2.20.2007 - 09:00am ET

(CSRwire) These business leaders will all be discussing the future of the Responsible Business in a gathering expected to number 500. The conference has already received the backing of other international corporate leaders, with Fabio C Barbosa, CEO of ABN Amro Real saying “I strongly believe that society and companies are working to build a more sustainable world and have no doubt that initiatives like this Summit are enabling this to happen.”

Day one of the conference will also explore the results of Business in the Community's CR Index which will be published in the Companies that Count Supplement in the Sunday Times on 6th May. The supplement provides a unique picture of how business is managing, measuring and reporting its impact on society.

Whilst the first day of the conference will deal with the future of responsible business, the second day will discuss practical solutions to the most prominent corporate responsibility problems found today. Sessions will cover climate change, measuring the success of corporate responsibility initiatives, supply chain management, arguments against corporate responsibility, and engaging stakeholders in your corporate responsibility agenda. For a full conference agenda, please go to For more information on the programme, please go to www.ethicalcorp.com/europe2007/programme.shtml.

The conference agenda has been finalized and the highest level speakers have been secured. CEOs including Ramon Olle of Epson Europe, Julio Maurio of Grupo Nueva, Jeremy Hobbs of Oxfam International and Alain Grisay of F&C Asset Management will all be presenting their vision of the future of responsible business, They will be joined by Hans Ulrich Maerki, Chairman of IBM (EMEA), Allan Leighton, Chairman of Royal Mail, John Drummond, Chief Executive of Corporate Culture, and Richard Lambert, Director General of the CBI. For a full list of speakers, please go to: www.ethicalcorp.com/europe2007/speakers.shtml

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