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Overview
Corporate Responsibility is becoming a major issue for the UK Utilities as they increasingly monitor their supply chains on with a developing list of criteria including health, safety, the environment, and social and ethical criteria.
All major companies are under increasing pressure to demonstrate responsible business practices to shareholders, customers, staff and other stakeholders.
This conference provided an opportunity for suppliers to find out directly from the Utilities’ what their expectations of supplier corprorate responisbiity activities are and how to communicate these.
Why attend?
- Find out how the Utilities are implementing Corporate Responsibilty in their supply chains
- Discover what responsible business practices Utilities expect of their suppliers
- Hear about one of the key corporate responsibility issues, migrant labour, in the build up to the 2012 Olympics
- Participate in a series of workshops with the chance to engage with the Utilities and other suppliers working in this industry
- Learn how other suppliers have implemented successful corporate responsibility programmes within their businesses
- Discover how to report and communicate your Corporate Responsibility activities to your customers
- Get to know about how the latest addition to the Corporate Responsibility agenda, Climate Change, will impact on your business
Format
This conference involved both:
- conference sessions, with expert information, and
- workshop sessions, facilitated by experts with experience of the corporate responsibility agenda in the utilities supply chain
The day was structured to allow maximum participation. There was ample opportunity, during the conference sessions, the workshops and the refreshment breaks, to put questions to the speakers. Similar conferences featuring the conference speakers normally attract a mix of delegates from all levels and it is expected that the conference will thus also provide a valuable opportunity for participants to share experiences and learn from experiences of other delegates.
Programme
09.30
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Introduction from the chair
Ian Bartle, CE Electric |
09.35
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How utilities are addressing corporate responsibility in the supply chain
Chris Jones, EDF Energy |
10.05
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Responsible business practice - What are suppliers expected to do to demonstrate responsible business practice?
Dr Paul Ashley, Mott McDonald |
10.30
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The issues of a migrant workforce - The challenges of the 2012 Olympics and beyond
Ian Gearing, National Grid |
| 11.00 |
Refreshment break |
| 11.20 |
Workshop sessions 1 - The corporate responsibility journey |
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Workshop 1a
Early on/starting out - Limited understanding and actions taken on CR
- Making the business case & getting buy-in
- Setting priorities
- Developing a plan
- Harnessing drivers for change
- Setting out measurements of improvement
Maria Hastie, Scottish & Southern
Carl Millington, Achilles Information Limited |
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Workshop 1B
Progression - Further development and the business case for CR
- Measuring continuous improvement
- Overcoming key challenges
- Embedding CR in key business processes
- Communicating successes and keeping momentum
- Benchmarks and external recognition
Ian Gearing, National Grid
Colin Maund, Achilles Group Limited |
| 12.40 |
Lunch |
13.40
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Implementing a successful CR programme. Case study and best practice examples
- Boss Design
- Schnider Electric
Virginia Seaward, Boss Design
David Jellicoe, Schnieder Electric |
| 14.25 |
Refreshment break |
| 14.45 |
Workshop sessions 2 |
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Workshop 2a
Reporting, monitoring and auditing your CR activities
- Reporting frameworks, what can be used?
- Monitoring and engaging the business in the CR agenda
- How to measure progress and audit what’s being done
Mike Ford, Achilles Group Limited
Neil Willings, Achilles Group Limited |
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Workshop 2b
Climate change
- What are expectations from the Utilities with regards to supplier engagement in environmental management?
- Identifying the drivers for suppliers to engage in carbon emissions measurement and management
- Discussion of what suppliers are currently working on
- The different stages
* How to get started?
* Already collecting data, what’s next?
* Comprehensive programme in place, does it meet Utility expectations?
Jo Horton, United Utilities
Dr Angela Needle, Anglian Water
Paul McNeillis, Achilles Group Limited |
15.45
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Wrap up by the workshop moderators. How to do and action plans. Q&A
All workshop moderators |
| 16.15 |
Close of conference |
Some of the speakers include:
- Anglian Water, Dr Angela Needle, Energy Strategy Mnager
- Boss Design, Virginia Seaward, Operations Manger
- CE Electric, Ian Bartle, Procurement Compliance Manager and Chairman of the UVDB steering Group
- EDF Energy, Chris Jones, Director of Procurement
- Mott McDonald, Dr Paul Ashley, Enviornment Manager
- National Grid, Ian Gearing, Corporate Responsibility Manager
- Schneider Electric, David Jellicoe, National Safety and Environment Manager
- Scottish & Southern Energy, Maria Hastie, Procurement Manager
- United Utilities, Jo Horton, Sustainability Strategy Manager
- Achilles, Mike Ford, Director of Assessment, Policy and Standards
- Achilles, Paul McNeillis, ICT & Corporate Responsibility Director
- Achilles, Carl Millington, Utilities Director
- Suppliers to the utility industries
- Managing Director/CEO’s
- HSE and Quality Executives
- Corporate Responsibility Executives
- Marketing Directors
- Environmental Executives
- Business Development
- Those interested in corporate responsibility issues
Located in the centre of Birmingham, The Hyatt Regency Birmingham is a modern, luxury hotel. It is within walking distance of Birmingham New Street train station and only 10 minutes by train from Birmingham International Airport.
Hyatt Regency Birmingham
2 Bridge Street
Birmingham
B1 2JZ
For further information about the conference, please contact:
Achilles Conferences
Tel: +44 (0)1235 820813
Email: conferences@achilles.com