Implement Social Responsibility: Minimize Risk, Maximize Opportunity

Name: The Responsible Extractives Summit North America
Start: 2015-04-30
Location: Doubletree Hilton

Prevent costly disruptions • Increase access to new resources • Attract more investment • Improve people’s lives

Ethical Corporation’s Responsible Extractives Summit will bring 120+ senior executives from the extractives industry to Houston to debate and solve the key issues in CSR and sustainability in the North American extractives industry.

Implement Social Responsibility into your Business Culture: Discover useful tools to embed social responsibility into the desicion making process of all employees
Deepen Stakeholder Engagement: Improve relationships with your stakeholders to prevent operational delays and gain active community support
Minimize Risk, Maximize Opportunities: Reduce risk by understanding how to implement your social responsibility strategy into the business
Attract Investors and Increase Trust: Understand the materiality of your KPI’s from investor and regulator perspectives then learn how to communicate them effectively
Reduce Impacts and Reduce Risk: Align your operational and social strategy to mitigate future risk.

The Summit is over for 2015

Stay up to date with the knowledge exchange leading up to the next summit in April 2016

Expert speaker line up for 2015

Top sustainability leaders in the mining oil and gas industry discuss the key issues for 2015 and beyond.

Gerald Pachoud
Principal Officer
The United Nations

James Viray
Senior Sustainability Advisor, Supply Chain
ConocoPhillips

David Atkins
Group Social Performance Advisor
Shell

Rafael Benke
Former Global Head of Corporate Affairs
Vale

Bennett Freeman
Senior Vice President, Sustainability Research and Policy
Calvert Investments

Chris Anderson
Americas Director, Communities & Social Performance
RioTinto PLC

Luc Zandvliet
Director
Triple R Alliance

Dr. Silvana Costa
Senior Advisor, Environment and Social Responsibility
New Gold Inc.

The summit boasts 25+ leading speakers, have a look at the full speaker line up here

Top 7 things to take away from the 2015 summit

Better implementation of social responsibility throughout your business
Heightened engagement between you and your stakeholders
Increase land access opportunities and minimize external risk with enhanced social performance
New tools and ideas to monitor performance and comply with standards
Attract investment for your company through your social performance
Minimize social risk with Improved water stewardship
Improve efficiency by understanding materiality in KPI’s for reporting and auditing
Plus much more

“The discussions were good, with many gems of information to take away. There was a good balance of industry work and NGO contributions. ”

- Libby Cheney, VP Corporate EHS & SR, Hess

Reserve your pass

3 key features of the Summit:

North American Focus - Learn about the issues most relevant to you and your company
Practical solutions - Strong emphasis on interactive learning and functional tools to apply to your company
Open and honest platform - Get real answers to your biggest challenges under The Chatham House Rules of non-disclosure

We have over 45 attendees already confirmed including:

“Thank you for a really interesting conference - I really enjoyed it!”

- Katie Heller, Social Development Specialist - Oil, Gas, and Mining, The World Bank

Top reasons to attend:

Personal development: Adapt your strategy, network with industry leaders and keep up to date with industry changes
Team development: Develop team ability, stimulate creativity and innovation, enhance performance
Company development: Generate positive exposure, prevent costly delays, access land and resources

The Summit is over for 2015

Stay up to date with the knowledge exchange leading up to the next summit in April 2016

A proven track-record

Ethical Corporation has been running leading CSR business Summits for 14 years. For the past 5 years we’ve been running Europe’s leading summit on CSR in the Extractives Industry. Below are a few thoughts from attendees from our Responsible Business Summit…

“An Inspirational event that has put our work in context and provided new insights for moving our efforts forward”

- Anders Arvidsson, Vice President Strategy and Systems, Continental Africa, Anglo Gold Ashanti

Click here to watch the video

“Excellent conference packed with high quality content and delivered by some great communicators”

- Nigel Stephanson, General Manager, Sustainet

Reserve your pass

Top level attendees

Our conferences always attract the most senior attendees from Oil, Gas and Mining, see the breakdown from Europe below and expect more of the same in Houston.

This summit is built for Leading CSR and Social Performance professionals in Oil, Gas & Mining to share practices and promote in-depth discussion on how to implement social responsibility into your operations. Take a look at who attended the 2014 European summit

The Summit is over for 2015

Stay up to date with the knowledge exchange leading up to the next summit in April 2016

Maximize your involvement

Get the most out of the event and be involved in a number of different ways.

Become a partner
Increase your members and learn about industry wide issues

Support the event
Understand your customers’ needs and meet new prospects

Become a speaker
Passionate about a topic? Let us know and share your insight.

I look forward to speaking to you,

Steven,