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Full Programme
If you would like to get involved as speaker, sponsor, or exhibitor, please contact Ka Pou Ng (Cora), Conference Director, at +44 (0)207 375 7573 or cora@ethicalcorp.com.
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Day 1
09:15 - 10:30 Plenary 1
Beyond carbon footprint: Why traditional environmental issues still matter
When companies set out to green their supply chains, they tend to concentrate on the carbon footprint issue. However if you want to be a sustainability leader, it´s essential to widen the focus of your environmental initiatives. In this session, you´ll find out how emphasis on non–carbon footprint issues can save significant sums of corporate cash:
- Are chemicals corroding your supply chain? Explore and understand issues such as toxic chemicals and insecticides and how they affect your business
- Sustainable materials – Discover ways of replacing non–recyclable components with recyclable alternatives.
- Is ensuring compliance throughout your supply chain overwhelming? Explore strategies and approaches for compliance with regulations like RoHS and REACH
- Learn how to implement energy efficiency and waste management projects that make a positive effect on your bottom line
- Prepare your business for tougher rules in the future and identify additional opportunities and cost savings
- Eastman Kodak, David Kiser, VP Director of Health, Safety and Environment
- Nokia, Dr Abi Clark, Head of Nokia Global Sourcing's Environmental and Social Responsibility Program, Supply Chain Environmental & Social Responsibility Manager
- Dow Corning, Peter Cartwright , Global Executive Director Environment, Health and Safety
10:30 - 11:00 Networking Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15 Plenary 2
Striking the right balance: Weighing green and ethical issues
In this session, we´ll tackle the heated debate of achieving the right balance between green and ethical issues. For example, reducing food miles needs to be weighed against the needs of economies in the developing world – reduce imports of mangetout from Zambia, and you may be depriving a generation of African children of basic schooling:
- Share the learning from our experts – hear what worked well...and what didn´t
- Understand the inevitable risks of neglecting one issue in favour of the other
- Discover where the optimum balance lies and how/when it is possible that both can be jointly achieved
- Unilever, Ian Midgley, Senior Vice President, Supply Chain
- Fairtrade, John Arnold, New products and Supply Chain Development Manager
- Tate & Lyle, Julia Clark, Head of Marketing
12:20 - 13:20 Plenary 3
The Complex Corporate Supply Chain: How far down should you go?
With dozens of companies contributing different parts to products before they reach the shops, verifying their green credentials and their suppliers is often costly and difficult. Two industry giants – Cadbury´s and GlaxoSmithKline – have joined forces in this session to show you how they apply best practices when it comes to greening their supply chain:
- Who´s included in your supply chain? And who´s not? Should electronics firms, for example, track the carbon emissions involved in converting sand into silicon?
- Where does it start? And where does it end? Responsibility is no longer restricted within the product life cycle – but where are the boundaries, above and beyond it?
- Learn how to implement best practices without compromising the bottom line
- Cadbury Schweppes, Ian Walsh, Head of Environment
- GlaxoSmithKline, Mark Rhodes, Sustainability Director for GSK Nutritional Healthcare
13:20 - 14:50 Networking Lunch
14:50 - 15:50 Session 1
Combining Environmental audit and Social audit: It really can be done!
Today´s typical garment factory can expect to be inspected 25 times a year. With inspection regimes set to get even more intense, and when audit fatigue is becoming a problem for suppliers, is it sensible to combine environmental and social audits?
Today´s typical garment factory can expect to be inspected 25 times a year. With inspection regimes set to get even more intense, and when audit fatigue is becoming a problem for suppliers, is it sensible to combine environmental and social audits?
- Understand what are the benefits and challenges of combining both audits
- Discover strategies to overcome you overcome practical issues like timing – what if the two audits are at different stages?
- Learn how to train auditors and develop the right tools for them
- H&M Hennes & Mauritz AB, Ingrid Schullstrom, CSR Manager
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Life Cycle Assessment: Cradle–to–Grave approach
A recent statement from the German Environment Agency claims that 80% of a product's environmental impacts are determined during the design phase. HP is well ahead of the game, with a cradle–to–grave strategy that introduces the green concept at the design stage, by using fewer materials, reducing toxic chemicals, and making products more energy efficient and easier to take apart at the recycling stage. How easily can you follow their example?
