Corporate Responsibility has become business-critical, and is
something no company can afford to ignore. The number of CR reports
produced by corporations has increased by a huge 9130% over the past
15 years. 88% of the FTSE 100 now report on their CR activities.
Business appears to have wholeheartedly embraced CSR.
But will the widely-predicted forthcoming economic downturn affect
this commitment to corporate responsibility? On the 13th May, four
business experts, including the European Presidents of Starbucks and
DuPont, will debate this issue at the Responsible Business Summit.
The Responsible Business Summit, the highlight of the 2008
European CSR agenda, will be held on May 13-14 2008 in London.
The conference features speakers from companies such as Microsoft,
ABN Amro, Suez, Telefonica and Chiquita and countries as varied as
Poland, France, Canada, Denmark and Italy.
The two day event will draw on business CSR expertise from
throughout Europe, and will provide a robust critique of corporate
responsibility- its strengths and weaknesses.
Ian Hudson, the European President of DuPont, the multi-national
chemicals and healthcare company, will address delegates on managing
sustainability change within an organisation.
Another keynote speaker, Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman of Microsoft
Europe, will investigate whether CSR can act as a driver for
innovation and opportunity.
The conference will also ask how the Managing Director of Kraft UK
and the Executive Editor of the Economist would react to major ethical
dilemmas.
Some 30 other conference sessions will cover issues such as supply
chains, climate change, CSR reporting, employees, partnerships and
management processes for some 500 business attendees.
Other companies sending senior executives as speakers for the
conference include: BBVA; Lehman Brothers; Citi; Unilever; Suez;
Anglo-American; Nestle; Chiquita; Telefonica; Akzo Nobel; KfW;
UniCredit Group and Boeing.
For more information and the complete conference agenda, go to:
http://www.ethicalcorp.com/rbs/?t=b
About Ethical Corporation
Ethical Corporation is an independent publisher and conference
organiser, launched in 2001 to encourage debate and discussion on
responsible business. www.ethicalcorp.com Ethical Corporation also
publishes the new online magazine www.ClimateChangeCorp.com, launched
in February 2007, and has a research arm, the Ethical Corporation
Institute, created in 2006. www.ethicalcorp.com/eci
