Partner Events
ISSP has partnered with these organizations to cross-promote each other's events. ISSP members may receive discounts at these events.
Non-ISSP Events
Events are listed in chronological order. Page down for details
- Integrating Sustainability into Your Organizational Development Practices, April 2nd, May 7th, San Francisco Bay Area
- Sustainability in Packaging, March 15-17, Orlando, FL
- Virtual Summits: Smart ICT , March 30 – April 1 2010 (live on-line)
- International Corporate Citizenship Conference, April 11-13, 2010, Boston, MA
- The 3rd Annual Carbon Trade China 2010, April 15th- 16th, 2010, Beijing, China
- Industrial Energy Efficiency, April 19-21, Melbourne
- GoGreen '10, April 21, Seattle
- Moving Ahead, May 2-4, Columbus, Ohio
- Sustainable Brands, June 7-10, Monterey
Integrating Sustainability Into Your Organization Development Practice.
First Fridays of the Month 2010: Feb 5th, March 5th, April 2nd, May 7th
A four-day workshop series in the San Francisco Bay Area - $250.00
Website: http://greencities.com/How%20to%20Integrate%20Sustainability%202010
Book Discussion, Keynote Speaker, Workshop, and Structured Peer Coaching in each session!
Series objectives:
- To have a greater understanding of the realm of environmental and economic sustainability and how to incorporate this into one’s Organization Development and consulting practice
- To leave with specific individual plans of action, shaped by a facilitated peer coaching process
- To have a working language and an ability to speak to the sustainability trends happening in business
Contact and registration:
od.sustainability@gmail.com
503-459-1345
Sustainable Opportunities Summit
March 2-4, Denver, Colorado
Now is the time to accelerate your business toward sustainability. This three day conference offers panels and presentations on numerous topics:
- Financing Sustainability
- Alternative Energy
- Sustainable Economic Development
- Sustaining Human Capital
- and more!
BEFORE FEB 5th: Early Bird price for partners is $260.
Partner code: ECAA83BG
AFTER FEB 5th : price for partners is $300.
Partner code: IA41TKNI.
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March 15-17, Orlando, FL
Pira International, in association with Packaging Digest and Converting, is pleased to announce the 4th Annual Sustainability in Packaging Conference. As the most comprehensive conference and showcase of its kind, Sustainability in Packaging attracts a diversity of companies and delegates representing the entire packaging supply chain. With presentations on topics ranging from strategic sustainability goals, materials, innovative design solutions, supply chain synergies, waste management and recycling to brand image and communication with customers and partners, this year's Sustainability in Packaging conference will be the most informative ever!
Sustainability in Packaging 2010 will be the forum to share ideas, learn from successes and challenges, get inspired, create partnerships and continue the dialogue with the industry colleagues about the collective sustainability challenge. The structure of plenary sessions followed by topic specific tracks allows delegates to tailor the program to their needs. The conference will also feature two pre-conference seminars, including a seminar on “Packaging Your Sustainability Strategy” and a seminar on “Life Cycle Analysis.”
Over the last three years, the Sustainability in Packaging has cemented its position as a key event for those in the packaging industry, with numerous networking opportunities, a robust exhibition area and presentations from leaders all over the supply chain. This year’s agenda brings together a diverse group of companies – including Crate & Barrel, the Environmental Defense Fund, Georgia Pacific, the Hudson’s Bay Company, Procter & Gamble, The Coca-Cola Company, and Whole Foods Market. Other presenters include Alcan Packaging, Amcor PET Packaging, Ciba Expert Services, Crown Holdings, Daymon Worldwide, Dogwood Alliance, Environmental Packaging International, EUROPEN, Graham Packaging, Georgia Pacific, Greenopolis, WM Organic Growth Group, HAWORTH, INC., Herman Miller Inc, Innovia Films UK, Label Impressions, Inc., Michigan State University, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Morton Salt, Novamont SpA, Organic Waste Systems, Packaging Association of Canada, Packaging Digest, PepsiCo, Inc., Recreational Equipment Inc, Sealed Air, Shelton Group, Southern Champion Tray, LP, StewardEdge, Tetra Pak, WasteManagement, and Zip-Pak.
