Katie Shaw works on open-data tools and initiatives focused on supply-chain transparency. The posts describe launching Open Supply Hub, which expanded supply-chain data beyond apparel, and joining the team behind Supply Trace, a platform tracing supply-chain risks. They have also described freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund on efforts to end plastic pollution and support a just transition.
Katie Shaw is most useful for explaining open-data supply-chain transparency tools and their practical uses.
Best for
Supply-chain transparency or responsible sourcing campaigns needing a named open-data advocate.
Not for
Consumer product drops, high-reach social promotion, or fast-fashion conversion campaigns.
Key takeaways
Open Supply Hub expanded from apparel to beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture and sporting goods.
Supply Trace pilot focused on forced-labour risk in US-bound shipments.
Risk data needs machine learning plus human-led investigation.
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Main ideas
Open supply-chain data should be public infrastructure, not only a compliance tool · The same open-data approach can expand from apparel to other sectors · Risk data needs machine learning plus human investigation
Katie Shaw's posts describe helping explain and launch open-data projects focused on supply-chain transparency.
They trace Open Supply Hub’s growth from an apparel-focused registry into a tool covering multiple sectors, then describe Supply Trace, which combines machine learning with human-led investigation to examine supply-chain risks.
Their updates connect the platforms to practical uses, including contributing data, investigating forced-labour risks and informing work on supply chains.
A more recent post broadens the picture: they also describe freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund on plastic pollution and a just transition.
Follow them for first-person accounts of building public-interest data tools and explaining how access to data might support change.
Shaw’s posts make complex initiatives understandable by explaining what a platform does, why it was built and what people can do next.
In the Open Supply Hub launch post, they explain how requests to expand the earlier apparel registry prompted a move into other sectors, name examples of how the data is used, and direct readers to explore or contribute.
In the Supply Trace announcement, they specify the pilot’s focus on forced-labour risk and US-bound shipments, give the scale of data traced, and explain the combination of machine learning and expert investigation.
The board announcement adds an institutional dimension, describing the addition of expertise as the organization expanded.
The Plastic Solutions Fund post offers a departure from a narrow technology focus: they frame the move around practical support for wider change and explicitly say they do not have grants to give out.
Together, these examples show a communicator who links tools, institutions and public-interest aims without presenting the work as only a product story.
Katie Shaw's posts center on a few connected arguments: supply-chain data should be open to anyone, the same open-data model can cross sectors, and useful risk tools need both machine learning and human investigators.
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They also treat launches as coalition work, sharing credit with funders, universities, designers, board members, and colleagues, and often turn technical platforms into simple actions such as exploring data, contributing, subscribing, or asking for a demo. A more recent freelance move into plastic-pollution funding shows a wider change agenda, grounded in practical support for a big vision rather than one industry.
Open supply-chain data should be public infrastructure, not only a compliance tool
Katie Shaw argues that equitable access to data can be transformative, and that opening insights into supply-chain conditions to anyone can change outcomes.
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Free, open data lets different groups act on the same picture: workers' representatives can pursue remediation, organizations can coordinate improvements, and researchers can study how climate change affects production regions. The posts frame transparency as a public benefit rather than a private compliance product.
The Open Supply Hub launch post maps and opens supply-chain data across several sectors, with examples of its use: remediation on behalf of vulnerable workers, organizations working together on supply-chain improvements, and research on climate-change impacts on production regions. The later Supply Trace post returns to the theme, saying open access to supply-chain insights has the potential to be transformative.
The public-benefit argument appears in the 2022 Open Supply Hub launch and recurs in the later Supply Trace post, where Katie Shaw says equitable access to data has become an increasing personal priority.
The same open-data approach can expand from apparel to other sectors
Katie Shaw presents cross-sector expansion as demand-driven rather than imposed.
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After the Open Apparel Registry launched in 2019, a consumer goods company asked whether the approach could cover multiple sectors, and similar requests kept arriving over the next three years. One open mapping approach can serve apparel as well as beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture, and sporting goods.
Open Supply Hub is described as expanding beyond apparel to map retail supply chains more broadly, including consumer goods, sporting goods, electronics, beauty, and more. A shorter pre-launch post frames the expansion one month before launch and invites people to follow progress or contribute supply-chain data.
Risk data needs machine learning plus human investigation
Katie Shaw argues that Supply Trace stands apart by combining machine learning with expert, human-led investigative research.
