NEW YORK – Integrating supply chain management with workplace accountability cannot be accomplished without the important dialogue between businesses, government, and civil society. SAI convenes its annual conference to provide a forum for exchange among these key stakeholders on the issues that are most important to improving and maintaining socially responsible workplaces in factories and on farms around the world.

Hear Jeffrey Swartz, President & CEO, Timberland; Tom Haugen, Executive Director, Li & Fung Trading Ltd.; Neil Kearney, General Secretary of the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers Federation; Sandra Polaski, Senior Associate and Project Director, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; and other dynamic speakers from such organizations as CARE USA, Coop Italia, Dole Europe, Gap, Inc., McDonald’s, Otto, and more.

The conference will be followed by a cocktail reception and gala dinner with a silent auction at the Tavern on the Green in Central Park. The dinner features honored guest, Mary Robinson, Executive Director of the Ethical Globalization Initiative and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and President of Ireland.

Register for the conference and dinner at the SAI conference website: www.sa8000.org.

Group and NGO discounts available.