Are you ready to meet the standard of responsible business practice in a post-GFC world?

Will 2010 finally see a global agreement of responsibility principles, topics and practices? Start the year with the information you need!
The practice of social responsibility stands on the brink of the biggest changes since CSR entered management practice in the 1970s. Business leaders the world round are now recognising thatthere can be no return to ‘business as usual’. But what will the new ‘normal’ look like? CSR survived the Global Financial Crisis. But the GFC’s failure to address stakeholder and ethical issues have taken trust in business to new lows. In 2010, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the world’s leading standards body, will release a standard on what it means to be a socially responsible organisation. Experts from 91 countries have been working intensively since 2004 to reach consensus on what ‘social responsibility’ means, and what should go in the world’s first standard on the subject. The new standard has the potential to re-shape the CSR landscape. Find out what the new standard will mean for your organisationand how responsible business practice has emerged from the crisis sharper and more focused than ever.

QUESTIONS THIS CONFERENCE WILL ANSWER:

• What issues and practices will the new ISO standard cover?

• What value could it add?

• How will it relate to existing ISO standards and other CSR

instruments such as the GRI and UN Global Compact?

• What are the implications for stakeholders and the

environment?

PLUS

Launch of The State of CSR in Australia 2009 Update - the biggest

ongoing research program into the changing nature of CSR

practice, including an announcement of the CSRMC Top 25 – the

companies and organisations with the best CSR management

capabilities.

This conference will feature three international speakers and five

experts on ISO 26000 who have been central in the development of

this globally relevant standard:

• Jonathan Hanks, Convenor of the ISO Working Group on Scope,

Social Responsibility Context and Social Responsibility Principles

• Deni Greene, Project Editor, ISO 26000

• Paul Hohnen, GRI representative to ISO 26000

• Bill Dee, representative of the Society of Consumer Affairs

Professionals to ISO 26000