Visit www.sustainability-in-packaging.com for more information and to register today!
Virtual Summits: Smart ICT
March 30 – April 1 2010 (live on-line) at www.SustainabilityVirtualSummits.com
On-demand: April – June 2010
The Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT virtual conference and exhibition is the first in a series of virtual events focusing on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) that will dramatically contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change. This conference harnesses a collaboration of enterprise, government, NGOs and influencer groups to continue the important discussions that took place at COP15. The Sustainability Virtual Summits don’t just talk about these technological developments – they employ the technologies themselves in the staging of this fully virtual online event. Visit us online to learn more about the events, or to take a demo tour of the virtual event environment. Participation in the Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT event is similar to being at a physical event, but without the cost and trouble of travel, or the associated greenhouse gas emissions.
FREE-OF-CHARGE attendee registration is now open at www.SustainabilityVirtualSummits.com
Contact Anne Feldmann (afeldmann@g2events.com) with any questions.
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International Corporate Citizenship Conference 2010
Corporate Citizenship: Winning a Seat at the Table
April 11-13, 2010, Intercontinental Hotel • Boston •
Each year the Center hosts an International Corporate Citizenship Conference that draws hundreds of professionals from around the world. Leading policy makers from the largest domestic and international corporations attend: managers of corporate citizenship and community involvement, public relations, public affairs, contributions, communications, work/life issues, and other professionals responsible for community and business strategies.
The theme for our 2010 conference is Corporate Citizenship: Winning a Seat at the Table. During these turbulent times, more companies are discovering the financial and reputational advantages that come with a solid commitment to corporate citizenship.
Has your company made a place at the table for corporate citizenship? Don’t fall behind as competitors create new business strategies, management processes and stakeholder relationships to meet new societal expectations placed on companies.
Join us at the 2010 International Corporate Citizenship Conference where you will:
• Hear inspiring keynote speakers
• Learn about the latest trends, best practices and research
• Participate with peers contributing relevant insights on shared challenges
• Be in good company with 500 of the leading corporate citizenship doers, thinkers and influencers
Click here to register for the conference. (Registration is open exclusively to corporate citizenship practitioners inside of companies. Nonprofits, consultants, media, students and academics are not typically part of our participant mix unless they are a content partner. If you have questions about your eligibility to attend the conference or would like to request special consideration, please contact Emily Weiner at weinere@bc.edu.)
Updates to our agenda happen regularly, so check back often.
Click here for information about past conferences, including links to video and audio of keynote speakers and presentations from working sessions.
The 3rd Annual Carbon Trade China 2010
April 15th- 16th, 2010, Beijing, China
With the theme of Emitting China's CDM Potential and Enhancing East-West Carbon Trade, The 3rd Annual Carbon Trade China 2010 will held by JFPS Group on April 15th- 16th, 2010, in Beijing, China.
Carbon Trade China, China’s largest and most influential summit, has attracted 1000+delegates in the past 2 years, serving as the best platform for CDM projectdevelopment and business networking between China’s local CDM owners & developers,international buyers and other players like exchanges, financial institutions, DOE and consulting firms.
The 3rd Annual Carbon Trade China 2010 will focus on the impact on the carbon market from the COP 15 and tailor-make the conference for all the players from the value chain of carbon industry. The summit will focus on:
1.The Impact of 2009 Copenhagen Meeting on Carbon Market
2.Carbon Market Policy from UNFCCC CDM EB
3.Carbon Emission Reductions Policy in European Union, China and USA after COP 15
4.CDM Project Development Potentials in New Areas like Building, Transport and Solar Energy etc
5.Other issues in carbon market--Carbon finance,VERs,obstacles in CDM registration process,CCS,etc
40+leading professionals from Carbon Market will deliver speeches on the Next-step Action after COP 15.Some of them comes from UNFCCC EB, China Meteorological Administration, Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of PRC, Chinese Academy of Sciences, European Climate Exchange, WWF, Hunan CDM Service Center, Industrial Bank, Longyuan Carbon Asset Management Technology Co.,Ltd and Ningxia Antai New Resources Co., Ltd..
