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Meet Senior Decision Makers From The Following Industry Sectors:
Retail
Food & Drink
Consumer Products
Textiles
Electronics
With the Following Job Titles:
- Director of Sustainable Development
- Health, Safety & Environment Directors
- Corporate Affairs Directors
- Director/Head of Sustainability
- Director/Head of CSR
- Supply Chain Manager/Director
- Procurement Directors
- Technical Directors
- Head of Environmental/Corporate Affairs
- Head of R&D
- Head of Natural Resources
Plus:
- Logistics & Transportation
- Packaging & Suppliers
- Supply Chain Solutions
- Logistics/Distribution Systems
- Data Modeling/Analysis Solutions
- Life Cycle Analysis (LCA)
- Environment Consultancy
- National Government Organizations
- Sustainability Communications
- Environmental Building Design
- Traceability Technology
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| 0815 |
Coffee and Registration |
| 0845 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
| How Retailers & Consumer Product Companies Are Prioritizing LCA & Supply Chain
Sustainability Initiatives |
KEYNOTE PANEL
| 0900 |
Justifying Strategy For Prioritising The Measurement & Management Of Carbon, Water, Energy, Ecological & Social Impacts |
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A. How Leading Retailers Are Interpreting Sustainability Across Europe |
- Going beyond the carbon footprint: addressing a broader spectrum of impacts (water, waste, electricity, and raw materials)
- Identifying the triple bottom line: social, economical and environmental factors
Rachel Bradley, Head of CSR, B&Q
Anabel Drese, CSR Manager for Europe, Timberland
Jack Cunningham, Environmental Affairs Manager, Sainsburys
Carmel Mcquaid, Climate Change Manager, Marks & Spencer
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B. Practical Experiences On Adding Commercial Value Through LCA & Supply Chain Sustainability |
- Two mini case studies presenting results on LCA projects
- Making the business case and scrutinising decision making criteria
- Examining the methodologies
- Results
- Co-ordinating with innovation & marketing when launching new products
Jack De Bokx, Senior Director for Europe: Environment, Health and Safety, Johnson & Johnson
Henry King, Science and Technology Leader: Sustainability, Unilever
Thierry Raes, Global Relationship Partner, PWC
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| 0950 |
Extended Questions & Discussion |
THE FUTURE VISION ON EU & NATIONAL POLICY
| 1000 |
Unifying Legal Requirements & Standards On Sustainability |
European policy-makers and government bodies will outline the future plans on sustainability legislation
and their initiatives to harmonize the standards.
- EU Legislation On Sustainability:
- Post Copenhagen, what’s next?
- Are the European legislative and regulatory frameworks sufficient and adequate?
- Internationally accepted principles for environmental claims and consumer information tools
- What Are The National Governmental Commitments?
- Understanding the importance of a unified policy rather than fragmented local regulations
Liazzat Rabbiosi, Programme Officer, SCP Branch, UNEPDTIE
Sylvain Chevassus, Bureau of Sustainable Consumption and Production, French Ministry
of Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Sea
Pavel Misiga, Head of Environment and Industry Unit, EU Commission
| 1025 |
Understanding What Standard Bodies Are Doing To Bring Together A More Consistent,
Unified Reality |
- Discovering what progress reporting standards organizations are making in presenting a more unified and holistic approach to avoid the costly and inefficient proliferation of different standards
- Developing a unified approach to measuring LCA
- Realising how businesses can collaborate to create more consistent standards
Frances Way, Head of Supply Chain, Carbon Disclosure Project
Marcus Norton, Head of Water Disclosure, Carbon Disclosure Project
| 1050 |
Morning Refreshment Break |
| 1120 |
Measuring Environmental Impacts In The Food And Drinks Industry: Building a Smarter Planet |
Something important is happening in the food and drink industry. Our supply chain is becoming increasingly interconnected, instrumented and intelligent. This creates the opportunity to be smarter in measuring environmental impact and making informed choices about strategy and tactics. Given the increasing environmental stresses facing food and beverage companies, there is a sense of urgency for decsion-makers and an immediate need to share best practice and innovations. In this presentation, IBM presents a view of the challenges and presents examples of the smartest companies are using measurement to reduce impact.
