| 7:30-8:30am |
Registration and Breakfast
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| 8:30-9:45am |
- General Session
- Introduction: Pete Dignan | Executive Director, CORE
- Welcome: Paul Jerde | Executive Director, University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business
- Keynote: Auden Schendler | Vice President of Sustainability, Aspen Skiing Company
- Rethinking Sustainability
- Consultants say sustainability is easy and profitable, and that's partly true. But they are mostly talking about operational tweaks like retrofits, solar panels, and green construction. In the climate era, those measures--conventional corporate sustainability--simply won't get us where we need to be. A complete, and brutally honest rethink of the sustainability challenge, our goals, and the path forward is in order. How do you even engage a subject as big and scary as climate change? How does public perception of the right things to do differ from what really matters? And how do you keep going, every morning, against daunting odds?
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| 9:45-10:00am |
Break
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| 10:00-10:50am |
- BREAKOUT SESSION 1:
- Beyond the Business Case: The New Competitive Advantage
- Even established companies such as GE and Toyota have found that sustainability translates to a better bottom line -- think GE ecomagination and Prius. Companies large, mid-size and small are learning that integrating sustainability into their operations can ensure the future strength and competitiveness of the firm. Come explore how sustainability can lead to a higher performing company with better brand differentiation, loyal customers, and productive employees.
- Strategy Track 1: Going Deeper
- Moderator: Mike Bearup | Partner, KPMG
- Sarah Martinez | Vice President, Corporate Responsibility, ProLogis
- Gerri Walsh | Director of Sustainability, Ball Corp.
- Dan McConville | President, MWH
- Panelists from successful large corporations along the Front Range will discuss their business cases for sustainability and what it has meant to each company.
- Tools Track 1: The Investor's Perspective
- Moderator: Hull McKinnon | Partner, Altira
- Seth Levine | Managing Director, Foundry Group
- David Moll | Founder, Infield Capital Venture
- Jay Coughlon | Managing Director, KRG Capital
- A practical look at how investors evaluate opportunities and business case issues including what drives the decision to invest or not.
- Fast Track 1: Sustainability Cases
- FT 1A: The "What" and "Why" of Going Green
- Ryan Ferrero | CEO/Founder and Chief Carhugger, Green Garage
- What compelled Green Garage to adopt a sustainable/green business strategy?
- FT 1B: Flight Plan to a Green Frontier
- Ian Arthur | VP Marketing and Branding, Frontier Airlines
- Frontier will share how they implemented their sustainable business case, focusing on challenges faced, obstacles overcome, lessons learned.
- FT 1C: Vail: Beyond the Business Case
- Julie Klein | Director of Environmental Affairs, Vail Resorts
- In recent years, many private sector businesses ranging from small cottage industries to multinational corporations are committed to more sustainable business practices as a fundamental focus aligned with core business decisions without a true regulatory imperative...simply because it is the right thing to do. Learn more about how Vail Resorts is navigating this journey while maintaining a fairly aggressive growth strategy.
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| 10:30-11:50am |
Expo Open
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| 11:00-11:50am |
- BREAKOUT SESSION 2:
- Mind Meld - Bringing Stakeholders On Board
- Unleashing the full potential of sustainability measures in your company requires generating stakeholder buy-in every step of the way -- with employees, investors, boards, suppliers, customers, and the communities where you do business. Through cultivating relationships and creating a shared vision, you can manage the human element of sustainability and get everyone pulling for success.
- Strategy Track 2: Corporate Community Relations - Engaging Your Stakeholders
- Moderator: Richard Eidlin | The Progress Group
- Elaine Nelson | Community Development Manager, Wells Fargo
- Lori Call | Senior Manager Community Relations, Kaiser Permanente
- Designing and managing an effective Community Relations program is part alchemy, part architecture. It requires mixing and matching a range of stakeholders: employees, nonprofits and shareholders, and then devising a set of expectations and agreements on how the program and relationship will work. If done well, the result enhances your brand and improves the quality of life for communities and the natural environment within which your company operates.
