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Supply Chain Sustainability Challenges
The Impact Sourcing Challenge is a pioneering initiative focused on increasing employment and career development opportunities for disadvantaged workers through impact sourcing. Aimed at responsible businesses, it seeks to transform lives via procurement and hiring practices, representing the largest official commitment to UN Sustainable Development Goal 8.
Developed by the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GISC), a collaboration of leading companies, the Challenge builds more inclusive global supply chains. For further details, visit gisc.bsr.org.
The Responsible Supply Chain Summit is Europe's premier forum for supply chain and sustainability teams to discuss future strategies. For details, visit www.ethicalcorp.com/supplychain.
The Sustainability Reporting and Communications Summit hosts over 200 executives, focusing on effectively portraying sustainability activities through reporting. Learn more at www.ethicalcorp.com/reporting.
Oliver Niedermaier is Chairman and CEO of TAU Investment Management, LLC, a private equity firm dedicated to transforming global supply chains. TAU achieves this by upgrading and de-risking suppliers, using capitalist solutions to address the undervaluation of human and natural resources.
By investing to enhance manufacturers' operational performance, TAU delivers value to all stakeholders. This includes investors seeking both superior financial returns and significant social and environmental benefits. Niedermaier presented at the 2013 BSR Conference.
Rick Ridgeway, VP for Environmental Affairs at Patagonia, spoke at the BSR Conference 2013 about how networks enable partnerships.
He highlighted Patagonia's collaboration with the NRDC to measure the environmental footprint of its supply chain facilities, such as mills and dye houses. This partnership exemplifies effective NGO-corporate cooperation.
For additional information on the BSR Conference 2013, visit the conference website.
In a recent interview, John Elkington discusses critical topics including raw materials, rare-earth metals, and conflict minerals.
Elkington is co-founder and Executive Chairman of Volans, and co-founder and Non-Executive Director at SustainAbility. He blogs at johnelkington.com/journal and tweets @volandia. Additional insights can be found at kajembren.com.
Dominique Nils Conseil became president of Aveda in 2000, succeeding founder Horst Rechelbacher. The French cosmetics executive was dedicated to preserving Rechelbacher's original mission: bringing safe, environmentally friendly products to market.
In this interview, Conseil discusses Aveda's culture of sustainability. He was interviewed by Ruth Ann Barrett of EarthSayers.tv at Portland State University's Center for Global Leadership in Sustainability, during the Business and Sustainability Conference in November 2010.
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The Thinking Game | Full documentary | Tribeca Film Festival official selection
“The Thinking Game” is the inside story of DeepMind's groundbreaking AI research, culminating in the Nobel Prize-winning AlphaFold breakthrough. Filmed over five years by the award-winning team behind "AlphaGo," this documentary explores co-founder Demis Hassabis's lifelong pursuit of artificial general intelligence and the rigorous scientific journey from mastering strategy games to solving the 50-year-old protein folding problem.
Following its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival, "The Thinking Game" is now available to watch for free. For those interested in hosting a screening for a classroom, community, or workplace, visit: rocofilms.com/films/the-thinking-game/.
