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Welcome & Opening Remarks

12:00 - 12:10 ET

Judy Panayos, SPLC Board Chair

Sarah O’Brien, SPLC CEO

Julia Salant, Ecovadis

Keynote Conversation

Introduction Judy Panayos, SPLC Board Chairwoman

Keynote Speakers

12:15 - 12:50 pm ET

Kenneth Pucker, Senior lecturer at Tufts University’s Fletcher School and Boston University, Advisory Director at Berkshire Partners, and formerly the COO of Timberland

Erika Karp, Executive Managing Director, Chief Impact Officer at Pathstone, and former Founder and CEO of Cornerstone Capital Group

Q&A with Kenneth Pucker and Erika Karp

12:50 - 1:05 pm ET

Expert Panel: Leveraging Sustainability Rating & Reporting for Impact

1:10 - 2:40 pm ET

Introduction - TBD

Nicole Darnell (Moderator) - Foundation Professor of Management and Public Policy, Director and Co-founder, Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative, Arizona State University

Fred Gersdorff - Socially Responsible and Sustainable Supply Chains Manager, General Motors

Julia Litvak - Director of Responsible Supply Chain Management, Medtronic

Julia Wolfe - Director of Environmental Purchasing, Operational Services Division (OSD), Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Kate Williams - Senior Manager of Impact Monitoring & Evaluation, Fair Trade USA

Break 2:45 - 3:00 pm ET

Workshops

3:00 - 5:00 pm ET

• Optimizing E-Procurement Systems for Sustainable Purchasing, led by Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Empower Procurement

• Getting Started with Supplier Sustainability Reporting for Small Businesses, led by Bob Willard, Sustainability Advantage and SPLC Board of Directors

• Evaluating and Selecting Product Sustainability Labels, led by Kate Harris, Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN) featuring the U.S. EPA

• Ecovadis Information Session, 3:00 - 4:00pm led by Tom Chen, Account Manager, Ecovadis

Networking Happy Hour

5:00 - 6:00 pm ET

Join SPLC Staff and fellow Deep Dive attendees for some relaxed post-event conversation!