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Topics & Breakout Sessions

To simplify your conference experience, we have organized our breakout sessions into tracks with similar themes. During each breakout session, there will be an event from each of the following tracks. Please check back for the exact agenda at a later date.

Track 1: Corporate Sustainability

Sessions

- Corporate Climate Change Strategies to Weather Today’s Economy
- Sustainability Consulting: A Client / Consultant Dialogue
- What’s the Earth Worth? A Case Study on Environmental Valuation

 

Track 2: Innovation & Design

Sessions

- Innovative Business Models in Developing Countries: Engines of Poverty Alleviation
- New Business Models to Address Complex Environmental Issues
- Wal-Mart Better Living Business Competition

 

Track 3: Community Development & Policy

Sessions

- Integrating Demand Side Management with the Energy Goals of the Obama Administration
- For Profit, Non-Profit, or Both: Organizational Models to Achieve Social Missions
- Social Enterprise Financing: From Start-Up Funding to Self-Sufficiency

 

Track 4: Sustainability’s Personal Impact

Sessions

- Transportation in Carbon-Constrained World
- From Farm to Belly: Lifecycle of an MBA’s Lunch
- Carbon: What Does it Mean for Your Career?

 

Tentative Session Timing (click here for the full agenda):

Breakout session 1: (choice of panels from each of the 4 tracks): 9:45 – 11:00 am

Breakout session 2: (choice of panels from each of the 4 tracks): 11:15 – 12:30 pm

Breakout session 3: (choice of panels from each of the 4 tracks): 1:45 – 3:00 pm

Breakout session 4: (choice of panels from each of the 4 tracks): 3:15 – 4:30 pm