2008 Conferences
Future 500 hosts and participates in key conferences in sustainability, CSR, and Stakeholder Engagement around the world to share our learning and advance global citizenship. Our expert presenters include senior associates with Future 500 as well as sponsored co-presentations with key thought leaders from major Corporations and Non-profit organizations.
About Future 500's Industrial Ecology and Other Conferences
Upcoming Conferences:
- Green Power Conferences: Corporate Water Footprinting, December 2 - 3, San Francisco, CA
- Ethical Corporation's 3rd Annual Climate Change Summit, February 17 - 19, 2009, London, England
Green Power Conferences Corporate Water Footprinting
December 2 - 3, 2008, San Francisco, CA
How can you measure and reduce your company’s water use and build a sustainable water strategy? This is the central question to be answered this premiere event for sustainability, environmental, supply chain, and CSR professionals. Corporate Water Footprinting will outline the risks and opportunities water poses to business and offer practical advice on mapping and reducing water consumption across the supply chain.
With freshwater supplies tightening due to overuse and more extreme weather patterns, business is coming under more pressure to measure and cut water use. This conference showcases the companies that have woken up to the risks and benefits of water management and are inventing new techniques to cut consumption. It also features the experts at the forefront of developing approaches for calculating and curbing corporate water consumption. Corporate Water Footprinting further demonstrates how water efficiency fits with a broader climate strategy and leads to greater savings in carbon, energy and costs. This conference offers a window into the next level of response for businesses committed to becoming sustainable and reducing their climate impact. It is a must-attend event for those charged with corporate environmental strategies and their advisors.- Learn from over a dozen corporate case studies on water management
- Hear from the expert who invented the term “water footprinting”
- Get practical advice on mapping and reducing your company’s water use
- Identify key areas of water overuse or waste in your supply chain
- Find out the outlook for global water supply shortages and business risks
- Learn how water management can help cut carbon, energy-use and costs
- Daniel Bena, Director of Sustainability, Health, Safety, and Environment, PepsiCo International
- Tom Cooper, Corporate Water Programs Manager, Intel
- Randy Knox, Senior Director, Global Facilities Services, Adobe
- Greg Koch, Managing Director of Global Water Stewardship,The Coca-Cola Company
- William Reilly, Chairman, Global Water Challenge
- Nayeem Sheikh, Energy Program Manager, Cisco Systems
Ethical Corporation's 3rd Annual Climate Change Summit
February 17 - 19, 2009, London, England
While carbon management remains the key aspect of environmental responsibility - it is now clear that it can no longer be the only focus of any company's environmental strategy.
High energy and commodity prices make the necessity to address a broader range of environmental issues a no brainer.
Given the current economic climate when companies are tightening their belts, how can you keep climate change and environmental sustainability at the top of the agenda and keep the level of growth at the same time?
This summit has been an invaluable resource for any company wanting to respond to the risks and seize the opportunities presented by climate change. Now in its 3rd year, this is the only gathering for corporate responsibility and environmental professionals that offers practical guide to effective environmental strategies that help grow and strengthen businesses in the uncertain times ahead.
Many people first come to know The Future 500 through our popular Industrial Ecology (IE) conference series. The IE conferences are known for their unique blend of inspiration and pragmatic tools and feature speakers who are generally not yet mainstream but destined to become tomorrow's thought leaders.
Long before they became leading names in the sustainability movement, our conferences spotlighted Jeanine Benyus, Ray Anderson, Tachi Kiuchi, and Anita Burke. IE attendees come from a broad mix of organizations (academic, governmental, activist, and corporate), providing our conferences with a rich blend of approaches to business innovation.
IE 2004, entitled "Profitable Sustainability: The Future of Business", was co-hosted by the Future 500 and the Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability (NBIS) and was held in September 2004 at Seattle's Westin Hotel. Many thanks to the Collins Foundation and our leading corporate sponsor Starbucks for their generous support of time and money.
To see a 2004 conference overview and agenda, click here! You can also read about our 2003 Future 500 Industrial Ecology Retreat, entitled "Profitable Sustainability: Revealing the Hidden Win-Win Potential for Profitable Sustainability in Industry."
