London Global Convention 2012: October 10-12
LONDON GLOBAL CONVENTION - 2012
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Theme:
Corporate Governance Perspectives and Sustainability Challenges
Objectives:
The Global Summit on Corporate Governance and Sustainability will be a knowledge and capacity building platform and networking opportunity addressing key issues of Corporate Governance and Sustainability challenges:
- Bring together future thinking professionals and opinion leaders for creating real business values by placing sustainability at the heart of corporate agenda.
- Provide direction for business to integrate Sustainability issues in business strategy, and for its penetration in their entire value chain.
- Identify innovative ways to engage internal and external stakeholders.
- Turn Sustainability into a Competitive Advantage, as a value creation tool.
- Develop new business models for Sustainable growth.
- Make the 'Triple Bottom Line' relevant to your organization.
Topics:
1. Vision of Sustainability in 2050:
- Rejuvenating economy through sustainability.
- New Era of Sustainable Future - opportunities and challenges.
- Evolving sustainable competitiveness strategy.
- Sustainable business and society- An agenda for action.
- Turning business into a cause.
- Managing sustainability performance, through the value chain for life cycle management.
- Corporate dialogue on global commons.
- Forging strategies to deal with Social and Environmental Sustainability.
2. Sustainable Business Growth through Green Economy:
- Green credentials and development agenda for sustainable growth.
- Setting regulatory standards and ensuring effective enforcement for environmentally sustainable governance.
- Environmental investment and carbon control - Strategies to prepare for a carbon constrained future.
- Water management towards zero water strategy.
- Governance practices and boardroom policies for climate security.
- Promoting sustainable energy options.
- Emerging issues and new frontiers in climate change and corporate concerns.
3. Corporate Governance: A Game Changer of Sustainable Strategies:
- Corporate Governance at the Crossroads.
- Rethinking Governance for Sustainability - Towards more effective Board Leadership.
- Leveraging a high performance Board for Sustainability.
- Beyond Box-ticking - identifying practices that are fundamental to improved Corporate Governance.
- Effective OECD and other Corporate Governance codes and practices to drive both profit and sustainability.
- Principle based Corporate Governance - emerging dimensions.
4. Stakeholder Buy- in — Unleashing The Power of Engagement:
- Boards to improve quality of engagement with all stakeholders.
- Independent Directors in protecting stakeholder interests.
- Aligning organizational goals with corporate governance policies
- Fostering and rewarding ethical practices at all levels of the organization.
- Transparency, resilience and innovation- keys to sustainability
- Review internal and external stakeholder paradigm, values and engagement practices to build confidence.
5. Risk Management for Sustainability:
- Navigating through new risk Landscape.
- Leveraging reliable practices of Corporate Governance for a fraud free environment.
- Embedding risk management in the Board's decision-making process.
- Establishing effective whistle-blower policy, and protecting the whistle-blowers.
6. Making Corporate Social Responsibility - An Actionable Business Agenda:
- Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility into the Boardroom responsibility.
- Factoring Civil Society into Corporate Governance - A Bridge between business and society.
- Social Innovation - The driver of economic growth.
- Strategic CSR - Creating shared value.
- Corporate citizenship and social responsibility - Helping achieve the 'Millennium Development Goals'.
7. Need of Integrated Sustainability Reporting - A Paradigm Shift :
- Fostering timely and concise information for decision making and bridging the information divide - Cutting through communication clutter.
- IFRS and Financial disclosures - Assessing Corporate Performance and profitability.
- Triple Bottom Line accounting to give realism to pricing natural and social capital for factoring costs in financial statements.
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) - Makes compliance and performance more accountable through non-financial reporting.