moving panel at World Trade Symposium on how blockchain, AI, ecommerce, and next generation event-based payments will power world trade and interoperability among players in the trade ecosystem, with Michael White, CEO of Tradelens, Michael Farlekas, CEO of E2open, and Christopher Clague, Managing Editor, Economist. Group's broad agreement was: Paper-based manual processes and duplication of efforts among the many players in the trade

There has been a great deal of talk about a supposed skills gap in US manufacturing. The bigger and more accurate story however, per a new report by Nextrade CEO Kati Suominen for CSIS and Arconic Foundation, a mismatch problems in manufacturing labor markets that keep qualified workers from being optimally sorted into jobs. This report lays out several frictions that keep qualified and available American workers from becoming hired by American manufacturers and puts forth i