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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Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
General Admission (Early Bird) Ended $140.00 $4.49
General Admission Ended $175.00 $5.37
Silicon Valley Leadership Group Member (Early Bird) Ended $100.00 $3.49
Silicon Valley Leadership Group Member Ended $125.00 $4.12
Nonprofit/Public Official (Early Bird) Ended $80.00 $2.99
Nonprofit/Public Official Ended $100.00 $3.49

Event Details

 

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 


When

Thursday, March 25, 2010 from 8:00 AM to 7:30 PM (PT)

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Ebay Town Hall
2161 North First Street
San Jose, CA 95101




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