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Feb 1st

10:00 am - 1:00 pm

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Manufacturers Network meeting - by invitation only

This Manufacturers Network meeting is open to manufacturers associations. This network was set up in 2019 to provide a safe discussion space for manufacturers to share...

Feb 1st

2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Virtual - Side Sessions

SIDE SESSION - Decent work and transparency in the garment sector: Emerging...

by ITC-UNECE Review of progress made under European Union DEVCO programme on Transparency and Traceability implemented by the United Nations ITC & UNECE and partners....

Feb 2nd

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Virtual - Side Sessions

SIDE SESSION - Together for Decent Leather – from precarious jobs to decent work

by Together for Decent Leather Consortium Together for Decent Leather is a 3-year programme run by an Asian-European NGO consortium aiming to bring about improvements...

Feb 2nd

10:00 am - 3:30 pm

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Roundtable for policy makers on responsible garment & footwear supply chains - by invitation only

This Roundtable is open to policy-makers and inter-governmental organisations.

Feb 2nd

10:30 am - 11:30 am

Virtual - Side Sessions

SIDE SESSION - Preventing and Remediating Child Labour in the Garment Supply Chain

by ILO’s Child Labour Platform and The Centre for Child Rights and Business COVID-19 may reverse years of progress against child labour, including in the garment...

Feb 2nd

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual - Side Sessions

SIDE SESSION - Investors’ perspective: How COVID-19 exacerbated the need to ensure workers’...

by Platform Living Wage Financials (PLWF) Payment of living wages can play a pivotal role in building resilient supply chains and contribute to substantially reduce...

Feb 2nd

1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Virtual - Side Sessions

Opening keynote speeches and plenary – Lessons from COVID-19: dialogue and accountability

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the fragility of garment sector value chains with devastating impacts on workers. This opening session will explore the role of social...

HNA

Hoang Ngoc Anh

Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS)

Acting General Secretary

KZA

Khaing Zar Aung

Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)

Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Cooperation and Development

Allan Jorgensen

OECD

Head of Responsible Business Conduct Centre

Masamichi Kono

OECD

Deputy Secretary General

MPM

Marissa Pagnani McGowan

PVH

Chief Sustainability Officer

Head of Unit, Directorate General of Trade

Feb 3rd

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual - Parallel sessions

Partner-led session - Scaling responsible purchasing practices through...

Partners: amfori, Better Buying Institute, Fair Wear Foundation, Ethical Trading Initiative, Partnership for Sustainable Textiles A key lesson from the COVID-19 crisis...

International Trade Union Confederation

Economic and Social Policy Advisor

Marsha Dickson

Better Buying Institute

President and Co-Founder

Stephan Künz

Blutsgeschwister GmbH

Vice President - Public Affairs

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Monitoring the uptake and impact of due diligence

This session will provide the opportunity to consider challenges and ways forward in monitoring implementation of the due diligence guidance, drawing from the OECD...

Andreas Edele

GIZ

Senior Project Manager

Tamar Hoek

Solidaridad

Senior Policy Advisor

Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Vice President: Membership & Stakeholder Engagement

Silvia Mera

GoodWeave International

Director, Apparel Program

Felicitas Weber

Business & Human Rights Resource Centre

KnowTheChain Project Director

Feb 3rd

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Virtual - Parallel sessions

Partner-led session - Getting to Remedy: Negotiating Grievance Mechanisms

Partner: ACT Processes to enable remedy are a core aspect of OECD due diligence guidance. Effective dispute resolution mechanisms are a win-win for workers and...

KZA

Khaing Zar Aung

Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar (IWFM)

President

Christina Hajagos-Clausen

IndustriALL Global Union

Director, Textile and Garment Industry

Christopher Land-Kazlauskas

International Labour Organisation (ILO)

Senior Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining Specialist

FPÖ

Fulya Pınar Özcan

Öz İplik İş Sendikası

International Secretary

Derya Ural

H&M

Social and Environmental Program Manager

Andrei Vasiliev

BESTSELLER

Social Impact Manager

Feb 3rd

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Decarbonising the garment and footwear sector

OECD and UN Climate Change This session will hear from climate experts and businesses collaborating on a sector-wide roadmap to decarbonisation, exploring its...

