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Corporate responsibility and emerging technologies. On June 4th 2010 we hosted the first major conference in the UK focusing on a new agenda for corporate responsibility - the social and ethical dilemmas involved in the use of emerging technologies, looking at company use of nanotechnologies as a case study.
Here is the conference programme and the speeches are available below:
- Nanotechnologies and their markets
- Science, Trust & Corporate Responsibility
- Corporate Social Responsibility and the UK Nanotech Industry
- CSR and Emerging Technologies: Approaches to Responsible Nanotechnology
- Nanomaterials and Regulation
- Emerging Technologies and Litigation Risk
- Nanotechnologies and Insurance
- Public engagement & consumer expectation of new technologies
- CSR, Nano and Emerging Tech - How can companies respond?
Nanotechnologies are currently used in hundreds of products in the UK and are likely to have a big impact in sectors ranging from cosmetics to automotive, food to energy, textiles to computing - and wider still.
The governance, health, safety, environmental and reputational issues associated with their use are evolving very quickly. This conference explored some of the key areas that companies need to consider when using new technologies from the legal, insurance and CSR perspectives as well as to reflect on what companies are doing already to mitigate the risks and grasp the opportunities.
This was a joint conference from MATTER and the ESRC Centre for Business, Relationships, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) at Cardiff University and kindly organised and hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer at their offices in the City of London at 65 Fleet Street, London, EC4Y 1HS.
To find out more about these issues or the conference, please contact Hilary Sutcliffe on hilary@matterforall.org