The Global Reporting Summit

The Global Corporate Responsibility Reporting Summit is a focused 2 day conference designed to shed light on the current climate of global CR reporting.

With an ever more vociferous demand for solid CR information from stakeholders, accurate and efficient reporting is becoming integral to a successful CR agenda throughout the corporate world. It has grown to the extent that we are now able to celebrate best practice in reporting as is evidenced by Corporate Registers CR Reporting Awards 07. Tying in with this landmark event is this in depth study of CR reporting around the globe.

This informative and interactive experience will raise a number of key issues. Listen to views from some of the leading experts in reporting and draw your own conclusions based on groundbreaking debate on areas such as the value of assurance and the pro’s and con’s of box ticking when creating your report.

Learn from best practice examples how to produce a strong report and perhaps most importantly how to use it to ensure your company maximises its potential for positive long term effect.

In addition to all of this, this 2 day conference will offer:

• Practical knowledge you can use: Leave the conference with clear ideas on what your competitors are doing what you need to do to keep up with the pack.
• Tools: Get the tools to improve your CR Report and get your message across clearly.
• Fully customisable programme: Choose between 12 workshops and create a conference agenda suited directly to your needs.
• Opportunity to meet industry leaders and peers: An unrivalled opportunity to network and socialise with the most significant individuals in CR reporting today.
• Truly global speakers for a worldwide view on best practice: From Sri Lanka to Germany , from the Czech Republic to Canada.

Confirmed speakers:

• WestLB, Dr Hendrik Garz, Executive Director
• Tru Cost, Dr Richard Mattison, Managing Director
• Vodafone, Ramon Arratia, Senior CR Manager
• Henkel, Uwe Bergman, Corporate Sustainability Management
• Danisco, Liselotte Carlsen, Corporate Sustainable Development Project Manager
• Novo Nordisk, Susan Stormer, Director
• Unified Energy System of Russia, Marina Liborakina, Non-financial Risk Management and Social Reporting Directorate
• Gap Inc., Burak Cakmak, Senior Manager for Social Responsibility
• Czech Coal Group, Radek Stavel, Head of Corporate Communications
• National Grid, Joe Kwasnik, Group Head of Climate Change
• Victor House News Co., William D’Alessandro, Executive Editor
• Traidcraft, Fiona Gooch, UK Director, Responsible Purchasing Initiative
• Standard Life Investments, Julie McDowell, Head of SRI
• DNV, Esther Garcia, Head of CSR (UK&Ireland)
• Forensic Pathways, Deb Leary, CEO
• DeBeers Group, TBC
• Vancity, Joanne Westwood, Sr. Manager, Accountability Community Leadership
• Csrnetwork Ltd, Mark Line, Managing Director
• Caja Navarra, Guillermo Catalán, Head of Communications Office
• British American Tobacco, Jenny Gibbons, International Sustainability Manager
• CorporateRegister.com, Paul Scott, Director
• SGS, Rebecca Bowens, Global CSR Product Manager
• Transparency International, Cobus De Swardt, Director of Global Programmes
• Leeds Business School, Professor Ralph Tench
• SGS, Rita Godfrey, Senior CSR Advisor