How to Achieve Corporate ESG Excellence Driven by Data Collaboration and Integrity

Series Webinar Description:

Achieving corporate ESG excellence is a collective and collaborative endeavor which entails data sharing among multiple participants across the value chain.  At the same time, ensuring that data is recorded, managed, and reported with utmost integrity assurance to drive sustainability performance, meet mandates, and beat greenwashing is also important.

Part 1: Wednesday, October 11^th

1:00pm-2:30pm ET

Data Collaboration to meet Goals and Mandates

Data is the lifeblood of ESG performance measurement that in turn supports corporate efforts to achieve goals and meet mandates. Full data coverage requires seamless & trusted data collaboration across all upstream and downstream participants and across complex multi-tiered value chains. The panel will discuss Corporate ESG Challenges - mushrooming mandates and flourishing frameworks.

Moderator/Presenter:

Kerry Weichsel, P.E., Senior GHG and Carbon Consultant, Iconic Air

Ms. Kerry Weichsel, P.E., is currently a Senior GHG and Carbon Consultant at Iconic Air. Since graduating from Penn State with degrees in both Chemical and Environmental System Engineering, she has had over a decade of experience working around the world in the oil & gas, utilities, and environmental consulting industries focusing on air quality and sustainability issues. In her current role at Iconic Air, Kerry is an implementation manager and key subject matter expert helping to guide the software company's development of its Emissions Intelligence solution which helps oil & gas and other high-emitting industries track their greenhouse gas emissions and journey towards net zero. Kerry is a licensed Professional Engineer in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey.

Presenters:

Ana Ossers, M.Sc., ENV SP, ESG, ESG Advisory Lead, AECOM

Ana is an environmental, social, and governance (ESG) & decarbonization professional. For the past 13 years, Ana has been supporting clients reduce their exposure to ESG risks by helping them develop their ESG and decarbonization strategies. Her experience includes supporting clients in the development of ESG and sustainability reporting strategies, leading and conducting ESG benchmarking and materiality assessments, providing assurance over ESG data and reports in accordance with international sustainability standards as well as leading voluntary and regulatory greenhouse gas submissions for several sectors. Ana has advised a diverse mix of clients in Latin America, North America, and Europe.

 

Ram Ramanan, Chief Scientific Officer, Copperwire Inc.

Dr. Ramanan (Ram), a US Leadership Fulbright Fellow, is a well-recognized and respected authority in corporate sustainability and social responsibility with over five decades of executive experience at ExxonMobil, AECOM, ICF and Illinois Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Copperwire Inc. and a Board Member and Education Council Chair at Air & Waste Management International.

Fondly referred to as Dr. Ram, he has authored multiple books, presented and published scientific, technical, and management papers as well as thought leadership briefings worldwide. He has led and participated in many industry and social organizations to promote sustainability globally.

 

Rakesh Sreekumar, Cofounder and Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Copperwire

Rakesh is the cofounder and Chief Product and Marketing Officer of Copperwire, a provider of Blockchain-enabled Sustainability management solutions, based in Sunnyvale, California. Rakesh has over 25 years' experience in product management and marketing in the technology industry having worked for companies like Oracle and VMware, launching, managing and delivering a variety of enterprise software products and solutions, throughout his career. His company, Copperwire offers blockchain-enabled products that help enterprises effectively manage Sustainability across their value chains and operationalize trust across their Sustainability Ecosystems.

 

Part 2: Thursday, October 12^th

1:00pm-2:30pm ET

Data Integrity to beat Greenwashing

There is an imminent need to ‘operationalize’ trust in ESG data through improved data verifiability, traceability, auditability and ultimately data integrity to combat the allegations or skepticism of greenwashing. Improving collaboration and achieving data coverage across the value chain, combined with the ability to trace the data provenance all the way to the source with verifiable proofs, will instill conviction and trust in reported data across all stakeholders. The panel will discuss ESG Greenwashing, legal perspective, case studies and technology solutions to counter greenwashing!

 

Moderator/Presenter

Ram Ramanan, Chief Scientific Officer, Copperwire Inc.

Dr. Ramanan (Ram), a US Leadership Fulbright Fellow, is a well-recognized and respected authority in corporate sustainability and social responsibility with over five decades of executive experience at ExxonMobil, AECOM, ICF and Illinois Institute of Technology. He currently serves as the Chief Scientific Officer at Copperwire Inc. and a Board Member and Education Council Chair at Air & Waste Management International.

Fondly referred to as Dr. Ram, he has authored multiple books, presented and published scientific, technical, and management papers as well as thought leadership briefings worldwide. He has led and participated in many industry and social organizations to promote sustainability globally.

Presenters:

Ruth Ivory-Moore, Director of Government Affairs, Hudson Technologies

Ruth Ivory-Moore is the Director of Government Affairs for Hudson Technologies. Ruth has more than 20 years of success across the energy, chemical, and faith-based sectors, specializing in sustainability, ESG, climate change, and energy policy and law. Her passion is to remedy the adverse effects of climate change urgently. Ruth is guided by her faith, championing human rights incorporating diversity, equity, and inclusion principles during all phases of deploying climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience measures. Ruth earned her Juris Doctor from Rutgers University School of Law and holds chemical engineering degrees from Ohio State University and Howard University.

 

Ginny Philps, Lead, GHD’s North American ESG and Sustainability Reporting

Ginny Philps leads GHD’s North American ESG and Sustainability Reporting practice, working across varied reporting and disclosure assignments incorporating CSA, IFRS, CDP and key reporting standards.

With 15+ years of global experience across diverse sectors, she has a deep understanding of stakeholder needs and the role of effective reporting and disclosure in supporting an organizational ESG and Sustainability journey. Through developing and rolling out sustainability reporting guidelines for a global energy company’s global operations, her focused work in ESG metrics development and perspectives she has built from within nonprofits and the teaching sector, Ginny is well versed in developing and analyzing communications that are meaningful, credible, and that drive value. Ginny is based in Houston, Texas.

Rakesh Sreekumar, Cofounder and Chief Product and Marketing Officer, Copperwire

Rakesh is the cofounder and Chief Product and Marketing Officer of Copperwire, a provider of Blockchain-enabled Sustainability management solutions, based in Sunnyvale, California. Rakesh has over 25 years' experience in product management and marketing in the technology industry having worked for companies like Oracle and VMware, launching, managing and delivering a variety of enterprise software products and solutions, throughout his career. His company, Copperwire offers blockchain-enabled products that help enterprises effectively manage Sustainability across their value chains and operationalize trust across their Sustainability Ecosystems.

 

James Viray, Global Sustainability Leader,  GHD

James Viray is an experienced sustainability, social impact, and corporate social responsibility (CSR) professional. He is the Global Sustainability Leader for GHD, guide the firm’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals, with an initial focus on helping the organization achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. Viray brings more than 20 years of professional experience working on sustainable development within a Fortune 500 firm, an international NGO, and a government agency. He has worked across Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America on projects ranging from efforts to end agricultural child labor in West Africa to assessing environmental impacts in energy company value chains.

 

Date: Tuesday, October 11^th and Thursday, October 12th

Time: 1:00pm-2:30pm

Fees:

Series

  Member                  $169.00

  Non-Member         $229.00

Individual webinar

  Member                  $99.00

  Non-Member         $149.00

Registration Link:

Part 1 Only: https://awma.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=194299 

Part 2 Only: https://awma.peachnewmedia.com/store/seminar/seminar.php?seminar=194298