Day 1

Chair: Dave Moorcroft, Director, Corporate Responsibility, Lloydmasters, UK.

9.00 Registration, Coffee and networking

9.30 Introduction
Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK.

9.40 Keynote.
Lindsey Parnell, President and Chief Executive Officer Europe, Interface Europe Ltd., UK.
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10.15 Global Policies for Sustainable Innovation.
Bas de Leeuw, Head, Strategy Unit, Production and Consumption Branch, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), France.
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10.45 A Framework for Sustainable Innovation.
Anders Wijkman, Member, European Parliament, Belgium.
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11.15 Coffee and networking

11.45 Sustainable Consumption: UK Perspective.
Bob Ryder, Head of Unit, Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), UK.
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12.20 Sustainable Enterprise.
Liz Cook, Director, Sustainable Enterprise Program, World Resources Institute (WRI), US.
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12.55 Lunch

1.55 New Business Models.
Colin Beard, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Organisation and Leadership, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.
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2.55 Coffee and networking

Refereed section

Presentation of the five highest rated papers - as evaluated by the Advsiory Board.

3.20 Session 1: FairSource: An Alternative Business Model for Offshore Outsourcing.
Tirza Hollenhorst, Co-founder ifPeople, US
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3.50 Session 2: Dematerialisation. An intuitive strategy for designers to help reduce the environmental impact of new products..
Robert Brown, Director, Sprout Design Ltd., UK
Guy Robinson, Director, Sprout Design Ltd., UK
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4.20 Session 3: Can design communicate sustainable values?
Simon Bolton, Managing Director, Bolton Associates, UK
Jane Penty, Senior Lecturer, Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, The London Institute, UK
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4.50 Session 4: The sustainability of new product development: an exploration of current practice in the UK business community
Jane Fiona Cumming, Director, Article 13, UK
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5.20 Session 5: Principles and people behind responsible new business models
Gary Owen, CEO , responseABILITY Alliance - Associate CfSD
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5.50 Comments from the Chair

6.00 Drinks and Entertainment

7.00 Conference Dinner

Day 2

Chair: Jim Brathwaite CBE, Chairman, South-East England Development Agency (SEEDA), UK

8.30 Registration

9.00 Introduction
Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, UK.

9.10 Keynote: Sustainable Innovation, a Viewpoint from the Investment Community.
Nick Robins, Head of SRI Research, Henderson Global Investors, UK.
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9.35 Sustainable Innovation: 'State of the Art'
Dr. David Brown, Practice Leader, Technology and Innovation Management, Arthur D. Little Limited, UK.
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10.10 Design Innovation in the Retail Supermarket Sector - WRAP's Retailer Initiative.
Mark Barthel, Director, Waste Minimisation, Waste Resources Action Programme (WRAP), UK.
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10.45 Coffee and networking

11.15 A New Perspective on Sustainable Enterprise.
Professor JohnPaul Kusz, Associate Director, Center for Sustainable Enterprise, Stuart School of Business at IIT, US.
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11.50 Bottom of the Pyramid: an Overview of Global Developments.
Jeff Hamaoui, Founder & Managing Director, Origo Social Enterprise Partners, US.
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12.25 New Business Models: Cases from Asia.
Ritu Kumar, Executive Director, Sustainable Trade & Innovation Centre (STIC), UK.
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1.00 Lunch and networking

1.55 What are the Alternatives?
Ingrid Kajzer, Lecturer, Department of Marketing, Strathclyde University, UK.
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2.30 Living Laboratory
David Walker and Rob Holdway, Directors, Giraffe Innovation, UK
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4.45 Comments from the Chair.

5.00 Close