- Tools Track 2: Implementing Employee and Community Engagement Programs in Large and Small Businesses
- Moderator: Alison Peters | Managing Director, The Deming Center
- Ellen Feeney | Vice President, Responsible Livelihood, White Wave Foods
- Rebecca Kirchdorfer | Downing Street Garage
- Margie Gardner | CEO, Bonneville Environmental Foundation
- Employee enthusiasm alone does not guarantee a high-impact community relations program. What's essential is to channel that excitement. This session will identify successful methods for involving employees in the selection of your issues or community partner(s) as well as ensuring that your team benefits from their time commitment. And finally, the panelists will discuss how to measure the impact of a community relations program.
- Fast Track 2: Perspectives on Stakeholder Engagement
- FT 2A: Personal Sustainability
- Christine Gust | Doctor of Naturopathy
- In the midst of our busy and increasingly wired work lives, how do we ensure that we encourage our own personal sustainability? Christine will offer a series of insights into how to balance work and life, so that both become more rewarding.
- FT 2B: Green Skepticism: Selling Green Business to Skeptics
- Trudy Heller, Ph.D. | Founder and President, Executive Education for the Environment
- The business case for sustainability has been made many times, yet skepticism about the need for change remains widespread. Trudy will share the strategies and tactics that work and note those that don't. This session is for anyone tasked with engaging others in implementing sustainable business practices and for entrepreneurs selling green business products and services.
- FT 2C: How to Build a Diverse Workforce
- Helena Haynes-Carter | President, American Association of Blacks in Energy, Denver Area Chapter
- As the workforce becomes more racially and socially diverse, how do employers ensure that they create a culture of inclusion? How can people move beyond their biases and long-held stereotypes? Helena will highlight some strategies for building a more multicultural workforce, that is sensitive to the needs and values of all the members of your team.
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| 12:00-12:30pm |
Seated Luncheon in General Session
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| 12:15-12:45pm |
- Sustainability Champion Awards
- Introduction: Pete Dignan | Executive Director, CORE
- Recognizes three winning teams (from small, medium and large organizations) who have gone above and beyond required duties to make a measurable contribution to the environment, the economy, and society.
- Awards Presented
- Presenting: Martha E. Rudolph | Director of Environmental Programs, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- The awards are a project of CDPHE with support from CEP (Colorado Environmental Partnership), CORE and ColoradoBiz Magazine. The CEP is the oldest business environmental organization in Colorado. Since its inception in 1990, the Partnership has created a history of success in helping companies identify and implement practical environmental strategies and work with stakeholders to incubate public policies that foster environmental and sustainability leadership. The Partnership has been recognized regionally and nationally as a model for cross-sector collaboration.
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| 12:45-1:30pm |
- General Session
- Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change
- L. Hunter Lovins | President and Founder, Natural Capitalism Solutions
- Introduction: Ellen Feeney | Vice President, Responsible Livelihood, White Wave Foods
- Ms. Lovins will discuss her new book (to be released April 12), which cites dozens of examples to prove that a focus on sustainability leads to profitability. Book signing immediately following.
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| 1:30-2:30pm |
Expo Open
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| 2:30-3:20pm |
- BREAKOUT SESSION 3:
- Riding the Sustainability Life Cycle - Winning the Yellow Jersey
- Analyzing the entire lifecycle of your products and processes can transform your business into a lean, mean, and streamlined sustainability winner. Life Cycle Analysis can uncover high-leverage opportunities for achieving efficiencies, eliminating waste, and integrating environmental responsibility into core business functions. Ride the sustainability Life Cycle to drive innovation for your business!
- Strategy Track 3: Supply Chain Sustainability - A Roadmap for Engaging Your Supply Chain
- Stephen Bernard | Manager, Supply Chain Citizenship & Sustainability, Supply Chain and Fleet Operations, AT&T
- Exploring product lifecycles and supply chains will reveal opportunities for innovation all along the way. Mr. Bernard will present a roadmap and use some examples from AT&T's journey integrating its supply chain with its corporate citizenship and sustainability program.
