Corporate Knights - Events

Events

Global 100 Dinners

At the annual World Economic Forum in Switzerland, CK hosts the Global 100 Davos Dinner and announces the year’s most sustainable companies. Each year the event has had a theme.

  • 2006- Effects of Corporate Sustainability on Company Valuations
  • 2007- The Investor as the New Regulator
  • 2008- New Challenges for the Long-term Global Investor
  • 2009- The Next Motor That Will Power the Global Economy
  • 2010- Scaling Up Global Finance for Cleaner Capitalism
  • 2011- 21st Century Balance Sheet for Cleaner Capitalism
  • 2012- How Can the Bond Markets Save the Global Economy—and the Planet?

Best 50 Gala

The Annual Best 50 Corporate Citizens in Canada are announced each summer at a gala in Toronto. Awards of distinction are also presented at this event.

E3 Roundtables

CK partnered with the Energy Policy Institute of Canada in 2010 and 2011 for roundtable events across the country. The focus of the events was to bring together thought leaders to create an energy strategy and policy options that would support it. It was emphasized that Canada is in a uniquely favorable position in that it has abundant potential to produce energy ecologically and economically.

Speakers at Corporate Knights events:

Senior Government Representatives

  • Hon. Danny Williams, Former Premier, Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Preston Manning, President and CEO, Manning Centre for Building Democracy
  • Ralph Nader, Public Citizen and Former Presidential Candidate
  • Gary Doer, Canadian Ambassador to the United States
  • Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
  • Hon. Jean Charest, Premier, Quebec
  • Rt. Hon. Paul Martin, Former Prime Minister of Canada

Corporate & Society Leaders

  • Avrim Lazar, former President and CEO of the Forest Products Association of Canada
  • Dr. James Lovelock, Scientist and Originator of the Gaia Theory
  • Galen G. Weston, Executive Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited
  • George Soros, Chairman, Soros Fund Management
  • Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO, Research in Motion
  • Maurice Strong, Former Under-Secretary General, United Nations
  • James Wolfensohn, Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn Fund Management L.P.

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