Gold Sponsors

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with 774,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

Maqta Gateway is driven by its vision of digitalising trade. By championing a digitally connected world - a world that is faster, more efficient, and more sustainable, Maqta Gateway aims to make the trade and logistics value chain smarter for everyone.

Its cutting-edge technologies deliver rich data and actionable insights to ports, maritime, logistics, and industrial zones. From reimagining trade through Abu Dhabi to empowering AD Ports Group deliver a secure and seamless experience, Maqta Gateway’s expertise in trade digitalisation solutions is now available to markets worldwide.

Adding to its vast capabilities is TTEK, a developer of border control solutions and customs systems that was recently acquired by Maqta Gateway.

Their Customs Management System is super flexible, rapidly deployable, and known to add unrivalled efficiencies. The must-have next-gen system leverages technologies such as AI, ML, and NLP. For customs authorities, it is redefining trade facilitation.

For more information, please visit www.ttekglobal.com and www.maqta.ae

Modernization and Innovation in Public Management: Google Cloud in Support of the Digital Transformation of Public Institutions around the world 

Google Cloud offers innovative technological solutions that drive the modernization of public management. Through Google Cloud, governments around the world can optimize services with AI and ML, gain valuable insights from their data, and make smarter decisions.

Global Trade Solution (GTS) has been providing innovative Solutions and Consulting Services to the International Trade and Supply Chain community throughout the African continent and across the globe for more than 23 years.

Our mission is to fundamentally transform the way companies manage their international trade activities through the use of international benchmarked processes and technology-driven modernisation. Our goal is to create business value for our clients by improving margins, achieving greater agility and lowering the overall business risk.

Our solutions ensure compliance to the myriad of legislative requirements that impact international trade activities across the globe. These include compliance to the various World Customs instruments of Harmonized Tariff, Origin and Valuation Determination (which we have duped the Trilogy of Trade), all of which are critical in the management of the international trading activities.

Modernising and digitizing participation in the various country or regional AEO programmes forms part of vision and deliverables in order to build a holistic and ongoing compliance framework for the various role players within the international supply chain eco system.

We look forward to meeting you.

www.globaltradesolution.co.za or contact us on info@globaltradesolution.co.za

Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world’s most vexing challenges in national security and health. Leidos offers a comprehensive suite of fully integrated security solutions for aviation, ports, borders, and critical infrastructure customers around the world. This portfolio has more than 30,000 products deployed across nearly 130 countries. For ports and borders, Leidos helps safeguard the flow of regulated commerce through secure, efficient movement of all trade elements, including cargo, vehicles, and people. These enterprise security solutions make it easier for customs and law enforcement inspectors to reliably identify, intercept, locate and mitigate threats and contraband, including the smuggling of banned goods, narcotics, and trafficking before entering the country. Visit Leidos.com/ports-borders for more information.

For more information, please visit our website

Leidos brochures/documents:

https://leidos.widen.net/s/jm9q5wvpkz/23-899200_mezzobrochure_digital

https://leidos.widen.net/s/wltpnp5l9h/22-638150-vacis-mlx-fact-sheet-digital

https://leidos.widen.net/s/bqjpf8lss5/22-667500_factsheet_ip6500_digital

Leidos video: https://youtu.be/Ts4nEGuQ4nw

Please contact Joy Lee at: joy.lee@leidos.com

A.P. Moller – Maersk (Maersk), as a leader in integrated container logistics, physically connects global trade networks and simplifies trade to help its customers grow and thrive. With over 95,000 staff members operating in 130 countries, Maersk is dedicated to ensuring connectivity and smooth flow of international commerce for businesses worldwide.

Altana, the world’s first Value Chain Management System, is redefining supply chain and border management with unparalleled visibility, AI-driven decision support, and collaborative workflows for building compliant, sustainable, secure, and resilient global value chain networks. Altana is built on a unique federated data and AI architecture, creating a global network of supply chain intelligence across the public and private sectors.

The two companies joined their efforts to create Maersk Atlas powered by Altana. It is a groundbreaking collaboration that is revolutionizing global commerce. Together, Maersk and Altana are merging physical and virtual value chain stakeholder connectivity and execution to enable the trading community and customs authorities alike to master global value chains and collaborate across a shared source of truth.