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Automated tracing can cover scale, while human investigators provide judgement and context; open access lets anyone examine the resulting risk picture.
Supply Trace's pilot phase focuses on apparel and links between risk of forced labor in the Uyghur Region of China and shipments to the United States. The post cites 1.5 million companies, 2.3 million relationships, and 2.5 million transactions already being traced, and credits the collaboration between Northeastern University and Sheffield Hallam University.
Transparency projects need institution-building and shared credit
Katie Shaw describes launches as coalition work: funders, partners, designers, boards, and staff make the infrastructure possible.
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Durable open-data projects require organizational capacity and a widening set of expertise, not just a product. The posts name contributors and explain governance moves alongside technology milestones.
Open Supply Hub added nine board members to diversify skills and expertise as the organization grew from its apparel roots.
The launch post thanks GIZ, Laudes Foundation, Humanity United, the Patrick J.
McGovern Foundation, Amazon, and Target, credits Nice and Serious and Maybe Ventures for brand and site work, and thanks named team members.
Technical transparency becomes useful when it is told through a story and paired with an ask
Katie Shaw often opens with a personal story, explains why the launch or change matters, and then gives readers concrete ways to participate.
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A reason to care comes before product details, and a clear next step turns attention into contribution or use.
The Open Supply Hub launch post starts with a personal story about the 2019 request that led to expansion, then offers four actions: explore and contribute data, read impact and contributor guides, subscribe to the newsletter, and follow the organization. The Supply Trace post similarly offers to talk further or set up a demo.
A wider change agenda: practical support for a big vision, now including plastic pollution
Katie Shaw says what motivates them is a big vision for change and the practical support they can provide toward it, not loyalty to one sector.
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Recent freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund extends that focus to ending plastic pollution and supporting a just transition.
Katie Shaw describes having been a philanthropic funding recipient for years and being curious about re-granting from the other side, while noting they do not have grants to give out. The fund's goals are to tackle the climate crisis by ending plastic pollution while prioritizing a just transition.
This broadens the priorities alongside the open-data supply-chain platforms in earlier posts: Katie Shaw's attention has moved partly toward environmental funding and just transition work.
This is the clearest single explanation of what Katie Shaw has built and why it exists.
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If you only open one post, open this one: it states the premise of the work, shows the demand that drove it, and points to the tool itself.
Katie Shaw announces the launch of Open Supply Hub, a free platform for mapping and opening up supply chain data across beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture, sporting goods, and apparel.
The post explains the origin: on the day the Open Apparel Registry launched in 2019, a consumer goods company asked whether the same approach could cover multiple sectors, and similar requests kept arriving over the following three years.
It names the funders behind the expansion, credits the brand and web teams involved, thanks named colleagues, and gives four concrete ways to use the release: explore and contribute data, read impact and contributor guides, subscribe to the newsletter, and follow the organisation.
Three linked examples of the data in use cover worker remediation, joint supply chain improvement projects, and research on how climate change affects production regions.
For brands planning a campaign
For a transparency-tech brief, this post is the strongest opening example of Katie Shaw speaking publicly as a builder and advocate rather than a commentator.
It shows they can explain a technical product through a story, name the sectors and use cases a buyer would care about, and point an audience to concrete next steps.
A keynote or advisory proposal can build directly on the 2019-to-2022 expansion narrative and the multi-sector framing.
It answers the basic question of what Open Supply Hub was created to do, before the launch post adds detail.
A short countdown post, published a month before launch, announcing that Open Supply Hub will expand beyond apparel to map retail supply chains more broadly, listing consumer goods, sporting goods, electronics, and beauty. It invites people to follow progress or contribute supply chain data, and links to the platform site.
For brands planning a campaign
Useful evidence that Katie Shaw communicates the product's scope plainly and early, and invites participation rather than simply announcing. For a campaign that needs a spokesperson to recruit data contributors, this shows a consistent call to contribute alongside the messaging.
This post shows the second major platform Katie Shaw has worked on and states, in their own words, what makes it different from other tools in the space.
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It is the best place to understand their current position on access to supply chain data.
Katie Shaw announces the launch of Supply Trace, an open access platform that exposes potential risks in global supply chains.
In its pilot phase, it focuses on apparel and on links between the risk of forced labour in the Uyghur Region of China and shipments to the United States.
The post states the scale of data already traced: 1.5 million companies, 2.3 million relationships, and 2.5 million transactions.
