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E merging F ee L THE ETHICAL eaders! SOURCING FORUM Visualize Possibilities. Realize Solutions. New York City – March 18-19, 2010

Visualize

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SOLVE! More than a conference...ESF serves delegates as a lab for exploring innovation and actionable solutions.

The Ethical Sourcing Forum

We welcome you to this year’s Ethical Sourcing the world over is changing as players learn Forum-North America (March 18-19, 2010), a to visualize a new future and rethink the strategy unique industry event that brings together members needed to get there. of the global sustainability community in order to address emerging The new name of the game sustainability and ethical is to recognize social and supply chain challenges. environmental realities as drivers – rather than inhibitors – ESF North America 2010 is of business success. where you will find applied innovation and the latest Sustainability solutions-development Solutions’ Ethical Sourcing processes that yield social “The Forum provides an Forum-North America 2010 and environmental progress excellent opportunity offers a ‘deep-dive’ investigation while advancing core business to increase overall CSR of the latest advances in objectives. sustainability decision- knowledge, learn new making. We have structured The ESF mandate is to approaches to individual our event according to three investigate practical pathways issues and network.” tracks – Visualize, Re-Think, for robust Return-on- Solve! – crucial elements of any Sustainability- Investment sustainability program today. (ROSI) as well as breakthrough solutions with real business value.

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 At this intensive, two-day edition of ESF, you and fellow delegates will explore the latest innovations in driving Return On Sustainability Investment (ROSI)

Visualize RE-THINK SOLVE!

Supply Chain Issues Decision-Making Those Seemingly Intractable as Opportunities Processes Ethical Sourcing Puzzles

By utilizing a portfolio This session will focus We’ll gather for a hands-on of innovative tools and on enhanced sustainability collaborative sustainability techniques, the Visualize decision-making. We’ll decision-making/solutions session will provide examine ways of Rethinking session involving the participants an overview of sustainability issues and the technique of reframing how sustainability decision- “decision paths” undertaken - a model for examining makers grapple with by organizations emerging challenges from multiple complex supply chain issues as sustainability leaders. Top vantage so you can be on a new organizational decision- points in order to uncover course of Think Different - makers will lead these lab previously unseen Think Smart. sessions. perspectives and decision paths.

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 Ethical Sourcing Forum: Labs

Visualize Supply Chain Issues as Opportunities

Acquire a transcontinental The “Visualize Lab” will offer the RESULTS OF A RECENT perspective of the top SURVEY CONDUCTED BY INTERTEK SUSTAINABILITY challenges and opportunities SOLUTIONS, in which the lifecycle approach to sustainable facing sustainability leaders production and consumption, the need for improved collaboration techniques, new urgency with regard to carbon, Discover what new energy and water footprint management – as well as the need sustainability ideas, tools for new decision-making frameworks – emerged as and resources are needed to key issues. deliver business value today

Set the stage for high-impact decision-making by plotting areas of opportunity via an “opportunity-mapping” lab session

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 Ethical Sourcing Forum: Labs

re-think Decision-Making Processes

Learn the decision-making Re-Think Lab Sessions to Cover the Following Topics – and more! habits of highly effective • Sustainability Communications as a function sustainability leaders of Stakeholder Engagement • Collaboration: Potentialities and Pitfalls See how ‘decision-mapping’ can • Measuring and Reporting Environmental & Social Impacts be a useful tool for achieving • New Models for Sustainable Purchasing and high-impact solutions factory Compliance • in Supply Chain Learn how to leverage your • Life Cycle Analysis resources and implement effective solutions

Discover how to use barriers to success as the basis for ‘reframing’ issues so they may be managed sustainably

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 Ethical Sourcing Forum: Labs

solve! Those Seemingly Intractable Ethical Sourcing Puzzles

Learn the technique of “reframing” The “Solutions Lab” offers a hands on, collaborative session and its power to open up a whole involving the technique of “reframing” – a method of examining new solutions set challenges from multiple stakeholder vantage points in order to uncover previously unseen perspectives and decision paths. Explore how to leverage the concept of “contextual re- alignment” and what this means for breakthrough stakeholder engagement

Discover “agenda-busting” techniques as an integral part of conflict resolution

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 REGISTER NOW for the Ethical Sourcing Forum – and Help Sponsor Emerging Sustainability Leaders!

Intertek Sustainability Solutions (ISS) is partnering with the non-profit,S tartingBloc so delegates to the Ethical Sourcing Forum can help support emerging sustainability leaders. “I wanted to tap into a network of like- StartingBloc, a non-profit minded individuals, who would challenge me organization, educates, to reach across sectors to create solutions inspires and connects emerging leaders to drive with maximum impact. ” social and environmental StartingBloc Fellow, Alia Whitney-Johnson innovation. During a 2005 tsunami relief trip in Sri Lanka, 19-year-old Alia Whitney-Johnson encountered a reality that she was not equipped As StartingBloc Fellows to handle: due to pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, young (such as Alia Whitney- women ranging from the ages of 10 to 18 were cast out of their Johnson – see her story, own families, denied the right to formal right) ascend to positions education, and locked away “for their own of influence, they use the protection.” StartingBloc network to launch organizations, guide policies and spearhead cross-sector Alia, having a background in jewelry making, decided to host a jewelry partnerships that tackle social, economic and workshop to better acquaint herself with environmental challenges around the world. the girls. Beading soon became a tool for transformation, uplifting the girls’ spirits Spark Social Change $20,000 and ultimately helping them overcome the In registering for the Ethical Sourcing emotional, social, and economic obstacles Forum, delegates will automatically they faced. support StartingBloc Fellows! • 15% of each corporate delegate Out of the initial Emerge Bead Program, Emerge Global was born registration will contribute to as a way to empower women all over the world who have survived StartingBloc’s work in support of abuse to rediscover and celebrate their personal beauty, develop self- its Fellows sufficiency, and become leaders within their own communities. • ESF participants receive a formal StartingBloc letter of Alia realized the “nonprofit/business hybrid structure” forE merge appreciation and recognition on Global, would allow it to be scalable, sustainable — an organization with StartingBloc’s website global impact.

