The conference will provide you with the behavioural tools necessary to have the conversations needed to see, shape, and reach this new future. Drawing on the resource of Vision 2050, it will be centred on generative group work exploring cities and transport in the future, as well as how nature would do it. Expertly led, the content of these sessions will be captured on video and will be displayed on The Future We Want website and potentially at the exhibit at Rio +20 - the only exhibit the delegates will walk through.  Facilitated by content and culture panels, the "how" of how solutions are reached will be turned into a toolkit for participants to take with them at the close of the conference.       

This publication champions the concept of a ‘mandate’ which sets out the ‘essence’ of the ‘character’ and distinctiveness of the company. We believe that this ‘working charter’ can help boards navigate their way through increasingly choppy waters by facilitating more effective strategic engagement: primarily between executive directors and NEDs to improve board effectiveness, but with the associated benefit that it drives communication externally with the key stakeholders, including investors, government and regulators, and society at large.

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Leading firms in the institutional investor community have joined forces with Tomorrow’s Company to launch a working party which aims to improve the quality of engagement by institutional investors with UK companies. The practitioner-led group aims to identify engagement styles and practices that seem to be most effective and to share that intelligence with the aim of making engagement more rewarding for investors and companies alike. The group also intends to make a significant contribution to the 2012 revision of the Stewardship Code which the Financial Reporting Council is proposing will take effect from 1st October 2012. The group includes some of the world’s largest and most active investors – Aviva Investors, BlackRock, Governance for Owners, Railpen Investments, Ram Trust and USS.

On Wednesday 9 November 2011, Paul Abberley, chief executive of Aviva Investors, joined CIMA and Tomorrow’s Company at their annual parliamentary reception at the House of Lords.