For importers and customs authorities alike, the Maersk Atlas powered by Altana represents a new paradigm for compliance, sustainability, security, and trade facilitation, going all the way to truly master global value chains.

Nuctech Company Limited (Nuctech), derived from Tsinghua University and founded in 1997, is an advanced security & inspection solution supplier in the world. Relying on independent innovation and following the customers’ demands, Nuctech provides the most advanced technology, superb products and integrated solutions in the security inspection industry to our customers from over 170 countries and regions in the globe.

Covering Civil Aviation, Customs, Railway, Highway, Urban Rail Transit, Postal Logistics, Public Security and Justice, Environmental Protection, Nuclear Power, Irradiation and Quality Testing, Metallurgy, Finance and Big Events and other areas, Nuctech helps our customers in keeping the homeland security and people safe, which earns user’s great reputation around the world. Currently, Nuctech has become an internationally famous brand in the security & inspection industry.

As a responsible Chinese high-tech enterprise, Nuctech focuses on the security domain and devotes itself to becoming the leader in the global security market. Enhancing the customers’ value with ever ongoing innovation, feeding back the society by providing more advanced security products, solutions and service, we are committed to delivering security to help creating a safer world.

Publican, a leading AI solution by Ultra Information Solutions, revolutionizes customs inspections with its cutting-edge Digital Vetting Technology. By digitally inspecting 100% of shipments and leveraging unique data from thousands of global sources, Publican accurately detects dangerous goods, combats fraud, and ensures compliance. Our technology provides customs authorities with unparalleled insight and control, enhancing public safety, protecting national security and facilitating a trade environment.

Publican's tailor-made solutions empower customs administrations to prevent tariff evasions and increase state revenues. The system flags subtle irregularities pointing to instances of fraud or misdeclaration and calculates the exact potential revenue to be gained.

Publican ensures no goods go unaccounted for, enhancing state revenues while facilitating trade and reducing import costs.

PwC is a global network operating in 151 countries, with over 364,000 professionals dedicated to delivering excellence in Assurance, Advisory, and Tax Services. Beyond our traditional Customs Compliance services for Economic Operators, we are recognized experts in technology transformation for Customs agencies worldwide.

Our international perspective allows us to serve a diverse clientele, including the EU Commission, GCC public safety, border security, and Customs agencies, as well as numerous national Customs administrations. We support these agencies on their digital transformation journeys, offering solutions in facility design, security screening, and command center development. Our large-scale technology programs enhance the efficiency, safety, and data-driven capabilities of Customs operations. Beyond strategic advice, we also design and implement innovative Customs solutions in-house, utilizing cutting-edge technologies such as data analytics, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence.

At the WCO Conference, PwC will be represented by colleagues from the Middle East, Luxembourg, and the Americas. For inquiries, please contact us at sharang.g.gupta@pwc.com and bastian.vomhof@pwc.lu.

Rapiscan, part of the OSI Systems family of security companies, is an industry leader in X-ray inspection, optical inspection, and radiation detection technology. Our mission is to help customers at ports, borders, military, high-threat facilities, and checkpoints around the world to combat trade fraud, terrorism, drug smuggling, and illegal immigration.

Our broad array of scanning systems leverages low-, medium-, and high-energy X-ray imaging technology—or multiple imaging technologies—to help find threats and contraband with ease and confidence. Advanced radiation detection technology accurately detects, identifies, and locates gamma and/or neutron sources without disrupting the flow of vehicles, people, or commerce. Intelligent optical vehicle inspection and recognition technologies assist with facial detection, recognition, license plate decoding, vehicle classification, and undercarriage foreign object detection.

Customers can further enhance inspection capabilities and operational efficiencies with our analyst assist tools and data integration platform. With this technology, information can be collected and combined from multiple sources in the inspection operation to automate manual processes, control workflows, and deliver targeted, actionable intelligence.

Our uncompromising commitment to excellence in system performance, quality, program management, and service ensures our end-to-end screening solutions consistently deliver best-in-class imaging, throughput, reliability, and operator satisfaction.

For more information please visit our website

VMI SECURITY VMI Security is a manufacturer of non-invasive X-ray devices, dedicated to enhancing security in various areas such as ports, airports, public buildings, critical infrastructures, prisons, borders, customs, and forensic institutes. Our technology enables non-invasive inspection of objects of any size, eliminating the need for physical handling. https://vmisecurity.com/