Agenda
Registration, Tea and Coffee
Chair's Opening Remarks
Conference Chair- Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent, Financial Times
Welcome Address
Speaker(s)- Ransford Smith, Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General
Keynote address
Speaker(s)- Jonathon Porritt, Founder Director, Forum for the Future
PANEL
Building a More Sustainable Future
From ordinary household objects to entire cities and everything in between, a global, design-led, green makeover is in full swing - and it is undoubtedly changing the way business is done. Design - dismissed somewhat in the past as 'cosmetic' - is now recognised by business leaders, governments and NGOs as more than just skin-deep. Design, in fact, has substance. Good design is now finding itself at the heart of company strategy, and this panel will look at how organizations can harness the transformative power of sustainable design and technology, and at how companies, NGOs and governments can overcome the challenge of integrating new technologies and ideas into societies built around old ones.
Speaker(s)- Rick Fedrizzi, President & CEO, United States Green Building Council
- David Marks, Director, Marks Barfield Architects
- Sergio Palleroni, Co-founder and Director, Basic Initiative
- Jason Prior, Executive Director for Design & Planning, AECOM
- Malcolm Smith, Founding Design Director, Integrated Urbanism Unit, Arup
Refreshment Break
Collaborative Communication for Environmental Sustainability
Speaker(s)- Mark Selby, Vice President, Industry Collaborations, Nokia
PANEL
Collaborative and design-led innovation: Delivering more with less
Uncertainty and scarcity characterise the current corporate landscape - and are likely to for sometime. Senior executives, meanwhile, find themselves under constant pressure to deliver more - but with much diminished resources. Can collaborative and design-led innovation help get them out of a tight fix, and go some way to 'future-proofing' the business? This panel will give practical advice on how to make innovation happen and will spotlight those companies for whom the shift in emphasis towards design and sustainable technology has helped weather recession.
Speaker(s)- David Bott, Director of Innovation Programmes, Technology Strategy Board
- Dax Lovegrove, Head of Business and Industry, WWF
- Thomas Mathen, Vice President, Trane, Europe Territory, Ingersoll Rand
- Hugo Spowers, Partner, Riversimple
- Nick Jankel, CEO, wecreate & www.ultimatetrip.tv
Buffet Lunch
Keynote Address
Speaker(s)- Ira Magaziner, Chairman, Clinton Climate Initiative
PANEL
Consumers: Should Brands Lead or Follow?
Some companies are seizing the initiative by implementing educationalcampaigns to help prepare their consumer base for greener products and services. Others are making the consumer integral to the process from the outset by tapping the 'wisdom of the crowd' to create consumer-driven content. What is best and next practice? And how might shifting consumer trends and behaviour shape the development of future design and technology?
Speaker(s)- Yves Béhar, Founder, fuseproject
- Tony Chambers, Editor-in-Chief, Wallpaper* Magazine
- David de Rothschild, Founder, Adventure Ecology
- Julie Gilhart, Senior Vice President, Fashion Director, Barneys New York
- Graham Hill, Founder, Treehugger
- Alan Knight OBE, Independent Sustainability Adviser, Virgin Group
Networking Tea and Coffee break
Special Address
Speaker(s)- Iskander Mizal Mahmood, CEO, Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation
Investor-2 -Innovator
Innovator Elevator Pitches
The six Earth Awards finalists will each deliver a two 2-minute presentation to convince the audience of the merits of their winning idea.
Investor-2-Innovator Debate
Does great idea = great business? Not always. So, how do you turn an innovative idea into a successful business venture? And what must you do to get the right sort of backing?
*For an overview of the short-listed submissions, visit www.theearthawards.org/
- Fiona Harvey, Environment Correspondent, Financial Times
- Anthony Clarke, Chairman, British Business Angels Association and Managing Director, Angel Capital Group
- Iskander Mizal Mahmood, CEO, Malaysian Biotechnology Corporation
- Guy Rigby, Head of Entrepreneurs, Smith & Williamson
In conversation with
Speaker(s)- Sir Terence Conran, Designer
- Roger Mavity, CEO, Conran Holdings
- Sean Sutcliffe, Head of 'Benchmark' Furniture
- Edwin Heathcote, Architecture and Design Critic, Financial Times
Close of Conference
