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Responsible Electronics 2017Santa Clara Convention Center

Santa Clara, CaliforniaOctober 17-18, 2017

Tuesday, October 17, 2017Open – General Session8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Mission City Foyer

Education Hub and Office Hours for Help on VAP, RBAOnline, eLearning Academy, Tools, Member Services Have a specific question about one of the RBA member tools or just want a general overview? Take a walk around the RBA’s Education Hub to get more information and view demos. If you have a specific question you’d like to discuss, book a half-hour time slot on the app or at registration.

8:00 – 9:00 a.m.Mission City Foyer

RBA Conference Registration and Check-InCoffee Available

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.Mission City Ballroom: B2-B5

Welcome to RBA Responsible Electronics 2017 and Chairman’s Message Rob Lederer, Executive Director, Responsible Business Alliance Carolyn Duran, Intel, Responsible Business Alliance Board Chair

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.Mission City Ballroom: B2-B5

Throughout the agenda you will see these icons relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Please view the last page of the agenda for more information.

KeynoteSpeaker: Julia Ormond, Founder and President of the Alliance to Stop Slavery and End Trafficking (ASSET)

Summary: As the UN's first and former Goodwill Ambassador against Trafficking and Slavery, Julia has traveled the world assessing solutions and challenges and has appeared as an expert witness before the U.S. Congress, the UK House of Lords, and globally for the United Nations, within the corporate dialogue space, across diverse and universal press outlets, on the global philanthropy circuit and to middle school youth and colleges. ASSET was the source, co-sponsor and organizer of the California Transparency in Supply Chains Act (TISC), which was passed in 2010 and came into law in 2012. ASSET also collaborated with Unseen UK to include and upgrade TISC in the Modern Slavery Act of 2015. ASSET works to identify and advance systemic solutions and funding to end slavery and empower public engagement, with an emphasis on improving the impact of corporate transparency through innovation and policy. ASSET is currently working on a data-driven, neutral transparency consumer tech interface.

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.Mission City: B1

Coffee Break + Marketplace Exhibits

11:00 a.m.– 12:30 p.m.Mission City Ballroom: B2-B5

Future Trends and Challenges in Managing Sustainable Supply ChainsModerator: Rob Lederer, Executive Director, Responsible Business AlliancePanalists:

Martha Newton, Deputy Undersecretary of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Labor

Michelle Fleury, Technology Executive, Cisco Judy Glazer, Sustainability and Product Compliance Executive, HP Laura Rubbo, Director, Responsible Governance and Supply Chain at The Walt Disney

Company

Summary: Expectations are high for companies to sustainably manage their supply chains. Technologic advancements and international standards driving action deeper in supply chains are just some of examples of the trends and challenges facing today’s international business community. This high-level panel will provide insights into the latest trends and challenges facing companies as they navigate the ever-changing CSR environment.

12:30 – 1:30 p.m.Mission City Ballroom: M1 – M3

Lunch Sponsored by: Assent Compliance

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.Mission City Ballroom: B2-B5

Trends in Global Supply Chain Governance Moderator: Carlos Busquets, Director of Public Policy, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

Melike Yetken, Senior Advisor for Corporate Responsibility, U.S. State Department Anita Ramasastry, Roland L. Hjorth Professor of Law and the Director of the

Graduate Program in Sustainable International Development at the University of Washington School Of Law, UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights

Arvind Ganensan, Director, Business and Human Rights, Human Rights Watch

Summary: The past several years have witnessed a marked increase in governmental action on global supply chain governance. Whether through transparency measures such as the UK Modern Slavery Act or French Due Diligence Law, public procurement such as the Federal Acquisition Regulation, or increased civil society pressure, companies must increasingly account for the behavior of actors in their supply chains. Moreover the G20, in its recent Leaders Declaration in Hamburg, issued a clear statement on the importance of Sustainable Supply Chains, stressing the need for policy frameworks on business and human rights, underlining the responsibility of business to exercise due diligence and calling for immediate and effective measures against child labor, forced labor, human trafficking and all forms of modern slavery. This panel will explore these trends and discuss the marked increase in attention on responsible business conduct in global supply chains, it will include an exchange on emerging issues, best practices and new expectations from governments, inter-governmental organizations and civil society.

