07:00 - 8:45 AM Breakfast and Registration

9.00 Welcome

Explanation of the Forum, Fair, Learning Pavilions and Process

Intertek CSR Group & Ethical Corporation

Opening Speech

Is Global Corporate Responsibility Converging on the Supply Chain?

Selling to one is easy! But what about engaging different departments with conflicting goals?

Microsoft, Elena Bonfiglioli, Director Corporate Citizenship, Europe Middle East & Africa

Coffee Break

First CSR Knowledge Mini-Forum Session

Route 1: Future Trends

Session 1: Emergence of a New Standard: ISO 26000

The ISO 26000 standard, content, scope and applicability : What could it bring in the supply chain ?

• Organisation, actors and main caracteristics of the project
• The work done so far and future steps
• How supply chain is addressed throughout the standard
  

Electricité de France (EDF), Pierre Mazeau, Social Responsibility Project Manager

Session 2: Achieving a Sustainable Supply Chain

• The MADE-BY model: engaging fashion brands, supporting suppliers sustainability: social circumstances, environmental conditions, traceability.
• Improving sustainability through the whole chain: roles and issues for each supply chain link
• From cotton to garment: experiences from the MADE-BY Peru supply chain
• Key Success Factors: how to make it work

MADE BY, Esther Verburg, Supply Chain Manager

Route 2: Remediation and Continuous Improvement

Session 3: Local Remediation and Collaboration

Remediation Case Study in China

• Overview and challenges in achieving social compliance at the grassroots level
• Training and mentoring: The Sustainable Social Compliance Program (SSCP)
• Remediating wage-related and work hour issues
• Developing workers as key stakeholders to sustain social compliance

TAOS Network, Shanghai, China, Qing Zhang, Executive Director

Session 4: Combined Approach of Improved Suppliers' In-house Dialogue and Inter-firm Collaboration to Tackle Social Standards

• Capacity building program approved by Eastern European SME-suppliers
• Suppliers' ownership
• Facilitating suppliers inter-firm collaboration
• A top down - bottom up - approach
• Continuity

Sustainability Agents, Sebastian Siegele, Industry expert on social standards

Session 5: Factory Health Programmes

Beyond Big Business: How you can help your suppliers protect themselves against HIV/AIDS

The World Economic Forum's Global Health Initiative will discuss the role that large companies can have in supporting smaller companies in their supply chain to establish HIV/AIDS programs Now that many large companies have very strong HIV/AIDS workplace programs in place internally, the natural next step is to protect your supply chain against HIV/AIDS. Come and learn what some pioneering companies are doing in Africa including Unilever, Eskom, VW, Heineken, and Standard Chartered Bank. New guidelines, recently launched at IAS in Toronto, will be available for companies to take.

World Economic Forum, Inderjit Sidhu, Project Manager, Global Health Initiative

Route 3 : Collaboration & Multistakeholder Initiatives

Session 6: The “Initiative Clause Sociale (ICS)” from the French Retailer association

“Benefits and Challenges of the ICS model”

• Common approach - 8 years of experience to go ahead
• ICS - Retailers - Suppliers for common benefits
• Compliance to ILO and local regulations - How to manage corrective actions
• Common tools and Data base - How to manage best practises
• Next step for a responsible and sustainable approach

   

Federation du commerce et de la Distribution, Marie France Touron, ICS coordination manager

Auchan, Alain Souppart , Head of Technics and Quality-Clothing Dept

Auchan, Juliette Bataille, Social Audit Coordinator

Session 7: Public-Private Partnerships/Engagement

Implementation and monitoring of social and environmental standard in the apparel industry in the context of Public Private Partnership.