It describes the platform as a collaboration between Northeastern University and Sheffield Hallam University, and argues that combining machine learning with expert human-led investigative research is what sets it apart.
They say equitable access to data has become a growing personal priority, note plans to expand into other industries, regions, and categories of risk, and offer to talk further or arrange a demo.
For brands planning a campaign
If a brief calls for a thought leader on open data, this post supplies both the advocacy line and a defensible technical claim: the pairing of automated analysis with human investigation.
A keynote angle on why open access matters, and on what makes risk data trustworthy, can be drawn almost directly from this passage.
Any use should credit the university partners rather than present the platform as solely Katie Shaw's work.
This answers the question of how the organisation behind the data is governed, and shows Katie Shaw speaking about institution-building rather than only product launches.
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Katie Shaw welcomes nine new members to the Open Supply Hub board of directors.
The post explains that as the project grew from its apparel roots into Open Supply Hub, the organisation recognised a need to diversify the skills and expertise at board level.
It links to a press release covering the board and the organisation's growth since its expansion the previous November.
For brands planning a campaign
Evidence that Katie Shaw can speak to organisational credibility, not just tools and data. Relevant when a campaign needs an advocate who can discuss governance, nonprofit structure, and how an open data initiative sustains itself.
This is the most recent post here and changes the picture of where Katie Shaw's attention sits now.
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Read it to see how they describe the motivation connecting supply chain data work to environmental funding work.
Katie Shaw announces they have started freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund, after a couple of months away from work in April and May.
The post anticipates the obvious question about how this relates to open data supply chain technology, and answers that what motivates them is a big vision for change and the practical support they can provide toward it.
They describe having been a philanthropic funding recipient for years and being curious about re-granting from the other side; they do not have grants to give out.
They point to the fund's goal of ending plastic pollution and its emphasis on a just transition, and say more updates will follow.
For brands planning a campaign
This post moves beyond supply chain technology to cover environmental funding and just transition.
For a campaign about open data advocacy, it signals that Katie Shaw's current interests extend beyond any single platform.
A pitch should account for their stated focus on the practical side of change rather than product messaging alone.
Open-data supply-chain platforms and cross-sector expansion3
Transparency tech launches and coalition building3
Open access as a public-benefit argument3
Philanthropic funding and nonprofit growth3
Communication approach: story-led, credit-sharing, practical asks3
Forced labor risk and responsible sourcing analytics1
Open-data supply-chain platforms and cross-sector expansion
Katie Shaw's posts focus on Open Supply Hub, an open platform for mapping, searching, and downloading supply-chain data.
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They describe how Open Apparel Registry launched in 2019 and then drew requests from a consumer goods company and others to expand beyond apparel.
Open Supply Hub now covers beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture, sporting goods, and apparel.
Shaw presents open data as the through-line across these sectors.
For brands planning a campaign
A strong fit for a keynote or advisory role on open-data infrastructure, cross-sector supply-chain transparency, and why opening data matters to brands and researchers.
Shaw documents platform launches and the work behind them: Open Apparel Registry in 2019, Open Supply Hub's launch, and Supply Trace's pilot phase.
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The posts credit funders, brand and nonprofit partners, designers, and team members, and point readers to tools, impact stories, and ways to contribute. The focus is launch communication tied to multi-stakeholder collaboration, rather than solo product promotion.
For brands planning a campaign
Useful for a campaign or event focused on launching transparency technology, building industry-nonprofit coalitions, or explaining how public-interest tech moves from pilot to platform.
Forced labor risk and responsible sourcing analytics
Supply Trace is described as an open access platform that exposes potential risks in global supply chains.
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In its pilot, it focuses on apparel and links forced labor risk in the Uyghur Region of China to shipments to the US. Shaw highlights the combination of machine learning and expert human-led investigative research, and cites 1.5 million companies, 2.3 million relationships, and 2.5 million transactions already being traced.
For brands planning a campaign
Relevant to ethical sourcing, forced labor due diligence, and supply-chain risk briefs where a speaker can explain how open data and investigative methods combine.
A recurring argument in Shaw's posts is that equitable access to data can be transformative.
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Shaw writes that opening insights into supply-chain conditions to anyone has that potential and describes Open Supply Hub's goal as opening up supply-chain data for the public benefit. The posts frame transparency as a public good, not only a compliance tool.
