Key issues to be discussed include:

• Practical ways to measure your carbon footprint
• Collaboration with your competitors: Yes or No?
• Auditing: How to use both social and environmental audits to achieve positive long term effect
• Complying with labour regulation and standards: Achieving best practice
• Complying with environmental regulation: Challenges and solutions
• Microfinance - the role the financial sector can play in creating sustainable and profitable supply chains
• Reducing carbon emissions throughout your supply chain - why you can no longer dodge the issue
• Working with competitors, governments, NGOs and trade unions to improve your supply chain management
• Engaging your suppliers AND consumers in your CR agenda
• Implications on a ground level: what effect do decisions at the top of the supply chain have on the bottom

In addition to all of this, this 2 day conference will:

• Provide you with a level of interaction second to none, really making this YOUR conference
• Allow you to engage in thought provoking debate and discussion
• Offer you unparalleled networking opportunities

Expert Speakers include:

• Pepsico, Andrew Smith, Head of Corporate Responsibility
• Fair Labor Association, Auret Van Heerden, CEO
• Marks and Spencer, Louise Nicholls, Ethical Trading Director
• International Finance Corporation - The World Bank Group, Miguel Martins, Investment Officer
• HP, Karl Daumueller, Supply Chain Programme Manager, EMEA
• L´Oreal, Ariane Thomas, Supply chain purchasing director
• Deutsche Telekom, Dr. Heinz-Gerd Peters, Senior Expert Corporate Procurement
• Oxfam Novib, Gine Zwart, Trade and Private Sector Group
• Sedex, Tara Norton, General Manager
• Toyota, Stefan Crets, Deputy General Manager - CSR
• Timberland, Anabel Drese, CSR Director, Europe
• Cadbury, Nathalie Ritchie, Head of Ethical Sourcing
• Syngenta, Richard Brown, Head of Product Stewardship & Sustainable Agriculture
• Ethical Trading Initiative, Dan Rees, Director
• GlaxoSmithKline, Luca Guzzabocca, Procurement Director & Co-Chairman of Acquisti & Sostenibilitá
• Body Shop, Graham Clewer, Head of Ethical Trade
• Body Shop, Mary Teakle, Ethical Trade Coordinator
• British American Tobacco, Simon Roper, Group Head of Global Environmental Health & Safety
• Fairtrade Labeling Organisation, Rob Cameron, CEO
• TransfairUSA, Caren Holzman, Director of Category Management
• Fairwear foundation , Erica van Doorn, Director
• Carbon Disclosure Project, Nigel Topping, Head of Supply Chain
• Carbon Trust , Herve Humbert, European Business Development Manager
• Marshalls, Chris Harrop, Group Marketing Director
• UTZ Certified , Marrit Rooda , Traceability Manager
• Traidcraft, Alistair Leadbetter, Business Services Coordinator
• BSI Management System, Paul Stanfield, Product Marketing Manager - Entropy Software

The Ethical Supply Chain Summit 2008 is the largest in a long line of ethical procurement and sourcing conferences run by Ethical Corporation. Last years event, held in Amsterdam attracted 173 high level attendees from 21 different countries and this event looks to be even bigger!