Greenwashing Vs Supply Chain Transparency

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Dragos Necula Co-founder Etrican & Digital Marketing Agency Black & Green, Singapore

In 2009, Dragos, resolved to dedicate his professional life to making business a more ethical and sustainable practice. Later that year, he quit his job as a high-end senior recruiter in Tokyo and co-founded Etrican, Singapore's pioneer eco fashion brand. He leads the brand's sales and biz dev activities and has since also co-founded Black&Green, a boutique brand management and web design agency. He has a keen interest in innovative, sustainability driven business models and is always on the lookout for ideas that could benefit society and the environment.

Emi Weir Founder Ma Te Sai, Laos

Australian-born, Emi Weir, moved to Luang Prabang in 2009. A travel professional, she came looking for somewhere to use her sales and marketing skills and create a life around the tourism experience. In 2010, the idea for Ma Té Sai, a fair trade store, was born. With the help of Clem, a French women working in development in Vientiane, they sourced artisanal products from all around Laos. The aim was to push the tourist dollar further to those in need, helping women in agricultural areas to support families with extra income. In 2013 she raised funds to train women in two Taileu cotton weaving villages north of Luang Prabang to sew. Ma Té Sai grew into a social enterprise, developing markets to increase income for rural women, and training women in sewing and business skills. In 2018 Ma Té Sai incorporated in Singapore, expanding their retail network beyond Laos. Ma Té Sai is a member of RAISE and one of the original “khakis” or sustainable brands of The Green Collective.

Joanne Flinn Greensiight Author, Consultant & C-suite Sustainability Coach, Singapore

Joanne Flinn, twice a TEDx Speaker, is the Founder of Unicorning™ and the CEO Whisperer. She supports Boards and the C Suite so that your tone from the top and culture sets the business performance needed for a 1.5˚C world. Her next book, Greensight the New Liability for Directors and Named Individuals is coming out soon.

Karin Oen PhD, Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Asian Art and Design, NTU School of Art, Design, and Media, Singapore

Karin G. Oen (United States/Singapore) is Principal Research Fellow at the Centre for Asian Art and Design at Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design, and Media, where she also teaches art history, museum studies, and curatorial practice. She was recently Deputy Director, Curatorial Programmes for NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. Prior to that, Oen was associate curator of contemporary art at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Her current research explores inter-, trans-, and post-disciplinary issues in contemporary art, design and media connected to Asian history and culture, areas explored in the forthcoming book SEA Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia, coming out in June 2022. Oen holds a PhD in History, Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an MA in Modern Art History, Connoisseurship and Art-Market History from Christie’s Education and a BA with honours in Urban Studies from Stanford University. She also hosts the Centre for Asian Art and Design’s newly-launched podcast (tinyurl.com/caadcast) – a series of conversations with artists and designers.

Noreen Marian C. Bautista Founder Panublix, Philippines

Noreen has been co-founding social enterprises and startups since 2010 and is a Certified Innovation Professional by the Global Innovation Management Institute. She was recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Global Shaper and is also one of the 40 pioneer Women Social Entrepreneurs of Ashoka Philippines and S&P Global's "Women Together for a Better Normal" program. She is co-founder and CEO of Panublix, a tech sourcing platform & marketplace that aims to connect designers with sustainable tropical textiles & artisan craft in Southeast Asia starting with the Philippines.

Noreen holds a Masters of Science in Innovation & Business from the Asian Institute of Management. She is also the Founder and Chief Igniter of SlashIgnite, a social venture studio based in Iloilo City and the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Marketing & Programs at Kwadra TBI, the technology business incubator of the Iloilo Science and Technology University.