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Responsible Supply Chains

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Tuesday, February 4th, 2020
8:00am to 12:15pm
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Supply Chain Transparency Summit

Summit
Paradise Ballroom 1-2, Camelback Inn

The Supply Chain Transparency Summit is a half-day working session that will compare and contrast approaches to supply-chain sustainability among different sectors, using food and ag as a model. Participation is by invitation only, resulting in a diverse group of about 100 leaders from across industries, sectors and job functions. The 2020 Supply Chain Transparency Summit will build on lessons learned from previous summits, generating insights for collective action and diving deep into the extended food supply chain, from procurement to logistics to delivered product. The Summit will feature leaders from across the entire spectrum of agriculture and food production and distribution, sharing strategies and lessons learned that can be applied across other sectors. Previous GreenBiz supply-chain summits focused on multiple industry approaches to transparency and traceability (2017), the role of sourcing and procurement and the potential for technology to increase product transparency (2018) and the human side of supply-chain operations, including human rights, fair labor practices and diversity and inclusion (2019). Visit the Supply Chain Transparency Summit page here to learn more and request an invitation to attend this event.

  • All-Access Pass Required
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  • Sign-up Required

Speakers

  • John Davies
  • Shana Rappaport
  • Jill Kolling
  • Pierre-Francois Thaler
  • Christy Melhart Slay
  • Janie Hipp
  • Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson
  • Julia Silberman
  • Christian Deseglise
  • Mikel Hancock
  • Priyamvada Singh

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3:10pm to 3:30pm
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Shepherding Business Towards Positive Impact

Arizona Ballroom, Camelback Inn

Since Chobani's founding, the company has embraced purpose, with a unique focus on community, environmental and worker wellbeing. Meanwhile, the dairy industry is complex and ever-changing. Hear from Chobani President Peter McGuiness and Fair Trade CEO Paul Rice on their shared efforts towards creating comprehensive standards for ensuring sound labor, environmental and animal welfare conditions in the dairy industry, what it will take to accomplish, and why this matters. They'll also explore the evolving landscape of dairy and rise of plant-based options, including the non-dairy offerings Chobani released last year, and what this means for the future.

Speakers

  • Paul Rice
  • Peter McGuinness

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3:30pm to 4:00pm
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Biodiversity and Profitability: Mapping the Natural Environment's Influence on Your Firm's Profitability

Booth Session
ASU Booth, Paradise Ballroom

Many factors shape a firm's profitability, including those which have been explored by Michael Porter in his influential "Five Forces" industry analysis. Understanding how these forces affect your firm is essential to developing effective competitive strategy. But any competitive analysis which leaves out the natural environment is incomplete. This short session will facilitate discussion about how the natural environment and biodiversity can influence your firm's profitability and competitive strategy.

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Speakers

  • Chris Barton
  • Leah Gerber

Partner

Arizona State University

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4:00pm to 5:00pm
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How Sustainable Food Technologies Will Help Feed a Planet of 11 Billion People

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom D-E, Camelback Inn
The food and farming sectors face immense sustainability challenges. We need to somehow feed more people — global population is projected to reach almost 11 billion by the end of the century — while also protecting forests and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The tension between these goals is significant, but a raft of recent innovations may make it possible to achieve both. Panelists in this session will introduce you to new methods for producing protein, techniques that can transform farms from carbon sources into carbon sinks, software that helps slash food waste, and other breakthroughs in sustainable food systems. 

Speakers

  • Jim Giles
  • Larry Kopald
  • Keira Havens
  • Christine Daugherty

Sponsor

PepsiCo

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Wednesday, February 5th, 2020
8:30am to 9:30am
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Empowering and Uplifting Suppliers

Workshop
Paradise Ballroom 2, Camelback Inn

Today’s supply chains touch nearly every community across the globe. How can the private sector use that breadth and scope to maximize positive impacts for suppliers, their workers, and communities? Join us to learn more about creating successful worker education and training programs, and participate in a conversation exploring approaches to supplier and community empowerment.

