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This event is now over - however the 2009 Global CR Reporting Summit is taking place June 11th-12th 2009 from Brussels please visit www.ethicalcorp.com/globalreporting for more information

 

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
  • British American Tobacco, Jennie Gibbons, International Sustainability Manager
  • Business Respect, Mallen Baker, CEO, Independent Commentator and Ethical Corporation Columnist
  • Cadbury, Alison Ward, Head of Global Corporate Responsibility
  • Carbon Disclosure Project, Andrea Smith, Technical Manager
  • Coca-Cola , Joe Franses, Head of Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability
  • Danone, Jean Christophe Laugée, Sustainable Development Integration Director
  • 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, Former Head of Sustainability
  • Microsoft , Sylvie Laffarge, Director of Community Affairs for EMEA
  • Nestlé, Hilary Parsons, Head of Corporate Affairs
  • Novo Nordisk, Susanne Blesener, International Project Manager, Corporate Accountability
  • ORSE, Delphine Poligné, Project Director
  • Rabobank, Olaf Brugman, Senior Manager CSR - CSR Division
  • Sasol Limited, Stiaan Wandrag, Sustainable Development Manager
  • Shell, Mark Weintraub, Group Senior Adviser Sustainable Development
  • Standard Chartered, Marianne Mwaniki, Senior Sustainability Manager
  • Standard Life Investments, 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, Sofia Fernandez de Mesa, Director of CSR
  • The Guardian, Jo Confino, Executive Editor
  • Transparency International, Robert Barrington, Director of External Affairs
  • UKSIF, Penny Shepherd, Chief Executive
  • Vodafone, Joaquim Croca, Head of Corporate Responsibility Performance & Reporting
  • West LB, Hendrik Garz, Executive Director