| 08:00am – 08:30am |
Registration and Networking |
| 08:30am – 09:00am |
Welcome – Greeting from hosts at PwC (Kathy Neiland, U.S. Sustainable Business Solutions, Leader, PwC; Matt Arnold, US Sustainable Business Solutions, Advisory Leader, PwC; Don Reed, Director, US Sustainable Business Solutions ) |
| 09:00am – 09:20am |
Introductory Remarks – Andrew J McKeon, Founder Business Climate |
| 09:20am – 10:10am |
Panel 1: What Happened to Regulation? (Marc Gunther – Contributing Editor, FORTUNE Magazine; Peter Lehner – Executive Director, NRDC; Mark Fulton – Managing Director and Global Head of Investment Research, Deutsche Bank Climate Change Advisors; Paul Simpson – CEO, Carbon Disclosure Project; Jonathan Schrag – Executive Director, Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.) |
| 10:10am – 10:30am |
Interview with guest author Carol Sanford, The Responsible Business |
| 10:30am – 11:00am |
Networking Break |
| 11:00am – 11:50am |
Panel 2: Converging technologies in the Smart Economy - (Joel Makower – Chairman and Executive Editor, GreenBiz; Clay Nesler – VP, Global Energy and Sustainability, Johnson Controls, Inc.; Mark Vachon – Vice President, GE ecomagination; Amit Nisenbaum, VP Strategic Alliances; David Bartlett, Vice President, Industry Solutions, IBM Tivoli ) |
| 11:50am – 12:30pm |
Major Announcement: Energy Efficiency Retrofitting Cities and Driving Green Economic Growth: PACE Commercial Consortium Murat Armbruster, Senior Advisor, Carbon War Room; Greg Caplan - Senior Program Manager, Energy Solutions, Lockheed Martin; Dennis Hunter- Chairman, Ygrene Energy Fund; Brian McCarthy - CEO, Energi Holdings; Chris Moriarty, Director, Barclays Capital |
| 01:50pm – 02:40pm |
Panel 3: Financing Distributed Generation – (Jigar Shah – CEO, Carbon War Room; Jonathan Plowe – Managing Director and Head of New Energy & Infrastructure Solutions, Bank of America Merrill Lynch; Jonathan Silver – Executive Director, Loan Services Program, U.S. Department of Energy) |
| 02:40pm – 03:30pm |
Briefing and Discussion: Sustainability as Co-Creation (Francis Gouillart – Author of The Power of Co-Creation; Andrew Shapiro – Founder and President, GreenOrder; other speakers TBA ) |
| 03:30pm – 03:45pm |
Achieving Gigaton level Emissions Reductions in Shipping, Peter Boyd, COO Carbon War Room |
| 03:45pm – 04:15pm |
Afternoon Networking Break |
| 04:15pm – 04:35pm |
Film & Discussion The Story of Mast Brothers Chocolate |
| 04:35pm – 05:45pm |
Panel 4: A New Economics for 21st Century Business (Marc Gunther - Contributing Editor, FORTUNE Magazine; Jose Maria Figueres – President of Costa Rica (1994-1998), Managing Partner of IJ Partners SA, Chair of Executive Board, Carbon War Room; John Fullerton, founder The Capital Institute; Gipsie Ranney, consultant and founding President of the W. Edwards Deming Institute; Zachary Karabell, President, River Twice Research; Andrew Winston, founder Winston Eco-Strategies, author, Green to Gold; Aimée Christensen - CEO of Christensen Global Strategies) |
| 05:45pm – 06:00pm |
Closing Remarks: (Andrew J McKeon) |
| Panel 1: What Happened to Regulation? |
Whatever Happened to Policy? Given that expectation drives investment, and economic transformation comes through constancy of purpose, then one powerful way of shaping expectations and creating constancy of purpose around building a sustainable economy is through a sound and reliable policy environment. This panel will discuss the arc of policy over time – a.) where we have been and what has been accomplished, b.) where we are today and what’s really going on, and c.) where we are headed? |
| Panel 2: Converging technologies in the Smart Economy |
Converging Technologies … The futures of Energy, Information, the Built Environment and Vehicles are becoming more interconnected and interdependent. The aim of this panel is to discover “How do we create common expectations around this convergence to catalyze the investment that will lead to the innovations in the shortest timeframe?” This convergence (called VERGE) is tied to the overall cycle of expectation driving investment leading to innovation (which is what I believe the Moore’s Law idea is all about.) The panel will begin with a short introduction to VERGE and then lead into how to create common expectations around it to drive investment and innovation. The panel will be led by Joel Makower of GreenBiz and will include leaders in the technologies that are key to this convergence as well as a corporate strategist or maybe even a policy wonk. |
| Panel 3: Financing Distributed Generation |
Project Amp is the largest distributed solar power generation project to date, with an expected total cost of about $2.6 billion to install up to around 733 megawatts on industrial rooftops owned by Prologis. Bank of America Merrill Lynch will provide up to $1.4 billion of debt, with a partial guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy, and NRG Energy will provide equity financing and other development resources. With its sheer scale and a number of innovative features, Project Amp is transforming how distributed energy is financed. |
| Co-Creation Discussion |
Co-creation involves the systematic engagement of stakeholders to develop new experiences of value together, and proceeds from a systems view of the world. Businesses and economies are complex systems made up of highly interdependent parts with the dynamics of one impacting each of the others. Co-creation can be a powerful tool because it focuses on the creative opportunities at those points of interdependence – within the individual business, up-and-down the value chain, or across an economy. |
| Panel 4: A New Economics for 21st Century Business |
A New Economics … this panel will start by exploring how the current economic model is largely based on unlimited resources, reductionist thinking (a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts) with the aim of profit maximization. We will then explore whether and how that model needs to be changed in order to serve a 21st century economy marked by the interactions of interdependent systems (energy, water and other natural resources, population, political and social systems, climate) and how new outcomes may threaten Business-As-Usual as they bring new opportunities. |