20+ Provincial CDM Service Centers will appeared as supporting organization in The 3rd Annual Carbon Trade China 2010. They are including Hunan CDM Service Center, Jiangsu Productivity Center, Shangdong CDM Technology Service Center, Henan CDM Technology Service Center, CDM Center, Shanxi Province and so on.
Besides, 250+ China’s Local CDM owners& developers, 250+ International Credit Buyers, 100 delegates from other players in carbon market, almost 600+ high level executives in carbon market will join this grand festive.
For more information, please visit http://www.chinacarbontrade.com.cn/
Contact: Fanny Wang
Tel: +8621-51720126
Email: marketing@jfpsgroup.com.cn
Online Registration: http://www.chinacarbontrade.com.cn/
Industrial Energy Efficiency
19-20 April 2010, Melbourne, Australia
While the world has lesser energy to spare, the need for greater energy efficiency performance becomes increasingly important. The inevitable increase in energy costs has resulted increase in the cost of doing business. Often, energy could account from 2% to 20% in operating cost. Ability to control energy cost is one of the key competitive advantage company continuously strive for. Achieving energy savings can translate to immediate savings in direct operational cost, which can therefore convert to profits and hence improvement to business financial performance.
Industrial Energy Efficiency Forum aims to attract regional energy efficiency leaders and experts especially from large energy users to meet, discuss and collaborate.
The objective is to encourage near-term adoption of proven practices and technologies and offers resources such as research updates, best practices, software tools and technical information. Industry practitioners are able to set a clear, optimum path to both energy cost control and energy supply security in achieving minimal amount of energy used per product, improve their bottom line hence competitiveness while leading the nation toward a more secure energy future.
Key topics
• Leveraging data to identify areas for energy efficiency improvement
• Establishing metrics to quantify and understand energy use
• Discovering unmet and unarticulated alternative energy efficiency opportunities that require low or no capital investment
• Accurately tracking performance to ensure sustainable energy savings
• Quantifying ROI for energy efficiency investment to justify investment
• Effectively conducting thorough energy efficiency assessment to identify new areas for energy efficiency improvement
• Reviewing energy efficiency potential of your industrial combustion system
• Optimising your compressed air system to achieve 30% savings of compressed air energy consumption
• Discovering opportunites for energy efficiency gains in a motor driven system
• Tapping into energy efficiency potentials through plant audit
• Building capability to manage and store energy data using Energy Management Information System (EMIS)
• Efficiently allocating energy efficiency responsibilities to the right personnel to ensure success
http://www.marcusevans.com/html/eventdetail.asp?eventID=16239&SectorID=3&pageID=
* All ISSP members are entitled to a discount of 10% when registering with Ms. Esther. Please contact Ms. Esther for details and quote EN- ISSP during registration. *
For further details & brochures, please contact:
Ms. Esther Wong
Tel No: +603 2723 6736?Fax No: +612 9223 2352
Email add: estherw@marcusevanskl.com
April 21, Seattle
GoGreen ’10 is a one day sustainability conference for business in Seattle on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010 built to motivate, inspire, and educate business owners to “go green” and become more sustainable. As an action-oriented, non-typical conference, GoGreen ‘10 teaches tactical steps on how to “green” your business and provides actionable next steps to sustainability for business owners and decision makers. Attendees will learn from live success stories and participate in panel discussions geared to provide solid takeaways to make any size of business the most sustainable that it can be. The GoGreen Conference will feature over 45 business leader speakers and 12 different sessions on how to build sustainability into your business.
When | Wednesday, April 21st, 2010, 8:30-4:30pm
Where | Olive 8 at The Hyatt (LEED Silver Certified) | 1635 8th Avenue Seattle, Washington, 98101
WHO | Business owners + leaders
Visit | http://seattle.gogreenconference.net <http://seattle.gogreenconference.net/>
ISSP members/subscribers save $25 when registering for GoGreen ’10 Seattle via Discount Code: ISSP
Register online at seattle.gogreenconference.net or via phone at 206.450.4034.
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May 2-4, 2010, Columbus, Ohio
There’s just ten days left to register at the early bird rate for the Moving Ahead 2010 Conference in Columbus, May 2-4, 2010. Moving Ahead 2010, one of our nation’s most significant conferences on advanced transportation technologies, is bringing together transportation and energy leaders to advance federal, state and local policies to reduce our dependence on petroleum fuels for transportation and promote economic development.