For brands planning a campaign
Suitable for advocacy-led campaigns on data equity, public-interest technology, and why brands should support open transparency initiatives.
Shaw's posts cover funders including GIZ, Laudes Foundation, Humanity United, the Patrick J.
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McGovern Foundation, Amazon, and Target. They also announce nine new members joining the Open Supply Hub board and describe freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund, including learning about re-granting and supporting a just transition.
For climate or plastic-pollution briefs, ask for relevant examples: the Plastic Solutions Fund work sits outside open-data supply-chain technology and points to broader climate and plastic-pollution interests.
For brands planning a campaign
Can speak to funder-grantee relationships, nonprofit scaling, board growth, and climate or plastic-pollution philanthropy from the perspective of a long-time funding recipient.
Communication approach: story-led, credit-sharing, practical asks
Shaw often opens with a personal story, explains why a launch or change matters, and offers concrete ways to engage, such as exploring a tool, contributing data, subscribing, or requesting a demo.
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The posts thank teams, funders, and partners, and keep technical material readable.
Story-first announcements, explicit next steps, and public credit to collaborators recur across Katie Shaw's posts.
For brands planning a campaign
Easy to work with on co-created campaign content: Shaw can turn technical platforms into accessible asks while sharing credit across partners and teams.
Shaw says they began working in a freelance capacity with the Plastic Solutions Fund on efforts to end plastic pollution and support a just transition.
Katie Shaw's writing is best followed through platform launches.
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Start with the Open Supply Hub launch post: it explains how an approach built for apparel grew into an open map of supply-chain data across beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture and sporting goods.
It links to uses of the data in worker remediation, joint industry projects and climate research.
Next, read the Supply Trace launch post, which describes an open platform linking forced-labor risk in the Uyghur Region of China to shipments into the United States and pairing machine learning with human investigators.
Shorter posts, such as the one-month countdown and the board expansion note, show how the work is funded and governed.
A later post about freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund broadens the focus to environmental funding and a just transition.
Links in the posts lead to the platforms, impact stories and ways to contribute data, where the arguments become concrete.
Both work close to apparel and active-lifestyle products, turning what they learn into plain-spoken posts.
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Olszowski shares what 12 interviews with product vice-presidents taught them about the difficulty of building products that last, and lists the pressures brands face, from too much inventory to consumers who want an old colourway back. Shaw makes a similar argument about supply chains: useful detail sits with the people closest to the work.
Olszowski writes from inside brands about product leadership, consumer insight and the committee they call Treasure Hunters. Shaw works on the open platforms and data underneath those brands, giving readers product-side diagnosis from one and transparency infrastructure from the other.
Both explain how upstream pressure reaches brands.
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Nasr reads inflation data and asks what it means for pricing, loyalty and ad spend, then considers what tariffs and paused container shipments mean for marketing plans. Shaw covers the same terrain from the data side, where platforms expose tariffs, forced-labor risk and shipping links.
Nasr focuses on demand-side marketing strategy, showing readers what to do with budgets and messaging. Shaw focuses on supply-chain transparency and open data, showing how risk becomes visible and public.
Both argue that the data foundation determines what technology can deliver.
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Bidgood writes that most AI failures in consumer goods are definition failures: marketing, supply chain, finance and retailers each describe product, customer and margin differently. Shaw makes a comparable case that supply-chain data helps only when it is open, comparable and usable by anyone, rather than locked inside one company's view.
Bidgood's audience is enterprise teams aligning internal systems and governance before deploying AI agents.
Shaw's audience includes anyone who needs to see supply-chain conditions, from researchers and worker representatives to nonprofits.
The comparison is between closed corporate data and open public data.
Katie Shaw's LinkedIn following is small — roughly 2,600 accounts — making this a narrow-audience advocacy placement, not a reach buy.
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The case is the topic match: the posts consistently serve people working on open-data supply-chain tools, forced-labour risk and responsible sourcing, and most recently on plastic-pollution philanthropy.
That aligns with a supply-chain transparency company seeking an open-data advocate.
The only dated measured figure in the posts is the LinkedIn follower count.
They provide no data on followers’ geography, age, gender, employer, job title or seniority, and no post-level impressions or engagement counts.
The five posts show subject matter, format and argument, but not audience composition; buyers cannot use them to claim the audience includes procurement or sustainability decision-makers.
Before booking, ask for a LinkedIn follower-demographics breakdown covering industry, seniority and company size, plus recent impressions and engagement for comparable posts on open data and supply-chain risk.
