Future of Retail @ Hedera Haus
Michael Colarossi
Senior Executive, Apparel Solutions at Avery Dennison
As a Senior Executive in Avery Dennison's $1.2B Apparel Solutions division, Michael Colarossi is the driving force behind its culture of innovation, leading a global technical innovation team. Colarossi was instrumental in developing Avery Dennison’s 2025 and 2030 sustainability goals and the Apparel Solutions’ Global Experience Centres. Colarossi holds an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, is a frequent speaker on innovation and sustainability, and fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Zenobia Godschalk
SVP, Communications at Swirlds Labs
Zenobia has over 20 years of experience in high tech PR and helping companies create and dominate new categories, and is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications of Hedera. Previously, she was a sell-side analyst with investment bank Morgan Keegan, where she was part of The Wall Street Journal’s #1 Ranked Software Analyst team. Zenobia graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and Psychology, minor in Industrial Engineering.
Shyam Nagarajan
Executive Partner, Web3.0 & Sustainability at IBM
Shyam Nagarajan, Executive Partner, IBM Web 3.0 and Sustainability currently leads Web 3.0 led transformation efforts for clients across all industries globally. He brings deep expertise in driving business and process transformation for clients. Shyam was one of the early team members that incubated Blockchain within IBM that led to setting up of Hyperledger foundation.
Avery Dennison
Governing Council Member at Hedera
atma.io, a connected product cloud by Avery Dennison, is a platform that unlocks the power of connected products by assigning unique digital IDs to everyday items, providing unparalleled end-to-end transparency by tracking, storing, and managing all the events associated with each product — all the way from source to consumer and beyond, enabling circularity.
IBM
Governing Council Member at Hedera
IBM's Tech Preview is a use case on the importance and value of public consensus derived from the use of the Hedera Consensus Service working on top of the IBM Blockchain Platform built on top of Hyperledger Fabric for permissioned transaction processing. Combined, they are seeing clients take accountability, auditability, and trust to the next level.