2nd Annual Summit on ESG - DS

Unlock ESG opportunities that align people, profit, and purpose with the greater goal of building a better future for all

During ACI’s 2nd Annual Summit on ESG, sustainability professionals convene to address the key pillars driving ESG trends now and in the future.

Be part of the only conference that presents strategies and solutions for every link of the ESG ecosystem from both national and global perspectives. Attendees will gain insights from the full ESG ecosystem — institutional investors, asset managers, legislators, regulators, government leadership from the SEC, and ESG/sustainability in-house leaders from various sectors — for insights into unlocking powerful ESG opportunities.

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Our 2022 Speaking Faculty includes thought leaders in ESG and sustainability — with government leadership from the SEC; in-house leadership from Fortune 500 and cutting-edge companies; and senior-level in-house counsel and executives focused on ESG portfolios and compliance.

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The Summit’s audience comprises ESG and sustainability professionals from the government; in-house executives and practitioners from companies and organizations seeking to evolve their ESG; and in-house counsel focused on ESG portfolios and compliance.

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This is a cross-sector event with a focus on multiple sectors, including financial services, government administration; IT services; machinery manufacturing; pharmaceuticals; real estate; telecommunications, and more.

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Distinguished Speaking Faculty 2022

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Brian Matt

Director, Head of ESG Advisory New York Stock Exchange

Demian Newman

Founder GreenWorks Environmental Partnerships

Lindsay Ross

Director, Client Services, Moody’s ESG

Matt Toohey

Vice President, ESG and Sustainable Business Practice

Mike McDonnell

Senior Manager for Supply Chain Human Rights Intel Corporation Jim McWeeney

CEO Integrity Risk International Maureen Mitchell Independent Board Director Webster Bank

Katherine O’Neill

Head of ESG, Procurement, Strategic Sourcing American Express Global Business Travel

Moody’s Corporation Alexandra Russo

Head of ESG Client Portfolio Management for the US & UK Candriam, A New York Life Investments Company

Modern West Shila Wattamwar

Global Head of Retail and Wealth

ESG Strategy and Strategic Partnerships, Morningstar; and Executive Director

Richard Mojica

Practice Lead, Customs & Import Trade Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Kosmas Papadopoulos, CFA Executive Director, Head of Americas Sustainability Advisory ISS Corporate Solutions

Aniket Shah, PhD Managing Director and Global Head of ESG and Sustainability Jefferies Financial Group

Sustainalytics Victoria Westerhaus Partner

Michael Murphy Partner

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Amanda Raad Partner

Ropes & Gray LLP

Maksim Rakhman Executive Director

Morgan Stanley Eric Reynolds

Global Director of Sustainability J.M. Huber Corporation

Lisa M. Tanzi SVP and General Counsel

The Parts Authority Douglas Thompson Partner and Banking Sector Co-Leader

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Paul White Partner

Resolution Economics

Kate Yin Partner

Fangda Law Frank Zarb Partner

Proskauer & Rose LLP

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WORKSHOP A TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022

Clock 9:00 am–12:30 pm

Comprehensive Guide to Building, Strengthening, and Maintaining a Value-Driven ESG Program

During this deep-dive workshop, explore best practices for designing and implementing a strong ESG program that supports corporate profitability while underscoring the importance of being ethically, socially, and environmentally responsible. We will discuss strategies and best practices for building, strengthening, and maintaining a solid ESG program with topics including:

• Creating an effective ESG strategy that addresses critical ESG program needs

» Preventing waste in the supply chain

» Creating a sustainable workplace culture

» Deploying ESG-focused initiatives that can be tracked

• Aligning internal organizational processes with ESG goals

• Creating, launching, or evolving an ESG Program Roadmap

» How to get started, and why to get started

• Identifying key metrics healthy ESG programs should be tracking

• Building your ESG team; and navigating ESG if you’re still a team of one

Michael Murphy Partner Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Brooke Hopkins Managing Director AlixPartners LLP

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2022

Navigating the Complex World of ESG Ratings and Rankings

There currently exists a lack of global uniform reporting standards for ESG. This lack of standards across multiples sectors has led ESG ratings providers to adopt varying methodologies, creating a number of complex challenges for organizations. During this deep-dive workshop, we will discuss the complex landscape of ESG ratings and rankings. We will explore topics including:

• Navigating varying ESG standards – ESG’s ‘Alphabet Soup’

» How is it possible to have different ratings for the same company?

» What is the best path to standardized ESG reporting metrics?

