Sustainable Innovation 09 Programme

Sustainable Innovation 09

Towards a Low Carbon Innovation Revolution
Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of conferences

14th International Conference
26th - 27th October 2009
Farnham Castle
Farnham
UK

Organised by:
The Centre for Sustainable Design
Supported by:
The Institute of Materials,
Minerals and Mining

Programme

Day 1 - 26th October 2009 Chair: Lawrence Bloom, Deputy Chairman, Noble Cities Plc, UK, Chairman, Global Agenda Council on Urban Management, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, Chairman, Green Cities, Buildings and Transport Panel, Green Economy Initiative, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Switzerland
09:00	Registration (Location: Stone Hall).
09:30	Welcome and Introduction (Location: Great Hall). Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts.
09:40	Sustainable Innovation - Global Dimensions (Location: Great Hall). Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts.
10:00	Keynote: (Location: Great Hall). Dr David Wheeler, Dean of Management, Dalhousie University, Canada and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Dean (Designate) - Plymouth Business School, UK
10:40	Keynote: Government Policy Instruments and Low Carbon Innovation (Location: Great Hall). Candice Stevens, Consultant (former Coordinator, Sustainable Development, Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)), France.
11:10	Coffee and Networking (Location: Dining Room).
11:50	Financial Opportunities and Challenges of Low Carbon Innovation (Location: Great Hall). Tomoo Machiba, Senior Policy Analyst, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD, France
12:25	Sustainable Public Procurement: a Driver for Low Carbon Innovation (Location: Great Hall). Shaun McCarthy, Director, Action Sustainability CIC Ltd and Chair, Commission for a Sustainable London 2012, UK
13:00	Lunch (Location: Dining Room).
14:00	Social 'Low Carbon' Innovation (Location: Great Hall). Chris Church, Director, Mapping for Change, UK.
14:35	Low Carbon Innovation: Incremental Steps to Giant Leaps (Location: Great Hall). Dr Belinda Howell, CEO, decarbonize, UK.
15:10	Coffee and Networking (Location: Great Hall)
15:40	Low Carbon Innovation: Results of Two 'State of the Art' Study Tours to California (Location: Great Hall). Orial Pascual, Business Developer, enviu, Netherlands. Herbert Enmarch-Williams, CEO, Inventurecatalyst, UK
16:40	Panel discussion: Towards a New Low Carbon Vision (Location: Great Hall). Chair: Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts Panel: Candice Stevens, Consultant, France. Dr Mark Hinnells, Senior Researcher - Low Carbon Futures, Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University, UK. Shaun McCarthy, Chair of the Commission for a Sustainable London 2012 and Director, Action Sustainability CIC Ltd, UK. Chris Church, Director, Mapping for Change, UK. Tomoo Machiba, Senior Policy Analyst, Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry, OECD, France Finn Jackson, Change Management Consultant and Founder, Transition Towns - Farnham, UK.
17:50	Conference Summary (Location: Great Hall). Lawrence Bloom, Deputy Chairman, Noble Cities Plc, UK
18:00	Close and Drinks (Location: Stone Hall).
19:00	Entertainment (Location: Great Hall). Ballad and Swing
20:00	Conference Dinner Dining Hall, Farnham Castle
22:00	Close
Day 2 - 27th October 2009 Chair: Lawrence Bloom, Deputy Chairman, Noble Cities Plc, UK, Chairman, Global Agenda Council on Urban Management, World Economic Forum, Switzerland, Chairman, Green Cities, Buildings and Transport Panel, Green Economy Initiative, United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), Switzerland
08:30	Registration (Location: Stone Hall).
09:00	Introduction (Location: Great Hall). Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts.
09:15	Keynote: A Radical Low Carbon Innovation Future? (Location: Great Hall). Professor James Woudhuysen, Forecasting and Innovation, De Montfort University, UK.
09:45	Refereed Papers – ‘Top 30’ papers Chairs: Refereed Speaker Sessions Finn Jackson, Change Management Consultant and Founder, Transition Towns - Farnham, UK Graham Tubb, Head of Energy Policy, South-East England Development Agency (SEEDA) John Paul Kusz, Director, Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, US Professor Markys G Cain, Divisional Knowledge Leader - Materials Division, National Physical Laboratory, UK Arnold Black, Network Director, The Resource Efficiency Knowledge Transfer Network, UK
12:45	Report-back and discussion (Location: Great Hall).
13:15	Lunch (Location: Dining Room).
14:15	Designing A Low Carbon Future (Location: Great Hall). Gary Waterworth Owen, CEO, ResponseAbility Alliance, UK/Egypt. John Paul Kusz, Director, Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, US.
15:15	City of Malmo: Low Carbon Innovation in Practice (Location: Great Hall). Trevor Graham, Head of Sustainable Development, City of Malmo, Sweden.
15:45	Coffee and networking (Location: Dining Room).
16:00	Panel Discussion: Low Carbon Innovation – Opportunities for Entrepreneurs, Innovators, Designers and Funders (Location: Great Hall). Chair: Chris Hole, Director, TTP-Carbon Trust Incubator, UK Panel: Andreas Zachariah, CEO, Carbon Hero Ltd, UK/Netherlands Simon Daniel, CEO, Moixa Energy Holdings, UK. Emily Cummins, Designer, UK. Gary Waterworth Owen, CEO, ResponseAbility Alliance, UK/Egypt.
17:00	Conference Summary (Location: Great Hall). Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts, UK.
17:15	Close

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Sustainable Innovation 09 is a partner in the
European Year of Creativity and Innovation 2009

CfSD

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