For a keynote or advisory role rather than a post, request attendance figures or audience composition from comparable talks.
The posts do not verify Shaw’s employer, occupation or job seniority, so ask for those details rather than assuming them.
Katie Shaw's posts set out no sponsorship menu, rate card, or partnership package.
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They write as part of the Open Supply Hub team, as a member of the team behind Supply Trace, and as a freelancer with the Plastic Solutions Fund.
These are projects they are attached to, not offers they advertise to brands.
A company interested in working with them should approach the organisation behind the relevant project or start a direct conversation about an advisory or speaking engagement.
Ask about availability, scope, deliverables, and disclosure terms; the posts provide no general inquiry route or commercial terms.
For a campaign focused on supply-chain transparency, a funded advisory or keynote engagement tied to open-data projects is a more realistic fit than a standard package.
Brief: a supply-chain transparency technology company wants a named advocate for an open-data initiative and is considering Katie Shaw for a keynote plus advisory role.
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Decision: strong fit, with two caveats to negotiate.
Shaw has launched and explained the kind of platform the campaign needs.
Open Supply Hub is presented in the posts as a free tool for mapping, searching, downloading and contributing supply-chain data across apparel, beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture and sporting goods.
The launch post traces it back to the 2019 Open Apparel Registry and the requests that pushed it beyond apparel.
Supply Trace is presented as an open-access platform for exposing supply-chain risk, with a pilot focused on apparel and forced-labour risk in the Uyghur Region of China, combining machine learning with human-led investigation.
The posts also show the less visible work a keynote or advisory role requires: coalition building with funders, universities, nonprofits and brands; governance growth through the Open Supply Hub board; and a plain-language approach to turning technical platforms into public asks.
The communication is story-led and credit-sharing, with concrete next steps rather than abstract thought leadership.
The commercial shape is not a standard sponsorship package.
Scope the engagement directly as a funded advisory or speaking relationship.
The second caveat is reach: the only measured audience figure in the posts is roughly 2,578 LinkedIn followers, making this an advocacy and authority placement, not a mass-reach buy.
Ask for comparable talk attendance or audience composition rather than assuming a room from the follower count.
When to choose a specialist
Brief: a consumer lifestyle or fast-fashion brand wants a high-reach social creator to promote a product drop with follower-count and sales-conversion targets, using short-form video and a paid usage package.
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Decision: poor fit for this campaign.
The posts show a small LinkedIn audience, with the only measured figure being roughly 2,578 followers, and no geo, age, job-title, employer, seniority, impression or engagement breakdown.
They show no short-form video, product haul, lifestyle, beauty, fashion or consumer conversion content.
Instead, the content is organisational and issue-led: platform launches, board growth, forced-labour risk, open data and plastic-pollution philanthropy.
Brand fit is also weak if the product or campaign conflicts with the public-benefit, transparency and responsible-sourcing positions in the posts.
A fast-fashion brief would specifically clash with the forced-labour and responsible-sourcing material in the Supply Trace post.
No sponsorship menu, rate card or commercial inquiry route is published, so a buyer expecting a ready-made paid package would need to negotiate from scratch.
A worked campaign example
Campaign angle for a supply-chain transparency technology company's open-data initiative: Open Data as Supply Chain Infrastructure: what Open Supply Hub and Supply Trace show brands about transparency.
Format: a 25-30 minute keynote followed by a moderated Q&A, plus a bounded advisory engagement such as two workshops or a review of the company's open-data contribution model.
Core narrative: transparency platforms are not just compliance dashboards; they are shared public infrastructure that improves when companies contribute data.
Proof points: the Open Apparel Registry's 2019 launch and the consumer-goods request that led to multi-sector expansion; Open Supply Hub's free search, contribution and download model across apparel, beauty, consumer goods, electronics, furniture and sporting goods; the funders and partners named in the launch; the board expansion as evidence of institution-building; and Supply Trace's pilot on forced-labour risk linking the Uyghur Region of China to US shipments, with its stated method of machine learning plus human-led investigation and its scale of 1.5 million companies, 2.3 million relationships and 2.5 million transactions.
Deliverables: keynote deck and speaker notes; one contributed data-set walkthrough for the company's own suppliers or portfolio; a short written recommendation on where the company can contribute to or use open supply-chain data; and a Q&A brief for the event host.
