An important diary date: 16-17 October, Berlin
The Ethical Supply Chain Summit 2008 is the largest in a long line of ethical procurement and sourcing conferences run by Ethical Corporation. Last years event, held in Amsterdam attracted 173 high level attendees from 21 different countries and this event looks to be even bigger, the event organizers report.
Opinion
“The Ethical Supply Chain Summit provides a great forum for dynamic discussion and lively debate on the important issue of ethical supply chains, and I encourage you to attend.”— Bonnie Nixon-Gardiner, Hewlett Packard
Key issues to be discussed
• Practical ways to measure your carbon footprint
• Collaboration with your competitors: Yes or No?
• Auditing: How to use both social and environmental audits to achieve positive long term effect
• Complying with labour regulation and standards: Achieving best practice
• Complying with environmental regulation: Challenges and solutions
• Microfinance - the role the financial sector can play in creating sustainable and profitable supply chains
• Reducing carbon emissions throughout your supply chain - why you can no longer dodge the issue
• Working with competitors, governments, NGOs and trade unions to improve your supply chain management
• Engaging your suppliers AND consumers in your CR agenda
• Implications on a ground level: what effect do decisions at the top of the supply chain have on the bottom
In addition the two-day conference will:
• Provide you with a level of interaction second to none, really making this YOUR conference
• Allow you to engage in thought provoking debate and discussion
• Offer you unparalleled networking opportunities
Expert speakers include:
• Pepsico, Andrew Smith, Head of Corporate Responsibility
• Fair Labor Associatio, Auret Van Heerden, CEO
• WWF, Richard Perkins, Senior Policy Adviser - Agricultural Supply Chains
• International Finance Corporation - The World Bank Group, Miguel Martins, Investment Officer
• HP, Karl Daumueller, Supply Chain Programme Manager, EMEA
• L´Oreal, Ariane Thomas, Supply chain purchasing director
• Deutsche Telekom, Dr. Heinz-Gerd Peters, Senior Expert Corporate Procurement
• Timberland, Anabel Drese, CSR Director, Europe
• Oxfam Novib, Gine Zwart, Trade and Private Sector Group
• Sedex, Tara Norton, General Manager
• Cadbury, Nathalie Ritchie, Head of Ethical Sourcing
• Syngenta, Richard Brown, Head of Product Stewardship & Sustainable Agriculture
• Ethical Trading Initiative, Dan Rees, Director
• GlaxoSmithKline, Luca Guzzabocca, Procurement Director & Co-Chairman of Acquisti & Sostenibilitá
• Body Shop, Graham Clewer, Head of Ethical Trade
• Body Shop, Mary Teakle, Ethical Trade Coordinator
• British American Tobacco, Simon Roper, Group Head of Global Environmental Health & Safety
• Fairtrade Labeling Organisation, Rob Cameron, CEO
• TransfairUSA, Caren Holzman, Director of Category Management
• Toyota, Stefan Crets, Deputy General Manager - CSR
• Fairwear foundation, Erica van Doorn, Director
• Carbon Disclosure Project, Nigel Topping, Head of Supply Chain
• Carbon Trust, Herve Humbert, European Business Development Manager
For more information contact:
Andy Quildan, conference director
+44 (0)20 7375 7165
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/supplychain
Look for coverage of this event in the next issue of EUcommerz