Abhishek Bansal

Arvind Limited

Head of Sustainability

Claire Bergkamp

Textile Exchange

Chief Operating Officer

Morten Lehmann

Global Fashion Agenda (GFA)

Chief Sustainability Officer

Andrew Martin

Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Vice President: Membership & Stakeholder Engagement

High Level Climate Action Champion, UK

Stephanie Venuti

OECD

Environment Lead, Centre for Responsible Business Conduct

EVA

Eva Von Alvensleben

The Fashion Pact

Executive Director and Secretary General

Sophie Wilson

COP26 Climate Champions

Sector lead for fashion, retail, fast-moving consumer goods and health

Lindita Xhaferi-Salihu

UNFCCC

Sectors Engagement Lead

Feb 3rd

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Virtual - Parallel sessions

Partner-led session - Reshaping the textile sector with focus on...

Partners: World Wide Fund and UN Environment Programme This session will showcase examples of actions already implemented to enhance the textile sector’s...

HNA

Hoang Ngoc Anh

Vietnam Textile and Apparel Association (VITAS)

Acting General Secretary

Global Water Stewardship Lead and Interim Apparel & Textiles Lead

Marijke Schöttmer

Tchibo GmbH

Manager Environmental Protection

Sarah Wade

Alliance for Water Stewardship (AWS)

Strategic Programs Manager

Feb 3rd

3:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Upstream due diligence

This session will take stock of emerging and existing digital tools and approaches to increase transparency on upstream risks linked to key garment commodities, such as...

American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)

Global Worker Rights Coordinator

Responsible Sourcing Network

Founder & CEO

Gediminas Mikutis

Haelixa

Chief Technology Officer

Amol Mishra

CottonConnect

Global Commercial Director

Amy Morgan

Altana AI

Head of Trade Compliance

Laura Rubbo

The Walt Disney Company

Executive Director, Global Public Policy

Garment Sector Advisor

Daniel Viederman

Working Capital Innovation Fund

Managing Director

Feb 4th

8:00 am - 9:00 am

Virtual - Forum Sessions

OECD session in collaboration with ILO - Weathering uncertainty in global...

OECD in collaboration with ILO - Responsible Supply Chains in Asia Programme This session will be simultaneously translated in Chinese: After clicking play, you can...

Dennis Arnold

University of Amsterdam

Associate Professor

Joyce Chau

amfori

Director Asia Pacific

Claire Courteille-Mulder

ILO Country Office for China and Mongolia

Director

Ana Novik

OECD

Head of the Investment Division

Feb 4th

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Plenary – Mandatory due diligence legislation design: perspectives from the Garment and Footwear...

An increasing number of governments are developing legislation making social and environmental supply chain due diligence mandatory. The development of such...

Barbara Bijelic

OECD

Legal Expert Responsible Business Conduct

Som Chamnan

Cambodia, Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training

Under-Secretary of State

Matthijs Crietee

International Apparel Federation (IAF)

Secretary General

Christina Hajagos-Clausen

IndustriALL Global Union

Director, Textile and Garment Industry

DG Justice Head of Unit

MMC

María Morell Camacho

Inditex

Human Rights Expert, Social Sustainability

Feb 4th

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual - Parallel sessions

Partner-led session - Lessons of a pandemic: what is needed to support...

Partner: Clean Clothes Campaign As the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the livelihoods of millions, social protection systems in garment-producing countries are unable...

Kalpona Akter

Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity (BCWS)

Executive Director

Jos Huber

retired, formerly Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands

Labour Rights Expert

Zahid Khemtio

Labour and Human Resource Department Government of Sindh

Additional Secretary / Chairman Minimum Wages Board

André Picard

International Labour Office

Chief Technical Adviser, Head of Actuarial Services Unit, Social Protection Department

Adil Rehman

ASOS

Senior Ethical Trade Manager

Ewa Synowiec

DG Trade – European Commission

Director Africa, Caribbean and Pacific, Asia, Trade and Sustainable Development, Green Deal

Ineke Zeldenrust

Clean Clothes Campaign

International Coordinator

Feb 4th

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Virtual - Forum Sessions

SME-tailored due diligence

The session will present findings from an OECD paper on SME due diligence (launched today for consultation) and a multi-stakeholder panel will present SME due diligence...

Senior Manager, Head Freshwater

Japan Textile Federation

Executive Vice president

BVS

Bruno Van Steenberghe

KALANI-home

Managing Director and Founder

Feb 4th

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Virtual - Parallel sessions

Partner-led session - Data for Due Diligence: the data’s already out there -...

Partners: Open Apparel Registry and Clean Clothes Campaign This session will discuss which data formats are the best to use in sharing data for the purpose of...