• Implementation of social and environmental standards in the textile and garment sector
• Flood of standards and political debates
• Target group: industry
• How to implement standards and CoC in a sustainable manner
• Traceability of best practice
• Global Performance-Monitoring System: a transferable model for other industries

3p Consortium for Sustainable Management, Stephan Kunz, Project Director

World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Dr. Brigitte Monsou Tantawy, Director, Focus Area Business Role

Session 8: Collaboration in the retail sector to safeguard social standards in the supply chain

The Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI) – A European approach for monitoring

• Respect of ILO Conventions
• One uniform system for all participating companies
• Comprehensive management instruments for a common process
• Monitoring based on auditing and qualification
• Development oriented approach
• Discussion about applicability in other sectors – challenges in the food supply chain
• Cooperation with existing initiatives and standards
• Common approach accelerates sustainable development

Foreign Trade Association (FTA), Lorenz Berzau, Project Coordinator BSCI

ICA, Kerstin Lindvall, Corporate Responsibility

Session 9: Implementing a Supplier Engagement Model for the Information Communication (ICT) TechnologySector

GeSI Initiative

• The benefits from taking an industry approach
• Harnessing the industry
• The ICT Supplier Engagement Model
• Practical tools for the industry with an update on deliverables
• Lessons learned so far

BT, Liz Cross, Corporate Social Responsibility Procurement Team
UNEP, Sonia Valdivia, Associate Program Officer, Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch

Lunch

Second CSR Knowledge Mini-Forum Session

Route 1: Management Tools & Strategies

Session 1: Supplier Classification Method & Risk Based Approaches

How to manage a CSR program with suppliers

The challenges ASICS Europe face while working towards compliance in the supply chain are many. Besides the various ways for sustainable supply chain management, one is through the classification and ranking of suppliers. This session will address a different way of controlling a compliance status of the suppliers' base.

• The reasons for classification: Building a sustainable long-term relationship with supplying factories through working together with factories while focus on remediation instead of simply "cut and run"
• Create a win -win situation. While working with suppliers or choosing to work with them usually the criteria of quality- and process qualification are taken into account. In addition to those qualifications the social classification has been added.
• The challenges and opportunities ASICS Europe is facing while working towards a controlled and sustainable supply chain.

ASICS Europe, Nicole Almering, Legal Affairs Corporate Social Responsibility Associate

Session 2: Global Supply Chain Challenges

Animal welfare in the supply chain – A business opportunity!

• High consumer concern on animal welfare in food production in all EU countries according to a recent European Commission Eurobarometer survey
• Priority areas in livestock production
• Animal welfare standards and farm assurance schemes
• Some examples of good practice and business success

Eurogroup for Animals and its UK member organization, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals believes that EU and national legislation, as well as industry standards should take full account of the animal’s needs and natural behaviours.

RSPCA International , David Bowles, Head of External Affairs

McDonald's, Keith Kenny, Senior Director for McDonald's Quality Assurance in Europe

Session 3: Internal Communication Effort

To implement a CSR strategy your employees must be engaged - find out what M&S have done to ensure that over 60, 000 employees know what is going on 'behind their label'.

• In January this year Marks & Spencer launched a public campaign called Look Behind the Label to tell their customers about their CSR activities
• It was very important to them that their own staff knew about what was going on in their supply chains and understood the company values
• Find out how M&S have used internal communications to motivate and inspire employees, to empower staff to communicate to customers, and to drive further change in the business

Marks & Spencer, Katie Stafford, Sustainable Development Manager

Route 2 : Global Reporting & Measurement

Session 4: Company reporting on supply Chain

Ethical sourcing: integration of this societal stake management by an international company.

• which KPis are used by extra-financial rating agencies to analyze multinational companies
• Integration of external imputs to improve social and environmental programs dedicated to suppliers
• Integrated ethical sourcing management

Danone, Stéphan Arino, Transversal Projects and relations with extra-financial rating agencies, Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility Department

Session 5: Concept of Business Unit; outsourced CSR solutions. McDonald's Business Unit Case.

