ESG – From Talk to Walk

Overview

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How are those at the leading edge of ESG activating capital towards their goals?

Join us and move the conversation beyond investment trends by addressing the real implications and opportunities of climate change on security, unpacking the relationships between gender inequality and growth, and discussing deployable investment strategies.

Bloomberg, RBC Global Asset Management, and The Investment Integration Project are convening esteemed industry professionals for an exclusive conference focused on how engaged asset owners, investors and corporations are deploying capital across diverse asset classes by assessing risk and opportunities.

Our panelists and keynote speakers represent Cities, Corporations, Pensions, Foundations, and the legal profession, in a format designed to encourage participation and insight. Please visit the list of featured speakers here.

9am Registration

Our program includes lunch and networking reception with:

Environmental Keynote: Climate Change and National Security Risk
by John Conger, Director of the Center for Climate and Security

What investors can learn from the Department of Defense and its Risk Management of Climate Change

Panel: Risk Mitigation and Environmental Stewardship
Do investors need to incorporate environmental considerations into risk management? What are some approaches? Are there resources to do this?
Jason Malinowski, CIO, Seattle City Employees’ Retirement System
Tobias Read, Treasurer, State of Oregon
Sarah Bernstein, Consultant, ESG Committee, Meketa Investment Group

Social Keynote: Social Issues and the Financial Implication for Companies and Portfolios by John Vu, Vice President Community Health Strategy Kaiser Permanente

How Good Health is Good Business

Panel: Social Impact and the Bottom Line
How are Investors evaluating Social Considerations and implementing these considerations in investment portfolios – What are best practices?
Moderator: David Erikson, Senior Vice President Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Wendy Walker, Managing Director, Cambridge Associates
Leona Bridges, Trustee, San Francisco Employees Retirement System
Joe Bryant, Investment Director, UCLA Investment Company
Stacie Olivares Castain, Trustee, CalPERS

12:30PM Lunch

Panel: Corporate Citizens: Scalable Environmental and Social Initiatives
Doug Sabo, Head of Global Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability, Visa Inc.
Melissa Fifield, Senior Director of Sustainable Innovation, Global Sustainability at Gap Inc.
Laura Franceschini, Sustainability Strategy & Operations, Google

Governance Keynote: Shareholder Derivative Action
by Scott Carlton, of counsel in the Litigation practice of Paul Hastings

When can shareholders exercise derivative rights?

Panel: Diversity of Thought: Beyond Fairness to Sustainable Business
Aeisha Mastagni, Portfolio Manager, CalSTRS
Eileen Neill, Managing Director, Verus Investments
Rob Du Boff, Bloomberg Intelligence ESG Analyst

Panel: Women in the C-Suite: What can we learn from experience?
How women in the c-suite affect the culture of diversity and inclusion.
Kerry Whorton Cooper: President, Rothy’s
Jodi Bricker: CEO of Quay Australia
Dawn Dobras: CEO Credo Beauty
Laila Tarraf, Head of Employee Experience, Allbirds

4:30pm Networking Reception

*Registration for this event has now closed, if you would like to be placed on a waitlist email lbarrera18@bloomberg.net*