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.Mission City Ballroom: B1


3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Responsible Labor Initiative: Tackling Forced Labor Through a Multi-Industry,

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Mission City Ballroom: B2-B5

Multi-Stakeholder ApproachModerator: Bob Mitchell, Vice President, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

Ed Marcum, Vice President, Investments, Humanity United Ruth Freedom Pojman, Office of the Special Representative and Co-ordinator

for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings, Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Ashley Orbach, Manager, Policy and Partnerships, Apple Inc. Pawel Szalus, IRIS Program Manager, International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Summary: The RBA has been at the forefront of addressing forced labor in international supply chains for years. Recognizing the need to engage other industries in this effort to accelerate success, the EICC launched a new multi-industry, multi-stakeholder initiative in June 2017. The Responsible Labor Initiative (RLI) strives to ensure the rights and dignity of workers vulnerable to forced labor in global supply chains are consistently respected and promoted through responsible recruitment and employment practices. In just a few short months, the initiative has gathered representatives from the electronics, automotive, construction, food & beverage, retail, toy and other industries to help shape this vision and create tangible change on the ground. Join us for this session to learn more about the drivers, challenges and promise of the RLI.


Roundtables This interactive event features roundtables that are each dedicated to trending topics for the Industry. The time will be broken into two half hour sessions for each of the topics where attendees can discuss how these topics play a role in sustainable supply chains.

Supply Chain Transparency Grievance Mechanisms Public Procurement Responsible Consumption and Production Decent Work and Economic Growth Industry Innovation and Infrastructure Clean Water and Sanitation Climate Action Gender Equality

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.Mission City Ballroom: B1

Welcome Reception – Honoring the Past, Celebrating the FutureDrinks and light refreshments will be served in the exhibit areaSponsored by: ERM

6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Great America Meeting Room 1

RLI Steering Committee Meeting (RLI Steering Committee Only)

6:30 – 8:30 p.m. Great America Meeting Room 2

ESWG Meeting (RBA Members Only)

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Wednesday, October 18, 2017RBA Open – Breakout Sessions and RMI Annual Conference8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.Mission City Foyer

Education Hub and Office Hours for Help on VAP, RBAOnline, eLearning Academy, Tools, Member Services Have a specific question about one of the RBA member tools or just want a general overview? Take a walk around the RBA’s Education Hub to get more information and view demos. If you have a specific question you’d like to discuss, book a half-hour time slot on the App or at registration.

7:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.Great America Meeting Room 2

Chemical Management Work Group Breakfast (RBA members only)

8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Mission City Foyer

Registration and Check-In Continental breakfast available

9:00 – 10:30 a.m.Mission City Ballroom: B2-B5

Grand Ballroom: G

Breakout Sessions (concurrent)1. Updates from EICC 5.1.1 to RBA 6.0

Speakers: Andrea Gilder, VAP Account Manager, Responsible Business Alliance Chee Keong Lai, Vice President of Risk Assessments and Compliance, Responsible

Business Alliance

Summary: Join us for a discussion on the updates to the RBA Code of Conduct, which were approved by membership in August 2017. These changes include the addition of new industries as well as improvements in chemical management, protection for pregnant and nursing women, and a more prominent place for worker grievance mechanisms. This is an overview of the changes, for a full exploration of the changes and the impact to the audit, please sign-up for the two-day Code training later in the week.

2. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Reporting: Making Sense of Competing Forces

Moderator: Bob Mitchell, Vice President, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

Alyson Genovese, Head of Corporate & Stakeholder Relations, USA & Canada, GRI Sara Blackwell, Reporting Program Advisor, Shift Quinn Underriner, Sector Analyst, Technology and Communications, Sustainability

Accounting Standards Board (SASB) Verity Chegar, Vice President, ESG Strategist, BlackRock

Summary: The prevalence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) reporting has increased dramatically over the last decade, providing new levels of transparency to corporate sustainability progress, challenges and risks. In recent years, competing forces on the size and complexity of CSR reporting have emerged as companies attempt to streamline their reporting for external stakeholders at the same time expectations for reporting on new CSR dimensions, such as Human Rights, emerge. Come join this thought-provoking session, which will explore the tension between these forces and perspectives on how companies can balance them.

