GLOBAL CSR EYEBasis for Management

The 4thSumitomo Electric Group
Executive Conference ofGreater China

The 4th Sumitomo Electric Group Executive Conference ofGreater China received 168 persons from 52 companies
At the conference held in Tianjin, China in
December 2018, executives and other personnelof the Sumitomo Electric Group companies in

Business Outline

Greater China gathered to report the recent
situation of each company and make reports onArea Committee activities as well as final reportson the Action Learning program. In addition, theCorporate Staff Group of Sumitomo Electricreported on VISION 2022 and other subjects.
From Japan, President Osamu Inoue, Executive

Governance

Vice President Mitsuo Nishida and Senior
Managing Director Yoshitomo Kasui also
participated in the conference, which was very
productive with an active exchange of opinions
and interactions among the participants.

The Area Committee activities were first launched in North America in 2011and have been developed in the four regions of the Americas, Europe,
Southeast Asia/Australia and Greater China until now. At the initiative ofSumitomo Electric Group (SEG) Global Executives in each region, thecommittees work to address common challenges in their region beyond theexecutives of Sumitomo Electric at the Regional Executive Conference. The

originally started with "Action Learning," a training program for executive
candidates from Group companies, in which participants work to address
management issues unique to the region. The subjects to be examined, as wellas participants, in the Action Learning program were taken over by the Area
Committee activities, which have then grown while promoting activities withSEG Global Executives. In fiscal 2019 and thereafter, the committees areexpected to be strengthened in a phased manner to develop a system

December 17, 2018 (Mon.)originally planned for the promotion of Area Committee with a more organizedstructure and financial resources for personnel.

The Ritz-Carlton, Tianjin

Schedule■ President speech

Greater China and Area Committee activities■ Reports on Area Committee activities

Reports from ﬁve committees on PR and other subjects■ Final reports on the Action Learning program■ Reports from the Corporate Staﬀ Group of Sumitomo Electric

Reports from seven divisions including the Corporate Planning Department■ Comments from the management of Sumitomo Electric■ Social gathering

reports on the Action Learning program are made along with reports on Area
Committee activities. Since there are only three SEG Global Executives inGreater China, it is an important challenge to promptly develop executive
talents for the next generation among the local employees. Many of those whoreport on the Action Learning program are young, and the Regional Executive
Conference gives them opportunities to present their training results directly tothe management of the Group and receive feedback from them. Thus, theoperation of the conference is also significant for the cultivation of executive
talents.
The subjects of the reports on the Action Learning program made in thisRegional Executive Conference included the dissemination of the Sumitomo

Environmental
Preservation

Tianjin, China

As a feature of the Regional Executive Conference in Greater China, final

Human Resources

Reports from ﬁve teams on the Sumitomo Spirit,
CSR in Greater China and other subjects

Sumitomo Electric Group Executive Conference ofGreater China also helps executive talent development

Supply Chain■ Reports on the executive talent development in17 CSR Report 2019

A feature of the Area Committee activities in Greater China is that they

Quality

Venue

committees also serve as a forum for interactions among the personnel.

Social Contribution

The Sumitomo Electric Group holds theRegional Executive Conferences in theAmericas, Europe, Southeast Asia/Australia andGreater China every year. This report presents
the 4th Sumitomo Electric Group Executive
Conference of Greater China held in Tianjin inDecember 2018.

CoreCategoryborders of individual companies and businesses and report the activities toDate

Group's CSR Activities

Executive Talent Developmentin Greater China

Area Committee activities andexecutive talent development in Greater China

Spirit in Greater China as well as the development of CSR activities. The resultsof active studies on other subjects were also reported respectively.

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