The 4th Sustainable Supply Chain Summit Agenda

9:00 Improve the Organizational Performance of Your Sustainable Supply Chain Initiatives by Using the Right Standards

Without firm government legislation, it has been left to businesses and industry associations to establish sustainability standards – get an essential overview of common standards available and which ones are most relevant to you

• Get to grips with the pros and cons of specific standards and how they correlate to the needs of your supply chain
• Learn which standards will facilitate collaboration within your supply chain and how they can be aligned amongst your suppliers
• Get up to date with the latest trends and learn which standards companies are currently using and benefitting from
• Discover how standards can help you use data to better your purchasing decisions
  

Keynote Session with Q&A:         

Raj Sapru, Director, BSR – Clean Cargo Working Group

Get everything you need to take your global supply chain practices to the next level by effectively using all the resources available – get the inside scope from a sustainability giant!

• Drive your sustainability across the breadth of your global supply chain by getting The Dow Chemical Company's top tips of integrating initiatives into the fabric of every day operations

• Efficiently and effectively address the divergent priorities of your commodity and market-facing businesses with a concrete global strategy

• Meet the needs of your supply chain operations across well-established as well as emerging growth geographies by hearing proven metrics and examples from The Dow Chemical Company

In-Depth Case Study:                      

Henry Ward, Global Supply Chain Director - EHS, The Dow Chemical Company

While many organizations are getting on the path to sustainability by looking at ways to decrease their environmental impact, a growing cadre of companies is driving at carbon neutrality. Others still are moving beyond neutrality to restorative or regenerative measures such as renewable energy, restored habitats or onsite water treatment.

• Get a comprehensive overview of carbon neutrality metrics and learn the benefits and limitations for your supply chain
• Cutting-edge expert analysis will give you an essential guide to the newest sustainability revolution and how restorative sustainability could benefit your company through bettering the environment
• Explore how your organization could be a leader within a restorative economy through a series of in-depth, real-life examples of the restorative economy in action
• Learn ways you could develop your own projects through restorative case studies from market leaders
• Fully examine the drivers of a restorative economy and how anticipating them could give your company a marketable advantage

Moderated by:  

Anthony Watanabe, CEO and President, The Innovolve Group

Panel Participants:                            

Dennis Averill, Corporate Manager EHS, Unilever

Nina Goodrich, Principal, Sustainnovation

Regina Edwards, Director – Supply Chain Compliance, MeadWestvaco                                                 

Raj Sapru, Director, BSR – Clean Cargo Working Group

Mark Comolli, Director of Markets, Rainforest Alliance

11:15  Achieve Your Reduction Targets by Collaborating Effectively with Your Suppliers

Maximize the efficiency of your initiatives by working effectively with your suppliers

• Successfully market new programs to your suppliers with proven frameworks
• Improve the efficiency of your programs by learning how to identify which ones will apply to which percentage of your suppliers and manufacturers
• Learn which supplier programs to invest in by examining a holistic framework of how your suppliers directly contribute to your company's sustainability credentials
• Improve your data transparency with Frontier's leading strategies for cultivating channels of communication
• Simplify the complexity of working with suppliers to achieve your targets of reduction by identifying and agreeing on the "least common principle of sustainability"

Leading Presentation:                       

Kevin Moss, Head of Corporate Responsibility, BT Americas

In-Depth Case Study:               

Louis Ferretti, Director - Environmental Compliance & Supply Chain Social Responsibility, IBM

12:15  Sustainable Production Case Study from Frontier Natural Products Co-Op

Here how the Well-Earth program from Frontier Natural Products Co-Op provides a better environment for workers, fuels sustainable production practices for their agricultural crops, minimizes harmful environmental impact and benefits local communities with this in-depth case study.

• Learn how long-term purchasing relationships can be built and fostered
• Discover how to utilise incentives to reward quality, environmentally and socially responsible activities internally

• Explore how to establish a viable, stable and accessible market for raw materials

Presentation:                       

Kathy Larson, Vice President - Sustainability, Frontier Natural Products Co-Op

2:00  Accurately Measure the Sustainability of Your Suppliers and Their Contribution to Your Key Initiatives with Sustainability Scorecards

Develop and implement your own sustainability scorecard and effectively measure your suppliers' energy & water use, waste disposal and greenhouse gas emissions

• Improve the flexibility of sustainability measurement and encourage your suppliers to conduct end-to-end measurement for particular products and services by adapting a scorecard for your supply chain
• Anticipate the intricacies of implementation through a step-by-step analysis and holistic approach to scorecard development from forerunner P&G
• Offset challenges such as internal cooperation, standardization and metric configuration with an in-depth look at how P&G tackled these barriers
• Learn how you could apply P&G’s “open code” scorecard to your own supply chain

In-Depth Case Study:               

Larry Loftus, Director - Purchases Capability & Strategy, Procter & Gamble

Whirlpool Corporation’s Brian Hancock will provide insights into the Whirlpool Corporate supply chain strategy, which provides products and processes that are designed to impact every home in the world.  This presentation will discuss what Whirlpool is doing to improve quality of life while minimizing the impact on the environment

• Get cutting edge strategies for lowering emissions from a confirmed sustainability supply chain leader
• Improve your costs and service levels by applying Whirlpool's flexible fulfillment model to your supply chain

Keynote Presentation:                      

Kevin O'Meara, Director of Supply Chain Operations, Whirlpool Corporation

Hear how competing companies are working together to benchmark strategies for reducing the audit overload of suppliers, deploying a common assessment methodology, enabling exchange of assessment data and enhancing CSR performance within the supply chain

• Get in the inside scoop from Cadbury, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo about how they approached working with competitors
• Get Top 5 short-term benefits of industry alignment and what it could mean for your company long-term
• Explore key strategies to getting the most out of working with competing companies whilst safe-guarding your trade secrets