• Addressing disparities and ambiguity in current ESG ratings and rankings

• Creating a path toward more rigorous and coherent methods for ratings and rankings

• Customizing organizational ESG indices to be more aligned with investor values

• Embedding standardized ratings and rankings into ESG strategy

Demian Newman Founder

GreenWorks Environmental Partnerships

Kosmas Papadopoulos, CFA Executive Director, Head of Americas Sustainability Advisory ISS Corporate Solutions

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Aligning Business Strategy with ESG

Today’s ESG-focused markets demand transparency into business operations, environmental impact, supply chain, social impact, and more on the path to a circular economy. During our opening panel discussion, we will address best practices for aligning overall business strategy with ESG initiatives and policies. Discussion points include:

• Getting everyone on board, including the Board

• Best practices for demonstrating ESG performance

• Optimizing ESG policies across the organization

• Committing the entire organization to sustainability initiatives

• Understanding tech’s role in

ESG with overall business strategy

David S. Ferris Chief Sustainability Officer Laredo Petroleum Michael Levine

VP and Chief Sustainability Officer Under Armour

Aniket Shah, PhD

Managing Director and Global Head of ESG and Sustainability Jefferies Financial Group

10:45  Morning Networking Break

11:00  The Impacts of ESG on Human Rights and Supply Chain Due Diligence

Greater corporate accountability on ESG human rights is accelerating concerns about new legal and reputational liabilities for businesses. This raises urgent, practical questions about how human rights due diligence is evaluated and integrated into existing risk management processes. It is important to determine what establishes meticulous care in this new era of enhanced analysis of organizational efforts to mitigate human rights abuse risks. Join us for takeaway tips on:

• Ensuring organizations are aware of their supply chain blind spots

• Determining how to take practical steps to address human rights in the supply chain

• Understanding defensible standards of care in human rights due diligence

Business and Human Rights Counsel

Verizon

Prashanth PJ Jayachandran

Chief Supply Chain Counsel

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Mike McDonnell

Senior Manager for Supply Chain Human Rights Intel Corporation

Douglas Thompson Partner and Banking Sector Co-Leader Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

MODERATOR: Nancy Reynolds

Managing Associate General Counsel, Legal Operations, ESG and Chief Ethics Officer Western Union

Katherine O’Neill

Global Sourcing Manager, Corporate Sustainability

American Express Global Business Travel

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MODERATOR: Reagan Demas Partner Baker McKenzie

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1:00  Accelerating Carbon Transition through Net-Zero Focused Strategies

As the push to curb global warming gains steam, sustainable, Net-Zero-focused strategies have become increasingly important. During this panel, we will explore the opportunities and barriers to catalyzing Net-Zero initiatives, with topics including:

• Defining Net Zero for your organization

• Catalyzing Net-Zero Energy Design to create sustainable brick-and-mortar spaces

• The impact of urban carbon caps on corporations

» A look at New York’s carbon caps for buildings over 50,000 square feet by 2025

• Addressing the increased scrutiny for public- and private-sectors to address aging infrastructure

• Advancing climate-smart organizations through green infrastructure

1:45  BOD and ESG: Strategies for Strengthening ESG Leadership Across the Organization

Address top strategies for getting the Board’s engagement and buy-in on ESG matters, including guidance to creating a robust corporate governance roadmap critical for driving a sustainability transformation. Topics will include:

• ESG metrics and executive compensation

• Translating the Value of ESG to the BOD for Buy-In and Engagement

• Best practices for engaging the Board in ESG matters

• Tracking ESG effectiveness and its impact on the bottom line

• Supporting an ESG agenda that puts ESG at the heart of its corporate strategy

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Candice Dial SVP and Director of ESG Investments Rockefeller Capital Management Mary Beth Houlihan Partner, ESG & Impact Kirkland & Ellis

Troy Dennis SVP, Head of Product, Fintech, Financial Inclusion & ESG for North America Mastercard

Lisa Boyd Director of Social Impact Lyft Maureen Mitchell Independent Board Director Webster Bank

Amanda Raad Partner Ropes & Gray LLP

MODERATOR: Tricia Etzold Partner Resolution Economics

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3:15  Complying with the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Supply Chain Compliance Challenges

The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act assumes that products made with goods even partially sourced from the Xinjiang region of China have been made with forced labor, and therefore can't be imported into the US unless a company can prove otherwise.

