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EVENTS
IBLF events
Windsor Health Dialogues
Digital Health in the Face of Chronic Disease, 7-8 June, 2008
Digital Health in the Age of AIDS, October 22-23, 2007
UK

The United Nations in cooperation with The International Business Leaders Forum, BT, Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the Rockefeller Foundation will be hosting the second dialogue to its conference series. At the midpoint of the MDG project, the "Windsor Health Dialogues: Confronting the Diseases of Poverty" will chart a consensual, cross-cutting and cross-sectoral approach to the convergence of health and development in the digital age.

For more information on how to participate, please contact Kathrin Bauer on firstname.surname@iblf.org


Business Linkages: Supporting Entrepreneurship at the Base of the Pyramid
10-12 June 2008
Rio de Janerio, Brazil

The International Finance Corporation (IFC), IBLF and Harvard’s Kennedy School will be co-hosting this event which will bring a small group of cross-sector business leaders together to focus on the opportunities to engage small businesses in their value chains; the challenges involved in doing so; and the solutions companies are developing to address those challenges. The solution space will focus on access to finance, capacity-building to enable small businesses to meet the quantity/quality, and consistency standards leading firms require, as well as on partnerships. Emphasis will also be on interactive dialogue, experience-sharing and site visits.

This event is by invitation-only, for further information please contact Emma Barthes on firstname.surname@iblf.org


Business and Social Entrepreneurs: Scoping the Opportunities
Tuesday 17 June, 2008
London

Building on the findings of the World Skoll Forum workshops IBLF co-hosted with SustainAbility and seeking to engage its key corporate partners, IBLF will be convening a small roundtable to discuss challenges and opportunities of partnering with social entrepreneurs. Participants will be invited to share examples of socially innovative ideas such partnerships have harnessed and what the benefits were to all parties. The discussion will also look into models that have emerged from such partnerships. Conclusions and outputs to this meeting’s discussion will feed in to wider research IBLF is carrying out and contribute to defining its next steps in the domain of social enterprise.

This event is by invitation-only, for further information please contact Emma Barthes on firstname.surname@iblf.org


World Petroleum Congress
1 July, 2008
Madrid, Spain

On the eve of the World Petroleum Council’s 75th Anniversary, in July 2008, Spain will open the doors to the 19th World Petroleum Congress. The most influential meeting place of the global oil and gas industry will be celebrating 75 years of excellence in Madrid from June 29th until July 3rd. This is where governments and oil companies, IOCs and NOCs, industry and stakeholders from around the globe come together to set out the way forward for the petroleum sector. Held every three years, the World Petroleum Congress well deserves its reputation as the ‘Olympics of the oil and gas industry’. IBLF's Brook Horowitz will chair the Ministerial session on "Global Energy Security: a dialogue with Russia."

For further information on the Congress, visit http://www.19wpc.com/ or contact Brook Horowitz on firstname.surname@iblf.org


IBLF Annual Summer Dinner
2 July, 2008
London, UK

The IBLF Summer Meeting 2008 - entitled, "Collaborate or Die! Corporate-NGO partnerships under the spotlight" - will take the form of a high-level roundtable event bringing together senior executives from Corporate Partners with leading figures from the development community to explore leadership practices in multi-stakeholder collaboration, and in particular the achievements of increasingly substantive partnerships between business and NGOs.

For more information on the event contact Jenny Harriott on firstname.surname@ibf.org

Business and the Environment
April to October
Moscow, Russia

IBLF's Russia Partnership will host a series of 6 round-tables throughout 2008 and culminating in IBLF’s Russian Business Summit.

Each round-table will examine in depth a particular aspect of environmental impact and management from the point of view of business. The target audience will be Directors of Environment of leading Russian and multinational companies. At the first and last sessions, Board-level VPs of Operations or the relevant function will be invited. The culminating session – the Russian Business Summit, will be for CEOs of participating companies.
The participants will be from industries that have the biggest impact on the environment: natural resources, power generation, metallurgy, chemicals and paper and pulp. The format will be based on discussion and exchange rather than presentations.
The series will culminate with IBLF’s annual Russian Business Summit at which the conclusions and recommendations of the participants will be shared with some of the top global and Russian business leaders.

For further information about participation please visit http://eng.iblf.ru/projects/enviro.html or contact Philip Lupov at firstname.surname@iblf.ru