Collaboration from other expert CR bodies

The Summit is an unrivalled gathering point for all leading corporate responsibility thinkers and practitioners.

Hear from industry bodies like CSR Europe, EABIS, World Business Council for Sustainable Development, the Corporate Responsibility Group and Forum for the Future as they run sessions within the Summit agenda, showcasing their own most recent work and research. This offers you, the CR practitioner, the most comprehensive knowledge base available to the responsible business community.

CSR Europe (round one, 10th May)

How the European Alliance for CSR can help you

The alliance, via CSR Europe, has set up a dozen pilot projects on reponsible business and best practice across the EU, featuring companies like IBM, Microsoft, VW, Toyota, L'Oreal, Epson, Lloyd's and Telecom Italia.

Several of these 'labs' and the details of their partnership approach will be discussed here.

Themes include: Improving employability in Europe; transparency in business and society; bottom of the pyramid opportunities for EU companies.

EABIS (round one, 10th May)

How to effectively measure responsible business practice

Credible measurement of CSR actions is often seen as the Holy Grail. How can you do it? And how should you share the results with your senior team?

Find out how to get the hard data you need in different areas of CR.

Forum for the Future (round two, 10th May)

How do you include intangibles in your corporate accounts?

Why do we lack a CR accounting standard that's relevant to different industries?

At present, CR improvements made by the oil industry cannot be compared to those of any other industries.

We have no figures and facts and costs and prices for climate change, for human rights, for corruption.

But to be a truly responsible business, we need them. This session discusses the way forward.

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (round three, 10th May)

The link between CR and international capital markets.

Most financial institutions don't link environmental and social performance with business value. So how can you become more effective in communicating to the financial sector? This session explores:

How companies can and should communicate with capital markets

The emerging relationship between capital markets and companies on sustainable development

The benefits of better communication: linking sustainable development and business value

ENGAGE (round four, 10th May)

Engaging your employees in you CR initiatives

Unless your employees fully support a CR strategy, it is doomed to failure. By contrast, a motivated and interested team means a successful CR campaign.

But how do you achieve this successful communication with employees?

What strategies can you use to engage your employees in CR?

The Corporate Responsibility Group (round four, 10th May)

Changing role of today's CR professional

In this session, the Corporate Responsibility Group will deliver an overview of their recent survey on the Corporate Responsibility Profession, featuring:

The current status of corporate responsibility roles in companies

New perspectives on corporate responsibility - top priorities and how practitioners see these changing

Potential impact of changes in CR on the role of the professional

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