10:30 – 11:00 a.m.Mission City B1


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11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.Grand Ballroom: G


Breakout Sessions (concurrent)1. State of the Sustainability Profession

Speaker: Ellen Weinreb, CEO, Weinreb Group

Summary: In 2016, in partnership with GreenBiz, the Weinreb Group conducted a survey of nearly 1,000 sustainability professionals, asking questions about their roles, their budget their functions and their salaries. Ellen will provide an overview from the survey of trends, salaries and organizational structures.

2. Changing Landscape of Risk AssessmentsModerator: Bob Mitchell, Vice President, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

Erin McVeigh, Head of Americas Consulting, Verisk Maplecroft Dr. Kevin Franklin, Senior Vice President, Consulting & Product, ELEVATE Assheton Stewart Carter Ph.D., Director, The Dragonfly Initiative

Summary: Members are using technology to understand the social and environmental risks in their supply chain. It takes a balance between public, proprietary and confidential information to truly assess risk in a meaningful way.Join us for a discussion on the maturity of risk assessment and the way RBA has engaged outside expertise to enhance member tools.


Lunch (Open)

12:00 – 1:00 p.m.Great America Meeting Room 1

Indirect Spend Work Group Meeting (RBA members only)

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.Mission City Foyer

RMI Annual Conference Registration (See Separate RMI agenda)

1:00 – 2:30 p.m.Grand Ballroom: G

Breakout Sessions (concurrent)1. Cross Organizational Approaches to Chemical Management

Moderator: Dan Reid, Environmental Program Manager, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

Kelly Liu, Senior Advisor of Supply Chain Social Environmental Responsibility, Dell Hamlin Metzger, Director of Corporate Responsibility, Best Buy Nathaniel Sponsler, Director, Apparel and Footwear International RSL Management

(AFIRM) Sarah O’Brien, Director, Clean Electronics Production Network (CEPN)

Summary: The need for holistic and consistent approaches to chemical management drives change and governance at an industry level. As sectors and firms increasingly face similar challenges, cross organizational coordination on information and best practices will become key to successfully and safely managing chemicals through increasingly supply chains. In this panel, we’ll hear about electronic industry collaboration to develop solutions to chemical management, as well as approaches the apparel industry is taking to address similar challenges.

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Grand Ballroom: H 2. Best Practices and Innovative uses of RBA’s IT ToolsetModerator: Ken Anderson, Director of Information Technology, Responsible Business AlliancePaneleists:

Mike McDonnell, Senior SC Assessment Manager, Intel Romi Lessig, WW Procurement, Sustainability, Dell Balan Shanmuganathan, Senior Director Sustainability, Seagate Technology

Summary: A discussion with a panel of RBA members that are getting the most out of the suite of RBA tools. Learn how you might be able to maximize your benefit derived from the tools based on these best practices.


WELCOME ADDRESS Rob Lederer, Executive Director, Responsible Business Alliance

Progress to Date: 2017 CFSI Accomplishments and Introduction of the Responsible Minerals Initiative

• Leah Butler, Vice President, Responsible Business Alliance

2:30 – 3:30 p.m.


Grand Ballroom: G

Breakout Sessions (concurrent)1. Supply Chain Due Diligence Context and Trends

Moderator: Carlos Busquets, Director of Public Policy, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

• Tyler Gillard, Manager of Sector Projects, Responsible Business Conduct Unit, OECD• Tim Goodman, Associate Director at Hermes Fund Managers• David Bouffard, Vice President, Signet Corporate Affairs, Signet Jewelers Ltd.

Summary: How have drivers influencing the responsible mineral sourcing space evolved over the past few years? What has stayed the same? Have priority areas changed for companies, governments, or NGOs? How have changing regulatory frameworks impacted company strategies? This session will provide views on the context for supply chain due diligence today, using examples and diverse perspectives to illustrate concrete achievements and current challenges.

2. How can we Increase Retention amoung Young Workers?Moderator: Ellen Schliebitz, Center for Child-Rights & Corporate Social Responsibility (CCR CSR)Panelists:

Ephigenie dela Cruz, Senior Director, Manufacturing & Supply Chain Social and Environmental Accountability (SEA), Microsoft

Bob Mitchell, Vice President, Responsible Business Alliance

Summary: Young workers in Asia’s supply chains are an indispensable part of the workforce. However, this demographic also brings a host of challenges, both from an employer’s and a child rights perspective. During this session, we’ll discuss the challenges associated with hiring young workers, existing programs that aim to provide young workers with better opportunities that also contribute to workforce stability. This will be followed by a panel discussion that delves further into these issues, exploring the case for or against hiring young workers, the sustainability of current hiring practices and best practices companies could consider implementing.

