Silicon Valley Leadership Group 2010 Environmental Sustainability Symposium
Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 7:30 PM (PT)
San Jose, CA
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Learn how businesses are successfully addressing concerns regarding environmental sustainability and carbon footprinting – within their operations, and even more critically, in their markets.
Overview
This one day Symposium will provide you with the tools, resources and strategies to help you create competitive advantage through your environmental initiatives, for businesses of all sizes, with a focus on scaling solutions.
Join peers from across the organizational spectrum impacted by sustainability, including: product strategy and marketing, operations and facilities management, IT, legal, HR, business development, environmental health and safety, and sustainability professionals.
This Symposium offers a unique opportunity to dialogue, network, exchange ideas, and learn about the challenges and solutions being embraced by leading Silicon Valley organizations.
Agenda
8:00 - 8:45
Registration and Networking Breakfast
8:45 - 10:00
Keynote - The Role of Corporations in Achieving Sustainability
Aron Cramer, CEO, Business for Social Responsibility
Introduction by Jim Elliott, VP of Memory Marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Keynote Sponsored by Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
10:00 - 11:00
Collaboration Shaping Sustainability
Moderated by KC Mares, CEO & President at MegaWatt Consulting, Inc.
Jon Haas, Director of The Green Grid, and Director in the Eco-Technologies Programs Office, Intel Corporation
Alan Yoder, Co-Chair of Green Storage Initiative Technical Working Group, SNIA
John Wilbanks, VP for Science at Creative Commons representing GreenXchange
11:00 - 11:20
Networking Break
11:20 - 12:20
Procurement Drivers: Demands from the Supply Chain
Moderated by Alicia Culver, Owner and Executive Director of the Green Purchasing Institute
Marsha Ali, SER Manager, NVIDIA
Michael Battaion, Corporate Director of Environmental Sustainability, Flextronics
Judy Glazer, Director of Global Social & Environmental Responsibility, HP
12:20 - 1:45
Lunch and Keynote - HP's Journey to Environmental Sustainability
Engelina Jaspers, Vice President, HP Environmental Sustainability
Keynote Sponsored by Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
1:45 - 1:55
Bay Area Climate Collaborative
1:55 - 3:10
Breakout Sessions
Product Innovation: Greening Your Products
Moderated by Don Bray, President, AltaTerra Research
Steve Horne, CTO, SolFocus
Clemens Pfeiffer, CTO, Power Assure, Inc.
Spike Narayan, Functional Manager, IBM Science and Technology Center
Sylvie R. Kadivar, PhD., Director, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.
Operational Innovation: Greening Your Operations
Moderated by Peter Perrault, Environmental Sustainability Program Manager, NetApp
Amy Skoczlas Cole, Director of Green Team, eBay
Michael Jordan, Sustainability Practice Leaders, Jones Lang LaSalle
Randy Knox, Senior Director of Global Workplace Solutions, Adobe
Lisa Neuberger-Fernandez, Strategy and Policy Lead for Global Corporate Citizenship, Accenture
3:10 - 3:30
Networking Break
3:30 - 4:30
Goal Setting and Performance Reporting
Moderated by Lori Duvall, Corporate Sustainability Manager (former), Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Bruce Klafter, Senior Director, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Applied Materials
Christina Page, Director of Climate and Energy Strategy, Yahoo!
Kathy Gerwig, Vice President, Workplace Safety and Environmental Stewardship Officer, Kaiser Permanente
4:30 - 5:30
Keynote - Implementing a Strategy for Sustainability
Adam Werbach, Global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi and Author of Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto.
Keynote Sponsored by Raritan
5:30 - 7:30
Cocktail Reception
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Bay Area Climate Collaborative
Through Bridge to the Clean Economy: Low Carbon, High Impact Market Initiatives for the Bay Area, a project of the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC), regional clean energy and climate leaders are shaping and advancing market-oriented initiatives for economic development and rapid emissions reductions in the 2-5 year time frame. Proposed strategic action initiatives will target four key domains: electric vehicles, commercial energy efficiency, residential upgrades and distributed renewables. More information below and at http://bridgetocleaneconomy.org.
The Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) is a public-private initiative accelerating the clean energy economy. A project of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group, major partners include Bank of America, Pacific Gas & Electric, Environmental Defense Fund and local governments representing over 70 percent of the Bay Area population. For more information on the BACC, please visit: www.baclimate.org.
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