SDG Summit
Accelerating Action in a Decade of Delivery
3 Febuary 2020 | Phoenix, Arizona
GreenBiz 20 Conference
12:30-18:00
Paradise Ballroom,
JW MARRIOTT CAMELBACK INN
Collaboratively advancing impact through corporate leadership and sustainability
3 Feb | 12:30-18:00
Phoenix, AZ
JW Marriott Scottsdale Camelback Inn
In collaboration with the GreenBiz 20 Premiere Annual Event for Sustainable Business Leaders, United Nations Global Compact offers a half-day event to discuss and guide corporate leaders toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
The theme for this year’s Symposium is ‘The Role of Business in the UN: Corporate Growth Through SDG Adoption,’ and it is designed to move engagement with the SDGs from understanding and alignment to action and impact. In principle, the global community has the resources to address the needs of the 2030 Agenda and meet the SDGs. The challenge is continuing the excellent this progress. The United Nations has established a priority to support financing and business investment in the SDGs and this event has been designed to support that work and further explore additional tools for impact, development agenda, innovation for the SDGs, corporate finance for the SDGs, reporting on the SDGs, and more, led by experts from the UN Global Compact and others.
Agenda
12:30 - 13:00
13:00 - 13:10
13:10 - 13:20
13:20 - 13:40
13:40 - 13:50
13:50 - 14:30
14:30 - 14:50
14:50 - 15:40
15:40 - 15:50
15:50 - 16:40
16:40 - 16:50
16:50 - 17:00
17:00 - 18:00
Registration and Networking
Introductory Remarks
UN Global Compact 20th Anniversary
Keynote: Rick Ridgeway
Young SDG Innovators Programme
SDG Action Manager Launch
Break
SDG Opportunity Workshop
SDGs and Supply Chains
SDG Finance Panel
Closing Keynote: Marjam Groten
Closing Remarks
Reception on the Terrace, Co-hosted by EcoVadis
Speakers
Sue Allchurch
Chief of Partnerships, Fund Raising and Communication
UN Global Compact
Sapna Shah
Head of Corporate Sustainability
PIMCO
George Basile
Professor of Practice
School of Sustainability
Arizona State University
Mirjam Groten
Chief
Business Development Officer
GRI
Rick Ridgeway
VP Environmental Initiatives
Patagonia
Mary Teagarden
Associate Dean
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Marie Morice
Senior Advisor
UN Global Compact
Marcus Krembs
Head of Sustainability, USA and Canada
Enel
Laura Palmeiro
Senior Advisor
UN Global Compact
Marta Cobeño López
SDG Lead
Ecovadis
Laura Velez Villa
Senior Associate Strategic Growth
B Lab
Sponsors & Collaborators
Adam Roy Gordon
Engagement Director
United Nations Global Compact U.S Network
Past Events
About Network USA
Launched in 2007, the Global Compact Network USA (GCNUSA) is the local network chapter of the United Nations Global Compact. Network USA is a non-profit organization that supports U.S.-based entities in:
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Operating in alignment with the Ten Principles of the Global Compact
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Engaging with and advancing the Sustainable Development Goals
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Leveraging their association with the Global Compact and United Nations and its global resource network
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Facilitating and creating opportunities for multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder collaboration
For more information, visit our website: www.GlobalCompactUSA.org