Don’t miss Foster Net Impact’s annual end-of-the-year Idea Lab with a live panel of leaders from Caesars Entertainment, Microsoft, and PwC as they share their approaches and frameworks for responsible businesses, and how to integrate impact into business strategy.

About the Event & Live Panel of Experts:

Caroline Fox, Head of the UN’s Sustainable Development Solutions Network - USA, will set the stage with a presentation on the actions and partnerships businesses can take for sustainable development through the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the opportunities and challenges to achieving these goals in the US.

Gwen Migita, Global Lead, Social Impact, Equity, & Sustainability at Caesars Entertainment will share her expertise on strategic global and industry frameworks for responsible businesses. Gwen will also be speaking to how Caesars Entertainment has embedded a sustainability strategy into its core business and applied its work to regional and international stakeholders.

Steve Lippman, ESG Engagement Director at Microsoft (more information coming soon)

Laura Plant, Sustainability and Climate Change Consultant at PwC specializes in social, environmental and economic impact measurement and valuation techniques and helped develop PwC’s Total Impact Measurement and Management (TIMM) methodology. She is also part of global initiatives that are seeking to provide a common framework for business to understand their social and environmental impacts. She was part of the PwC team that worked with the World Business Council for Sustainable Development to develop the Natural Capital Protocol and she is currently on the technical committee for the drafting of the Social and Human Capital Protocol. Laura worked on a screening framework to assess investment impact on the Sustainable Development Goals for Align17, a platform that aims to match impact investors with impactful investments.

Run of Show:

5:00-5:30 pm: Check-in, networking
5:30-6:15 pm: Short presentations on the tools and approaches used by each of our speakers
6:15-6:40 pm: Moderated Panel
6:40-7:30 pm: Q&A with Audience, followed by networking reception
Food and alcohol will be provided.

About Idea Lab

Idea Lab is Foster Net Impact's annual end-of-the-year event that brings impact-focused executives to Foster to share their experiences tackling the most pressing business, social, and environmental problems facing companies around the world and across industries.