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A Closed-Door, Benchmarking Event on Ways to Develop a Best-in-Class ESG Program Satisfying Employee, Investor, Board and Regulatory Expectations

Ensure that you are in the loop for this closed-door, “off the record” benchmarking event on the critical ESG issues coming across your desk. Key sessions include: Angle-Right What Makes a “Best-In-Class” ESG Program: Concrete Examples of Integrating ESG into Your Business, Procurement, Structure, and Organizational Priorities

Angle-Right Translating Reporting into Action: Rolling Out Climate, DE&I, and Governance Initiatives In and Out of Your Organization

Angle-Right Getting the Ear of the Board, Your C-Suite, and Other Key Stakeholders: Demonstrating the Value and ROI of ESG Initiatives and Job Functions

Angle-Right View from the Investors: Enhancing Your ESG Program and Disclosures to Support a Strong Investor Engagement Strategy

Angle-Right “Operationalizing” ESG: Translating Policies and Values into Action to Enhance Competitiveness, Transparency, and Satisfy Stakeholders’ Expectations

Angle-Right ESG and Human Rights Due Diligence in Practice: Scoping, Evaluating and Mitigating Evolving Legal and Reputational Risk Factors

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ESG Reports on Climate and Human Capital: Utilizing Storytelling to Supplement Metrics, Connect with Stakeholders, and Increase Brand Loyalty

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Whether your organization is at the cutting-edge, just starting out or somewhere in between, this interactive event is truly your best opportunity to connect, compare notes, gain the latest best practices and expand your network!

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While the demand and practice of ESG reporting have increased, there is still a considerable knowledge gap between ESG information and supply. There are various factors that are driving the knowledge gap, such as: varying ESG reporting standards and frameworks; voluntary reporting regimes; inconsistency and unreliability of data; and, steep costs to collect and report data. These factors can impede the endeavor to offer higher-quality data to investors and other key stakeholders in order to inform their decisions.

Environmental and social metrics such as carbon, energy, waste, water, diversity, equity and inclusion can be extremely challenging to track and report, which makes it difficult to meet compliance and voluntary reporting requirements. As such, it’s critical to develop a verifiable measurement approach to comply with disclosure requirements and investor demands, and to utilize ESG reporting to showcase your meaningful programs and initiatives – as a demonstration of corporate values and as a competitive differentiator. twitter: @ACILegal linkedin: American Conference Institute

Nora Lovell Marchant Vice President, Global Sustainability American Express Global Business Travel

Sarah Altschuller Business & Human Rights Counsel Verizon Reagan R. Demas Partner Baker & McKenzie LLP

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hile other events only scratch the surface, ACI’s ESG Think Tank will take a deep-dive into creating a best-in-class ESG program by identifying the critical metrics and reporting standards that will satisfy regulators and investors.

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Jim McWeeney CEO Integrity Risk International

Margaret Anne Hill Partner Blank Rome LLP Brooke Hopkins Managing Director AlixPartners Si-Yeon Kim EVP, Chief Risk & Compliance Officer and Executive Chair of ESG American Express Global Business Travel Victoria A. Lipnic Partner, Head of Human Capital Strategy Group Resolution Economics, LLC (Former Acting Chair, EEOC)

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Mark Mendelsohn Partner Paul Weiss Brendan Morrissey Senior Director II, ESG Strategy & Engagement Walmart Christine Riley Miller Senior Director, Reputation & ESG BeiGene Michael Murphy Partner Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP Paul White Partner Resolution Economics

Tuesday, November 30, 2021 9:30

Co-Chairs’ Opening Remarks

We will gain insight from the panel, and open the floor for our faculty members and attendees to benchmark and discuss strategies for implementing a viable ESG program, such as: 9:45–12:00

What makes a “Best-In-Class” ESG Program: ESG as an Organizational Priority

• Using ESG criteria to evaluate the environmental and social impacts of a business • Identifying key internal partners to aid in developing a program that aligns with business priorities and organizational culture • Evaluating internal controls

This three-part session will walk you through the implementation of successful ESG initiatives; where we will see first-hand how to define ESG – along with the corresponding strategy, lessons learned, priorities and resources that are needed to create a preeminent ESG program.

• Identifying and expanding key metrics to address emerging and urgent issues that may not be well-represented in formal reporting standards

Each part will walk you through the practical case study to: illustrate how to begin the ESG reporting journey; examine best practices for refining your blueprint in real-time; and putting the plan into action.