- Discover how you can design your products with the supply chain and the environment in mind
- Best ways to include the reverse supply chain, and make recycling a core part of your business
- Simple steps you can take to achieve cost reduction, optimum efficiency and full productivity
- HP, Christian Verstarete , Worldwide Senior Director of Manufacturing and distribution, Solutions and Tech Integration Group
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15:50 - 16:20 Networking Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:35 Session 2
Carbon footprint – Success stories
The EU is demanding a 20% cut on carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Yet Imperial Tobacco exceeded this target last year, with help from the Carbon Disclosure Project, a collaboration of 315 institutional investors with combined assets of $41 trillion. The joint presentation from the partners will explain how you too can cut out meaningless phrases such as: "To the very best of our endeavours," from your CR reports and replace them with firm commitments: "We will reduce our carbon use by X% by 2009."
- Working towards a standardised benchmark via the Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration (SCLC)
- How leading companies are exploiting supplier climate change data
- The investor perspective: Why supplier carbon matters so much
- Best practice tips in supplier engagement
- How to use carbon footprint to pinpoint inefficiencies
- Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), Nigel Topping , Head of SC and Leader of Supply Chain Leadership Collaboration (SCLC)
- Imperial Tobacco, Chris Wickenden, Group Occupational Health Safety & Environment Manager
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Suppliers from developing countries: How to secure their support on green strategies
There are increasing demands on suppliers from emerging markets to meet new environmental and social standards. These requirements may not be well understood or communicated - how then, can you ensure that the quality of the information on these issues are up to the standard you require?
To reduce misunderstanding and misreporting, it is essential to secure more than superficial support from suppliers on your green strategies.
- Explore how to secure suppliers´ support on your green strategies
- Hear about how to vigilantly evaluate raw material suppliers from developing countries
- Learn more about collaborative methods of engaging suppliers
- Tried and tested methods for successful information collection
- The best ways to overcome inefficient infrastructure
- The Climate Group, Emily Farnworth, Director of Corporate Engagement
- Marshalls, Chris Harrop, Group Marketing Director
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Day 2
09:00 - 10:15 Plenary 1
Water: The oil for this century
By 2025, 3 billion people will live in water scarce areas – these are customers, employees and local communities – and this will affect economic growth. In the UK for example, water charges have soared by 25% in just three years – and are set to climb higher still. It means water conservation is where energy was 30 years ago... and forward–thinking businesses must act NOW:
- Understand water risk on the business continuity
- How to conduct water dialogues with stakeholders
- Strategies for accounting water footprint of the entire supply chain
- Learn about watershed mapping and how to improve water efficiency through focused management
- SABMiller, Andy Wales, Group Head of Sustainable Development
- WWF, Stuart Orr, Senior Policy Officer, Freshwater
10:15 - 10:45 Networking Coffee Break
10:45 - 12:15 Plenary 2
Industry collaboration: How your competitors can help green YOUR supply chain
Collaboration makes sense. You can cut costs by reducing waste in the supply chain, increase your market responsiveness and customer satisfaction – resulting in enhanced competitiveness for every partner. In this session, three giants from different industries have joined forces to reveal their strategies for choosing collaboration partners. They´ll also tell you how they make sure these partnerships deliver true bottom line benefits:
- Find out which aspects of collaboration work particularly well
- Hear how to share inspection information with competitors and industry partners
- Get advice on building trust, creating a business case and reconciling any conflicting commercial objectives
- When do partnerships work best – and when must you avoid them?
