The certification of products is not new. However, the past few years have seen an upsurge in consumer demand for much more information about the provenance, authenticity, and performance of products and services, going well beyond authenticity, safety and reliability. Alongside this rise there has been a proliferation of voluntary certification schemes instituted by various combinations of industry associations, nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) and government or quasi-governmental agencies.
The seminar series is designed as the first step of a project to compare newly emerging third party certification programmes. Drawing together scholarly and practitioner expertise on a variety of third party certification programmes, presentations will address issues such as the origins or inspiration for the certification programme, identification of participants, its structure, effectiveness and impacts (anticipated and unanticipated), and principal challenges of the certification scheme.
Population
MIT Professional Education
Deborah Malone
The Conference Board
Yael Rozencwajg
LRQA
Crowberry Consulting
Nevelab Technologies
Matthew Chiles & Cindy Parokkil
Footprint Media Group
Domtar Paper
Kenyons
Given Agency
GRI
Katherine Ann Byam
Business Continuity Expo
CFS by lablaco
Dr. Marcus Curcija
npower Business Solutions, Energy HQ
Natter Negosyo
Kathy Varol
Prerana Tirodkar
Tharawat Magazine
Intertek Sustainability
Kim van der Weerd
Inenco Group
WBCSD
Crash Course Fashion
Leeds University Business School
Siemens
TrustTalk
Earthself
Philip Beere
The Conference Board
Innovation Forum
CRMS
European Chemistry Partnering
ReD Associates
Nynke Visser
World Textile Information Network
Digital Impact Alliance
Hurley Palmer Flatt
Tharawat Magazine
abnresourcepodcast
SheEO
Marcy Twete
Josh Prigge: CEO of Sustridge Sustainability Consulting
Coralus
Powered by Ecochain
Ivey Business School
Vantiva
Corporate Excellence
Ken Alston - Circularity Edge
Sam Cande
Cris Herrera
Packaging 360
Bostik
Aventis Learning
Richard Foster-Fletcher
Kozminski University
The Consumer Goods Forum
Sustainability Explored
Trillium Flow Technologies
unipetrol
Neonyt
Protiviti
SAAC
Ian Peterman
AVNation TV
Katherine Whalen
Visagio
The Business Pickle
Sourcing Journal
Amy Leverton
Shivakumar Valadi & Vineet Nandan Gupta
Heidi Fisher
Nureen Das
Vaishali Baid
FLIPPING THE BARREL
Waste360 NothingWasted!
Andrew Gottlieb, Co-Founder of The School for Humanity
Lewis Perkins
Pitt CSB
The RealReal, Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), and produced by Hangar Studios
Catherine Weetman
Future Insights Network
Feefo
The SPE Podcast
UN SDG:Learn
Ethical Hour - Sian Conway
canmarketingsavetheplanet
Don Racey
Kingpins Media
Dan Montgomery
University Of Derby
Tomorrow.City
TrustTalk
Wayne Visser
Areteans
World Economic Forum