The Programme

Please note the programme is subject to change. Upon registering delegates, exhibitors and visitors will receive updates on the event and programme by email

8.30-9.00: Registration

9.15-11.00: Leading by example - putting in a top green business performance

  • Case studies of organisations that make sustainability central to their strategies

  • A sector overview of best practice in the manufacturing sector

Speakers include:

  • Ramon Arratia, European Sustainability Director, InterfaceFLOR

  • Stephen Barthorpe, Corporate Responsibility Manager, MITIE Group Plc

  • Lewis Campbell, May Day Champion, REED

  • Ian Mackinnon, Chief Executive, Swallowfield plc

  • Lex Cumber, CSR Champion, Midas Group

  • Barney Rhys Jones, Managing Director, Good Energy

  • Gareth Stace, Head of Climate and Environment Policy, EEF

  • Professor Daniella Tilbury, Director of Sustainability, University of Gloucestershire

11.00-11.30: Coffee & Networking


11.30-13.00 Sustaining a strong green and financial performance: a focus on energy, resource and cabon efficiencies

  • The future for renewable energy in the business sector, with the UK bound under EU law to generate 15 per cent of energy from renewable sources by 2020

  • Lean to be Green – the processes behind driving down your energy consumption

  • Maximising resource efficiencies, including the potential of waste-to-energy and a new tool already being used by 3,000 businesses

  • Moving to a new location or expanding operations? – ensuring your new address meets the highest levels of energy efficiency

  • Your carbon footprint – how it can increase competitiveness

Speakers include:

  • Paul Albone, Managing Director, Environmental Lean Solutions

  • Rob Graham, Regional Manager, Envirowise

  • Colin Drummond, Chief Executive, Viridor

  • Peter Jones, Mayor of London's Appointee on Waste & Chair of the Resource Efficiency Knowledge Network

  • Tobias Parker, Chief Executive Officer, Sustain

  • Fern Urquhart, Director, Knowledge West

13.00-14.15 Lunch and networking

14.15-13.15 Open Forum: a manifesto for green organisations

According to one leading media commentator: “Businesses will respond to climate change only if it is in their interests to do so. It is government’s job to ensure that it is. Business will have to play its part. But first business must demand from government what it will most need: a clear and consistent global policy framework. So what policy framework is required to meet the interests of the environment as well as businesses and other organisations? This open forum will debate the key supply and demand side considerations in future policy making for sustainable business to thrive.


15.15-16.00 Accounting for sustainability: key financial considerations and opportunities in the development of sustainable organisations

  • Risk & Reward - a novel means for companies and other organisations to finance sustainable energy projects in a way that re-assigns the risk-reward.

  • Measuring the impact of renewable energies – a look at a pioneering decision support tool for organisations to evaluate the energy production and savings, costs, emission reductions, financial viability and risk for various types of Renewable-energy and Energy-efficient Technologies (RETs).

  • Making the most of enhanced Capital Allowances and reducing environmental taxes

  • The reality of the cost of environmental legal compliance

Speakers include:

  • Chris Cook, strategic market consultant, commentator, and partnership-based enterprise architect

  • Richard Hellen, Managing Director, Hermes Energy Services

  • Dave Mouncey, Partner, Smith & Williamson

  • Richard Voke, Partner, Environment & Regulatory Department, Lyons Davidson Solicitors

16.00-16.30: Developing green skills and enhancing knowledge to drive sustainability

  • Creating tomorrow’s leaders of sustainable businesses

  • Developing a new generation of green collar workers

  • Developing business-academic collaborations to meet the green, commercial and efficiency agendas

Speakers include:

  • Professor Alan Champneys, Head of the University of Bristol's BRITE Futures Institute

  • James Longhurst, Professor of Environment Science, University of the West of England

  • Alexandra Stubbings, sustainability practice consultant at Ashridge
    Consulting.

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