Why this angle: it uses the strongest experience shown in the posts, avoids presenting Shaw as a general consumer influencer, and keeps the commercial ask in the funded advisory or speaking lane. It also lets the company show its own data contribution in public rather than only buying visibility.
Metrics to agree before booking: audience composition and attendance from comparable talks; post-event survey on usefulness; number of supplier or internal teams that complete a data-contribution step; and qualitative feedback from the host.
Before contracting, ask for the speaking fee, comparable talk attendance, current employer or role confirmation, and independent confirmation of the university or funder relationships named in the posts.
For a supply-chain transparency technology company seeking a named advocate for open-data initiatives in a keynote or advisory role, Patrick Olszowski is the stronger choice if the goal is to reach apparel and active-lifestyle product leaders.
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The posts show direct, interview-based work with Product VPs on product leadership, franchise products and consumer insight.
The 12-interview post lists the pressures those leaders face and names a Treasure Hunters model for cross-functional teams; the franchise-products post diagnoses why sporting apparel and active-lifestyle brands struggle to build enduring products.
Those posts are useful if the keynote or advisory needs to reach people who choose product ranges, not only sustainability or data teams.
Olszowski is also building an audio and video interview channel, giving the placement a format beyond a single talk.
For a supply-chain transparency technology company's open-data advocacy campaign, the tradeoff is that the posts do not show platform building, supply-chain mapping, data contribution workflows, open-data governance, or responsible-sourcing and forced-labour work.
The audience is product leadership, not the transparency or data community.
A host would need to supply the open-data subject matter and platform proof, making the keynote a product-leadership route into the campaign rather than a first-hand account of launching an open supply-chain data platform.
Ask for measured audience data and commercial availability.
For a supply-chain transparency technology company seeking a named advocate for open-data initiatives in a keynote or advisory role, Adele Nasr is the stronger choice if the goal is to reach marketing leaders at CPG, home goods, beauty, sporting goods, wellness or DTC brands who are making budget and messaging decisions under tariff and inventory pressure.
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The posts analyse CPI and inflation effects on high-consideration purchases, brand loyalty, ad-spend efficiency and discounting.
Another post asks marketers directly how they are adjusting channel mix, forecasts and spend during tariffs and paused container shipments.
That is close to the commercial conversation a supply-chain transparency vendor may need when the buyer is a marketing or growth team rather than a data or sustainability team.
The tradeoff is that the posts are marketing commentary and client-facing questions, not accounts of building or launching an open-data supply-chain platform, running a nonprofit transparency programme, or contributing supply-chain data.
They show awareness of supply-chain pressure as a marketing constraint, but not the platform, governance or responsible-sourcing depth in Katie Shaw's posts.
A host would need to supply the open-data initiative's own proof points.
Ask for measured audience data and commercial availability.
For a supply-chain transparency technology company seeking a named advocate for open-data initiatives in a keynote or advisory role, Mark Bidgood is the stronger choice if the open-data initiative is positioned as an enterprise AI and data-foundation play inside consumer goods, rather than as a public transparency platform.
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The posts argue that AI failures in CPG are often definition failures: marketing, supply chain, finance and retail partners use different meanings for product, customer, promotion and margin, so AI scales fragmentation instead of solving it.
Another post makes the same point about trusted data and AI agents, concluding that AI will expose who understands their own business.
For a keynote or advisory role aimed at CPG executives who need to connect open data to AI readiness, retail media, trade spend and data governance, this is a direct executive-language match.
The tradeoff is that the posts do not show supply-chain transparency, forced-labour risk, open-access platform launches, nonprofit governance or public-benefit data work.
The frame is commercial data architecture and enterprise AI, not an open-data advocacy campaign.
A buyer would need to supply the transparency mission and public-interest case.
Ask for measured audience data and commercial availability.
This profile is built from five LinkedIn posts by Katie Shaw published between October 2022 and July 2025, covering the Open Supply Hub launch and a countdown post shortly before it, the Open Supply Hub board expansion, the Supply Trace launch, and freelance work with the Plastic Solutions Fund.
The follower figure cited on this page, roughly 2,578, was recorded in October 2026.
Comparisons with other creators draw on two LinkedIn posts each by Patrick Olszowski, Adele Nasr and Mark Bidgood.
No interviews, transcripts, long-form publications, or engagement and audience-demographic data were available, so claims about reach, employment relationships and earlier career history are left open rather than inferred.