- Tools Track 3: Life Cycle Tools - Their Variety and Use
- Jeffrey G. Yorzyk | Senior Consultant, PE/Five Winds
- Starting with an overview of tools available in the market today, this session will focus on the "tools of the trade" used by Life Cycle practitioners and deliver an understanding of their strengths and limitations, how they fit into the overall scope of supply chain management, and when to apply them.
- Fast Track 3: Farm - Plate - Waste: A Local Business EcoSystem
- Moderator: Pete Dignan | Executive Director, CORE
- Josh Palmer | CSA Director, Grant Family Farms
- Nicole West | Local Store Marketing Manager - Rocky Mountain, Chipotle Mexican Grill
- John-Paul Maxfield | Denver Waste Farmers
- This panel session features three local businesses in a discussion of supply chain partnerships. Grant Family Farms is a local source of fresh produce for Chipotle Mexican Grill in Colorado, who then works with Waste Farmers to turn food waste into organic and biodynamic soil amendments, fertilizers and soil inoculants. The three companies have key market roles that create an agricultural ecology cycle – from farm to plate to waste! The discussion will explore the opportunities and challenges observed in each phase of the food cycle, and the business relationships that have made it work.
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| 3:30-4:20pm |
- BREAKOUT SESSION 4:
- Business + Sustainability – When 1+1 = 3
- If you're already convinced that sustainability is the way to go, this session will explore how to get there. To create competitive advantage, sustainability must be part of the strategic position of the company -- cross-functionally integrated into all structures and processes. Learn how to leverage sustainability to add value to your company, and then pass that value on to your customers and investors.
- Strategy Track 4: Using a Systems Thinking Approach to Integrate Sustainability
- Moderator: Virginia Winter | CEO, Equinox Consultancy
- Scott McGinty | CEO, Aurora Organic Dairy
- David Miller | Assistant VP Bus.Dev. and Green Team Chairperson, Alpine Bank
- Gerard Spicer | Technical Administrator, Frito-Lay, Inc., a division of PepsiCo
- More than simply looking at discrete processes, such as energy efficiency or water conservation, in this session you will hear first-hand stories from diverse industries about how they embed sustainability in the culture and context for doing good business. These companies are, in their own unique ways, a bit further along in the sustainability journey than most. We will hear how integrating a company's mission, values and strategy with social, economic, and environmental goals creates a winning place to work and an competitive advantage.
- Tools Track 4: Link the Triple Bottom Line to Strategy using the Balanced Scorecard
- Howard Rohm | CEO, Balanced Scorecard Institute
- Dan Montgomery, Sr. | Associate, Balanced Scorecard Institute
- The "Triple Bottom Line" concept is limited because it does not address the competitive strategy of the firm. A Balanced Scorecard system, aligned with the principles of the Triple Bottom Line, offers a way to accomplish social and environmental goals while integrating them fully with financial performance and competitive advantage.
- Fast Track 4:
- FT 4A: The Value of Stakeholder Engagement in Enterprise Sustainability
- Sabine Bendenoun | Sustainabiltiy Project Manager, SAIC
- We'll review a step-by-step approach to successfully integrate sustainability in business strategy, culture and operations, while focusing on the importance of comprehensive stakeholder engagement throughout the development of an enterprise-wide sustainability approach, from solidifying executive management commitment to engaging stakeholders to develop and drive sustainabiity strategy throughout the organization.
- FT 4B-4C: A Simple Path to Sustainability
- Moderator: Fred Andreas | Assistant Prof., Architecture, University of Colorado Denver and Principal Architect, UNIT Design Studio
- Steve Savage | Executive Chairman, Eco Products
- Dan King | Boulder Outlook Hotel
- Based on the book by the same title that illustrates how sustainability can be the cornerstone for small business success. The collaborative nature of this book, involving professionals, educators and grad students from varied disciplines, creates a fascinating expose of sustainable small business practices in a wide range of industries.
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| 4:30-6:30pm |
Expo Open: Reception in Expo Areas
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