Speakers

  • Kyra Whitten
  • Berkley Rothmeier
  • Liz Reid-Baumel

Sponsors & Partners

Flex
BSR

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10:20am to 10:40am
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The Interplay of Traceability, Sustainability and Circularity

Arizona Ballroom, Camelback Inn

Is traceability the key to unlocking circular supply chains and a more sustainable future? There are no silver bullets in sustainability, but the ability to more effectively and intelligently track materials and products is emerging as a promising driver of circularity. From decreasing overproduction to prolonging the use of items to ensuring appropriate end of life strategies, connected goods with digital identities unlock bold possibilities across sectors.

This session will discuss the ways in which traceability and tracking can forge more circular supply chains, exploring real world applications and unpacking unintended consequences.

 

Speakers

  • Deon Stander
  • Lauren Phipps
  • Kate Daly

Sponsor

Avery Dennison

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10:45am to 11:05am
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Resilience and Regeneration in Our Food System

Arizona Ballroom, Camelback Inn

Agriculture has a key role to play in addressing societal and environmental challenges, from combating hunger, to empowering women in developing countries, to drawing down carbon, to creating new supply chains for alternative protein production. Hear from Cargill Chief Sustainability Officer and Head of Business Operations & Supply Chain, Ruth Kimmelshue, on the integration of sustainability and supply chain at one of the largest agricultural companies in the world.

Speakers

  • Ruth Kimmelshue
  • Jim Giles

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12:15pm to 1:15pm
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Roundtable Lunch: Cross-Functional Collaboration for Responsible Supply Chains

Roundtable Lunch

Global companies are working diligently to meet their corporate social responsibility commitments, and sustainability teams have been hard at work collecting data to back them up. But despite the progress toward initiatives, other business functions continue to make decisions without access to sustainability data, which diminishes the broader impact sustainability efforts can have. Join this roundtable lunch to discuss how supply chain data can be leveraged throughout the different functions of a business to increase effectiveness, prove purpose, and drive profit.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Jamie Barsimantov

Sponsor

SupplyShift

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Roundtable Lunch: Corporate Water Stewardship and the Importance of Certification

Roundtable Lunch
Sonoran Terrace, Camelback Inn

We all have expectations for corporate water stewardship, but how do you ensure maximum impact? By following the framework of a globally recognized standard. This requires not only a robust understanding of your own operations, but also the catchment in which you operate and the stakeholders you impact; only then are you ready to develop a water stewardship plan with appropriate context-based goals. The cherry on top is recognition by independent auditors of your water stewardship efforts. Nestlé Waters North America is leading the charge of Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS) Standard implementation with nine certified sites in the U.S. Join Brandon Kienenberger, Sustainability Analyst and AWS Expert, for a conversation on the challenges and benefits of third-party certification for water stewardship.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Brandon Kienenberger

Sponsor

BlueTriton Brands

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Roundtable Lunch: Accelerating the Large-Scale Commercialization of Sustainable Products and Services

Roundtable Lunch
Sonoran Terrace

In order to meet the aggressive goals corporations have set, large-scale adoption of sustainable products and services will be required. Transitioning from old-line unsustainable practices to new sustainable alternatives as quickly as possible requires collaboration across sectors and with the investment community to help flow capital. This lunch discussion will focus on how companies can collaborate to source and scale sustainable products and services to accelerate their large-scale adoption of sustainable alternatives to meet corporate goals.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Letitia Webster

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Roundtable Lunch: Taking Action on Scope 3 SBTs

Roundtable Lunch

Join your peers to learn about and share your leading strategies and methods for setting and accounting for SBTs for scope 3 emissions. Josh Whitney, Anthesis Group Executive Director will facilitate a discussion around the challenges and opportunities of tracking absolute emissions reductions in the supply chain, as well as leading methods for engaging suppliers and building their capacity to set their own SBTs.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Josh Whitney

Sponsor

Anthesis

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Roundtable Lunch: How to Align Your Business with the SDGs for Scalable Impact

