Agenda

7:30-8:00 am- Registration

8:00-8:10 am-  Welcome from summit hosts Melanie Grant, Susan Jacques, and Raquel Alonso-Perez.

8:10-8:25 am- Keynote Speech- Dan Schrag - Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology, Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, and Director of the Harvard University Center for the Environment.

8:25-9:10 am- Panel discussion 1- Business: What do consumers and collectors really care about and how can businesses give it to them? 

Moderator

  • David Ager - Senior Lecturer, and Managing Director at Harvard Business School

Panelists

  • Susan Jacques - President and CEO, GIA

  • Melanie Grant -Executive Director of the RJC

  • Colleen Rooney - Chief Communications and ESG Officer, Signet

  • Pippa Small - Jewelry Designer and Ambassador for Survival International.

9:10-9:50 am - Panel Discussion 2: ESG Demystified: Using sustainability systems to achieve your ESG goals in business.

Moderator

  • Elizabeth Keenan - Assistant Professor of business administration in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. 

Panelists

  • Jasmeet Kaur - Senior ESG and Impacts Manager at the RJC

  • Toby Pomeroy - Founder, Executive Director, Mercury Free Mining

  • Karin Kreider - Executive Director, ISEAL.

9:50-10:10 am - Coffee Break

10:10-11:00 am - Panel Discussion 3: Renewable Energy: What you need to know.

Moderator

  • Charles Langmuir - Higgins Professor of Geochemistry and Director of Mineralogical and Geological Museum

Panelists

  • Marko Loncar - Tiantsai Lin Professor of Electrical Engineering, Harvard University

  • Yang Shao-Horn - JR EAST Professor of Engineering and faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, and the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT

  • Daniel Nocera - Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University.

10:10-11:00 am - Panel Discussion 4: Supply chains: How to navigate sanctions and conflict.

Moderator

  • Adrianne Sanogo- Co-founder, Board Member and Education Chair of the Black in Jewelry Coalition

Panelists

  • Tiffany Stevens - CEO and General Counsel of the Jewelers Vigilance Committee

  • Monica Stephenson - Founder of ANZA Gems

  • Esther Oberbeck - SVP Strategy Development, De Beers Group

  • Shreyans Dholakia - Director of Marketing & Information Technology departments of Shree Ramkrishna Exports Pvt. Ltd. (SRK).

12:00-1:30 am - Lunch Break

1:30-1:50 pm - Presentation 1: Art:  The Psychology of Found Materials by artist and innovator Wallace Chan.

1:50-2:45 pm - Panel Discussion 5: Art, Desire and Value: How can we increase desire for responsible jewelry using art?

Moderator

  • Dr. Emily Stoehrer - Rita J. Kaplan and Susan B. Kaplan Curator of Jewelry at the MFA, Boston

Panelists

  • Alexandra Mor - Haute Couture jewelry designer and creative director

  • Thelma West - Jewelry designer 

  • Eira Thomas - President and CEO, Lucara Diamond

  • Bella Neyman - Co-founder of New York City Jewelry Week (NYCJW)

2:45-3:30 pm- Panel Discussion 6: Human Rights and Resources: Empowering smaller players on the ground - the challenges, opportunities and best practice.

Moderator

  • Dr. Raquel Alonso-Perez - Curatrix, MGMH, Harvard University

Panelists

  • Cristina Villegas - Director of Sustainable Markets at Pact

  • Jo Becker - Advocacy director of the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch

  • Marcus ter Haar - Executive Director - Five6 Consulting

  • John Ferry - Founder and owner of Prosperity Earth

3:30-3:50 mm - Coffee Break

3:50-4:10 pm- Presentation 2: How to Prepare your Jewelry Business for a Culture of Innovation and Learning by Dennis Campbell - Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

4:10-4:45 pm- Presentation 3: Is Artificial Intelligence (AI) the Future? By Joe Mariani - Research Senior Manager, Deloitte Center for Government Insights.

4:45-5:10 pm- Panel Discussion 7 : Visions of the Future: What does the future hold for those who will inherit the Industry?

Moderator

  • Jennifer Markas - Executive Director of the Women's Jewelry Association (WJA)

Panelists

  • David Troostwyk - Vice President of  The London Diamond Bourse, Director  of Salotro Ltd, and member of the Young Diamantaires

  • Laura Inghirami - Teacher at the European Institute of Design (IED), Forbes Under 30, and Founder of Donna Jewel.

5:10-5:30 pm - Concluding Remarks by Charles Langmuir - Higgins Professor of Geochemistry and Director of Mineralogical and Geological Museum.

5:30-7:30 pm - Cocktail reception at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

Image credits: USGS on Unsplash; Sustainable Development Goals by United Nations; Wind power, public domain; Vincent Pardiu by GIA; Butterly Brooch, Metamorphosis by Wallace Chan; Demantoid mine, Madagascar by Prosperity Earth; AI, designing for the Public Sector with by Deloitte Development.