Join Intertek Sustainability Solutions, host of the Ethical Sourcing Forum (March 18 & 19, 2010), which is sponsored by Gildan Activewear this year, for a truly powerful program designed to guide sustainability practitioners in understanding how sustainability's future is unfolding, and what pragmatic steps they can take to anticipate, and actually participate in shaping that future. Backcasting is but one, albeit effective tool for visualizing sustainability possibilities and realizing solutions that will be examined at the Forum.

Day one of this 14th Edition of the Ethical Sourcing Forum (New York City, March 18 and 19, 2010) will kick off with Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility's, David Schilling, leading an expert "plenary panel" that includes Matt Kistler, SVP of Sustainability for Walmart, Matthew Bishop of The Economist, Tim Wedding, a Deputy Director at the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as other leading sustainability stakeholders, to discuss:

"The Arc of Sustainability Progress 2005-2015: Unforeseen Evolutionary Developments and What Sustainability Managers Must Do TODAY to Effectively Manage for TOMORROW"

Other program highlights include:

• Scott Sharland, Executive Director of the Automotive Industry Action Group (AIAG) and Monique Oxender, Global Manager of Supply Chain Sustainability at Ford Motor Company discuss the potential (and potential pitfalls!) of collaboration


• Matt Kistler, head of Walmart's sustainability program, discusses the company's "Sustainability Index"


• CSRWire's Joe Sibilia and co-author Dave Mager will discuss their new book "Street Smart Sustainability"


• Gildan Activewear (represented by Garry Bell, VP of Global Marketing) and Emil Efthimides , Environmental, Social and Governance data Manager at Bloomberg discuss the role of investment in driving CSR progress


• Eco-Fashion Activist Summer Rayne Oakes demystifies sustainable design and introduces S4 - high fashion's hot new platform for sustainable sourcing


• Experts in the 'Natural Step' process lead a Solve! Lab/Workshop on Backcasting: Developing Your Sustainability Roadmap


• WRAP, Transparency International-USA, IBM and the Electronics Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC) participate in a Roundtable discussion on "Supply Chain Integrity: What are the costs of Corruption?"

Click here for Complete Program Details and to Register!

We look forward to seeing the Ethical Sourcing Forum Community again at what promises to be the most significant edition of our Ethical Sourcing Forum yet!

Intertek Sustainability Solutions (ISS), a unit of Intertek Group (ITRK.L) - leading provider of quality and safety solutions serving a wide range of industries around the world - will host its 9th Annual Ethical Sourcing Forum (ESF) North America on March 18-19 in New York City, USA. ISS works with businesses to seamlessly integrate CSR and Sustainability with their brand and operations. We are proficient in delivering solutions dealing with immediate environmental and social concerns, but our ultimate value for clients has proved to be our ability to develop a portfolio of initiatives (such as stakeholder engagement programs and ethical supply chain management tools) that align social and environmental performance with business imperatives for maximum Return on Sustainability Investment (ROSI).

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