PLENARY TOPICS: Meant to be insightful, big picture, thought provoking, “FRAMES” the rest of the conference.

Opening Ceremonies

Tribute to Tun Ismail

1

CSR and Global Competitiveness

2

Increasing competitiveness through PPP

3

How to Maintain Competitiveness: Reflections of a former Tai-Pan on CSR in the Corporate and Voluntary sectors

Strategic Business Competitiveness

1

A 10 step guide to make CSR enhance profit through improved corporate reputation

2

How to integrate CSR into business strategy to gain a competitive advantage

3

New Expectations and New Roles for Responsible Leaders and Responsible Companies

4

Using CSR to drive innovation and profits

5

CSR Indicators and Best Practices
       a. How to develop performance indicators on the benefits of CSR to stakeholders,        especially consumers
       b. Best practices in Efficient and Socially Responsible Supply Chain Management

Track II

Workplace / HR Competitiveness

1

Improving productivity and generating cost savings because of CSR

2

Understanding Responsible Leadership Models

3

Islamic Financial Institutions and CSR

4

Tools, tips and traps of an employee volunteer program

5

A short course on developing CSR leaders of tomorrow

Track III

Marketplace Competitiveness

1

How CSR builds brand value

2

How CSR helps to form business alliances in global markets

3

Case studies of how social markets can be good for business

4

How consumers are responding to CSR initiatives

5

Conscious Capitalism / Understanding political and cultural differences  in developing CSR  initiatives

Track IV

Operational Competitiveness (Environment)

1

The responsibilities of MSMEs to large companies

2

Competitiveness through CSR in the mining sector

3

CSR toolkit to improve competitiveness

4

The greener side of Green
       a. CSR Greening Operations - What works and what does not, what’s hot and what’s        not!
       b. How to green your business (Revisited)

5

Taking another look at an Educational Framework for CSR and Strategic CSR Perspectives and Practices in Asia

Track V

Social benefits and Competitiveness (Community)

1

How to gain community support and involvement

2

A look at social innovation and entrepreneurship

3

A guide to benchmarking your social programs / Persons With Disability Sector, the Untapped Niche by the Corporate World

4

Case studies of how focusing on poverty and social empowerment can be good for business

5

What works and what fails in partnerships with community, government, employees, other businesses and with consumers

Track VI

Personal skills for CSR Managers

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How to deal with Community Leaders and Government Policy-Makers

2

EQ for CSR Managers

3

Managing controversy

4

How to decide what CSR issues are crucial to you

5

Mind Mapping for CSR manages