Corporate Reporting: Fitting it all together
The Integrated Reporting Committee of South Africa held its IRC Annual Conference 2023 on Wednesday, 1 November 2023 from 09:00 – 15:20 CAT at the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and on international webcast. The speakers shared the latest developments on sustainability reporting and integrated reporting, as well as panel discussions on applying the global baseline and layering sustainability disclosures, and using the integrated report to fit everything together.
Webcast
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Speaker profiles
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Conference programme and speaker presentations
(The presentations of the speakers are available for download by clicking on the blue links.)
| 9:00 – 9:05 | Welcome from the IRC Leigh Roberts – CEO of the IRC |
| 9:05 – 9:10 | Welcome from the JSE Loshni Naidoo – Chief Sustainability Officer, JSE |
| 9:10 – 09:30 | Governance and the board’s duty of care Professor Mervyn King – Chair, IRC |
| 9:30 – 9:50 | Latest from the IFRS Foundation and interoperability among international standards Professor Suresh Kana – Deputy-chair, IRC and Trustee, IFRS Foundation |
| 9:50 – 10:35 | Update from the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) Dr Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien – Member, ISSB |
| 10:35 –11:00 | Tea break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Update from the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) Peter Paul van de Wijs – Chief Policy Officer, GRI |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Panel discussion: The global baseline and layering of sustainability disclosures Johan Thyse – VP Sustainability & Reporting, Sasol Ronell Govender – Global ESG and Sustainability, Naspers Stephen Bullock – Head of Sustainability, Anglo American Platinum Host: Jayne Mammatt – IRC Working Group and Partner, Deloitte |
| 12:30 – 1:15 | Lunch |
| 1:15 – 1:45 | Integrated reporting: Latest international perspective Jonathan Labrey – Chief Connectivity and Integrated Reporting Officer, IFRS Foundation |
| 1:45 – 2:45 | Panel discussion: Fitting it all together using the integrated report Anelisa Keke – Chief Sustainability Officer, Redefine Properties Bruce Thomas – Finance Executive: Reporting, Nedbank Nadia Schoeman – Principal Integrated and External Reporting, Kumba Iron Ore Zanele Salman – IRC Working Group and Group Head Investor Relations, AECI Host: Leigh Roberts |
| 2:45 – 3:15 | Panel discussion: Sustainability assurance and how to prepare Fikile Zwane – Director Sustainability Assurance, SNG Grant Thornton Oswald Wentworth – Partner, PwC Shaheed Osman – IRC Working Group and Partner, KPMG Southern Africa Host: Professor Yvette Lange – IRC Working Group and Professor, School of Accountancy, Wits University |
| 3:15 – 3:20 | Thanks and closing remarks Leigh Roberts |
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Previous conferences
The IRC has hosted Annual Conferences since 2013.
To access the presentations and webcasts from the 2022 IRC conference, click below: