IN the immediate aftermath of Responsible Business Week across the UK, Business in the Community in Northern Ireland has launched its 2016 Responsible Business Summit, which will take place at the newly extended Waterfront Hall on Wednesday October 5.
Entitled ‘Tomorrow’s World’, it will be hosted by BBC presenter Declan Curry and will feature a range of expert speakers and thinkers from the worlds of business, academia and the third sector.
Aimed at a business audience, the summit will explore the challenges facing business and society in the next 10 to 25 years and how we can plan responsible business approaches to meeting those challenges.
Ulster Bank is the key sponsor of this bi-annual event, along with media partner the Irish News and Asda, Belfast Harbour, Diageo and Carecall, who all supported the event in 2014.
For the first time, Business in the Community is partnering with the NI Chamber of Commerce on the summit in an attempt to reach a broader base of business opinion and take its messages around corporate responsibility to a wider audience.
Business in the Community deputy managing director Gillian McKee said: “Since our first Responsible Business Conference in 2012, we have been using the event to focus business attention on the future – the challenges we are likely to face in relation to a changing workforce, environmental sustainability and social and technological change – and to encourage new ways of approaching those challenges.
“With an expanded space available at the Waterfront Hall and working in partnership with the NI Chamber, we are looking forward to expanding the audience and reaching more businesses than ever to ensure that we face the future with corporate responsibility at the heart of business here in Northern Ireland.”
Richard Donnan, head of Ulster Bank in Northern Ireland, said: “We are delighted to be lead sponsor of the Responsible Business Summit for the second year.
"Future-scoping is a vitally important activity for business and doing so with a ‘responsibility filter’ is vital for companies that want to remain successful and sustainable in a rapidly changing world. The line-up for this event is always impressive and the content thought-provoking, so I look forward to a stimulating event in October.”
Details for the Responsible Business Summit will be regularly updated on a dedicated website – www.tomorrowsworldni.com or can be found at www.bitcni.org.uk.