Register at movingahead2010.com
We have many exciting speakers lined up to join in the conversation on the future of sustainable transportation, including:
Robin Chase?CEO, Goloco?Founder and former CEO of Zipcar?“One of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2009”
Dr. Robert Hirsch?Senior Energy Advisor, Management Information Services, Inc.?Author of the report Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation, and Risk Management?Former Chairman of the Board on Energy and Environmental Systems of the National Research Council
Allan McArtor?Chairman, Airbus Americas, Inc.?Former Administrator of the FAA?Former senior executive with Federal Express and highly decorated combat fighter pilot
Moving Ahead also will feature:
• More than 65 speakers, including innovators in automobile, freight and aviation technology
• Networking with key policy and government thought leaders
• Opportunity to test drive the latest “green” vehicles in the “Advanced Technology Vehicles Ride-and-Drive”
• In depth discussion on the latest trends and technology in sustainable transportation
• Ideas for turning sustainability into economic prosperity
Register at movingahead2010.com
Sustainable Brands 2010 – Where the Brand & Design & Sustainability Communities Come Together to Shape the Future.
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Join 700+ business and brand strategists, designers, sustainability executives and communications experts who are building brand value through sustainability. The leading brands of the future will be sustainable brands. Building them takes a new kind of thinking, a new group of collaborators, and a new set of tools.
Join market-making companies such as Hewlett Packard, Bumble Bee Tuna, IDEO, Johnson & Johnson, Nokia, Coca-Cola, Clorox, Nestle, 3M, Life Technologies, Williams Sonoma, SAP and many others at SB’10. SB’10 educational sessions provide inspiration, techniques and best practices as economic realities, corporate responsibility and the environment come together to create a new strategic business imperative. This year’s theme, “The Power of And,” describes an essential business approach for tackling the difficulties facing business today.
Come to SB’10 for in depth pre-conference workshops on Day 1 and thought provoking keynotes, panel discussions, and afternoon breakouts filling three exciting days of extraordinary conversation, inspiration and insights…
· Full Tracks focused on the core tenants of a successful sustainable business construct: Observe, Re-design, Measure, and Communicate
· Expanded Venture Exchange Programming: a unique opportunity for emerging sustainable businesses to pitch their ideas to green angel investors and the venture community
· Research Round Tables: leading sustainability and brands researchers present and discuss just released studies on brand awareness, consumer expectations, and quantifiable impacts of sustainable business in the market
· World Oceans Day celebration at the Monterey Bay Aquarium and many other exciting networking events
View the entire Conference Program at: http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/events/sb10/program
What makes the Sustainable Brands Conference unique? The mash-up of change-making leaders who come from different industries and business sectors, wearing various corporate hats. The world-class faculty at this conference is there to help attendees tie improved environmental and social impact to business and brand leadership. At SB'10, your imagination will be sparked by out-of-the-box ideas and you'll explore best practices as they are emerging from over 100 top authors and thought leaders, global brand innovators and smaller bonfire brands leading disruptive change and internalizing systems and processes to make sustainability work in their companies.
Join for success tactics from leading thinkers and doers like, Timberland's Chief Branding Officer, Mike Harrison, highlights out of the box product innovations, partnerships and communication tools that have led to new, more sustainable value propositions. Starbucks VP of Global Sustainability, Ben Packard and Dr. Peter Senge, Director of the Center for Organizational Learning, MIT Sloan School of Management, share what Starbucks what learned about asking the right questions when re-designing their recycled cup system. Kirsi Sormunen, Nokia's VP of Sustainability, shares how Nokia is helping drive consumer behavior change through smart product design.
See the entire Speaker List at: http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/events/sb10/speakers
Passionate professionals are welcome at SB’10. NGO and Government rates and volunteer opportunities available. Registration is now open and seating is limited.
Monterey Conference Center (former home of TED), June 7-10. Registration is now open and seating is limited: ISSP members use code: isspsb10 to save 20% off. Early bird pricing available until March 28th. More information: www.sustainablebrands10.com