Roundtable Lunch

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) address wide-reaching global issues and offer immediate guidance for organizations and governments to adjust their direct impact. Supply chain management is an important factor to consider when aligning your business with the SDGs. Join this session to exchange ideas with peers on how to use innovative tools to enable your organization to take action on the SDGs and improve sustainability performance among your suppliers. Silvia Schmid, sustainable procurement program manager, and Marta Cobeño López, CSR analyst, will facilitate a discussion on the collaborative efforts required between governments and organizations, as well as between companies in the private sector, to enable this action at scale.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Marta Cobeño López
  • Silvia Schmid

Sponsor

EcoVadis

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Roundtable Lunch: Balancing Consumer Sustainability Demands and On-farm Practices

Roundtable Lunch

At this session, we will encourage lively discussion around how livestock producers can meet the increasing global demand for protein while addressing the sustainability requests of their customers. Learn how new feeding technologies are joining data analytics and genetics to deliver more meat and milk with fewer resources, and contribute your ideas for new innovations and partnerships to accelerate this important trend.

About Roundtable Lunches: Join interactive lunch discussions, moderated by an expert or thought leader, held at roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are freeform discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions, and ideas to talk through and get to know your fellow conference participants. All roundtable lunches do not have advanced sign-up — participation is first-come, first-served.

Speakers

  • Jill Wheeler

Sponsor

Enogen

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1:30pm to 2:30pm
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Standardizing for Scale: Creating Cross-Industry Frameworks for Responsible Supply Chains

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom D-E, Camelback Inn

As global businesses continue to increase their efforts to create more responsible supply chains, scalability has become a pressing issue. There’s a framework to address almost any industry and any issue within the supply chain, but as businesses develop their responsible sourcing strategies, how can they be sure which approach suits them best, and how their unique business needs might fit within those frameworks? At the same time, suppliers are under an increasing burden to provide data across a disparate set of information requests – and their ability to respond adequately is only getting worse. Is there a healthy balance between standardization, unique business approaches, and supplier bandwidth? This panel explores the landscape of industry frameworks for supply chain responsibility and makes the case that, through shared metrics and better platforms for collaboration, a state of harmony for responsible sourcing may be within reach after all.

Speakers

  • Jamie Barsimantov
  • Euan Murray
  • Andrea Vaccari
  • Justin Kacer

Sponsor

SupplyShift

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2:30pm to 2:45pm
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The Future of Corporate Water Stewardship

Booth Session
ASU Booth, Paradise Ballroom

Evolving from standards to collaborative action with science based targets.

  • Booth Session

Speakers

  • John Sabo

Partner

Arizona State University

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2:45pm to 3:45pm
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The Protein Transformation

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom D-E, Camelback Inn

There is an increased awareness globally of the need for a food system transformation in which human nutrition and environmental sustainability align to enable healthy diets for all within planetary boundaries. This proposed shift in protein production and consumption will put immense pressure on food and agriculture companies, but will also enable new business opportunities and present possibilities for mitigating climate risks. Hear from established food producers as they navigate the new protein landscape, striving to improve the food system and reducing risks from fork to farm.

Speakers

  • Jack Scott
  • Gabriela Burian
  • Tim Faveri
  • Kathy Pickus
  • David Bennell

Partner

World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

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Ingredients to Outcomes: Changing the Conversation to Drive Meaningful Impact

Workshop
Paradise Ballroom 7-8, Camelback Inn

Recent changes in disclosure standards have given customers and consumers more information than ever about the ingredients in the products they use, but this information doesn’t always tell the whole story. Join Ecolab, Dow, and other corporate leaders for a discussion on driving positive business, human health, and environmental outcomes in an era focused on chemical ingredients.

Speakers

  • Emilio Tenuta
  • Oriana Leishman
  • Mary Draves

Sponsor

Ecolab

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4:15pm to 5:15pm
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From Sustainable to Regenerative: Bold Business Moves to Heal Our Planet

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom L-M, Camelback Inn

We are entering a new era of sustainability leadership — given the scale of the issues we face and the very limited timeframe we have to solve them, we need to challenge business as usual and sustainability models of old that enable business to do less harm rather than doing more good. An approach of regeneration and restoration provides a compelling model to show how business can truly be a force for good.