Trevor Davis, Consumer Products Strategy Consultant and Global SME in New Product Development & Introduction, IBM
PANEL SESSION
| 1210 |
Measuring Environmental Impacts In The Food And Drinks Industry: Which Solutions Offer Most Business Benefit And Why – The Pros And Cons Of Full Versus Simplified LCA |
Panel Led By Sara Pax, Founder and Managing Director, Blue Horse Associates
Carmel Mcquaid, Climate Change Manager, Marks & Spencer
Frances Way, Head of Supply Chain, Carbon Disclosure Project
| Developing A Customer Communication Strategy For Indicating The Overall Sustainability Of A Product |
| 1240 |
Creating A Consistent Message For Consumers On The Sustainability Of A Product |
- CSR and Sustainability Directors:
- How to communicate sustainable actions to consumers?
- Adding value to the brand by integrating the sustainability factor
- Agreement on the role of labelling
- NGOs: Where do they stand and what is their vision?
- Governments perspective: Tools for businesses to promote sustainable consumption
Alison Ward, Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility, Cadbury
Mats Pellbäck-Sharp, Head of Corporate Sustainability, Sony Ericsson
Gunilla Blomquist, Deputy Director, Swedish Ministry of Environment
Oliver Greenfield, Head of Sustainable Business and Economics, World Wildlife Fund
| 1320 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1430 |
Practical Examples Of How Organisations Are Measuring And Reducing Impacts Throughout The Entire Life Cycle |
- Success stories showing how a company has used a multi-faceted approach to measure its environmental and social impact
- Explaining the methodology and approach they used to assess their impact including the standards they followed
- Understanding once they had this information, how they used it to create sustainability initiatives throughout their life cycle and supply chain
- Realising how they added new decisions, such as what suppliers to use, based on environmental impact compared to cost
Roberto Vega, Director of Sustainability, Dole
Liz Cross, Head of Policy & Strategy on CSR for Procurement, BT
| 1455 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1500 |
Real-World Experiences On Reaching Across The Supply Chain To Engage Suppliers In Reporting Their Emissions: What Is Working In The Real World? |
- Practical tools to engage your suppliers to report their environmental and social impacts
- Learning how to monitor your suppliers' practices and how to communicate recommendations to develop their capacity
- Finding out how to determine which emissions from your suppliers relate directly to your business
- Getting the suppliers perspective on the challenges involved in accounting for their emissions to better understand the practicalities of implementing reporting initiatives
- Understanding the most practical tools for comparing and analysing environmental and social impacts throughout the supply chain, whilst using the minimum amount of resources
Dominique Roche, Infrastructure and Transmission Standardisation Manager, Orange, France Telecom Group
Sandy Smith, Director, Sustain
Pierre-Louis Frouein, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Alcatel-Lucent
| 1525 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1530 |
Afternoon Refreshments |
| 1600 |
Practical Examples On Acquiring Reliable Data |
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Successfully Generating Upstream Agricultural Data |
- Overcoming problems and difficulties associated with generating upstream data
- What kind of data needs to be generated? What’s included in the data?
