| Main Conference (4th - 5th August 2009) |
CONFERENCE DAY ONE (Tuesday 4th August 2009)
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| 8:00 - 8:50 | REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING | |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS | |
| KEYNOTE PANEL & QUESTION SESSION | ||
| CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION Speaker: H.E. Vincent Piket, European Union Ambassador to Malaysia |
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| CSR AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS Speaker: Stefan Stern, Financial Times, London |
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| 9:30 – 10:00 | THE PALM OIL INDUSTRY: CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL BUSINESS Speaker: MR Chandran, Advisor, Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Q&A SESSION | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | TEA BREAK & NETWORKING | |
| DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL PROGRAMMES WITH CORPORATIONS | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | CREATING SUSTAINABILITY: THE MAGIC BUS EXPERIENCE Speaker: Matthew Spacie MBE, Founder and Chief Executive Officer Magic Bus, India |
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| 11.30 – 12:00 | VENTURE PHILANTHROPY: SHARING VIEWS FROM DASRA INVESTORS Speaker: Deval Sanghavi, Director, Dasra, India |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | CSR AND CORPORATE REPUTATION: HOW EMBEDDING “GOOD” INTO YOUR BRAND CAN WORK Speaker: Ashwani Singla, Chief Executive Officer, Genesis Burson Marsteller, India |
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| 12:30 – 13:00 | EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERISM FOR CSR Speaker: Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Chief Executive Officer, Wockhardt Foundation, India |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH & NETWORKING | |
| INTERNATIONAL APPROACHES TO CSR | ||
| 14:00 – 14:30 | DECENT WORK AND CSR PRACTICES AT THE ENTERPRISE LEVEL Speaker: Ivanka Mamic, Environmental and CSR Specialist, International Labour Organisation, Bangkok |
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| 14:30 – 15:00 | THE GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE: INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING Speaker: Wilfred Walsh, Managing Director, Biosphere Capital, Singapore |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | TEA BREAK & NETWORKING | |
| NEW APPROACHES TO CSR | ||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | BUILDING COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS THAT WORK | |
| Speaker: | Nayna Agrawal Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations The Asia Foundation, San Francisco, USA Anthea Mulakala Country Representative, Malaysia The Asia Foundation |
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| Moderator: | Brian Lariche Director Lariche Community | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | “AN END TO THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX: THE CHANGING BUSINESS CONTEXT OF CSR” Speaker: Steve McCoy, Counterpoint Sdn Bhd, Malaysia |
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| PANEL SESSION: ETHICS AND EMERGING STANDARDS | ||
| 16:30 – 17:00 | THE ROLE OF ETHICS IN EMERGING INTERNATIONAL SR STANDARDS |
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| Speakers: | Dr Reevany Bustami, Deputy Dean, School of Social Sciences, USM, Penang Dr. L.M. Loi, Director General, Transparency International, Malaysia |
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| PANEL SESSION: CIVIL SOCIETY AND CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS | ||
| 17:00 – 17:30 | CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS: A VIEW FROM MALAYSIAN NGOS | |
| Speakers: | Pn. Fatimah Sulaiman, Red Crescent, Malaysia Dr. Loh Chi Leong, Executive Director, Malaysian Nature Society |
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| 8:00 - 8:50 | REGISTRATION AND NETWORKING | |
| 8:50 - 9:00 | WELCOME AND INTRODUCTIONS | |
| 9.00 - 9:30 | KEYNOTE SPEECH Speaker: Dr. Geoffrey Williams, Chief Executive Officer, OWW Consulting, Malaysia & Singapore |
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| KEYNOTE PANEL & QUESTION SESSION: | ||
| 9.30 - 10:30 | RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT IN THE GLOBAL DOWNTURN | |
| Speaker: Dr James Gifford, Executive Director, United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment | ||
| 10:30 – 11:00 | TEA BREAK & NETWORKING | |
| BUILDING AND MANAGING RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT FUNDS | ||
| 11:00 – 11:30 | INVESTING RESPONSIBLY IN ASIA: VONTOBEL'S CONCEPT AND EXPERIENCES | |
| Speaker: | Sabine Doebeli, Director of Sustainable Investment, Bank Vontobel AG, Vontobel Asset Management, Switzerland | |
| 11.30 – 12:00 | "GREEN NEW DEAL" - A NEW ERA FOR SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE INVESTORS | |
| Speaker: Marcel De Bruijckere, Chief Executive Officer, Fortis Investment Management, Singapore | ||
| 12:00 - 12:30 | SRI AND ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT AT MN-SERVICES | |
| Speaker: Kris Douma, Head of Responsible Investment Support & Active Ownership Mn-Services, Netherlands | ||
| 12:30 – 13:00 | FAITH-BASED FUNDS IN THE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE SPACE Speaker: James McCarthy, Principal, Phoenix Global Capital Management, USA |
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| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH & NETWORKING | |
| PANEL SESSION: ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS | ||
| 14:00 – 15:00 | ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENTS AND CARBON CONSULTING AT YTL Speaker: Ralph Dixon, Director of Environmental Investments, YTL Corporation Bhd |
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| DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS Speaker: Wilfred Walsh, Managing Director, Biosphere Capital, Singapore |
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| 15:00 – 15:30 | TEA BREAK & NETWORKING | |
| PANEL SESSION: FAITH-BASED INVESTMENTS - DEVELOPING THE RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT MARKET IN ASIA - WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS? |
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| 15:30 – 16:30 | THE SRI MARKET: ASIA AND EUROPE IN CONTEXT Speaker: Thomas von der Recke, Country Director, OWW Consulting Pte Ltd, Singapore |
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| 16:30 – 17:30 | DOW JONES ISLAMIC INDEXES Speaker: Ariff Sultan, Business Development Director, Dow Jones AER Company, Singapore |
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| 17:30 | WRAPPING UP | |