McDonald's Business Unit Global Management, Ignacio Gavilan

Session 6: Data Collection Tools and Reporting Systems

Corporate Sustainability Reporting - efficient data collection processes are the key to success

• Degussa AG - sustainability reporting approach of a heterogeneous company
• What are the challenges of designing a data collection process
• How to aggregate and integrate the reporting approach of many different stakeholders
• How to integrate non-frequent user into an overall process concept
• Lessons learned

Degussa AG, Dr. Wolfgang Bergstein, Corporate ESHQ Reporting & Controlling

Session 7: Supplier Peformance Measurement - Enabling world class sourcing

• The changing face of global supply
• Strategic partner collaboration
• Supplier scorecarding
• Best practice examples from leading retailers

Eqos, Mark McDonnell, Business Development Director

Route 3: Voluntary Programs & Developing Projects

Session 8: Ethical Management of Immigration Flow: Guest Workers Programs

Guest workers programs (Hiring workers in their countries for a determined period of time) as a means to eradicate illegal immigration.

• Immigration flows Africa-southern Spain
• Guest worker programs
• The AENEAS-Cartaya Project
• Lessons learned & future initiatives

CONEXION SOCIAL, Ouadiê SABRI, Consultancy Manager & Projects Manager for the African Region

Session 9: Child Labour Remediation Program in the Mining Sector : Example of a Groupe One Project in Congo

The small scale mining sector in Katanga involves, for the moment, the worst forms of child labour.

This situation has catastrophic consequences for the local community and limits business for international companies.

Acting as an NGO, Groupe One is developing a global approach combining three complementary actions :

• CSR with local and international companies
• NGO “child labour” approach with local NGO'S
• UNICEF and ILO, and partnership with the Katanga and Belgian authorities ant the UN.

Participants will learn about the first steps and results of this project and discuss on this specific approach.

Groupe One, Sébastien Fosseur, Auditor

Session 10: ETI Homeworker Project

Introduction to a unique multi-stakeholder initiative in India, underwritten by leading brands Gap Inc, Monsoon/ Accesorize and Next plc, to improve labour conditions with some of the most vulnerable workers in the informal economy.

This session offers you the opportunity to:

• Learn about the ETI homeworker guidelines and how to begin implementing international labour standards with homeworkers in your supply chains
• Learn about the National Homeworkers Group - a unique and sustainable model for improving homeworkers' labour conditions currently underway in India
• Target group: retailers, brands and suppliers whose supply chains involve homeworking, especially useful for those who have supply chains in India using homeworking

ETI, Liz Kirk, Project Manager

Coffee Break

Third CSR Knowledge Mini-Forum Session

Route 1: Global Law Issues

Session 1: Landscape of Legal Liability

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:Legal Risks and Privacy Law issues posed by Supply Chain Monitoring

• Legal Risks associated with Supply Chain CSR
  • Transparency/Disclosure v. Litigation: can being an "open book" about monitoring efforts increase your company's risk of being sued?
  • Be careful how you "walk the walk" if you intend to "talk the talk" in CSR communications and reports
  • SRI's impact on supply chain CSR efforts
• Protecting Personal Information in the Supply Chain: You collect, receive, store and transfer personal information all the time but are you legally compliant?
  • Europe, the USA and Asia - how different can they be?
  • Multinational companies - we're all part of the same group so that's OK isn't it?
  • Your customer contracts - do they protect you and your information?
  • Privacy and ethics: the pitfalls of audits and ethics hotlines

Epstein, Becker & Green, Michael Levine Partner, Chair of Corporate Responsibility Practice

Eversheds, Paula Barrett, Partner

Session 2: FTSE4Good and Supply Chain Labour Standards Criteria

• FTSE4Good - overview of the FTSE4Good Index
• FTSE4Good Supply Chain Labour Standards - details of the criteria
• Engagement Program - and how companies are responding to the Supply Chain Labour Standards criteria
• Regional trends - company response to FTSE4Good Supply Chain Labour Standards in different regions around the world

FTSE Group, David Harris, Senior Executive, SRI

Route 2: Environmental Supply Chain Management

Session 3: Impact of REACH on Supply Chain

The new Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) legislation imposes new requirements on the classification, labeling and registration of chemicals and includes mechanisms to identify appropriate risk management measures and expands the obligations to communicate information on chemical's properties and safe uses up and down the supply chain.

The following topics will be addressed:

• Impact on manufacturers' that export Substances/Articles to the EU.
• Responsibilities imposed on companies (Downstream Users and Retailers) importing Substances/Articles into EU
• Impact of information flow (including chemical declarations) along the supply chain
• Shifting the burden and costs across the supply chain
• What should companies being doing now to prepare?