Speakers

  • Sandra Seru
  • Katie Clark
  • Jill Kolling
  • Mark Bernstein

Partner

Forum for the Future

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Putting People First: How to Be a Force for Good in Your Labor Practices

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom D-E, Camelback Inn

An estimated 40 million people are victims of modern slavery, of which 25 million are in situations of forced labor. Of the 25 million, 16 million are in the private sector - generating $150 billion in illegal profits in the private economy. Violations of human and labor rights in supply chains have drawn the attention of governments, NGOs, and the public, and put pressure on companies to take action to maintain responsible and transparent supply chains. Critically, companies need to be a strong force to improve the conditions under which people labor in their global supply chains. The seafood industry, the apparel industry, and the coffee sector provide a source of income and support the livelihoods of more than 350 million producers around the globe. The world drinks more than 600 billion cups of coffee, consumes more than 150 million metric tons of seafood per year and imports apparel products at a value of US$127 billion. Yet, the raw materials are often first sourced in regions where the livelihoods of the farming and fishing communities are vulnerable. And workers are often the most vulnerable. As supply chains have become increasingly complex and globalized, workers’ rights and protections have been eroded. Labor violations drive social instability, poverty, and natural resource decline. These factors put businesses at financial and reputational risk due to vulnerable workforce practices that may include child labor, forced labor, hazardous working conditions, long hours and low pay. Join this session to learn how your company can rise to the challenge of ethical labor practices,  ensure co-benefits for people alongside positive environmental and climate outcomes, and truly make a difference for the better in peoples' lives and communities deep in your supply chains

 

Speakers

  • Dr. Jack Kittinger
  • Miguel Zamora
  • Roxanne Nanninga
  • Helen Crowley

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Thursday, February 6th, 2020
8:30am to 9:30am
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Transparency, Safety and Prosperity: Is Blockchain the Answer?

Workshop
Arizona Ballroom D-E, Camelback Inn

This session will explore how blockchain — an electronic "ledger" system that manages and authorizes transactions across a distributed network of participants — can improve transparency, monitor safety and compliance, and create new sources of income across complex supply chains for food and electronics. Our subject matter experts will discuss early real-world projects to verify sourcing along with the economic and sustainability benefits for both large multinational businesses and smaller suppliers.

Speakers

  • Heather Clancy
  • Paige Goff
  • Tammy Leigh Kahn
  • Daniel McQuade

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Green Chemistry: Building a Vision for Innovation

Workshop
Paradise Ballroom 5-6, Camelback Inn

All retail sectors are seeing increased attention from consumers and NGOs on chemically related human health and environmental impacts. Green chemistry principles can mitigate these hotspots in all life cycle phases; however, widely adopted green chemistry innovation by consumer product manufacturers and suppliers has yet to occur due to uncommon definitions, unshared priorities and unclear goals. Hear from a diverse set of organizations from the consumer product and chemical landscapes that are developing, promoting and adopting green chemistry principles and understand how their work can contribute to a common vision that drives innovation in green chemistry towards safe consumer products.

Speakers

  • Christopher Helt
  • Michele Jalbert
  • Viviana Alvarez Sanchez
  • Martin Wolf
  • Avery Lindeman

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11:05am to 11:25am
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The Role of Business in Biodiversity and Conservation

Arizona Ballroom, Camelback Inn

Biodiversity is fundamental to human well-being and a healthy planet, but biodiversity loss and species extinction is currently happening at an alarming rate. According to a draft plan from the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, world leaders must enact protections for at least 30 percent of the world's land and oceans in the next decade to protect current biodiversity levels and avert the extinction of many species. But we shouldn’t stop there, of course. "Transformative changes across economic, social, political and technological factors" will be necessary to reach environmental goals, the plan states. Hear from Dr. Helen Crowley, head of sustainable sourcing innovation at Kering and fellow and senior advisor for resilient supply chains at Conservation International, on how business must play an essential role in addressing climate and biodiversity challenges.

Speakers

  • Heather Clancy
  • Helen Crowley

Partner

Conservation International

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