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Event Overview

In the race to become the greenest, most sustainable company, corporate responsibility reporting is no longer optional. The focus is now on how you report and to whom – as shown by stakeholders’ ever increasing demand for sustainability reports to be both qualitative and readable.

However, this type of reporting is only a few decades old and still in the making. So, the question is, how do you deliver effective (and accurate) CR reports and successfully communicate it to all your stakeholders?

This year’s summit has been mainly designed to help you address this very question, with the insight of CR reporting best practices.

And based on months of research with your peers, we will be covering the following issues:

  • Overview of GRI vs. other reporting standards
  • Materiality
  • Data Gathering/tools
  • innovation
  • Investor expectations
  • How to make your report readable and worth the effort
  • Rating agencies: where do you stand?
  • Transparency
  • What is the value of your report?
  • What does the future hold for CR reporting?
  • Verification/assurance
  • How to deliver a complex message to a multi-stakeholder audience/stakeholder engagement
  • Global vs. local – the challenge of large international companies
  • Supply chain management
  • How to take your CR reports to a wider audience
  • Employee engagement

Confirmed speakers so far include:

  • Alliance-Boots, Richard Ellis, Group Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Bayer AG, Ursula Mathar, VP Environment and Sustainability
  • Business Respect, Mallen Baker, CEO, Independent Commentator and Ethical Corporation Columnist
  • Coca-Cola , Joe Franses, Head of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
  • EIRIS, Stephanie Maier, Head of Research
  • Fortis, Eric Bouwmeester, General Manager of Corporate Social Responsibility
  • GlaxoSmithKline, Julia King, VP of CSR
  • GRI, Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive
  • Lehman Brothers, Charlotte Grezo, Global Head of Sustainability
  • Microsoft , Sylvie Laffarge, Director of Community Affairs for EMEA
  • Nestlé, Hilary Parsons, Head of Corporate Affairs
  • Novo Nordisk, Susanne Stormer, VP, TBL Leadership
  • ORSE, Delphine Poligné, Project Director
  • Rabobank, Olaf Brugman, CSR Division
  • Shell, Mark Weintraub, Group Senior Adviser Sustainable Development
  • Standard Chartered, Marianne Mwaniki, Senior Sustainability Manager
  • Standard Life Investment, Julie McDowell, Head of SRI
  • Tata Group, Anant G. Nadkarni, Vice President, Group Corporate Sustainability, Tata Council for Community Initiatives
  • Telefonica-O2 UK, Simon Davis, Head of Corporate Responsibility
  • Telefonica, Belen Izquierdo, CR Manager
  • The Guardian, Jo Confino, Executive Editor
  • Transparency International, Peter Wilkinson, Senior Project Advisor
  • UKSIF, Penny Shepherd, CEO
  • Vodafone, Joaquim Croca, Head of Corporate Responsibility Performance & Reporting
  • West LB, Hendrik Garz, Executive Director