In the context of new challenges, the role of ESG in corporate citizenship is continuing to increase in importance. Companies are more deeply integrating the principles of sustainability and social responsibility in the foundation of their business strategies, and other stakeholders — including investors, officials, employees, customers, and activists — have increasingly high expectations about how companies should behave in these areas.
Responsible investing encourages businesses to look beyond basic profitability to take into account the wellbeing of employees and the environment, as well as work against corruption and racial, gender, and age discrimination. Moreover, the investment case of public companies is becoming intertwined with their success in integrating a sustainability focus throughout their operations.
So what is ESG — a universalist goal or another lever to drive profitability? A strategy for addressing social challenges or a way to mitigate financial and reputational risks? To succeed in the ESG era, businesses must adopt new approaches, including in product design, stakeholder communications, corporate governance, social and environmental policy, and embracing a culture of diversity and inclusion.
MTS’s conference The Social Aspect of Sustainability and ESG will feature a panel discussion on technology’s role in unlocking opportunities to enhance corporate volunteer work, mentoring and support for socially vulnerable groups, as well as accelerating progress on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
These and other topics are planned to be discussed at the conference.
Senior leaders from Russian and global companies, ESG/CSR/Sustainable directors, MTS partners and customers, employees across PR/GR/HR/IR, as well as board directors and outside experts from the MTS ESG Committee and representatives of public organizations, banks, non-commercial organizations, and other thought leaders.
The social aspect
of sustainability and ESG
Panel Discussion
Volunteering as an ESG tool
Strategic Session
The ESG agenda and its impact on corporate strategy
Topics for discussion:
Speakers:
Vyacheslav Nikolaev, President of MTS
Anna Belova, Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Non-Executive Director, Chairperson of the Sustainable Development and Investor Relations Committee, JSFC Sistema
Regina von Flemming, Deputy Chairperson of the Board of Directors, Independent Director, Chairperson of the Remuneration, Appointments and ESG Committee under the Board of Directors, MTS
Inesa Galaktionova, First Vice President for Telecommunications Business, Member of the MTS Management Board
Olga Ziborova, Member of the Management Board - Vice President for Ecosystem Development and Marketing, MTS
Andrey Kamensky, Member of the Management Board – Vice President for Finance, MTS
Snezhana Stoiljkovic, Under Secretary for Global Relations, Humanitarian Diplomacy and Digitalization at IFRC (International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies)
Pavel Voronin, Member of the Management Board – Vice President for Technologies, MTS
Polina Ugryumova, Director of Investor Relations, MTS
Roman Safronov, Corporate Governance Director, MTS
Session One
Diversity and inclusion within ESG strategy
Topics for discussion:
Speakers:
Leida Lukyanova, Vice President for Business Ethics and Compliance, MTS
Yulia Bystritskaya, Director for Organizational Development, Motivation and Remuneration Management, Acting Member of the Management Board – Vice President for Human Resources, MTS
Daria Vedernikova, Head of the Center for Products for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses, MTS
Alena Vysokikh-Alyasiri, Director for Sustainable Development, Segezha Group
Daria Goncharova, Director for Sustainable Development, Polymetal
Maria Kharlashkina, Deputy Director for Strategy on the Moscow Exchange
Elena Kudryashova, Managing Director, Head of the Corporate Culture Development Directorate, Sberbank
Session Two
The employer’s role in D&I culture
Topics for discussion:
Speakers:
Tamara Shatova, Deputy Director for Human Resources, MGTS
Ksenia Babat, Founder of Babat Consulting, D&I consultant
Kristina Sergienko, HR Director – Telecommunications Business Unit, MTS
Elena Samoilova, Director of Organizational Development, PepsiCo Russia
Anastasia Lazibnaya, Founder of the Baba-Deda Foundation
Vyacheslav Lim, Director of the RTU MIREA Career Center
Oksana Fetisova, Director of the Personnel Recruitment and Development Department, MTS
Svetlana Gerasimova, Program Director of the project office «Strategies and Practices of Sustainable Development»
Vera Solomatina – HRD, SAP IT&GR
Panel Discussion
Volunteering as an ESG tool
Topics for discussion:
Speakers:
Yulia Bystritskaya, Director for Organizational Development, Motivation and Remuneration Management, Acting Member of the Management Board – Vice President for Human Resources, MTS
Irina Zhukova, Chairperson of the National Council for Corporate Volunteering; Director of Sustainable Development and Corporate Programs, Philip Morris Sales and Marketing
Olga Yurkova, Head of the Communications Department in the Regions of the Russian Federation, MTS
Elena Seregina, Director of the MTS Corporate Social Responsibility Department
Ekaterina Chulkova, CSR Manager, Servier
Anastasia Savelyeva, Head of External Social Programs and Non-Financial Reporting, Social Policy Department, Metalloinvest
Victoria Talpa, Manager of the Career Center «Lift to the Future», Sistema CF
Olga Zubkova, Director of the International Center for Social Innovation «Vector of Friendship» and President of the International Festival of Socially Oriented Films «LAMP»
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