2024 ENGAGING BUSINESS FORUM

16th AnnualEngaging Business Forum

15th OCTOBER 2024
Time
Agenda

9:00-9:30AM

1

Welcome - Paul Lalli

30 mins

Sponsor session
Roberto Suarez Santos

Secretary-General, IOE

Whitney Baird

President and CEO, USCIB

Glenn Spencer

Senior Vice President, Employment Policy Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Opening speaker
Siobhan McIernney-Lankford

EU Fundamental Rights Agency

9:30-10:30AM

2

Panel 1: Human Rights of Logistics

1 hr

Moderator
Didier Bergeret

Director Sustainability - Consumer Goods Forum HRC

Speakers
Lene Bjorn Serpa

Director - Head of Corporate Sustainability & ESG, Maersk

Filippo Spiezia

Senior Project Manager - Responsible Trucking Initiative

10:30-11:15AM

3

Discussion Series - Environment and Human Rights: Allies or Frenemies?

45 mins

Speakers
John Morrison

CEO - Institute for Human Rights and Business

Yousuf Aftab

Director - A2

11:15-11:30AM

4

Networking Break

20 mins

11:30AM-12:30PM

6

Panel 2: Charting the Unseen: Sub Tier HRDD

1 hr

Moderator
Richa Mittal

Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer - Fair Labor Association

Speakers
Rachel Rigby

Senior Program Director - Verite

Duckencia Bourdierd

CEO - Haiplast Recycling

Jessica Rivas

Director, Human Rights, McDonalds

Shannon Stewart

Principal Research Scientist - Altana

12:30-1:30PM

7

Lunch

1 hr

1:40-2:10 PM

9

Discussion Series - CS3D & UNGPs: Only Room For One Now?

30 mins

Speakers
Andrea Shemberg

Chair - GBI

Kindra Mohr

Associate Director Financial Services and Human Rights - BSR

Jenny Holdcroft

Deputy Director of Business Engagement, Shift

Douglass Cassel

Counsel – King and Spalding

2:10 - 3:10 PM

10

Panel 3: Future of Audits and Certifications

1 hr

Moderator
Avedis Seferian

Chair - APSCA

Speakers
Kristen Albertson

VP Global Responsible Sourcing - Walmart

Benjamin Gatland

Global Director Social Sustainability - Heineken

Giles Bolton

Executive Director -ETI

3:10-3:30 PM

11

Networking Break

20 mins

3:30-3:40 PM

11

Introduction to Circularity and Human Rights

10 mins

Severino Lima

President – International Alliance of Waste Pickers

3:40-4:40 PM

13

Panel 4: Circularity and Human Rights

1 hr

Moderator
TBD
Speakers
Vivien Luk

Executive Director - Do Work

Tania Espinosa

Wiego

Annerieke Douma

Director of Programs -The Circulative Initiative

Francis West

Director of Social Sustainability - Tetra Pak

4:40-5:00 PM

14

Closing Recap

20 mins

5:00-7:00 PM

15

Cocktail Reception

2 hrs

16th OCTOBER 2024
Time
Agenda

9:00-9:10AM

1

Opening Remarks

10 mins

9:10-10:10AM

2

Panel 5: What’s Heightened About HRDD?

1 hr

Moderator
Sinisa Milatovic

Programme Manager - UNDP

Speakers
Sam Jones

President and Co-Founder - Heartland Initiative

Vicky Bowman

Senior Advisor - Institute for Human Rights and Business

Claude Voillat

Retired – ICRC

Josie Kaye

CEO and Founder - Trust Works

10:10-11:10 AM

3

Panel 6: SME Perspective on Human Rights Challenges

60 mins

Moderator
Mark Wielga

Director - Nomogaia

Speakers
Carla Caballeros

Executive Director - CACIF

Jason Pegat-Toquet

Adviser - IOE

Stephanie Ferguson

Director of Global Employment Policy & Special Initiatives - US Chamber of Commerce

11:10-11:20 AM

4

Networking Break

10 mins

11:20 AM-12:20 PM

5

Panel 7: Risk Prioritization In the Age of CS3D

1 Hr

Moderator
Jonathan Drimmer

Partner - Paul Hastings

Speakers
Ewa Staworzynska

Director of Corporate Responsibility and Labor Affairs - USCIB

Jennifer Easterday

Head of Human Rights - Booking.com

Till Olbrich

Partner - Massari Olbrich Law Firm

12:20-12:30 PM

6

Closing

10 mins

12:30-1:30 PM

6

Lunch

10 mins