Keynote Speakers

Stanley S. Litow
Vice President, Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President, IBM International Foundation
Afternoon Keynote

Stanley Litow is IBM's Vice President of Corporate Citizenship & Corporate Affairs and President of IBM's Foundation. He heads global corporate citizenship and corporate social responsibility at IBM. Under his leadership, IBM has been recognized as the global leader in Corporate Social Responsibility, prized for societal and environmental leadership, labor practices and civic leadership. Under Stan, IBM has developed innovative voice recognition technology to help hundreds of thousands of children and adults learn to read, automatic language translation and bilingual email to address the digital divide, a humanitarian grid to power research on Cancer and AIDS, and a cloud hosted "'Disaster Relief in a Box" toolkit. He helped devise IBM's Corporate Service Corps a corporate version of the Peace Corps which sends teams of thousands of IBM leaders to address problems in the developing world. IBM's education efforts have raised student achievement, won the company two Ron Brown Awards presented by the President, and created a new model for high school being deployed in New York City and Chicago.

Before joining IBM, he served as Deputy Chancellor of Schools for New York City, the nation's largest school system, and prior to that he founded and ran Interface, the non-profit "think tank" and served as an aide to both the Mayor and Governor of New York.

His articles and essays have appeared in numerous books and publications including the Yale Law Review, Annual Survey of American Law, Brookings Papers, the American Academy of Sciences, the Journal for the Center for National Policy, Education Week, Harvard Business School’s Working Papers, New York Times and Newsday.

Stanley is a recipient of the Council on Foundation's prestigious Scrivner Award for creative philanthropy and awards from the Anne Frank Center, Martin Luther King Commission, Manhattanville College, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Coro Foundation, Helen Keller Services to the Blind, and the Women's City Club. He has taught at New School University, the City University of New York and Long Island University. Corporate Responsibility Officer Magazine voted him CEO of the Year for 2008 and 2009. He served on the President's Welfare to Work Commission, and now serves on the board of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, Citizen's Budget Commission, The After School Corporation and the Albert Shanker Institute.

Letitia Webster
Director of Global Corporate Sustainability, VF Corporation
Evening Keynote

VF is a $9 billion apparel and footwear powerhouse. It is a global leader in lifestyle apparel with a diverse portfolio of jeanswear, outdoor, action sports, imagewear, sportswear and contemporary apparel. Its principal brands include Wrangler®, Lee®, Riders®, The North Face®, Vans®, Reef®, Eagle Creek®, Eastpak®, JanSport®, Napapijri®, Nautica®, Kipling®, John Varvatos®, 7 For All Mankind®, lucy®, Ella Moss®, Splendid®, Majestic® and Red Kap®.

The company was founded in 1899 and is based in Greensboro, North Carolina.