Event – The Conference Board Summit on Sustainability

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