About

At H&M, we are passionate about making fashion sustainable, and sustainability fashionable. We want to be part of leading the change towards creating a circular and renewable fashion industry, while being a fair and equal company.

By bringing together change makers, like yourself, expertise, industry knowledge, consumer insights, and unexpected players and disruptors from a variety of different sectors, we want to push the agenda further towards achieving a fully sustainable fashion world.

Throughout the day breakout sessions will explore pathways to:

• accelerating a circular approach to fashion through new materials, processes and ways of thinking;
• achieving a climate positive fashion industry;
• rewarding, and understanding the potential of technology, to advancing the agenda around transparency; and
• promoting the power of social impact and human rights for all along the fashion value chain

Programme Overview

APRIL 4 2017

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08.00 – 8.30 Registration and coffee

8.45-9.45 - Make the future
Opening remarks from change-makers, thinkers and doers.
9.45-10.15 – Networking break

MORNING BREAK OUT SESSIONS (10.15 - 12.15)
100% Circular - Future Innovation Now
A match-making session for fashion. This session will look to uncover potential partners and supporting to help scale and deliver five unique material and process innovations.

100% Leading the Change - Rewarding transparency
This 'news style' panel will explore how we can reward transparent practices, and create a level playing field as we move together towards greater transparency for the benefit of all.

100% Fair and Equal - Measure up on social impacts
In this session we will look to the evidence across a number of social impact indicators and understand how we can create a common approach to impact measurement.

100% Renewable - Achieving climate positive fashion
Leading the agenda for a climate positive approach to fashion, this session will focus on H&M's stretching goals and ambitions, as well as an holistic discussion around what a climate resilient fashion world could look like.

H&M Group Sustainability Report Release
Open to media and analysts, we will communicate highlights from H&M Group’s 2016 sustainability report as well as the company’s newly developed sustainability strategy.

12.30 - 13.30 - LUNCH

AFTERNOON BREAK-OUT SESSIONS (13.45-16.15)

100% Circular - Making circularity a reality
In this session we will hear from experts in their particular fields and together we will explore, and dispel myths around, three opportunity hotspots when it comes to achieving a circular fashion world. - scaling innovation, encouraging consumer behavior change and creating clothes than evolve with our changing lifestyles.

100% Leading the Change - Making transparency count for consumers
We will look to explore the connection between the potential of technology, and what drives our habits and behavior. We will learn about consumer needs and demands in regards to transparency and discuss how to more effectively leverage transparency to influence and guide consumer choices.

100% Fair and Equal - Implementing the UNGPs
This OHCHR and SHIFT, the leading center of expertise of the UNGPs, hosted session will be an opportunity to share learnings, experiences and examples from those who have started to work with the UNGPs as the tool to ensure respect for human rights throughout their business activities.

100% Renewable - Achieving climate positive: Enabling new energy in the supply chains
A conversation around scaling up renewable energy in the supply chain. In this session we will take an holistic and global view of the challenges and potential solutions to achieve these aims.

16.15-16.45 – Networking break
16.45 – 17.15
Capture the future
Coming back together to capture key learnings and inspiration from the days events.

17.15-19.00
Evening reception

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Speakers, moderators & panelists


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Magnus Lindkvist
book author & futurologist

Johan Rockström (video message)
Director at the Stockholm Resilience Center

Timothy Coombs
Co-Founder Bionic Yarn

Ellen MacArthur (video message)
world record sailor and founder of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Beck Wallace
Policy Advisor at Oxfam

Baptiste Carriere
VP Europe, Sustainable Apparel Coalition

Rachel Arthur
award-winning business journalist specialising in fashion and technology

Simon Collins
Founder - Fashion Culture Design

Nigel Salter
Co-founder & CEO of Salterbaxter

Rebecca Earley
Design Researcher, Educator and Facilitator for the Circular Economy

Rob Opsomer
Ellen MacArthur Foundation

Lewis Perkins
President at Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institutes

Michael Schragger
CEO, The Sustainable Fashion Academy & Chair at The Global Leadership Award in Sustainable Apparel (GLASA)

Jonathan Chapman
Professor of Sustainable Design, Director of Design Research and Chair of the University of Brighton's Professorial Board (Arts & Humanities)

Tom Szaky
Founder & CEO at Terracycle

Daniel Benett
Senior Behavioural Strategist at Ogilvy Change

Jen Boynton
Editor in Chief at TriplePundit

Johan Kuylenstierna
Executive Director at Stockholm Environment Institute

Paul Chatterton
Landscape Finance Lead WWF

Sarah Cornell
Stockholm Resilience Center

Pierre Börjesson
Sustainability Business Expert - Climate Change and Water Stewardship

Vikram Widge
Head of Climate and Carbon Finance at the World Bank Group

Jeremy Levin
Senior Energy Specialist at IFC (International Finance Corporation)

Rana Singh
Officer in Charge of Rural and Renewable Energy Division, UNIDO

Stefan Henningsson
Senior Advisor, Climate, Energy & Innovation WWF

Jesper Jonsteg
Co-Founder and CEO of Bright Sunday

Laura McIntyre
Corporate Sustainability Analyst, Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Pascal Brun
Head of Sustainability - Global Production, H&M Group

Clarence Lee
Head of Strategy, Corp. Affairs & Technology, Lee Yin Group

Elin Frendberg
CEO, Swedish Fashion Council

Bruno Pieters
Founder Honest By

Natalie Grillon
Co-Founder at Project Just

Sille Krukow
Behavioural Scientist, Founder & Chief Behavioral Designer at KRUKOW

Frederik Armbrust
VP Enterprise Solutions Apparel & Footwear at EVRYTHNG

Peter McAllister
Director, Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI)

Anna Rosling
Board Member and Head of Design and User Experience, Gapminder Foundation

Johan Norberg
Author and lecturer focused on globalization, entrepreneurship, and individual liberty

Rupa Ganguli
Trade specialist, entrepreneur & advisor

Christina Hajagos-Clausen
Director Textile and Garment Industry, IndustriAll Global Union

David Kovick
Senior Advisor, Shift

Lene Wendland
Chief of the Human Rights and Economic and Social Issues Section, OHCHR

Samentha Goethals
Senior Researcher on Labour Rights, Business and Human Rights Resource Center

Gustav Loven
Social Sustainability Manager, H&M Group

Michael Karimian
Human Rights Program Manager at Microsoft

Marie Anne van Dijk
Head of Environmental & Social Risk Advisory & Monitoring, ABN Amro

Anna Gedda
Head of Sustainability, H&M Group

Karl-Johan Persson
CEO, H&M Group


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Venue details

Fotografiska,
Stadsgårdshamnen 22

116 45 Stockholm

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Join us from 08:00 for coffee and registration. Sessions will run from 08:45 to 17:15. Lunch will be provided.

We also invite you to join us for an evening reception from 17:45 onwards, to celebrate the day's events and get to know each other better.

Accommodation

To make your stay as easy as possible we have identified accommodation in Stockholm. Details can be found when you RSVP.

Contact

If you have any enquiries please contact: ChangeMakersLab@hrgworldwide.com