During this panel, we will explore the supply chain compliance challenges connected to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, including:

• An overview of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act (UFLPA)

• Complying with UFLPA and ESG Violations

• Critical issues for businesses and the significance of the Act and resulting expected enforcements related to UFLPA

4:15  Mitigating Emerging ESG Litigation and Regulatory Risks

As ESG strategies have become increasingly important, we will explore the opportunities and barriers to mitigating emerging ESG litigation and regulatory risks, with topics including:

• Defining your top challenges with emerging ESG litigation

• Creating an ESG-focused risk culture

• Understanding the state of ESG litigations in the US, and abroad

• Addressing the increased scrutiny for organizations to address ESG

Richard Mojica Practice Lead, Customs & Import Trade Miller & Chevalier Chartered

Kate Yin Partner Fangda Law

MODERATOR: Jim McWeeney CEO Integrity Risk International

Andrew Levine Partner Debevoise & Plimpton

Beth Jones Senior Managing Director, Risk & Investigations FTI Consulting

5:00  Conference Adjourns to Day 2

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MODERATOR: Tara Giunta Partner Paul Hastings LLP

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Keynote Address:

Designing an ESG Strategy that Combats Greenwashing

With an increasing number of companies infusing sustainability into their overall strategies, the act of greenwashing has been in the spotlight lately. Greenwashing is the term for when companies invest more effort (time and money) into marketing themselves as sustainable than into the actual corporate environmental efforts that have the most impact in their overall footprint. During this panel, we will explore topics and trends related to the trends we are currently seeing in greenwashing.

Alyse Mauro Mason

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Kevin Christopher

Shila Wattamwar

Matt Toohey

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Boosting Inclusion and Driving Innovation through DEI in ESG

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1:00  Analyzing the Impact of the SEC Climate Disclosure Rule

In late March 2022, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments that would create additional climate-related disclosures for public companies, ultimately meaning an increase in reporting requirements and related costs. During this panel, we will discuss the current state and future impact of the SEC’s climate change disclosure requirements, including:

• Understanding what investors want or need from the rule

• Exploring the international context of the rule

• Addressing the high cost of environmental-impact data needed as a result of the rule

• Understanding the full GHG impact of your organization’s operations

Pinpointing activities that result in Scope 3 emissions

• Engaging climate change experts in your ESG strategy

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MODERATOR: Paul White Partner Resolution

Lindsay Ross Director,

Frank Zarb

Proskauer

Victoria Westerhaus Partner Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Howard A. Fischer

ESG Investors Panel: Challenges and Expectations for Key ESG Issues

Cynthia Dalagelis

SVP Director ESG and Impact Investments

Amalgamated Bank

Alexandra Russo

Head of ESG Client Portfolio Management for the US & UK Candriam, A New York Life Investments Company

MODERATOR: Sarah Bratton Hughes

Head of ESG and Sustainable Investing American Century Investments

Afternoon Networking Break

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3:00  Global Perspectives: Navigating the Global ESG Regulatory Framework

As the world gets closer to aligning global ESG standards, we will address legal considerations for a global ESG regulatory framework, including global supply chain compliance and the challenges of navigating the ambiguous maze of ESG. We will address best practices for navigating and empowering ESG from a globe lens, including:

• Faster, clearer, and more globalized support from the public sector

• How to have a level playing field across nations

• How global ESG policies are evolving across industries and across the globe

• Addressing the greatest challenges and opportunities in sustainability and ESG

• Understanding the role of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB)

Tania Ferlin

Global Manager of ESG Husky Technologies

Mark Goodman Partner

Baker McKenzie

Eric Reynolds

Global Director of Sustainability J.M. Huber Corporation

Lisa M. Tanzi SVP and General Counsel The Parts Authority

MODERATOR: Michael Littenberg Partner Ropes & Gray LLP

4:00  Increasing ESG Data Transparency to Deliver Investor-Grade ESG Disclosure

Empowering transparency in ESG data is more important than ever as investors seek stringent ESG-focused data and tools to support their investment decisions. During this panel, we will explore the path to trusted ESG data through transparency with topics including:

• Determining which ESG metrics to track and disclose when there are so many to consider

• Building an ESG data foundation that easily integrates into your core business principles

• Responding to the demand for data transparency – specifically by Millennial and Gen Z investors

• Addressing human capital reporting and requirements through transparent data

Chris Gray Head of ESG Pfizer John Hodges

Director of Sustainability, CSR/ESG and Waste Burlington Stores, Inc.

Brian Matt

Director, Head of ESG Advisory New York Stock Exchange

5:00  Closing Remarks and Conference Adjourns

Maksim Rakhman Executive Director Morgan Stanley

MODERATOR: Divya Bendre

Head of Fixed Income ESG Capital Markets, Americas Bank of America

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