Main Conference (4th - 5th August 2009)

CONFERENCE DAY ONE (Tuesday 4th August 2009) Untitled Document

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
	CSR AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS Speaker: Stefan Stern, Financial Times, London
9:30 – 10:00	THE PALM OIL INDUSTRY: CONTRIBUTING TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL BUSINESS Speaker: MR Chandran, Advisor, Roundtable for Sustainable Palm Oil
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
11.30 – 12:00	VENTURE PHILANTHROPY: SHARING VIEWS FROM DASRA INVESTORS Speaker: Deval Sanghavi, Director, Dasra, India
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
12:30 – 13:00	EMPLOYEE VOLUNTEERISM FOR CSR Speaker: Huzaifa Khorakiwala, Chief Executive Officer, Wockhardt Foundation, India
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
14:30 – 15:00	THE GLOBAL REPORTING INITIATIVE: INTERNATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY REPORTING Speaker: Wilfred Walsh, Managing Director, Biosphere Capital, Singapore
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
	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
	PANEL SESSION: ETHICS AND EMERGING STANDARDS
16:30 – 17:00	THE ROLE OF ETHICS IN EMERGING INTERNATIONAL SR STANDARDS
	Speakers:	Dr Reevany Bustami, Deputy Dean, School of Social Sciences, USM, Penang Dr. L.M. Loi, Director General, Transparency International, Malaysia
	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

CONFERENCE DAY TWO (Wednesday 5th August 2009)

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
	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
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
	DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING EFFECTIVE ENVIRONMENTAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS Speaker: Wilfred Walsh, Managing Director, Biosphere Capital, Singapore
15:00 – 15:30	TEA BREAK & NETWORKING
	PANEL SESSION: FAITH-BASED INVESTMENTS - DEVELOPING THE RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT MARKET IN ASIA - WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?
15:30 – 16:30	THE SRI MARKET: ASIA AND EUROPE IN CONTEXT Speaker: Thomas von der Recke, Country Director, OWW Consulting Pte Ltd, Singapore
16:30 – 17:30	DOW JONES ISLAMIC INDEXES Speaker: Ariff Sultan, Business Development Director, Dow Jones AER Company, Singapore
17:30	WRAPPING UP