A Manitoba software company uses blockchain technology to connect the dots between producer and consumer in the agriculture sector.
TheoryMesh is the brainchild of Manitoba software developer Chris Bunio. He spent 18 years in business development at Microsoft before returning to Winnipeg during the pandemic to launch TheoryMesh. He spoke at the recent Fields on Wheels conference at the University of Manitoba.
“TheoryMesh is attempting to bring the agriculture and food supply chains together,” says Bunio. “When you buy a food product in the store, if you don’t understand what’s happening behind the scenes, you see the package and the label and that’s your view of what’s happening with food. But it’s a little bit more complex than that. There are a lot of gaps in this process.”
As a gluten allergy sufferer, Bunio knows a thing or two about those gaps.
“Gluten finds its way into so many different things and as you start sort of digging and trying to understand what is actually a safe food product, you learn very quickly that it’s difficult to get that information across the supply chain.”
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