Natalie Grillon

Open Apparel Registry

Clean Clothes Campaign

transparency coordinator

Director - Global Sustainability

Jill Tucker

Laudes Foundation

Head of Labour Rights Programme

Feb 4th

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Alignment of due diligence initiatives – taking stock of pilot findings and reflecting on...

In 2018 the OECD launched a pilot to assess the alignment of industry and multi-stakeholder initiatives in the garment and footwear sector with the OECD Guidance. With...

Juergen Janssen

Partnership for Sustainable Textiles c/o GIZ

German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)

Senior Policy Officer

Charlotte Scheltus

Sociaal-Economische Raad (SER)

Team Leader, Dutch Agreement Sustainable Garment & Textiles

Lauren Wessel

Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Virtual - Forum Sessions

Due Diligence in the Public Procurement of Garment & Textiles

The OECD report “Integrating Responsible Business Conduct in Public Procurement” finds that many public buyers face challenges in integrating RBC objectives in...

JÄ

Jenny Ählström

The Norwegian Agency for Public and Financial Management

Senior Advisor

Daria Cibrario

Public Services International (PSI)

Local and Regional Government Officer

Deputy Head of Division - IPP

Christophe Ramont

City of Ghent

North South civil servant

Mauro Scalia

EURATEX

Director for Sustainable Businesses

Ilan Vuddamalay

Laudes Foundation

Senior Programme Manager

Feb 4th

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Virtual - Parallel sessions

Responsible garment supply chains - a focus on the LAC region / Cadenas de suministro responsables...

This session will provide an opportunity to have a dynamic discussion on current RBC issues and practices within the region. The new Spanish language version of...

Eloisa Artuso

Fashion Revolution Brasil

Education Director

Froukje Boele

OECD

Manager, Responsible Business Conduct in Latin America and the Caribbean

Catalina Hernandez

Procolombia

Gerencia de Sistema Moda

Edmundo Lima

ABVTEX - Brazilian Fashion Retailers Association

Executive Director

CAPM

Carlos Alberto Peña Moreno

C.I HERMECO

Gerente Cadena Total de Suministro

Feb 5th

8:30 am - 11:30 am

Virtual - Side Sessions

SIDE SESSION - Empowering Workers and Building Partnerships for a Sustainable Garment Sector: The...

by the EU and Better Work The European Union and Better Work are partnering toward more resilient, responsible and sustainable global garment value chain. The event...

Feb 5th

12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Virtual - Side Sessions

SIDE SESSION - Standard Convergence Initiative (SCI) - Criteria and Measurement of Progress

by International Apparel Federation (IAF) and International Textile Manufacturers Federation (ITMF) in collaboration with International Trade Centre (ITC) The ITMF...

Sessions

Manufacturers Network meeting - by invitation only

SIDE SESSION - Decent work and transparency in the garment sector: Emerging...

SIDE SESSION - Together for Decent Leather – from precarious jobs to decent work

Roundtable for policy makers on responsible garment & footwear supply chains - by invitation only

SIDE SESSION - Preventing and Remediating Child Labour in the Garment Supply Chain

SIDE SESSION - Investors’ perspective: How COVID-19 exacerbated the need to ensure workers’...

SIDE SESSION - Is Social Dialogue Part of Fashion’s Post-Covid Cure?

SIDE SESSION - Is the shift to plant-based materials in textile a...

Partner-led session - Bridging the divide: How knowledge sharing and digital...

Opening keynote speeches and plenary – Lessons from COVID-19: dialogue and accountability

Partner-led session - Scaling responsible purchasing practices through...

Monitoring the uptake and impact of due diligence

Partner-led session - Getting to Remedy: Negotiating Grievance Mechanisms

Decarbonising the garment and footwear sector

Partner-led session - Reshaping the textile sector with focus on...

Upstream due diligence

OECD session in collaboration with ILO - Weathering uncertainty in global...

Plenary – Mandatory due diligence legislation design: perspectives from the Garment and Footwear...

Partner-led session - Lessons of a pandemic: what is needed to support...

SME-tailored due diligence

Partner-led session - Data for Due Diligence: the data’s already out there -...

Alignment of due diligence initiatives – taking stock of pilot findings and reflecting on...

Due Diligence in the Public Procurement of Garment & Textiles

Responsible garment supply chains - a focus on the LAC region / Cadenas de suministro responsables...

SIDE SESSION - Empowering Workers and Building Partnerships for a Sustainable Garment Sector: The...

SIDE SESSION - Standard Convergence Initiative (SCI) - Criteria and Measurement of Progress

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