- Gaining access to data – comparing the effectiveness of published data vs. collecting raw data upstream
Roberto Vega, Director of Sustainability, Dole
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A Life Cycle Perspective: Comparing Approaches For Obtaining Data And Populating Inventories |
- Obtaining the right data for an integrated sustainability index
- How to engage with suppliers to obtain reliable data and how to develop their capacity
Henry King, Science and Technology Leader: Sustainability, Unilever
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Obtaining Data For Water Footprinting & Impact Assessment |
Inder Poonaji, Corporate Head of Safety, Health and Environment Sustainability , Nestlé
| 1700 |
Solutions For Monitoring And Auditing Supplier Sustainability Performance - Moving beyond Compliance to Performance Improvement |
- Integration with category management and supply chain improvement objectives
- Moving beyond supply chain compliance to benefits realisation
- Communicating sustainable supply chain progress with confidence
Douglas Johnston, Director, Climate Change & Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young LLP
| 1730 |
Chair's Summary and Close of Day One |
| 1745 |
Evening Drinks Reception for Speakers and Delegates |
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Day Two: 26 May 2010
| 0915 |
Chair’s Opening Remarks |
KEYNOTE CASE STUDY
| 0925 |
Implementing An Integrated Life Cycle Approach And Communicating The Sustainability Message |
- The practicalities of engaging consumers & key stakeholders
- How to collaborate with investors and other key stakeholders to achieve cost-effective solutions from the economic and environmental points of view
- Encouraging partners to drive change
An Vermeulen, Head of European Public Affairs, Coca-Cola Enterprises |
| 1005 |
Discovering The Business Case For Assessing And Reducing Your Energy Emissions In Manufacturing Processes |
- Data and methodologies to measure energy output of manufacturing companies in the supply chain
- How to collaborate with suppliers to address these impacts
- Success stories where companies have reduced their energy output
- Discovering the cost savings for putting these initiatives in place
- Understanding how energy reductions fit in with the sustainable supply chain objectives of a company
Ariane Thomas, Head of Environment, L'Oreal
| 1035 |
Reducing Your Packaging Waste Throughout The Life Cycle And Supply Chain |
- Determining the cost and environmental impact of packaging throughout the supply chain and life cycle
- Comparing different forms of packaging and analyzing the impact on the triple bottom line (social, economic and environmental cost)
- How to encourage key stakeholders to reduce packaging impacts
- Practical examples where companies have reduced the waste of their packaging cost effectively
- Reducing the impact of bottles and containers at the end of their life
- Discovering how the broader LCA goals of a firm incorporate the reduction of packaging waste
Peter Saling, Head of Eco-Efficiency, BASF
| 1100 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1115 |
Morning Refreshment Break |
WATER SCARCITY
| 1135 |
Practical Solutions To Evaluating And Reducing Water Impact Across A Supply Chain |
- Understanding the information required to calculate a water footprint
- Measuring water impacts throughout the supply chain
- Reducing water impact by collaborating with suppliers
- Comparing water usage in all the products of an organisation
- Discovering the business case for lower water usage throughout the supply chain
Ivan Baxter, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Nestlé
| 1200 |
Best Practices For Assessing & Addressing Ethical And Social Issues Throughout The Life Cycle: How To Address Social issues In The Life Cycle Assessment |
- Tools to assess social impacts of companies throughout the life cycle and supply chain
- Working with key stakeholders to reduce social impacts
- Determining what type of ethical strategies have repeatedly been shown to work
- Realising the benefit to businesses of implementing these activities
- Finding out how addressing these social issues connects with the overall LCA of companies
Simon Houghton-Dodd, Head of Quality and Sustainability, Tate & Lyle
| 1225 |
Questions & Discussion |
RECYCLED MATERIALS IN PRODUCTION
| 1345 |
Best Practices For Using Recycled Materials In The Production Of Goods |
- Analysing the economic, social and environmental cost of using recycled vs. nonrecycled materials in production
- Teaming with members of the supply chain to use recycled materials in production
- Incorporating recyclable material into manufacturing of your goods
- Realising the business benefits of implementing such initiatives
Anabel Drese, CSR Manager for Europe, Timberland
| 1405 |
Questions & Discussion |
RAW MATERIALS SOURCING
| 1410 |
Success Stories On Creating A More Sustainable Supply Chain Through Sourcing Of Agricultural Raw Materials |
- Acquiring the data necessary to evaluate the impact of agricultural raw materials socially and environmentally
- Working with key stakeholders to collect data and sustainably source raw materials
- Evaluating the environmental and social impact throughout the supply chain of agricultural raw materials
- Practical examples where firms have cost effectively sourced their agricultural raw materials to reduce their environmental and social impact
- Learning the benefits of sustainable sourcing and how this links with a companies sustainable supply chain mission
Simon Houghton-Dodd, Head of Quality and Sustainability, Tate & Lyle