• Collecting, digesting and disclosing data to the Board, C-suite and key stakeholders

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Defining and Creating Value Through ESG: The Key Pillars and Priorities Needed for an Effective, Enterprise-Wide Program microphone-alt Brendan Morrissey, Senior Director II, ESG Strategy & Engagement, Walmart Reagan R. Demas, Partner, Baker McKenzie Successful ESG Strategy and Operations is not about financials, disclosures, climate change and diversity alone. Identifying the right frameworks, material issues and the key metrics to focus on must be an organizational priority to create value through your ESG principles.

Join us in this interactive session as we discuss key considerations for developing an effective ESG strategy, such as: • Tying all three elements of ESG into consolidated reporting to showcase viability and profitability • Collaborating and gaining insight throughout the entire organization to determine and act on common ESG goals 10:30

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Identifying the Key Data, Metrics and Risk Factors to Prioritize in Your Program microphone-alt Brooke Hopkins, Managing Director, AlixPartners Christine Riley Miller, Senior Director, Reputation & ESG, BeiGene

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• Centralizing the data to deliver actionable intelligence and consistency

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You Have Your Program; Now What? “Operationalizing” ESG: Translating Your Policies and Values into Action microphone-alt Nora Lovell Marchant, Vice President, Global Sustainability, American Express Global Business Travel

Michael Murphy, Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP In this session we will take a deep dive into fully implementing targeted ESG principles into the organization, by: • Benchmarking corporate governance practices • Educating leadership into the new frameworks and developments 1:00

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Perspectives on SEC Reporting Requirements

Varying Interpretations, Grey Areas, and “Scoping” Your Disclosure for Regulatory and Strategic Purposes microphone-alt Mark Mendelsohn, Partner, Paul Weiss In this session speakers and participants from a variety of different industries will have the opportunity to share how they navigate the grey areas of reporting. We will examine the need to closely and continually monitor evolving disclosure requirements and guidance, to assess whether business activities require reporting under evolving state, federal, and global standards.

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Getting the Ear of the Board, Your C-Suite, and Other Key Stakeholders

Demonstrating the Value and ROI of ESG Initiatives microphone-alt Victoria A. Lipnic, Partner, Head of Human Capital Strategy Group, Resolution Economics, LLC

This session will address how to communicate with and secure the buy-in of your C-suite and Board of Directors.

We will discuss best practices for highlighting the necessity, value, and ROI of ESG initiatives and reporting by: Showcasing environmental protection; social responsibility and treatment of employees; respect for human rights; anti-corruption and bribery; and diversity on corporate boards.

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Networking Break

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AUDIENCE POLLING: ESG and Human Rights Due Diligence in Practice

Scoping, Evaluating and Mitigating Evolving Legal and Reputational Risk Factors microphone-alt Sarah Altschuller, Business & Human Rights Counsel, Verizon Jim McWeeney, CEO, Integrity Risk International

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Embedding ESG into the Corporate Strategy microphone-alt Margaret Anne Hill, Partner, Blank Rome LLP Paul White, Partner, Resolution Economics ESG is no longer a siloed concept, but is something that needs to be embedded in a company’s entire strategy and operations. Companies are facing growing pressure from investors, regulators, shareholders, customers and employees to transform their business with an ESG lens in everything they do. To embed ESG into the operating model, it’s necessary to understand requirements for workforce, supply chain, operations, controls, technology, infrastructure, and governance.

In this session, our faculty members will discuss all aspects of reporting across the ESG spectrum, with real world examples of the metrics and key data points that are needed to satisfy investors, regulators, board members and talent.

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Welcome Cocktail Reception and Pre-Registration for Main FCPA Conference ASSOCIATE SPONSOR: OneTrust ESG simplifies the gathering, storing and assessing of your company’s ESG (Environment, Social and Governance) data and metrics. OneTrust ESG comes with a powerful assessment platform, that helps identify and track both internal and third-party risks and manage ESG goals to make a successful ESG program.

The clarion call for greater corporate accountability on the ESG human rights front is accelerating concerns about new legal and reputational liabilities for business. It also raises urgent, practical questions about how human rights due diligence is scoped, evaluated, and integrated into existing risk management processes.

What constitutes rigorous care in this new era of enhanced scrutiny of enterprises’ efforts to mitigate human rights abuse risks? Join us for takeaway tips and informed insights designed to: • Help ensure enterprises are aware of their blind spots • Determine how to take practical steps to address them • Adhere to defensible standards of care when it comes to human rights due diligence

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