3rd CICB Sustainability Forum

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Promotion: CICB and Brazilian Leather

Co-organization: ABQTIC

Master Sponsorship: JBS Couros

Gold Sponsorship: Stahl, Fenac and Basf

Support: Apex-Brasil, Minerva Leather, AicSul and IBTeC

Draft Program:

9h30min:

Accreditation

10h30min – 10h45min:

Opening

 10h45min – 11h45min:

Strategies and challenges for the leather industry

Carlos Obregon, vice-president of CICB’s Board of Directors and director of JBS Couros

and

Cezar Müller, president of ABQTIC and director at A.P. Müller

11h45min – 12h45min:

Brunch

13h – 14h:

Sustainability: the urgent future

Rosa Alegria, Master of Science in Foresight from the University of Houston (USA), specialist in strategic prospective. Responsible for the Brazilian node of the Millennium Project, a network of researchers who study the 15 main global challenges for humanity.

14h – 15h:

Producing leather in a sustainable way

David Fernandes, biologist and environment supervisor at Coming

 15h – 15h30min:

Coffee Break

15h30min – 16h30min:

The footprint of leather productions

 Dra. Brigitte Wegner, doctor of chemistry at the leather department of Basf SE

16h30min – 17h30min:

Leather: from design to the luxury market

 Bill Amberg, English designer, president of the Bill Amberg Design Studio – worldwide reference in the creation of leather articles for the fashion and architecture high-end segments

and

Guy Morgan, director of BSR in Paris, organisation that develops and coordinates the Sustainable Luxury Working Group – a centre that gathers the world’s most influential luxury brands for sustainable actions