| 1430 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1435 |
Success Stories On Sustainable Sourcing Of Industrial Raw Materials |
- Acquiring the data necessary to understand the sourcing of industrial raw materials
- Working with key stakeholders to collect data and responsibly source raw materials
- Evaluating the environmental and social impact throughout the supply chain of industrial raw materials
- Practical examples where firms have cost effectively sourced their industrial raw materials to reduce their environmental and social impact
- Learning the benefits of responsible sourcing and how this links with a company’s supply chain corporate responsibility mission
Peter Saling, Head of Eco-Efficiency Analysis, BASF
| 1455 |
Questions & Discussion |
| 1500 |
Afternoon Refreshments |
REDUCING FOOD WASTE
| 1530 |
Best Practices For Reducing Food Waste Throughout The Life Cycle |
- Methodologies for identifying key areas in the life cycle where food waste can be reduced, recycled or used as bi product
- Learning how to reduce food waste once these key areas have been identified
- Best practises for turning waste into bi products, which can then be used in other operations through out the business
- Realising the cost efficiencies of implementing such initiatives
Alex Smith, Owner, Environmental Affairs, Alara
| 1550 |
Questions & Discussion |
PRODUCT DESIGN TO REDUCE ENERGY
| 1555 |
Practical Solutions On How To Design Products That Reduce Energy Throughout The Entire Life Cycle |
- Comparing the economic, social and environmental cost of a product with different designs
- Working with manufacturers to design products that reduce energy throughout the life cycle
- Understanding how to design products with low energy
- Realising the business case for creating such products
Markus Stutz, EMEA Environmental Affairs Manager, Dell
| 1600 |
Questions & Discussion |
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Jack De Bokx
Senior Director EH&S
Johnson & Johnson
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Henry King
Science and Technology Leader: Sustainability
Unilever
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Peter Saling
Head of Eco-Efficiency Analysis
BASF
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An Vermeulen
Head of Public Affairs
Coca-Cola Enterprises
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Ivan Baxter
Head of Regulatory Affairs
Nestle
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Inder Poonaji
Corporate Head of Safety, Health and Environment Sustainability
Nestle
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Mats Pellbäck-Sharp
Head of Sustainability
Sony Ericsson
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Liz Cross
Head of Policy & Strategy on CSR for Procurement
BT
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Ariane Thomas
Corporate Environment Director
L’Oreal
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Carmel Mcquaid
Climate Change Manager
Marks & Spencer
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Jack Cunningham
Head of Climate Change & Environment
Sainsbury’s
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Rachel Bradley
Social Responsibility Manager
B&Q
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Alison Ward
Global Head of Corporate Social Responsibility
Cadbury
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Anabel Drese
CSR Manager for Europe
Timberland
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Roberto Vega
Director of Sustainability
Dole
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Simon Houghton-Dodd
Head of Quality & Sustainability
Tate & Lyle
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Alex Smith
Founder and Director
Alara Wholefoods
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Pavel Misiga
Head of Environment and Industry Unit
EU Commission
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Sylvain Chevassus
Bureau of Sustainable Consumption and Production
French Ministry of Environment, Energy, Sustainability and Sea
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Gunilla Blomquist
Deputy Director
Swedish Ministry of the Environment
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Liazzat Rabbiosi
Programme Officer, SCP Branch
UNEPDTIE
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Frances Way
Head of Supply Chain
Carbon Disclosure Project
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Marcus Norton
Head of Water Disclosure
Carbon Disclosure Project
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Sara Pax
Founder and Managing Director
Blue Horse Associates
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Dominique Roche
Infrastructure & Transmission Standardisation Manager - Orange
France Télécom Group
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Oliver Greenfield
Head of Sustainable Business and Economics
WWF-UK
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Pierre-Louis Frouein
Corporate Social Responsibility Manager
Alcatel-Lucent
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Sandy Smith
Director
Sustain
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Markus Stutz
EMEA Environmental Affairs Manager
Dell
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Trevor Davis
Consumer Products Strategy Consultant and Global SME in New Product Development & Introduction
IBM
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Douglas Johnston
Director Climate Change and Sustainability Services
Ernst & Young LLP
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