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Day 1 (Monday, 3 Nov)
9:00am Registration & networking
10:30am Keynote panel
Kasit Piromya, Former ambassador of Thailand in Russia, Indonesia, Germany, Japan and USA
Greg Koch, Managing Director, Global Water Stewardship, Environment and Water Resources Department, The Coca-Cola Company
Ernest Wong, Supply Chain Social & Environmental Responsibility Program Manager, Hewlett Packard
Erin Lyon, Executive Director, CSR Asia
12:30pm Lunch (Sponsored by UBS)
Venue: Room 108 Room 202 Room 206 Room 144
2:00pm 1. NGO expectations of business

Speakers:
Felicia Pullam
APCO Worldwide

Phan Van Ngoc
ActionAid Vietnam

Rashmi Venkatesan
Cividep

Moderator:
Alex Mavro
Social Impact Ventures - Asia

2. Community based social enterprise development

Workshop leader:
Mechai Viravaidya
The Population and Community Development Association (PDA)
3. Sustainability reporting: Asian dynamics

Speakers:
Simon Lord
Kulim (Malaysia) Bhd

Leontien Plugge
Global Reporting Initiative

Anjan Ghosh
Intel

Moderator:
Catherine Walter
CSR Asia
4. Tackling human trafficking along supply chains

Speakers:
Simon Matthews
Manpower Thailand

Richard Welford
CSR Asia

Kurt MacLeod
Pact Inc.

Moderator:
Stephen Frost
CSR Asia
3:30pm Afternoon tea break
Venue: Room 108 Room 202 Room 206 Room 144
4:00pm 5. Business-NGO partnerships for development: From philanthropy to capacity building

Speakers:
David Boyd-Thomas
UBS

Zheng Wei
Plan China

Heinz Landau
Merck Ltd., Thailand

Moderator:
Mabel Wong
CSR Asia

6. Creating sustainable solutions: Social enterprise and socially responsible investing (SRI)

Workshop leaders:
Sunit Shrestha
ChangeFusion Group

Dr. Somjin Sornpaisarn
One Asset Management Limited

Nataya Niyamanusorn
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) - Thailand

Moderator:
S. Dev Appanah
ChangeFusion Group

7. Stakeholder engagement

Speakers:
Aldi Alizar
Golder Associates

Gail Rehbein
Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

Rikke Netterstrom
CSR Asia

Moderator:
Brian Ho
CSR Asia
8. A space for women workers

Speakers:
Ravi Fernando
MAS Holdings

Asif Ahmed
CARE Bangladesh

Junya Yimprasert
Thai Labour Campaign

Moderator:
Marie Morice
CSR Asia
5:30pm Cocktail reception
7:00pm Dinner (Sponsored by Provincial Electricity Authority of Thailand)


Day 2 (Tuesday, 4 Nov)
Venue: Room 108 Room 202 Room 206 Room 144
9:00am 9. Carbon footprinting and solutions

Speakers:
Edward Hanrahan
ClimateCare

Liam Salter
RESET (HK) Ltd.

Jacqui Dixon
CSR Asia

Moderator:
Dr. Ram Shrestha
Asian Institute of Technology
10. Partnerships for sustainable development: Examples of best practice

Speakers:
Sandy Walsh
Cisco

Manish Tiwari
Asian Development Bank

Patchareeboon Sakulpitakphon
ECPAT International

Thirawit Leetavorn
Double A

Moderator:
Malik Asghar Naeem
Asian Institute of Technology

11. Soft laws and governance

Speakers:
Dr. Sang-Jo Kim
Solidarity for Economic Reform

Dr. Sopon Pornchokchai
Thai Appraisal Foundation

Moderator:
Erin Lyon
CSR Asia
12. HIV/Hepatitis B and anti-discrimination strategies

Speakers:
Catherine Ferrant
Total

Patrick Brenny
Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), Thailand

Cui Fuqiang
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

Moderator:
Dr. Rosalia Sciortino
Mahidol University
10:30am Morning tea break
Venue: Room 108 Room 202 Room 206 Room 144
11:00am 13. Business responses to climate change

Speakers:
Anita Gupta
DHL Asia Pacific

Rosstan Mazey
ZESPRI International Limited

Samuel Tumiwa
Asian Development Bank

Moderator:
Jacqui Dixon
CSR Asia
14. Evaluating community investment

Workshop leader:
Michelle Brown
CSR Asia

Speakers:
Sabrina Cheung
adidas Region Asia Pacific

Rita Sully
(Deloitte Australia)
15. Sustainable and Responsible Investment: Investor Initiatives

Speakers:
YK Park
The Association for Sustainable and Responsible Investment in Asia

Chanchai Supasagee
Government Pension Fund, Thailand

Moderator:
Richard Welford
CSR Asia

16. Supply chain capacity building

Speakers:
Dee Lee
Handshake Labour NGO

Nguyen Ngoc Thuy
CARE Vietnam

Stephen Frost
CSR Asia

Moderator:
Sreenivas Narayanan ECC International Group

12:30pm Lunch (Sponsored by Schulich School of Business, York University)
Venue: Room 108 Room 202 Room 206 Room 144
1:30pm 17. Tackling corruption

Workshop leader:
John Bray
Control Risks Japan
18. Harmonizing codes of conduct in the supply chain

Workshop leader:
Terry Babbs
Tesco
19. Engaging the private sector with the Millennium Development Goals

Speakers:
John Sayer
Oxfam Hong Kong

Somak Ghosh
YES BANK

Moderator:
Dr. Chettiyappan Visvanathan
Asian Institute of Technology
20. The business case for biodiversity

Speakers:
Reza Azmi
Wild Asia

Duncan Leadbitter
Marine Stewardship Council

Yip Yoon Wah
YTL Corporation

Moderator:
John Soussan
SEI Asia Centre

3:00pm Afternoon tea break
Venue: Room 108 Room 202 Room 206 Room 144
3:30pm 21. Partnerships in microfinance and poverty alleviation

Speakers:
Paula Bennett
Citi Aisa Pacific

Craig Wilson
The Foundation for Development Cooperation

Rolando B. Victoria
Alalay sa Kaunlaran (ASKI), Inc.

Moderator:
Simon Matthews
Manpower Thailand

22. Bringing the environment back in the supply chain

Speakers:
Ravi Fernando
MAS Holdings

Harsha Vardhan
H&M

Moderator:
Alexandra Harney
Author, The China Price
23. CSR reporting through project partnerships: The case of imPACT

Speakers:
Ashley Hegland
Edelman Asia Pacific

Richard Welford
CSR Asia
24. Business responses to water challenges

Speakers:
Yann Brault
Danone AQUA

Royol Chitradon
Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute

Dr. Tira Foran
Chiang Mai University - Unit for Social and Environmental Research (CMU-USER)

Moderator:
Jeff Major
Asian Institute of Technology
5:00pm Programme ends
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