Conference

Global Business Summit: Europe, North America and Asia 2021

9–11 Mar 2021Virtual event (+ video recordings)

Managing chemicals safely: An increasingly business critical issue

Global Business Summit: Europe, North America and Asia 2021

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Agenda

11:00 GMT

Welcome and introduction

Kate Lowe, Chemical Watch News & Insight, Enhesa Product Intelligence

11:05 GMT

Session 1 – The Global Picture

11:10 GMT

Unep's vision for connecting with industry and moving the global process toward a more open and transparent approach to sharing information on chemicals and waste

Monika MacDevette, United Nations Environment Programme (Unep)

11:30 GMT

SAICM, ICCM5 and the 'beyond 2020 instrument', from an industry perspective

  • The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
  • International Conference on Chemicals Management (ICCM 2006 - 2022)
  • Stakeholder’s initiatives for Safer Sustainable Chemicals Management

Kenkichi Fujii, Kao Corporation

11:50 GMT

Human rights in the context of chemicals

Baskut Tuncak, Toxics Use Reduction Institute, TURI

12:10 GMT

Q&A

12:30 GMT

Break and networking

12:55 GMT

Session 2 – EU regulation impacting chemical and product supply chains

13:00 GMT

Session moderator

Geraint Roberts, Freelance journalist and researcher

13:15 GMT

The EU’s chemicals strategy for sustainability: an overview of what’s most relevant to industry players

Cristina de Avila, European Commission

13:35 GMT

Industry challenges for developing a sustainable product strategy

Sylvie Lemoine, Cefic

13:55 GMT

Industry experience of complying with their Scip database obligations

Raj Takhar, Assent

14:15 GMT

Q&A

14:35 GMT

Break and networking

14:40 GMT

Veeva sponsor workshop: Delivering Chemical Compliance With Speed and Scale: The Case for Digital Transformation in Regulatory Affairs

Regulatory and Product Stewardship teams in chemical companies are continually being asked to do more with less. At the same time, greater insight and transparency is being demanded by customers, partners and regulators. Join our workshop to learn how a digitally enabled Regulatory Affairs can help drive greater value for the customer and for the business.

David Maher, Veeva Europe

14:55 GMT

Session 3 – Challenges and rewards of successfully tackling supply chain information exchange in Europe and North America

15:00 GMT

Session moderator

Leigh Stringer, Chemical Watch News & Insight, Enhesa Product Intelligence

15:01 GMT

A – Challenges for disclosure of substances in articles

16:15 GMT

Global lead strategic marketing and sustainability - working with suppliers towards ingredient transparency in the building industry

Sjoerd Dijkstra, Covestro AG; Raefer Wallis, Reset Ap, Canada

16:40 GMT

Chemical footprint methodology

Cheri Peele, Toxic-Free Future

17:00 GMT

Challenges and rewards of measuring a chemical footprint

Jennifer Reece, HP Inc

17:20 GMT

Q&A

17:35 GMT

Break and networking

18:00 GMT

B - Ingredient transparency

18:20 GMT

How investors are expecting greater transparency on chemicals

Eugenie Mathieu, Aviva

18:40 GMT

Focus on green chemistry: what are funders looking for, and how can they help drive innovation?

Martin Mulvihill, Safer Made

19:00 GMT

Humanscale - transparency in the supply chain

Jane Abernethy, Humanscale

19:20 GMT

Why companies should be disclosing their chemical ingredients - trends in the US

Mike Schade, Toxic-Free Future, United States

19:40 GMT

Q&A and panel discussion

20:10 GMT

Wrap up

20:15 GMT

End of day one