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Grand Ballroom: H 3. Advancing Social Criteria in Public ProcurementSpeaker: Melanie Bower, EPEAT Program Director, Green Electronic Council

Summary: Purchasers, both public and private sector, are increasingly adding labor and human rights requirements in their procurement process including framework agreements, contracts and bids. For many purchasers, understanding how to integrate labor and human rights into the procurement process can be a challenge. To address this, the Green Electronics Council has developed draft guidance for purchasers that identifies relevant questions and associated verification evidence for use in the procurement process. The goal of GEC’s Guide is to help purchasers put their institutional spend behind IT products originating from socially responsible supply chains. Join us for a discussion on purchaser’s expectations regarding socially responsible supply chains and specifics on the draft version of the GEC Guide. During this session, GEC welcomes input on how their draft guidance can be improved.

3:30 – 4:00 p.m.Mission City: B1



Grand Ballroom: G

Breakout Session (concurrent)1. Supply Chain Assurance Across Industries and Minerals

Moderator: Michele Bruelhart, Technical Director, Responsible Business Alliance

Panelists: Krista Bay-West, Adviser, Aluminum Stewardship Initiative Meera Pau Mehta, Arcelor Mittal Nicholas Garrett, Chief Executive, RCS Global

Summary: What approaches are other industries taking to due diligence implementation and assurance? Which assurance tools are helping companies achieve intended outcomes? This session will provide a global, cross-industry conversation on supply chain assurance approaches, outcomes, and lessons that can be shared across organizations working on similar challenges.

1. Building Environmental Maturity throu Supplier EmpowermentModerator: Dan Reid, Environmental Program Manager, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

• John Kinsella, Senior Partner and Account Director, ERM• Max Weiss, Global Social and Environmental Responsibility Manager, Hewlett

Packard Enterprise

Summary: The RBA Environmental Sustainability Workgroup has begun development of a Supplier Environmental Maturity Framework that will help determine suppliers’ environmental programmatic ability. Through knowing a supplier’s ability, RBA and its members can provide tailored resources and best practices that build supplier capacity and move them along the path towards better performance. External and member resources, like HPE’s supplier science-based target program, will play a significant role in the building out a full framework of supplier resources meant to build maturity.

5:00 – 6:00 p.m. Regulatory Update

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Moderator: Leah Butler, Vice President, Responsible Business AlliancePanelists:

• Michelangelo Margherita, Deputy Head of Unit DG Trade, European Commission Bojun Tang, Director, General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and

Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) Betsy Orlando, Economic and Commercial Affairs Officer, U.S. Department of State

Summary: This session will update participants on the latest regulatory developments for responsible mineral supply chains in key markets as well as policy updates that influence regulatory review, implementation, and oversight

In May 2017, the RBA brought industry executives together at the second annual EICC Leadership Circle event to explore the opportunities and challenges of sustainable supply chains through the lens of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). These 17 goals provide direction to “end poverty, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity for all.” Some of the UN SDG targets and indicators are already embedded in the EICC’s existing work and initiatives, while others stood out as priority areas of future exploration and programmatic development. We will build off the results of the Leadership Circle this week at the 2017 Responsible Electronics Conference by looking at the programming through the lens of the UN SDGs. We’ve indicated on this agenda what we believe to be the UN SDG most relevant to each session. However, we also recognize that given the interconnectivity of the global issues addressed through the UN SDGs, Conference sessions will often touch on multiple SDGs. Sessions designed to cover a wide breadth of the UN SDGs are indicated with the UN SDG Color Wheel.

We encourage you to start by considering the suggested SDG for any given session, and expand to consider how it connects to the other SDGs and your organization’s programs. We hope that you find this framework as inspiring as we have, and join us as we explore how to improve our roles as global citizens. More information on the goals and targets can be found at: http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/

Thank you to our Sponsors and Vendor Members!

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