Event - The Conference Board Summit on Sustainability

The Conference Board Summit on Sustainability will take place on June 4 and 5, 2013 in New York, NY. The Summit brings together sustainability experts, practitioners, and institutional investors share the latest perspectives on how corporations are transforming their global operations by integrating sustainability into a long term return-on-investment strategy.

Businesses, foundations, universities, governments and consumers are actively seeking solutions for an increasing number sustainability concerns, creating a new “sustainability market.” In this environment, corporations benefit by promoting innovative technologies, resource-efficient business processes, and new methods and partnerships for research and development.

The Conference Board Sustainability Summit examines four critical themes. The first two focus on the people who drive sustainability: Investors and Stakeholders. The second two themes focus on tools used for sustainability: Technology and R&D. All comes together with targeted discussion on the new touch points of sustainability, including innovation, technology, eliminating waste, dramatic energy efficiency, water supply, and a reinvented workforce.

Why Attend?

Learn how investors view non-financial factors as value drivers and why
Hear experts in energy, water supply, human capital and other sustainability practices discuss the environmental and social impact of their operations on local/regional stakeholders
Understand technological advances that solve sustainability problems and reshape how companies organize and create value
Apply innovations from R&D strategic partnerships between companies, universities, governments and foundations

The 2013 Conference Features
  • Two Pre-Conference Seminars – bring home some specific tools on how you can benefit from the new sustainability mindset
  • Plenary Sessions – hear from renowned keynote speakers and panelists as well comments and questions from the full audience
  • Four Tracks – tailor your conference to your own expertise or interests. Choose from tracks on Shareholder/Corporate Governance; Stakeholders; Technology; Research & Development
  • A Pre-Conference Survey - determine what your peers view as the main touch points of the new Sustainability Regime. These will be revisited throughout the conference to see how they fit in with the discussion as it unfolds
  • Interactive Sessions – Creatively collaborate with fellow attendees during the Design your Own Smart City group exercise
Designed for Executives In Charge of
  • Corporate Sustainability
  • Environmental Health & Safety
  • Supply Chain Purchasing & Procurement
  • Resource Management
  • Investment and Financial Firms
  • Sustainability Consulting Firms
  • Government Entities/Agencies
Conference Program Advisory Board
  • James Bero, Senior Vice President, Environment, Health, and Safety, BASF Corporation
  • Kathy Gerwig, Vice President, Employee Safety, Health, and Wellness and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente
  • Dan Hanson, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Blackrock
  • Gilbert (Gib) Hedstrom, President, Hedstrom Associates
  • James Hendricks, Owner, Hendricks Consulting
  • Erika Karp, Managing Director, Global Head of Sector Research, UBS
  • Dinah Koehler, Senior Research Manager, Deloitte Research
  • Steven Morgan, Vice President and Assistant General Counsel, Regulatory, HSE, Waste Management
  • LaRaye Osbourne, Vice President, Environment, Health, and Safety, Cargill Incorporated
  • Brian Rice, Portfolio Manager, Corporate Governance, CalSTRS
  • Thomas Singer, Researcher, Corporate Leadership, The Conference Board
  • James Spohrer, Director, Global University Programs, IBM
Agenda

03 June, 2013 — Pre-Conference Seminar: Opportunity Driven Sustainability for Institutional Investors: Creating a Portfolio
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03 June, 2013 — Pre-Conference Seminar: Examining Smart Cities and the Role Organizations Have in Building Them
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