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Version 1 Driving Innovation Across Oracle Technology Stack and ERP Solutions<\/h2>\n

Oracle OpenWorld is an annual Oracle convention for business decision-makers, IT management, and line-of-business end users to learn about trusted products and up-and-coming technologies.<\/em><\/p>\n

Version 1 representatives were invited to Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco to attend exclusive Oracle briefings and have been participating in talks and sessions throughout the week. The following blog post covers our highlights and key takeaways from the event to date.<\/p>\n

Blockchain: Helping Reduce Carbon Emissions and Find the Tastiest Steak <\/strong><\/p>\n

On the morning of October 18th <\/sup>2019, Karl O\u2019Connell from ICBF<\/a> and John Bolger from Version 1 presented at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco to showcase that\u00a0Ireland is currently running the largest livestock genomics project in the world.<\/p>\n

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In this session, Karl O\u2019 Connell and John Bolger explained to the audience how Oracle Blockchain is enabling traceability from farm to fork at ICBF, helping consumers identify the most sustainable agricultural products. Attendees also learned how Ireland is becoming a global leader in the Agtech Big Data evolution by combining the power of the Oracle Database, Oracle Blockchain, and genomics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cICBF Moo-ves Blockchain Conversation Along with Meaty Trial\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Karl O’Connell and John Bolger elaborated further on this topic when speaking with Jess Twentyman<\/a> from Diginomica<\/a> at OpenWorld this week. Karl O\u2019Connell explained how ICBF has worked with Version 1 to build a proof-of-concept (POC) Blockchain that brings together information from shoppers, retailers and farmers, in order to explore how farmers can best produce the steaks that shoppers want to buy and eat. O’Connell explained:<\/p>\n

When you buy a steak from the supermarket, it may be good or it may not – but you, as the consumer, are the only person who can tell us that. And since there\u2019s a strong genetic component to juiciness and tenderness and tastiness, if we can find a way to get more information from retailers and consumers to build that dataset, that\u2019s information that the farmers who use our data need to know.<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Bolger explained the focus that Version 1 has placed on exploring the real business benefits that Blockchain may hold for customers.<\/p>\n

The problem I have with Blockchain is that people talk about it in very abstract ways. This pilot has given Version 1 a concrete example of what it might look like, how it might work, and what the business benefits might be. Where we see the value of this is that ICBF has all this data and the industry can use it, but the consumer doesn\u2019t have that visibility to see where their meat came from, how sustainably it was farmed and so on. Blockchain, we decided, could provide that \u2018farm to fork\u2019 visibility.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Moving ERP to the Cloud, Blockchain, Cattle and Brexit.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ian Murphy from the Enterprise Times spoke to John Bolger and Nic Wood<\/a> from Version 1 at Oracle Openworld in a podcast that covers all things Oracle, ERP, Cloud and Innovation. Ian Murphy was particularly interested in what Version 1 was seeing from a customer perspective. For example:<\/p>\n