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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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“On the most profitable lie, the course of events presently lays a destructive tax; whilst frankness invites frankness, puts the parties on a convenient footing, and makes their business a friendship.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“By many a legendary tale of violence and wrong, as well as by events which have passed before their eyes, these people have been taught to look upon white men with abhorrence.... I can sympathize with the spirit which prompts the Typee warrior to guard all the passes to his valley with the point of his levelled spear, and, standing upon the beach, with his back turned upon his green home, to hold at bay the intruding European.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)