Sustainability & Climate Solutions Showcase
Day 3 Leadership Summits: September 19, 2007

Who Should Participate:  If you are a regulatory, environment, or asset manager, brand manager, PR or marcom manager, investor or community relations manager, product manager, corporate sustainability or media strategist, advisor or solution provider to any of the above. Learn more about the companies that are implementing or providing solutions for cutting edge strategies and solutions to the challenges in a sustainable economy.

Where & When:  Sheraton Seattle Hotel in Seattle, Washington
                              September 19, 2007 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

What You'll Gain: Firms who seize the opportunities in climate and sustainabilty stand poised to profit from the trend. But choosing a path and making it happen is no easy task. After two days of solid market information with Discover Brilliant, this summit gets down to the nuts and bolts of defining, executing, and promoting a climate and sustainability strategy.  Both buyers and sellers of sustainability and climate solutions will walk away enlightened and inspired.  Come develop the key relationships to help you get the job done.

Registration--8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. 

Welcome Remarks
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. 
Grant Ferrier, Editor, Climate Change Journal

Promoting Climate and Sustainability
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. 
Communicating climate and sustainability to customers, employees, partners and shareholders is not trivial. What are the solutions that are making the difference for those groundbreakers leading the charge?
Egg, Hilary Bromberg, Brand Strategist

Networking Break--10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. 

Business Operations and Green IT Advances
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. 
Supporting a business involves some combination of facilities, fleets, physical plant, equipment, and operating processes. What choices do companies have to address issues around resources and impact that emerg from all of these functions? Where are companies finding the biggest gains on the Green IT Side?
From the Field-- Snohomish County PUD, Martha Hobson, Assistant General Manager, Green IT Advances
Showcase Demonstration: Verdium
Showcase Demonstration: Earth Class Mail

Measuring, Monitoring, and Marketing Carbon Performance
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 a.m
Measuring a footprint isn't an exact science, and many options are emerging for footprint tools, registries, market exchanges and more. What are the emerging solutions to assess footprint, monitor emissions and environmental performance, evaluate your online environmental recordkeeping and engage in markets?
Emerging Approaches: Sustainable Business Consulting, Kevin Wilheim, President
Showcase Demonstration: Palidin Software

Lunch and Networking--11:45 a.m. – 12:15 a.m. 

Securing Employee Engagement
12:15 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Employee commitment is a significant elemnt for the business who is pursuing sustainability. What success stories exist with frims who have been able to secure real behavior changes from their employees, and what resoucres and tools helped them accomplish?
Report from the Field- Starbucks and Employee Commutes, Kathy
Garrison, Transportation/Commute Manager   
Showcase Demonstration: Flexcar            

Procurement and Vendor Approaches
12:45 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
True sustainability doesn't end at the company walls. Materials, procurement, and the influence a firm has on its supplier networks are ways to extend the reach of the sustainable pioneer in a way that has a much larger climate impact.
Emerging Approaches: Byproduct Synergies, US Business Council on Sustainable Development--Andrew Mangan, Executive Director

Closing Comments--1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

SUMMIT SUPPORTERS