TRUE BLUE INCLUSION CALENDAR MEETING SCHEDULE,

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1 TRUE BLUE INCLUSION CALENDAR MEETING SCHEDULE, LEGEND Deep Dive Meeting Offered three times a year, these are True Blue Inclusion s powerful signature meetings. At Deep Dive meetings explore enriching cutting edge topics that challenge conventional wisdom and align our members with world leaders, experts and thought leaders. Pop Up From time to time, True Blue Inclusion will invite its members to special events focused on Diversity and Inclusion issues with more niche origin and scope. These have ranged from intimate gatherings with luminaries such as Maya Angelou to covered trips to the Middle East with the United Nations. Salon Dinner Regional, with topics selected in real time, these gatherings are intended to bring members together with a select few experts for intimate, closed door conversations. Greater Bay Area Chief Diversity Officer Consortium Meeting. This meeting is offered three times a year in Silicon Valley/Bay Area of California. The Agenda is designed to include key areas of interest to high technology companies as well as topical issues that affect all California companies. We take the opportunity to feature experts, speakers and though leaders of interest to the collective group. Insights Release - These surveys and white papers focus on a specific professional topic or region. These releases are based on True Blue Inclusion event topics as well as demand from our corporate members. JUNE 17-18, 2013 DEEP DIVE II: Architects of Change: The Chief Diversity Officer and Thought Leadership Supplier Diversity 2.0 The Economics of a Comprehensive Community Wealth and Job Creation Initiatives Houston, Texas The idea of supplier diversity and the reasons most often times discussed are not new. Increasingly, more and more Fortune 500 companies are creating supplier diversity initiatives. As part of their efforts, they are also encouraging, measuring and reporting the engagement of their suppliers as part of their commitment to diversity in general and supplier diversity in particular. 1 1

2 . We believe the tier 1 and tier 2 demonstrations of financial support for this important corporate initiative are only part of the success narrative. Though oft touted, brand image and corporate social responsibility fail to fully capture what makes these efforts truly impactful and robust. The June Deep Dive, Architects of Change: The Chief Diversity Officer will explore the understudied financial and social impacts that a comprehensive supplier diversity initiative has on creating a sustainable strategy for community wealth and jobs creation. By engaging subject matter experts in areas such as urban development, economics and social responsibility, True Blue Inclusion will curate a dialogue designed to promote new thinking and offer new or different approaches to growing and leveraging our commitment to disadvantaged and/or underrepresented businesses. JUNE 19, 2013 POP UP: Major League Baseball Diversity Business Summit Houston, Texas JUNE 26, 2013 Sunnyvale, CA JULY 2013 New York, NY Major League Baseball JULY 2013 Washington, DC Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs SEPTEMBER 10-11,

3 DEEP DIVE III: The Future of Diversity and Inclusion Miami, FL SEPTEMBER, 2013 OCTOBER 25-27, 2013 POP UP: The German Marshall Fund of the United States Morocco Forum Morocco OCTOBER 29-30, 2013 POP UP: Transatlantic Security and Diversity Diversity and Inclusion for Militaries in the U.S. and Europe Washington, DC Given rapid demographic change in the U.S. and in Europe, it is a security imperative for military leaders to proactively advance diversity and inclusion (D&I). Mission Critical: Transatlantic Security and Diversity will convene policymakers, D&I thought leaders and practitioners from the military, academia, corporations, media and think tanks in the U.S. and Europe. This program will: seed a transatlantic community of shared interest to advance D&I in militaries; strengthen the position of D&I on the national security agenda of the U.S. and European partners; and frame a transatlantic conversation about diversity and security for policymakers and publics in a positive and future oriented way. NOVEMBER,

4 NOVEMBER, 2013 FEBRUARY, 2014 DEEP DIVE I: Identity and Global Colorism MARCH, 2014 APRIL, 2014 POP UP: Global Thought Leadership: Africa Johannesburg, South Africa JUNE, 2014 DEEP DIVE II: SEPTEMBER, 2014 DEEP DIVE II: 4 4

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