Where BSR Will Be in October

Authors

• Naomi Mandelstein

  Former Digital Communications Manager, BSR

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Here’s a roundup of where our global staff will be this month. Hope to see you there!

Where We’ll Be

HERproject Manager Racheal Yeager will be participating in the CIDA – UN Women Conference on Women’s Empowerment in Ottawa, Canada from October 3 to 5.

From October 4 to 6, Digital Communications Manager Naomi Mandelstein will be at SXSW Eco in Austin, Texas.

China Director Wei Dong Zhou and Director of Consumer Products and Innovation Ted Howe will be at the World Economic Forum’s Summit on Global Agenda in Abu Dhabi on October 10 and 11.

Senior Vice President Eric Olson will be participating in the GreenBiz Innovation Forum in San Francisco on October 11.

Catch up with Advisory Services Manager Guy Morgan at the FEDERE 2011 conference in Paris on October 12.

That same day, Transportation Director Raj Sapru will be leading a panel on transportation collaboration at the Sustainable Shipping Conference in Vancouver.

Vice President Kara Hurst is giving the opening address on covering the green economy at the Society for Environmental Journalists Conference in Miami on October 19.

On October 20, President and CEO Aron Cramer will be delivering the closing keynote address at the UNEP Finance Initiative Global Roundtable in Washington, D.C.

Then on October 22, Aron Cramer will be attending the World Economic Forum's Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World at the Dead Sea in Jordan to speak on how the region can secure affordable water, energy, and food for its 300 million people.

And finally, Kara Hurst, Raj Sapru, and Racheal Yeager will be speaking at the 2011 Net Impact Conference in Portland, Oregon on October 28 and 29.

What We’re Hosting

BSR members can join us for two free webinars this month:

• Preparing for the International Integrated Reporting Committee’s Proposals on October 3.
• Myth-Making and Culture-Changing: Telling Your Sustainability Story with Free Range Studio’s Jonah Sachs on October 19.

Our Europe, Middle East, and Africa team will be inaugurating their new Paris office with a series of events, including:

• A breakfast event on creating a green supply chain (in French only) on October 11
• A workshop on implementing the Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in the ICT industry on October 12 
• A workshop a human rights and transnational enterprises on October 14