- Case studies of successful collaboration in retailing and electronics sector
- Philips, Jan Roodenburg, Senior Vice President, Supplier Development and Sustainability
- ASDA, Dr Christopher Brown, Head of Ethical and Sustainable Sourcing
- Vodafone, Peter Stangl, Head of Supplier Performance Management
12:15 - 13:45 Networking Lunch
13:45 - 14:45 Session 1
CASE STUDY Holistic approach: Steps 1 to 10 to achieving a green supply chain
What does a perfect green supply chain actually look like? If you want it all in a nutshell, this is the session for you! Hear from a truly successful carbon neutral apparel company that´s reduced the carbon footprint of its T–shirts by 90% – by using only sustainable energy and 100% organic cotton to produce a product that not only has a low water and carbon footprint, but is also licensed by Fairtrade:
- Learn about the challenges – and solutions – associated with each step, from sourcing new materials to delivery and customer disposals
- Find out how sustainability has worked and proved to be very profitable for Continental Clothing
- Learn how much of a competitive advantage can you realistically hope to gain
- Take home a step–by–step guide to help you achieve a green supply chain
- Continental Clothing, Philip Gamett , Director
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Communicating with customers and investors: Why getting it right is paramount
According to The Economist´s global survey, sustainability leaders place communicating with customers and stakeholders higher than any other activity.
It is no longer enough to simply comply with regulations and fulfil your green commitments – you must now be accountable, and meet the expectations of customers and investors. Kingfisher, with its strong track record of stakeholder engagement on issues like sustainable timber and chemicals in paint will share its communications expertise:
- How to get the most out of stakeholder engagement
- Successful consumer communication in an international business arena
- Investor disclosure: How much do you reveal?
- Learn how to provide accurate, comparable green information to investors and customers
- Kingfisher Group, Becky Coffin, Corporate Responsibility Manager
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14:45 - 15:15 Networking Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:30 Session 2
Transport: How to make the most of it
With rising fuel costs, and up to 75% of a company´s carbon footprint coming from transport and logistics, the argument for addressing transport issues is compelling. Moreover, transport and logistics is usually top priority when a company begins to examine the environmental footprint in its supply chain. In Europe, as many as 30% of vehicles are driving around empty due to failure to optimise the backhauls and because they simply end up in the wrong place. This session delivers:
- An expert guide to achieving maximum efficiency - innovative fleet design and route optimisation
- Informed debate on green fleet versus conventional fleet
- Going intermodal - greener modes of transport and making better use of rivers.
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Your data centre: How to make it more profitable
The average annual cost of running a UK data centre is estimated to be £5.3 million - and this is expected to double in the next five years. Cooling data centres alone can represent up to 70% of a financial institution´s carbon footprint...
In this session you´ll explore a variety of options designed to lower your data centre´s carbon footprint - and cut your costs
- BT, Harkeeret Singh, Head of Data Centre Strategy
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16:30 - 17:30 Session 3
Suppliers: How to engage them in your green agenda
It is now essential to accept responsibility for the actions of your suppliers. But even choosing suppliers based on their environmental credentials is simply not enough any more. Your suppliers must prove their suppliers´ credentials as well. Yet seeking influence in businesses you don´t own is by no means straightforward. Attend this session and find out:
- The most effective ways to encourage your first and second tier suppliers to go green
- How much help and guidance you should offer your suppliers
- How to engage your suppliers – even when you´re not the largest buyer
- Learn how to engage your suppliers on critical environmental and social issues – and what you risk if you don´t do it right
- Land Securities, Dave Farebrother, Environmental Director
- Marks & Spencer, Carmel Mcquaid, Climate Change Manager
Moderator
- Acquisti & Sostenibilitá, Angelo Spina, Chairman
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Partnering with NGOs: From protesters to partners
Almost 1,000 formal corporate/NGO partnerships were agreed last year, as companies strive to raise the profile and authenticity of their green supply chain initiatives with customers – along with practical assistance:
- Should companies expect the same level of scrutiny from environmental groups on green issues as other NGOs did on sweatshops?
- How to prevent potential bad publicity by working with NGOs on green issues
- Achieving successful working relationships between businesses and NGOs
- Learn how companies can overcome their inherent differences with NGOs and maintain fruitful relationships
- Tetra Pak, Mario Abreu, Director of Forestry and Recycling
- WWF, Oliver Greenfield, Head of Sustainable Business and Markets
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