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 AGENDA

March 18, 2010

08:00AM - 08:45AM: registration & Breakfast 08:45AM - 09:00AM: welcome Note

09:00AM - 09:45AM: VISUALIZE LAB • An overview of how sustainability decision-makers grapple with complex supply chain issues and chart a new course of Think Different- Think Smart • Acquire a transcontinental perspective of the top challenges and opportunities facing sustainability leaders • Discover what new sustainability ideas, tools and resources are needed to deliver business value today.

09:45AM - 10:15AM: Coffee Break/ Networking

10:15AM - 10:45AM: VISUALIZE LAB (Part II) • Organizations’ point of view: Interview with top leaders

10:45AM - 11:00AM: Coffee Break/ Networking

11:00AM - 1:00PM: RE-THINK LABS • Mini-Lab 1: Sustainability Communications as a function of Stakeholder Engagement • Mini-Lab 2: Collaboration: Potential and Pitfalls • Mini-Lab 3: Environmental & Social Impact • Mini-Lab 4: Measuring and Reporting Environmental & Social Impacts

1:00PM - 2:30PM lunch

2:30PM - 4:30PM: RE-THINK LABS • Mini-Lab 5: New Models for Sustainable Purchasing and Factory Compliance • Mini-Lab 6: New Approaches to Factory Compliance • Mini-Lab 7: Transparency in Supply Chain • Mini-Lab 8: Life Cycle Analysis

4:30PM - 5:00PM: Coffee Break/ Networking 5:00PM - 5:30PM: summing up Session 5:30PM - 7:00PM: Cocktail Reception

Day 2: March 19, 2010

08:30AM - 09:00AM: breakfast 09:00AM - 10:30AM: Plenary Presentation 10:30AM - 10:45AM: Coffee Break/ Network

10:45AM - 12:30PM: SOLUTION LAB • A hands-on collaborative sustainability decision-making / solution session involving the technique of reframing – a model for examining challenges from multiple stakeholder vantage points in order to uncover previously unseen perspectives and decision paths

12:30PM - 2:00PM: lunch/ Closing note

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 Contact information

Registration & Fees To Register, click here. Or go to: www.tinyurl.com/esf2010

Admission Fees: • Academia/ NonprofitO rganization Fee: $500 • Corporate Early Bird Fee: $920 for Registration by November 15th, 2009 • Corporate Pass Full Fee: $1250

15% of your Corporate Registration Sponsors Programs for Emerging Sustainability Leaders! • Delegates Receive a Formal StartingBloc Letter of Appreciation and Recognition on StartingBloc’s Website

Register more than one delegate and receive 20% off the additional passes

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SAMPLING OF PAST FORUM ATTENDEES

Abercrombie & Fitch Hanesbrands, Inc. Phillips Van Heusen Ann Taylor Hewlett-Packard Polo Ralph Lauren Anvil Knitwear Home Depot PricewaterhouseCoopers Apple Inc. IBM Rainforest Alliance BT Americas Inc J.Crew Royal Ahold CARTIER - GROUPE RICHEMONT JCPenney Company Schweppes Center for Responsible Design Jones Apparel Group Seafood Choices Alliance Chico’s FAS, Inc. JPMorgan Chase Sears Canada Inc Children’s Place Retail Stores, Inc. Kellogg Company Seventh Generation Chiquita Brands International Kraft Foods Social International Converse Levi Strauss & Co. Starbucks Coffee Co. Costco Wholesale Li & Fung Target Corporation Crate and Barrel Limited Brands, Inc. The Carbon Trust Crocs L’Oreal The Coca-Cola Company EarthSmart MeadWestavco Corporation The Walt Disney Company Ernst & Young Motorola TJX Companies Inc. Euro Disney Associees SCA Mountain Equipment Co-op Toy Industry Association Fair Factories Clearinghouse Nestlé Twinings Nordstrom US Council for International Business Fashion Institute of Technology Novartis Corporation UTZ Certified Ford. Motor Co. One World Apparel Vodafone Fossil, Inc Pacific Fruit Inc./Bonita Wal-Mart Global Procurement Hallmark Cards PepsiCo WRAP

THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 Who has Attended the Ethical Sourcing FORUM?

Attendees of recent Forum

7% - Other 4% - Consultant 15% - CEO/VP/Chair 5% - Journalist/Researcher 6% - Academic 2% - Advisor 27% - Director 4% - Division Head

“Good at outlining the issues we face.” 30% - Manager “I learned about Ethical Sourcing from the people who live it.” “Excellent presenters, great speakers and expertise.” “One of the best organized and informative conferences I have been to.” THE ethical sourcing forum ESF NORTH AMERICA, NEW YORK, MARCH 18-19, 2010 Visualize

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