Responsible Sourcing and Ethical Trade Forum
16th - 17th March 2027
London, UK
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Day 1
Day 2
Day 1
Tuesday 16th March 2027
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:40am
Reality check: Will EUFLR actually change anything?
Plenary
9:40am - 10:15am
Climate risk is human rights risk: What heat, floods and displacement mean for workers
Plenary
10:15am - 10:45am
Speed networking
10:45am - 11:25am
Organised crime and forced labour: What can business do when criminals control recruitment
Plenary
11:25am - 11:55am
Your product’s been blocked at the border. What do you do?
Plenary
11:55am - 12:30pm
The CFO’s guide to human rights: How to prove social performance protects supply and profit
Plenary
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch break
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Breakout round 1
1:30pm - 2:15pm
AI and false confidence: What it can and can’t do for due diligence
Breakout
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Supplier engagement: How to build the trust that surfaces lower-tier forced labour risk
Breakout
1:30pm - 2:15pm
Scenario: “Lowest price, last minute, no human rights violations.” Which one gives?
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Breakout round 2
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Beyond the audit: What counts as credible evidence when auditors can’t get in?
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Contracts that share the risk: How to stop pushing it all onto suppliers
Breakout
2:15pm - 3:00pm
Scenario: You’ve found child labour in your supply chain. What do you do now?
Breakout
3:00pm - 3:30pm
Networking break
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Breakouts round 3
12:00am - 1:00am
Collaborating in high-risk regions: How data sharing and joint engagement deliver results
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Responsible exit: When should you leave a supplier, and how do you do it without making things worse?
Breakout
3:30pm - 4:15pm
Scenario: Climate risk says leave. Social risk says stay. What do you do?
Breakout
4:15pm - 5:00pm
Trust and traceability: What evidence do you need to stand behind a social claim?
Plenary
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Networking drinks
Day 2
Wednesday 17th March 2027
Time
Session title
Theme
Session type
9:00am - 9:45am
Purchasing practices need to change: Here's what suppliers want you to know
Plenary
9:45am - 10:30am
Worker voice: How to build channels workers trust, and act on what they tell you
Plenary
10:30am - 11:00am
Networking break
11:00am - 11:45am
Breakouts round 1
11:00am - 11:45am
Cash is king, and you don’t have any: How to source responsibly when budgets and headcount are shrinking
Breakout
11:00am - 11:45am
Migrant labour: How to better protect seasonal workers
Breakout
11:00am - 11:45am
From silence to solutions: Having honest conversations about child labour in supply chains
Otto Group | The Centre for Child Rights and Business
Breakout
11:00am - 11:45am
We need to talk about China
The other room
11:45am - 12:30pm
Breakouts round 2
11:45am - 12:30pm
Who pays for the fix? How supply chain finance can reward better working conditions
Breakout
11:45am - 12:30pm
Living wages: How to move from benchmarks to what workers actually take home
Breakout
11:45am - 12:30pm
Consent, not just buy-in: How to bring communities with you on land and transition projects
Breakout
11:45am - 12:30pm
Elephants in the room: What are you doing that you know isn’t working?
The other room
12:30pm - 1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Roundtables
1:30pm - 3:00pm
What does “enough” due diligence look like? Where should limited resources go first?
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Just transition in practice: Decarbonisation without shifting harm onto workers
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Modern slavery statements: What will directors be signing off under the new UK rules?
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Retail under the microscope: Who’s liable for forced labour in the brands you stock?
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Beyond empowerment rhetoric: What does real progress for women workers actually look like?
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
We haven’t fixed the problem, but we’re working on it: How do you talk about that externally?
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
The hidden workforce: Forced labour risks in logistics, cleaning and security contracts
Roundtable
1:30pm - 3:00pm
What investors want: How capital markets are asking about human rights, and what to tell them
Roundtable
3:00pm - 3:15pm
Roundtable key takeaways and closing remarks