• Director of Sustainable Development
• Health, Safety & Environment Directors
• Corporate Affairs Directors
• VP/Director/Head of Sustainability
• VP/Head of CSR
• Director, Environmental Stewardship
• Procurement Directors
• Technical Directors
• Head of Environmental Affairs
• Head of R&D
• Head of Natural Resources

• Logistics & Transportation
• Packaging & Suppliers
• Supply Chain Solutions
• Logistics/Distribution Systems
• Data Modeling/Analysis Solutions
• Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
• Environment Consultancy
• National Government Organizations
• Sustainability Communications
• Environmental Building Design
• Traceability Technology

	DAY ONE: 28 April 2010
	DAY TWO: 29 April 2010

• Understanding if companies are narrowing the definition of sustainability or addressing a broader spectrum of indicators
• Benchmarking experiences on how the economic situation has changed the business approach to sustainability
• Comparing areas of the life cycle multi-nationals are most likely to invest in next
• Determining how to position your business for an improving economic situation in the future
• Presenting NGO perspectives on what companies are really focusing on: PR vs. reality

• Justifying the value of a using multi faceted approach, as opposed to assessing just carbon impacts
• Finding out the benefits of building this strong sustainability focus on the triple bottom line (economic, social and environmental benefits)
• Understanding the financial goals successful companies are setting around LCA and their commitment to those goals
• Practical examples showing how companies have created economic advantage through LCA and sustainability in the supply chain

• Evaluating the total social, environmental and economic impacts of a company through out its entire life cycle
• Explaining best practise methodologies for measuring total impact
• Sharing quantitative and qualitative methods which identify where the largest impacts are taking place in the life cycle
• Understanding the most successful strategies for adapting to these large impacts once they have been identified

• A success story showing how a company has used a multi faceted approach to measure its environmental and social impact
• Explaining the methodology and approach they used to assess their impact including the standards they followed
• Understanding once they had this information, how they used it to create sustainability initiatives throughout their life cycle and supply chain
• Realizing how they added new decisions, such as what suppliers to use, based on environmental impact compared to cost

• Explaining the tools and techniques used to calculate Scope 3 emissions
• How to implement these tools and techniques into your own businesses
• Understanding what is included in Scope 3 emissions. What to include and what to exclude
• Determining how much data is required and how to communicate that data

• Sharing success stories where companies have engaged their suppliers to report their environmental and social impacts
• Finding out how to determine which emissions from your suppliers relate directly to your business
• Getting the suppliers perspective on the challenges involved in accounting for their emissions to better understand the practicalities of implementing reporting initiatives
• Understanding the most practical tools for comparing and analyzing environmental and social impacts throughout the supply chain, whilst using the minimum amount of resources

• Tools to assess social impacts of companies throughout the life cycle and supply chain
• Working with key stakeholders to reduce social impacts
• Determining what type of ethical strategies have repeatedly been shown to work
• Realizing the benefit to businesses of implementing these activities
• Finding out how addressing these social issues connects with the overall LCA of companies

• Learning about forthcoming climate change and sustainability legislation that is set to impact your business:
• A holistic view as well as focus on agriculture, labelling, chemicals and other topical consumer goods issues
• Understanding where legislation is heading over the next three to five years
• Discovering how progressive companies are preparing for it and how you can too

• Data and methodologies to measure energy output of manufacturing companies in the supply chain
• How to collaborate with suppliers to address these impacts
• Success stories where companies have reduced their energy output
• Discovering the cost savings for putting these initiatives in place
• Understanding how energy reductions fit in with the sustainable supply chain objectives of a company

• Determining the cost and environmental impact of packaging throughout the supply chain and life cycle
• Comparing different forms of packaging and analyzing the impact on the triple bottom line (social, economic and environmental cost)
• How to encourage key stakeholders to reduce packaging impacts
• Practical examples where companies have reduced the waste of their packaging cost effectively
• Reducing the impact of bottles and containers at the end of their life
• Discovering how the broader LCA goals of a firm incorporate the reduction of packaging waste

• Understanding how to acquire the appropriate data to measure transportation impacts across the supply chain
• Learning how to engage suppliers in emissions reducing activities
• Calculating total transport emissions across the supply chain
• Strategies used to decrease transportation emissions and how to implement these
• Discovering the financial benefits of decreasing these emissions
• Realizing how this links with the wider LCA and sustainable supply chain strategy of a company

• Understanding the information required to calculate a water footprint
• Measuring water impacts throughout the supply chain
• Reducing water impact by collaborating with suppliers
• Discovering the business case for lower water usage throughout the supply chain

• Acquiring the data necessary to evaluate the impact of raw materials socially and environmentally
• Working with key stakeholders to collect data and sustainably source raw materials
• Evaluating the environmental and social impact throughout the supply chain of agricultural raw materials
• Practical examples where firms have cost effectively sourced their agricultural raw materials to reduce their environmental and social impact
• Learning the benefits of sustainable sourcing and how this links with a companies sustainable supply chain mission

• Methodologies for identifying key areas in the life cycle where waste can be reduced, recycled or used as bi product
• Learning how to reduce waste once these key areas have been identified
• Best Practises for turning waste into bi products, which can then be used in other operations through out the business
• Realizing the cost efficiencies of implementing such initiatives

Margaret Henry, Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist, Sodexo
Richard Goode, Senior Director Of Sustainability, Alcatel- Lucent

• Working with NGOs, the public sector and consumers to find solutions to improve recycling and recycling infrastructure
• Realizing the role businesses play in recycling in the community
• Strategies you can use to engage consumers and encourage them to recycle

• Understanding once sustainability initiatives are in place, how you can communicate this to customers and consumers
• Evaluating the role of certification bodies in communicating the message
• Clarifying which schemes are delivering a clear and unified message
• Strategies for influencing the consumer to change their behavior to buy more sustainable products
• Analyzing the most successful strategies for demonstrating to the consumer, the media and stakeholders that you are sourcing your materials in a sustainable way