Roundtable Workshops
Roundtable Workshops
Day 1 – Thursday 14 Sept
10:00 – 11:30
Rethinking Talent Development The Rethinking Talent Development roundtable session offers stakeholders across sectors a unique opportunity to come together to explore key challenges and effective solutions to achieve the ‘S’ in ESG through talent development. Participants will:
- Gather diverse perspectives from HR leaders and emerging talent on talent acquisition, development, and engagement expectations.
- Explore meaningful ways to involve existing talent in nurturing the next generation of leaders;
- Develop an action plan to engage and develop a sustainable, purpose-driven multigenerational workforce through impact creation/community building.
Supported by
Foundation for Shared Impact Limited
Foundation for Shared Impact (FSI) is a registered charity in Hong Kong built on the philosophy of “shared impact”, which believes that when different groups come together and collaborate by sharing knowledge, resources and time, we can achieve a greater social impact than by working separately.
Our sustainability goals for 2024:
– We Educate, Empower, and Unite: We help the people who help people. We are educators, founders, students, business leaders, and community members who believe in solving today’s biggest challenges by educating and empowering individuals and organizations.
– We Build Capacity: As a tech-savvy team who believes in using data and technology to enact change, we help our partner companies, social impact organizations, ethnically diverse entrepreneurs and small grassroot businesses streamline their operations via technological tools and automated solutions, so that they can redirect their resources to capacity building.
– We Drive Systems Change: Beyond offering programs in response to the community’s needs, we build a model that leaders can adopt to promote broader cross-sector collaboration, innovation, and positive social change.
12:30 – 14:30
The energy and transport industries are two of the biggest contributors to carbon emissions and the climate crisis, but both are successfully decarbonising at a rapid and increasing rate. As the transition to green energy and fuel accelerates, the third biggest carbon emitter – the food and agricultural industry – is set to take centre stage as the most pressing and least addressed issue.
Within the next 10 years, our food systems will become the main focus in the fight against the climate crisis – but it will be too late to catalyse the scale of change that we need. The time to act is now; we need an immediate and drastic overhaul of how we grow, source, prepare and consume our food. This is a pivotal moment across the globe.
Countries across Asia have an opportunity to act more decisively than their Western counterparts have done, learning from the mistakes others have made over the past two decades and stepping into the future as world leaders in food systems transformation. With its unique position at the intersection between food systems and food consumers, the hospitality industry has a critical role to play in this seismic shift.
Join The Sustainable Restaurant Association in a revolutionary session designed to inspire, inform and galvanise the sector for positive and impactful change.
Supported by
The Sustainable Restaurant Association
The Sustainable Restaurant Association exists to accelerate change toward a hospitality sector that is socially progressive and environmentally restorative with the world’s largest sustainability certification tailored for the sector, the Food Made Good Standard. From Hong Kong, The SRA’s APAC team facilitates the development of sustainable hospitality across the region.
Our sustainability goals for 2024:
- To create more toolkits and resources to assist hospitality businesses on their sustainability journey (for example, businesses struggling to prepare for the Hong Kong Single-Use Plastics Ban can now download our free Hong Kong Plastics Guide on our website).
- To bring the Food Made Good Standard to more kitchens worldwide, supporting and rewarding better sustainability practices across the global hospitality industry and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- To galvanise the F&B sector into immediate, effective action on sustainability, creating a ripple effect of positive change both upstream through the supply chain and downstream to customers.
General Enquiry Email Address: hello@thesra.org
Day 2 – Friday 15 Sept
10:00 – 11:30
This roundtable focuses on reimagining inclusion as a conscious act by understanding the realities of the diversity and inclusion in Hong Kong today.
To the reimagine inclusion as a conscious act, the roundtable encourages participants to
- Reflect – exploring the DE&I realities of Hong Kong and workplaces today by understanding the dimensions to diversity in everyday life
- Rethink – As you reimagine inclusion to be a conscious action, participants are encouraged rethink mindsets and possibilities for behaviour and social change
- Realign – realigning goals that are fit for purpose to encourage participation in the society and also give voice to marginalised communities
- Rebalance – rebalancing inequitable systems in the society and in workplaces through the work of community groups and employee groups that would help change systems
- Re-engage – re-engaging communities for wider impact where inclusion is an everyday occurrence.
Supported by
Community Business
Community Business is a not-for-profit organisation whose mission is to lead, inspire and support businesses to make positive impacts on people and communities. A recognised leader in advancing responsible and inclusive business practices in Asia, we work with companies from diverse industries, harnessing the power of business to drive social change.
All sessions are subject to change.