Atrion International, John Phyper, Chief Strategy Officer

Session 4: Implementation of ecological standards in the textile supply chain

Migros Engagement activities presented on the basis of the eco-Monitoring Program for Apparel and Textiles.

Implementation and monitoring of product and production related socio-ecological requirements covering:
- Supply Chain Transparency
- Awareness Building
- Implementation through capacity development
- Controlling mechanisms at critical supply chain stages
- Applied CSR-Solutions

Key Words
Practical & Feasible Tools - Supply Chain Transparency - Risk Minimisation - Performance
Assessment – Environmental Compliance - Good Social, Health & Safety Practice

GSM, Birgit Karpa-Beuth, Global Sustainable Management
Migros, Roland Woehr, Label Coordinator

Session 5: REACH –The need for effective supply chain dialogue

• REACH presents the chemicals supply chain with many challenges, but also some opportunities
• REACH is characterized by a need for two-way information flow (both upstream and downstream) along the supply chain
• Compliance requirements and conformance needs might differ and will need to be resolved within the supply chain
• REACH offers an opportunity for responsible risk communication among stakeholders
• Effective supply chain dialogue will be critical for REACH to succeed and to deliver

Dow Corning, Keith Huckle, Product Stewardship & EHS Public Affairs

Route 3: Social & Environmental Auditing: Methodologies & Challenges

Session 7: Corporate Sustainability Reporting & Auditability: What support can we expect from an IT tool?

Rising demand on report frequency, auditability, quality and flexibility has to be managed with less personnel, budget and time
CSR reporting trends

• Challenges in the data collection process from a company viewpoint
• Auditability improvement with a dedicated IT tool? n
• Examples as seen in the industry
  
  TechniData AG, Martin Hamann, Account Executive

Session 8: Auditor Standards & Qualification

Social Auditing – Is the Industry Ready for a Paradigm Shift?

• Approach: Shifting from finding the problems (punitive) to identifying value-adding solutions (performance and reward-driven)
  
• Benchmarks: Shifting from meeting the minimum standards, to striving for higher-order management KPIs and striving for continuous performance improvement
  
• Auditor skills: Shifting from purely investigative skills, to skills in situation and problem analysis and change management
  
• Process Ownership: Shifting from assessments that are brand driven, to factory-driven participatory assessments

Verité, Mitzi Pascual-Zaruk, Regional Director EMEA

Session 9: The China Labor Law Database

Join the  China Labor Right Consultancy Center as they launch the authoritative database resource for information about China Labor Law.

The database supports organizations or individuals with localized information on interpretation and implementation of China 's labor law, with insight and experience from former drafters of the P.R.C. Labor Law.

China Labor Right Consultancy Center, Carlos Flores, Assistant Manager

 

Route 4: Training & Capacity Building Models

Session 10: Supplier Capacity Development Models

Long Term Commitment - Industry Collaboration and Deep Diving

• Why industry collaboration is important to leverage change
• What makes a collaboration successful?
• The EICC progress and future potential
• Addressing specific issues and identifying the root causes systematically
• What can catalyse continuous improvements in the supply chain

Objective: This session will include a presentation of the EICC Electronic Industry Code of Conduct progress and Dell's specific capability building efforts with the suppliers.

Dell, Lena Pripp-Kovac, Head of EMEA Corporate Responsibility

Panel Discussion

The Manufacturing Industry Double at Stake : How to Manage its Program between the Retail and its own Supply Chain ?

