Programme

8.30am

Chair’s welcome

Helen Brand, Chief Executive, ACCA

8.40am

Keynote:

TBC

9.00am

Q&A

9.10am

Perspectives panel: Drivers for non-financial reporting

It is clear that 2013 will bring important progress in the area of sustainability and non-financial reporting. This panel is an opportunity to explore the impact of key changes on the corporate reporting including mandatory carbon reporting in the UK, GRI’s new G4 guidelines, the draft integrated reporting framework and proposals from the European Parliament.

Chair: Richard Howitt, MEP and Rapporteur on Corporate Social Responsibility, European Parliament

Richard Carter,  Director – Business Environment, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills
Marjolein Baghuis, Director of Communications & Network Relations, Global Reporting Initiative

10.10am

Refreshments

10.40am

Investor Forum

The Investor Forum will feature respected experts and their views about the impact of non-financial reporting on investment decisions. It will focus on how to turn sustainability metrics into valuable output, unpicking the language of sustainability and investor-led initiatives driving sustainable business.

Chair: Guy Battle, Partner, Deloitte

Freddie Woolfe, Manager – Corporate Engagement, Hermes Fund Managers
Charles Allen, Analyst, Bloomberg LLP
Paul Simpson, Chief Executive, CDP

11.40pm

The integrated reporting movement

Jonathan Labrey, Director of Policy and Communications, IIRC

12.00pm

Integrated reporting panel: The best of both worlds?

Our final panel will focus on how integrated reporting creates value and the challenges companies face following this path.

Chair: Julie Fitzsimmins, Director, Lodestar

Russell Picot, Group Chief Accounting Officer, HSBC
Tim Haywood, Group Finance Director and Head of Sustainability, Interserve
Jenny Harrison, Head of External Reporting, BT (invited)
Jonathan Labrey, Director of Policy and Communications, IIRC

12.50pm

Conference closes

1.00pm

Lunch

2.00pm

International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) consultation workshop

An integrated report is a concise communication about how an organisation’s strategy, governance, performance and prospects lead to the creation of value over the short, medium and long term.

The IIRC is running a workshop as part of its consultation on the draft integrated reporting framework to allow attendees time to develop their knowledge and understand the next steps for the framework.

4.00pm

Consultation closes

 

If you are interested in speaking at the event or have any feedback please contact Shelley Wills on 0207 344 1834.