Park Royal Business Group Leaders' Supper ***invitation only***

Join us as a guest at our most stimulating dinner of the year.

Description

The Park Royal Business Group Leaders' Supper is an opportunity to connect with fellow business leaders and innovators in the food and drink sector, making lasting connections over supper and drinks. Discussion will centre on how we tackle supply chain carbon emissions / environmental impacts in the food and drink sector.

The dinner is kindly supported by Park Royal Net Zero and Green Business Action.

Keynote and discussion facilitator: Mike Barry

Mike is a sustainable business transformation agent, committed to helping business big and small, new and established to prepare for and succeed in the great sustainability disruption that will wash through the economy in the 2020s. He focuses on the practicality and reality of ‘getting sustainability done’ across companies, value chains and sectors. 

He was until 2019 Director of Sustainable Business at Marks & Spencer, spearheading its ground-breaking Plan A (because there is no Plan B for the one planet we have) sustainability programme. He co-chaired the Consumer Goods Forum’s sustainability work bringing the world’s largest retailers and fast moving consumer goods brands together to work on issues such as deforestation, plastics and forced labour. He is a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and a Trustee at Blueprint for Better Business.

Mike has worked with organisations such as Tata Consulting Services (TCS), Consumers International, Bloomberg NEF, ITV, Chanel, Sainsburys, PwC Japan, Unilever, SAP, Panasonic, Grosvenor GB&I, Haleon, Costain, Havas, Kite Insight’s Climate School, Nestle, Danone, Microsoft, CCEP, Lidl, Ikea, IBM, Nomad Foods, Oxford SM, The Climate Pledge, the Environment Agency, Which, Royal Society of Chemistry, Food and Drink Federation, British Retail Consortium, Edrington.

 

Agenda and topics of discussion

1.       WHY do we need to become more sustainable? Drivers for change. 

2.       WHAT do we need to do to become sustainable? Targets, governance, and transparency.

3.       HOW do we integrate our sustainability ambitions and plans into our business? Customer, supplier and shareholder roles.

 

Date and time

Wednesday, 27 November

6-9pm

 

Venue

Bluebird

350 King’s Road

Chelsea SW3 5UU

 

Enquiries regarding invitations should be directed to jette.steder@westlondon.com.

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Read more about the programme here: Park Royal Net Zero (brunel.ac.uk)