Anbinh Phan
Walmart
Director, Global Government Affairs
https://innovationforum.co.uk/conferences/ethical-trade-and-human-rights-forum This two-day business forum will assess how companies can develop and implement robust human rights policies. We'll explore how brands can transform practices to maintain compliance, mitigate risk and build responsible, transparent and ethical supply chains.
Through a series of interactive panels, Q&As and debates, leaders in the field will come together to foster open and honest dialogue. The focus will remain on the practicalities and realities of supply chain transformation and what this means for the future of responsible sourcing.
The speakers
Maureen Kline
Pirelli Tire North America
Vice President, Public Affairs & Sustainability, North America
Ariel Meyerstein
Citi
Senior Vice President, Corporate Sustainability
Colleen Vien
Timberland
Sustainability Director
Brian White
The J.M. Smucker Company
Director, Global Compliance, Trade & Responsible Sourcing
Jaren Dunning
PepsiCo
Legal Director, Human Rights
Shari Gittleman
New Balance
Director Global Compliance - Western Hemisphere and Strategic Planning
Chris Ettery
Dell
Director for Supply Chain Sustainability
Agenda highlights
- Effective due diligence: Opportunities for businesses to manage and mitigate material risks
- A new era of human rights transparency: How to balance stakeholder concerns and showcase the value of disclosure
- “Labor is not a commodity”: How businesses can ensure living wages for all workers
- Innovations in auditing: Can technology help overcome the usual pitfalls in the audit process?
- Evolving legislation and enforcement: How to keep ahead of the regulatory curve and avoid the rising tide of enforcement
- The (risk) map to success: Methods to increase supply chain traceability and prioritize high risk areas
- Child labor: Support systemic changes to mitigate supply chain risk
- Effective remediation: How can business create an effective grievance mechanism that workers can trust, and NGOs can respect
Why attend?
Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies
Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors
Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts
What’s different about this forum?
Innovation Forum is:
- Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
- Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
- Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.
Innovation Forum is NOT:
- A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
- A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
- All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.
Who attends
The venue
This conference is hosted at the offices of the Nature Conservancy
Worldwide Office
Nature Conservancy
4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100
Arlington, VA
22203-1606
United States
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