L'Oréal, Ariane Thomas, Suppliers Performance Management

Nestle, Nicolas Lorne, CARE Project Coordinator

6.00 - 7.30 PM Networking Reception

08:00 - 09:00 AM Breakfast and Registration

09:00 AM Fourth CSR Knowledge Mini-Forum Session

Route 1 : Ethical Sourcing Trends and Ethical Challenges in Specific Industry Sectors

Session 1: Textile Industry

Supply Chain Monitoring: Challenges and Approaches to "Walking the Walk"

• Internal Monitoring
• External Monitoring
• Joint Monitoring Initiatives
• Sharing audit data
• Capacity Building

ASICS Europe, Nicole Almering, Legal Affairs Corporate Social Responsibility Associate

Epstein, Becker & Green, Michael Levine Partner, Chair of Corporate Responsibility Practice

Session 2: Agriculture, Food & Beverage

Come along and find out how M&S have worked with their food suppliers to achieve a leading sustainability strategy

• M&S were named Business in the Community - Company of the Year 2006
• Find our about their strategy on food which includes a wide range of issues from Sustainable Fish Sourcing to Non-GM Food
• Major achievements this year have included winning awards for work on sustainable packaging, converting all of their coffee and tea to Fairtrade and being named UK's most Sustainable Fish Retailer

Marks & Spencer, Katie Stafford, Sustainable Development Manager

Session 3: Compassion in World Farming - Farm Animal Welfare – Benefits in the Food Industry

Farm animal welfare – benefits in food industry

• CIWF engagement with food retailers and EU policy development
• Target industry – EU and global food retail, brands and service sector
• Enhancement of ethical profile to customers – awards and in-store marketing
• Benefits of good farm animal welfare-based policies such as free range shell eggs
• Opportunities within corporate social responsibility
• Nominations for CIWF’s new Europe-wide awards - October 2006

Compassion in World Farming, Rowen West-Henzell, Food Policy Officer

Session 4: Jewelry & Accessories

Mining to Retail Initiative in the Jewellery Sector - The Council for Responsible Jewellery Practices

• A jewellery industry initiative: why?
• What we cover: business ethics, social and environmental performance
• One Code for all: from mine to retail, worldwide
• Blueprint of the CRJP system
• Key challenges to our approach
• Where we stand today
• Next steps to full launch

Cartier, Pamela Caillens, Corporate Social Director

Council for Responsible Jewellery Practices, Santiago Porto , Programme Director

Session 5: Media & Entertainment

• Scope
• Focus
• Tools
• Education and collaboration

The Walt Disney Company, Elise More, Senior Regional Manager EMEA, International Labour Standards

Session 6: Electronics and Automotive

Profile of selected industry and agency-funded efforts to address challenges (EICC, China Training Institute, AIAG/State Dept automotive project, Clean Cargo Working Group)

• Objectives
• Structure, approach
• Lessons learned

Business for Social Responsibility, Eric Olson, Vice President, Advisory Services

Session 7: Forestry (Wood and Paper)

Well-managed companies think about where the wood and paper they use come from. Can forest destruction be excluded from the supply chain? Can good forest management be supported? The FSC system provides answers and solutions to these questions. By solving the question on forest management companies can gain more: the FSC-label. FSC is a TRUST- MARK and a powerful tool which has been established as a well- recognised brand for labelling wood and paper products. The FSC-brand can provide additional value to company brands.

The presentation includes the following:
- Situation of the worlds forest and what is FSC doing about it
- The achievements of FSC so far
- Check on your sourcing: where are you using wood and paper products?
- Analysis: Why do companies take up FSC?
- The market: Supply and potential development
- Examples of successful co-branding with the FSC-brand
- What can be your next step?


Forest Stewardship Council International (FSC) Working Group Germany,Ulrich Malessa, Head of Marketing and Corporate Sector

Coffee Break

Networking Session

Speed Networking Session

Speed Networking Session

You will have the opportunity to meet your fellow delegates during short sessions of intensive speed networking. You will exchange lots of business cards. More than 40 guaranteed! Line up around a set of designated tables and introduce yourself to the person directly in front of you. Exchange business cards and then move one seat to your right! This session is designed to help you make the most of the networking opportunities that the Ethical Sourcing Forum 2006 has to offer.

Lunch

Plenary Session

Using the best ideas you've learnt at this conference

Best practice benchmarking: Intertek will present best practices and lessons learnt from the two days, along with some of the most valuable insights they have come across.

Leave this session with essential tips to help you sort through your own best practice research, and more effectively apply what you've learnt during the conference to your own initiatives.

4.00 PM Conference Ends