Keynote Presentations:                      

Sherilyn Brodersen, Ethical Sourcing and Sustainability Manager, Cadbury

Chris Tsai, Executive Director of Project Management, AT&T

4:30   Perfect Your Methods of Waste and Emissions Reduction with Simple Tips from Sustainability Experts

Get top tips from sustainability leaders on how to effectively measure and dramatically cut carbon emissions and waste from your supply chain

• Get simple actions that can immediately reduce waste, cut energy use, carbon pollution and reduce costs of goods sold - even without complete information
• Ensure goals get reached by learning the best strategies for constructing feasible targets of reduction
• Make your management systems more comprehensive by incorporating energy measurement into your supply chain and accurately identifying energy "hotspots"
• Quick tips for developing and ensuring the success of common practices across your supply chain
• Discover the leading methods of mapping and tracking carbon emissions, energy & water consumption, fuel expenditure and solid/liquid waste and how you can adapt them to your activities

2 Keynote Presentations:                   

Mark Servidio, VP - Logistics & Environmental Supply Chain Planning, Sharp Electronics

James Gowen, VP – Supply Chain Operations, Verizon

5:30 ECO Challenge - What Do You Really Know About Sustainability?

Put your knowledge of sustainability to the test with our fun and informative game that gets you working with industry peers to answer tricky questions within the following categories:

• Environmental Impact
• Social Responsibility
• Economic Consequences

Moderated by:                                     

Nina Goodrich, Principal, Sustainnovation 

DAY TWO - Friday, October 29th

9:00  Panel Discussion – How to Effectively Communicate Your Sustainable Supply Chain Efforts to Your Consumer and Analyze Response

Despite being a common focus for discussion, companies often struggle to communicate their sustainable supply chain efforts to their consumer. Interact with our expert panelists and get answers to the following questions:

• Does sustainability within the supply chain translate to the customer?
• How can customer response be measured?
• To what degree should a company be held accountable for their supply chain strategy?
• Educating the customer – what works and what doesn’t?
• Determining which facets of sustainability apply the most to your customer
• How much will obtaining and assessing customer/consumer response actually cost, and will acting on those responses increase the bottom line?

Leading Presentation:

Mary White, Senior Manager -Supplier Outreach, PepsiCo

Moderated by:                                  

Richard Bank, President, Millennium International Consultants and Director of the Sustainable Supply Chain Foundation

Panel Participants:

Judy Wente, Director - Supply Chain ESG Strategy, Intel                           

Mary White, Senior Manager -Supplier Outreach, PepsiCo

Karen Alonardo, Founder & CEO, CSRware Inc.

Even in the most progressive companies, ensuring internal cooperation can be difficult – maximize the effectiveness of your initiatives by engaging the company as whole

• Determine the most effective business cases for demonstrating ROI individually and for the group
• Learn how to successfully integrate environmental measures
• Overcome entrenched interest within your company with American Electric
• Power's top tips for working efficiently with other departments
• Integrate your sustainability initiatives into the baseline with examples of proven techniques
• Understand the increased importance CSO’s and the right way to incorporate their function into your sustainability strategy
• Simple steps you can take to ensure you have the best balance between operational and PR responsibilities

In-Depth Case Study:                      

Des Bell, SVP, Shared Services & CPO, PG&E

10:30  Corporate Social Responsibility and the Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet Profit

With CSR increasingly being scrutinized both internally and publicly, this session provides an essential benchmarking opportunity that will get you working alongside CSR experts and industry peers to develop crucial methods for implementing the triple bottom line into the larger corporate strategy

• Raise company profile through efficient and effective methods of Responsible Strategy
• Sourcing and learn proactive steps to ensure high-quality labour standards within your supply chain
• Fortify your risk management strategies by using CSR to anticipate critical issues that could impact your company's reputation, manage reputation currency and strengthen damage control by using multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Utilize aligned standards to get accurate information quicker with a streamlined approach to site auditing and better levels of communication
• Minimize the level of disruption to your supply chain by working with industry peers to construct a common assessment methodology and reduce the audit overload for suppliers

Presentation:                                     

Bonnie Nixon, Former Director of Environmental Sustainability and Director of Ethical Sourcing, Hewlett-Packard

Two sustainability leaders at different stages of LCA (in development vs. completed a product pilot) will share their step-by-step methodology to approaching this complex initiative and impart valuable insight on how you can implement and develop LCA within your own supply chain

• Identify the potential ROI and the over-all impact of LCA to your supply chain
• Examine a step-by-step methodology and detailed frameworks that will help you apply this complex initiative to your business
• Explore common obstacles and obtain methods of circumventing them with the “lessons learned” portion of in-depth case study
• Determine the best processes for data collection and tools for analyzing data

In-Depth Case Study:              

Yonnie Leung, Supply Chain Strategy & Performance Management, PG&E

11:20 Save Money and Time by Taking a Creative Approach to Sustainability Technology Development and Utilization

Save money on expensive consultants and solution providers by taking a lateral approach to new technology systems as well as learning how to adapt and enhance performance of systems currently in place

• 7 cutting-edge pilot projects will show you practical ways to develop technology tailored to the needs of your supply chain and targets of reduction
• Effectively assess the benefits of introducing new technology vs. adapting already implemented system
• Evaluate top tips of getting technology projects through your organization's approval process
• Keep it simple with good old fashioned spreadsheets – hear the benefits from sustainability leader, Applied Materials
• Learn which solutions work best for industry coalitions
• Become an expert on training your suppliers to use your systems effectively

2 In-Depth Case Studies with Q&A:           

Robert Boller, VP of Sustainability & Production, Jackson Family Wines

Bruce Klafter, Managing Director - Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Applied Materials