2023 B4SI Annual Global Conference (APAC) - Driving Social Impact through Global Measurement
Don’t miss the annual Business for Societal Impact (B4SI) event providing inspiration as you look forward to 2024!
In 2023, the ‘new normal’ might be characterised by an increased awareness of the pervasiveness of societal issues and the need to reconsider corporate approaches towards these challenges as a core business function. By many measures inequality has continued to rise, and global growth predictions are worsening.
In the reporting landscape globally, companies are drawn to further disclosure of their community efforts through the lens of materiality and the resources required for increased environmental reporting in some cases risks social action being deprioritised.
B4SI provides practitioners with the tools and frameworks necessary to navigate this landscape. Collectively we advance the conversation by continuing to highlight the relevance of community investment activity and developing further frameworks and tools that sustain strategic management of social impact relevant to societal issues and a company’s material risks.
With this context, we have the following agenda planned for this year’s annual event:
- Welcome & event opening
- B4SI: A Year in Review
- Panel discussion 1: Mitigating risk through social impact
- Insights from the 2022/23 B4SI global annual member benchmark
- Panel discussion 2: Evidencing strategic social impact
- Wrap up and event close.
Camille Putois, CEO of Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG), part of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) will speak on the topic of the ‘Taskforce on Inequality and Social-related Financial Disclosures' (TISFD) and hear from experts across the region through two panel sessions.
Business for Societal Impact (B4SI) Is the global standard for measuring and managing corporate social impact. Learn more at www.b4si.net.
When:
Wednesday 15 November at 1:00 – 3:00pm AEDT
Located in another region? Our EMEA/NA team are hosting this webinar on November 8th, please register here if interested.
Speakers:
- Camille Putois, Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) - CEO
- Janet Liu, ANZ - Head of Social Impact
- Pauline Ciarma, Australia Post - Senior Community Program Manager
- David Mann, Workplace Giving Australia - CEO
- Sarah Downie, Shared Value Project - CEO
- Jacob Hung, S&P Global – ESG Client Engagement Specialist
- Hiromichi Kano, Bridgestone - Manager, Global Community Empowerment Planning Section, Corporate Sustainability Department
- Simon Robinson, SLR - B4SI APAC Director
- Miguel Oyarbide, SLR - Technical Discipline Manager, ESG Strategic Advisory
Registration
This event is free to attend and is open to businesses with an interest in improving their social impact and other social sustainability practitioners. The event will be recorded, please register here.
