Download your copy of the purpose driven agenda here

The conference will run a focused, purpose-driven agenda with 3 dedicated tracks on the business case for social purpose, influencing the business on social impact and engaging external stakeholders on purpose and sustainability. The sessions will offer unmatched insight into tackling key business obstacles through exclusive case studies from industry leaders.

“Doing something is no longer good enough. The focus now is on aligning core business strategy to macro social needs where the central thrust of your company's commercial strategy becomes a clearly defined social good” explains Krina Amin, Head of Strategy at Ethical Corporation. Kate E. Brandt, Lead for Sustainability at Google will be co-leading an innovative keynote on how technology can be used to revolutionize your business and allow for the full intergration of social purpose into the core of your business strategy.

Increasingly, companies are expected to go beyond compliance. Michael Kobori, Vice President of Sustainability at Levi Strauss & Co will be heading a session on how businesses can make real impact on suppliers, customers, employees and the local community to prove that companies can go beyond box-ticking. Matt Horton, Chief Commercial Officer at Proterra will also be leading a keynote on how companies can deliver both social and business impact building on his success deploying electric vehicles through municipals, which increased sales revenue by 225%.

Some of the other critical discussion points which will be addressed at the conference include:

• Using data innovation to make the business case

• Scaling up social impact through collaboration

• Taking leadership

• Gender Diversity

If you’re interested in finding out more about the conference agenda, you can see all of the central discussion-points, as well as the full speaker line-up in the Summit brochure which you can download here http://1.ethicalcorp.com/LP=17531%20

For more information on one of America’s leading CSR conferences visit the official event website here http://events.ethicalcorp.com/rbs-west/index.php or contact Krina Amin, Head of Strategy at Ethical Corporation at krina.amin@ethicalcorp.com or call +44 (0) 207 375 7508 #RBSWEST

Ethical Corporation’s mission is to help businesses around the globe do the right thing by their customers and the world. We believe this is not only how to ensure a future for all, but makes good business sense. We serve CSR, compliance, risk and governance communities with topical and insightful business intelligence and meeting places.

We provide business intelligence to more than 3,000 multinational companies every year. Our customers are also NGOs, think-tanks, academia, governments and consultancies. We publish the leading responsible business magazine, website, and research reports. Our conferences are widely recognized as the best in the field.

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