Real-World Application: How real-time data surfaces risk before it becomes a crisis
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
In this session, Archana Kotecha, Diginex’s Chief Impact Officer, explores how real-time supply chain data can help organisations identify emerging risks before they escalate into operational, regulatory, or reputational crises.
Drawing on practical examples from global supply chains, the session will examine how leading companies are using worker engagement channels and real-time monitoring systems to collect reliable data about workers’ conditions and human rights impacts in supply chains. These tools help companies strengthen visibility into issues on the ground that traditional audits and periodic compliance assessments often fail to detect. These early signals can include grievances, safety concerns, excessive working hours, payment delays, recruitment-related issues, harassment, and retaliation.
The discussion will also explore how organisations are using these insights to identify broader patterns and trends in supply chains and enable timely intervention to prevent and mitigate risks before they realise. By integrating real-time, worker-driven data into ESG strategies and buyer-supplier relationships, businesses can move from reactive compliance toward more proactive and preventative approaches to supply chain risk management.
Speaker
Archana Kotecha
Chief Impact Officer - Diginex
Archana is Diginex's Chief Impact Officer. She founded The Remedy Project, acquired by Diginex in January 2026, and leads human rights and supply chain due diligence practice, bringing together deep regulatory expertise, frontline experience across global supply chains and a track record of helping organisations build compliance frameworks that hold up under real-world pressure. A UK-qualified barrister, CEDR-accredited mediator, Archana has over 18 years of experience advising multinational corporations, institutional investors, governments, and UN agencies on translating sustainability commitments into operational practice. Her work focuses on moving companies from reactive compliance toward more proactive, prevention-oriented approaches to supply chain risk. Archana regularly engages with governments, industry initiatives, and international institutions on forced labour and human rights due diligence frameworks, including as a member of the European Commission’s Informal Expert Group on Forced Labour, Steering Committee Member of the Responsible Labour Initiative (RLI) under the Responsible Business Alliance, and Alternative Legal Expert to the UN intergovernmental Working Group on Business and Human Rights.
She has advised organisations across sectors including electronics, apparel, agribusiness, retail, and financial services, with a particular focus on worker-centred remediation and responsible supply chain governance.
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM