Australian GRI Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting || Conference Program – at a glance Updated 23 March 2012

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Australian GRI Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting || Conference Program – at a glance Updated 23 March 2012

Monday 26 March 2012

9.30 – 16.00

Conference Registration Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

Pre-Conference Master Classes Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre

New to sustainability reporting and don’t know where to start? Or are you experienced but still have questions about the process and how to communicate your results? These Master Classes can help you! Sustainability reporting is a rapidly emerging field of expertise. Yet every year, companies continue to struggle with common aspects of sustainability reporting. As a precursor to the conference, GRI is partnering with its Certified Training Partners in Australia and New Zealand to deliver Master Classes that build understanding and provide practical guidance on the key sustainability reporting challenges. The Master Classes will be delivered on Monday 26 March and will each last two hours. For a description of the content of the Master Classes, please consult this overview. Limited places are available for Master Classes, so please book early to avoid disappointment. Book your master class via the registration link or the registration brochure.

10.30 – 12.30

Master Class on Materiality – Room 216

Paul Davies, Principal, Banarra

Christiane Meyer, Consultant, Banarra

Calum Revfem, Managing Director, Envirostate Brought to you by

Master Class on Communications and Marketing – Room 217

Marian Gruber, Director, ZOOiD Brought to you by

12.30 Lunch Break

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13.30 – 15.30

Your story, my story and the truth: how to get the most out of assurance – Room 216

Gitanjali Bedi, Sustainability Manager, National Centre for Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology

Amanda Nuttall, Senior Associate, Net Balance Foundation

Kirsten Simpson, Associate Director, Net Balance Foundation Brought to you by

A strategic approach to stakeholder engagement – Room 217

Dr Leeora Black, Managing Director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

Richard Lambell, Senior Consultant, ACCSR

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15.30 Networking Break

16.30-18.00

Introduction to the next generation of GRI Guidelines (G4): How does a global multi-stakeholder network create globally applicable sustainability reporting guidelines? Location: ANZ, 833 Collins St, Docklands, VIC Join GRI’s Deputy Chief Executive Dr. Nelmara Arbex at a special workshop session that will shed light on the next generation of GRI’s Guidelines – G4. For the first time, Dr. Arbex will describe publicly the reporting challenges that G4 is designed to tackle, and how stakeholders are defining the G4 development process to help make sustainability reporting sharper, easier and cheaper. Dr. Arbex will also share her views on how sustainability reporting should be positioned in the corporate reporting field in the coming decade, and the role that G4 will play. You will have the opportunity to ask questions about the new Guidelines and the future of sustainability reporting.

Dr. Nelmara Arbex, Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

18.00 Welcome Reception Location: ANZ, 833 Collins St, Docklands, VIC

Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

Nigel Williams, Chief Risk Officer, ANZ

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Tuesday 27 March 2012

7.00 C-Suite Breakfast (invitation only)

Prof. Mervyn King, Chairman, The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)

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7.00 – 17.00

Conference Registration

9.00 – 11.30

Opening Plenary – room 212-213

9.00 Master of Ceremonies

Catherine Fox, Deputy Editor, BOSS Magazine, Australian Financial Review Welcome to Country

Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin, Senior Wurundjeri elder of the Kulin alliance, Victoria, Australia

9.10 Welcome Address:

Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

9.30 Official Opening

The Hon. Bernie Ripoll MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer

9.50 Keynote: The Role Of Reporting In The Transition To A Sustainable Economy Increasingly complex and pressing sustainability issues mean there is a greater need than ever for effective reporting to play its part in the transition towards a sustainable global economy. Corporations, stock exchanges, governments and other organizations are recognizing the value of integrating sustainability into core strategy and business practice, and adjusting their reporting cycles accordingly.

Prof. Mervyn King, Chairman, The International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)

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12.00 Driving innovation in sustainability reporting – Room 212-213 Reporting is driving business transformation around issues of sustainability. New markets are being accessed, old markets being transformed. Hear from companies that demonstrate innovation around some fundamental sustainability challenges. Chair: Victoria Whitaker, Network Manager, Focal Point Australia, Global Reporting Initiative

Steven Driscoll, Director Sustainability & Policy; Development Director Rouse Hill, Landcom

Geoff Miller, General Manager, Standard Business Reporting Division, Commonwealth

Report Quality and Assurance – Room 216 What are the current trends and practices in assurance? And which assurance standard can you use? What are the different assurance methods, and how are they applied to different businesses? Find out here, directly from companies and assurance providers. Chair: John Purcell, Policy Advisor Corporate Regulation, CPA Australia; Member, GRI’s Australian Advisory Group

Richard Boele, Managing Director, Banarra

Rebecca Gunn, Manager Sustainability Reporting, BHP Billiton

Renzo Mori Junior, Researcher, University of Southern

The Stakeholder View – How reports are read and used – Room 217 Ensuring that your report is read by your key stakeholders is an ongoing challenge for any reporter. In this session you will get an insight into how to reach stakeholders and how different stakeholders use the information you provide in your report when making critical decisions about your company. Chair: Lena Geraghty, Network Manager, Focal Point Australia, Global Reporting Initiative

Dr Leeora Black, Managing Director, Australian Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

Peter Colley, National Research Director, Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union

Amanda Dobbie, General

The Asia Century – Room 218 As the global economy shifts to centre on Asia, businesses across Australia and the Asia Pacific region are transforming; building trust and resilience within the region is critical to success. Hear from companies about the key sustainability issues they are facing in the region, and how engagement is being led by accountability and transparency in sustainability. Chair: Robyn Leeson, Director, Net Balance Foundation; Member, GRI Stakeholder Council

Amanda Keogh, Sustainability Manager, Fuji Xerox Australia

Kane Hardingham, Environment Manager, Woolworths Limited

James Porteous, Communications Advisor, MMG

10.10 Plenary Panel: The Role Of Reporting In The Transition To A Sustainable Economy

Prof. Ian Ball, Chief Executive Officer, International Federation of Accountants (IFAC)

Jane Diplock, Director, Singapore Exchange; Former Chairman of the New Zealand Securities Commission; Former

Chairman of the Executive Committee, International Organization of Securities Commissions

Damien Walsh, Managing Director, bankmecu

Dr. Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre; Board Member, Global Reporting Initiative

11.30 Networking Break – Exhibition Room 219-220

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Treasury

Anna Skarbek, Executive Director, Climate Works

Queensland

Adrian King, National Leader, Climate Change & Sustainability Services, KPMG

Nancie-Lee Robinson, General Manager – Governance, Integration & Reporting, Telstra

Manager, Bloomberg Australia and New Zealand

Nicola Hayhoe, Executive Leader of Policy, Research and Communications, Ability Options

Bastien Mignonneau, Consultant, Banarra

13.00 Networking Lunch

14:00 Interlude | – Room 212-213 Chair: Stella Whittaker, Senior Executive Sustainability and Climate Change, Manidis Roberts; Vice-Chair, GRI Stakeholder Council Innovate. Integrate. Collaborate. Be an active participant in the conference conversation that shapes the future of sustainability and integrated reporting

Linden Edgell, Partner, Environmental Resources Management

Dr Dimity Podger, Principal, Barasa Consulting Group

More reporters and better reporting: An evaluation of the GRI Training in Australia

Amanda Nuttall, Associate Director, Net Balance Foundation

Damien Sweeney, Project Manager - Community and Business Sustainability, National Centre for Sustainability, Swinburne University of Technology

14.15 Plenary – Linking Sustainability To Strategy, Corporate Governance and Risk – the role of materiality – Room 212-213 What will the introduction of the carbon tax mean to my bottom line? What risk does human rights abuses really bring to my organization? How does more women in management relate to a better bottom line? In a rapidly changing global economy, understanding how to identify and manage short and long term sustainability issues that are key to corporate value and performance is critical to business success. Be better prepared to understand how sustainability and integrated reporting is putting a spotlight on materiality by joining this session. Chair: Stella Whittaker, Senior Executive Sustainability and Climate Change, Manidis Roberts; Vice-Chair, GRI Stakeholder Council

Michael Dundon, Chief Executive Officer, Vic Super

Shane Lucas, Group Head of Sustainable Development, ANZ

Alex Malley, Chief Executive Officer, CPA Australia

15.30 Networking Break

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16.00 – 17.00

Linking Sustainability Data To Value – Room 212-213 What is the role of sustainability in value creation? This session will highlight challenges and opportunities for data collection and analysis for sustainability and integrated reporting. It will show how companies are linking sustainability to financial accounts; and thus the changing positioning of sustainability within organisations. Chair: Eszter Vitorino Füleky, Network Relations Manager, Global Reporting Initiative

Dr Maria Balatbat, Senior Lecturer, University of New South Wales

Annabelle Bennett, Account Director, Trucost

Dr. Lara Jefferson, Manager, Environment and Approvals, Crosslands Resources Limited co-presenting with

Kylie Ashenbrenner, Principal Consultant Strategic Projects at ERM

Mandatory & Voluntary Reporting – emerging trends and managing both – Room 216 Will integrated reporting affect our financial statements? How do I report on both NGERS and GRI without losing duplication? Will sustainability reporting become mandatory? Find out at this session. Chair: Wayne Wescott, Member, GRI Australian Advisory Group

Tim Nelson, Head of Economics, Policy and Sustainability, AGL

Peter McVay, Audit Manager, Performance Audit, Australian Audit Office

Kate Phillips, Senior Associate, Baker & McKenzie

Tim Youngberry, First Assistant Secretary, Financial Reporting and Cash Management, Department of Finance and Deregulation

Communicating Sustainability – how to get the balance right – Room 217 The good the bad and the ugly in communicating sustainability – find answers to some tough communications questions: how do you write a report for multiple audiences? How do you tell a bad story without telling a bad story? How can you best use social media in your outreach efforts?

Chair: Renee Hancock, Member, GRI Australian Advisory Group

James Ensor, Director Public Policy, Oxfam

Rod McGuinness, Social Media Producer, ABC

Kelvin O’Connor, Chief Operating Officer, Henry Davis York

Frameworks for Sustainability – a fishbowl – Room 218 Understanding how to apply different normative frameworks of sustainability is challenging. This session will use an interactive discussion fishbowl approach to explore the different framework, how they interact and how business is navigating through them. Chair: Rosemary Sainty, Director, Corporate Engagement, Transparency International Australia

Lena Geraghty, Network Manager, Global Reporting Initiative

Mardi McBrien, Chief Operating Officer, Carbon Disclosure Standards Board / Carbon Disclosure Project

Prof. Malcolm McIntosh, Director Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University

Vanessa Zimmerman, Legal Advisor, UN SRSG Business & Human Rights

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17.30 Organizational Stakeholder Exclusive Cocktail Party (GRI Organizational Stakeholders and VIP Guests Only) 17.30

18.30 Conference Dinner

Host: Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative Dinner debate: Report or explain why not is an excuse for just doing nothing

Affirmative – Prof. Malcolm McIntosh, Director Asia Pacific Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Griffith University

Negative - Karin Ireton, Director, Group Sustainability Management, Standard Bank Group, South Africa

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Wednesday 28 March 2012

7.00 – 16.45

Conference Registration

9.00 Plenary – The Role of Integrated Reporting in Value Creation – Room 212-213

Integrated Reporting has grabbed headlines internationally. What is it and is it going to change the world? In this session, explore the idea of integrated

reporting, hear different perspectives, and find out how it is related to sustainability reporting and GRI.

