Central and Eastern Europe Corporate Responsibility Summit

Central and Eastern Europe Corporate Responsibility Summit is a two day business event (with a post conference training workshop too) that will show you how the leading companies are managing corporate social responsibility issues across the region. It takes place on 13th – 14th October 2008, in Prague. On the 15th we’ll also hold a practical CSR workshop.

This summit is designed as a regional event on corporate responsibility. This annual conference will be THE meeting place for companies that work in the region, a place where they can share knowledge and discuss the main responsible business challenges they face every day

Central and Eastern European countries share some common history and social and economic backgrounds. And when it comes to development and implementation of effective corporate responsibility strategies, there is a lot of invaluable experience to be shared among the companies that work in the region.

This management focused summit will provide CSR professionals from across the region with an opportunity to gain vital in-depth knowledge and share ideas. Attendees will debate how to develop, integrate and implement corporate responsibility across big business in CEE and beyond. And how to make CSR initiatives pay off.

The list of confirmed speakers already includes:

• DHL Express Czech Republic, Jorge E. Vacca, Director Marketing & Business Development Division
• Microsoft, Jan Muehlfeit, Chairman Europe
• Nestlé Poland, Malgorzata Szlendak, CA & PR Manager
• Czech Coal, Radek Stavel, Director Human Resources & Corporate Communications Division
• RWE Stoen, Iwona Jarzebska, Head of Communication and Marketing
• Victor Pinchuk Foundation (Ukraine), Thomas Eymond-Laritaz, President
• WWF – Russia, Igor Chestin, Director
• Shell, Kamelia Slaveykova, Communications Manager CEE Cluster
• Telekomunikacja Polska, Bartlomiej Roch-Remisko , D irector of Corporate Responsibility
• Carbon Disclosure Project, Paul Simpson, Chief Operating Officer
• System Capital Management (Ukraine), Jock Mendoza-Wilson, Director of International and Investor Relations
• Siemens Czech Republic, Karolína Kríženecká, Communication Manager
• Neziskovky.cz (Czech Republic), Marek Sedivy, Executive Director
• Business Leaders Forum (Czech Republic), Tomas Nejedlo , Executive Director
• BP Poland, Dorota Adamska, Communication & External Affairs Manager
• Denso Manufacturing Hungary, Gärtner Szilvia, Safety Environmental and Health Supervisor
• Corporation Industrial Union of Donbass, Vassiliy Arbuzov, Head of Department of External Communications
• Global Alliance for Responsibility, Democracy and Equity (GARDE), Pavel Franc, Director
• Responsible Business Forum (FOB) Poland, Iwona Kuraszko, Development and Research Manager
• Neziskovky.cz (Czech Republic), Pavel Safranek, Member of Supervisory Board
• Czech Coal, Stanislav Kuzel, Consultant, Research, Sustainable Development
• KOVET Hungary, Csaba Bodroghelyi, Executive Director
• Plzenský Prazdroj (SABMiller, Czeck Republic), Zuzana Novická, Sustainable Development
• Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), Nelmara Arbex, Senior Director of the GRI Secretariat
• Danone Poland, Przemek Pohrybieniuk, Director of External Relations