Chair: Karin Ireton, Director, Group Sustainability Management, Standard Bank Group, South Africa

Nelmara Arbex, Deputy Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

Michael Bray, Chair, Better Business Reporting Group, KPMG

Nathan Fabian, Chief Executive, Investor Group on Climate Change

Dr. Jeanne Ng, Group Environmental Affairs, CLP Holdings Limited

John Stanhope, Chairman, Financial Reporting Council’s Integrated Reporting Taskforce; Former Chief Financial Officer, Telstra

10.30 Networking Break

11.00 Joining The Dots – an introduction to and trends in integrated reporting – Room 212-213 This session will address the origins of integrated reporting and the IIRC; and the emergence of integrated reporting in practice in Australia, Singapore and Korea. Explore the IIRC discussion paper, its links with GRI and G4, and what it means for reporters today and in the future. Chair: Rebecca Gunn, Manager, Sustainability Reporting, BHP Billiton, Member GRI Stakeholder Council

The Practice - companies trialling integrated reporting tell it how it is – Room 216 What does integrated reporting look like in practice? This practical session will give a snapshot into companies practicing IR and the challenges that they face in making integrated reporting a reality within their organisation. Chair: Leontien Plugge, Deputy Director Regional Networks, Global Reporting Initiative

The Players – understanding integrated reporting with investors & accountants – Room 217 Understanding integrated reporting can be challenging. In this session we will use the example of climate change, as an urgent sustainability issue, to explore how integrated thinking and reporting can help companies develop strategies to understand and reduce their exposure over the coming decade. Chair: Julian Poulter, Executive Director, Asset Owners Disclosure Project; Business Director, The Climate Institute, Member, GRI

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Hwang Soo Chiat, Associate Professor, School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University

Terence Jeyaretnam, Director, Net Balance

Nick Ridehalgh, Partner, KPMG; Content Taskforce Member, IIRC

Victoria Whitaker, Network Manager, Focal Point Australia, Global Reporting Initiative

Tim Williams, Head of Strategy, Group Sustainability, Westpac

Janette O'Neill, Head of Sustainability, National Australia Bank

Siobhan Toohill, General Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Stockland

Stakeholder Council

Ann Byrne, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Council of Superannuation Investors

Bill Hartnett, Head of Sustainability, Local Government Super

Roger Simnett, Professor of Accounting and Associate Dean (Research), Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales; Working Group Member, IIRC

12.00 Networking Lunch

12.45 Innovate. Integrate. Collaborate. Be an active participant in the conference conversation that shapes the future of sustainability and integrated reporting – Room 212-213 Facilitated by:

Linden Edgell, Partner, Environmental Resources Management

Dr. Dimity Podger, Principal, Barasa Consulting Group

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The Australian GRI Conference on Sustainability and Integrated Reporting challenges us to innovate, integrate and collaborate. This conference will give you the opportunity to share practice and shape the agenda for reporting in the future. From the moment you register and throughout the conference, interactive technologies, such as social media and ideas spaces, will enable you to share your thoughts and ideas on key questions and issues that need to be addressed in the transition to a sustainable economy. This half day interactive session will build on these ideas, evoking and making visible the collective intelligence of the conference, helping shape the region’s response to sustainability and integrated reporting globally. We aim to answer the questions you’ve already asked such as: What are the drivers and barriers to sustainability disclosures in an integrated reporting approach? How can the G4 help enable integrated reporting and will integrated reporting make sustainability reporting obsolete? What do we need from reporting to transition to a sustainable economy? And who’s responsibility is it? You will have the opportunity to experience a range of innovative engagement techniques that you can apply in your own work - as we work with the challenges and opportunities that reporting presents to our organisations. We’ll learn, collaborate, and reach individual and conference outcomes that we can carry forward beyond the conference.

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15.45 Closing Plenary - Mainstreaming Reporting – A Report or Explain Policy Approach to Scale up Business Practice – Room 212-213

Should governments, regulators and stock exchanges ask companies under their jurisdiction to report their sustainability performance or explain why not? In the lead up to the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, the use of public policy as a tool for making sustainability reporting standard practice is gaining attention globally. The session will highlight how policy makers and market regulators are contributing to mainstreaming sustainability reporting around the world. Drawing together the outcomes and discussions of the conference, the session will also realise the pathway for reporting in the transition to a sustainable economy.

Chair: Catherine Fox, Deputy Editor, BOSS Magazine, Australian Financial Review

Ernst Ligteringen, Chief Executive, Global Reporting Initiative

Dr. Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre; Board Member, Global Reporting Initiative

16.45 Conference closes