Background
Eco-innovation is driving new opportunities for products, services, technologies and new business models. There is mounting evidence that eco-innovation improves the capacity of companies to capture new growth opportunities, reduce costs and strengthen corporate image.
Event Concept
This unique event has been designed as a creative mix of presentations, networking and collaborative working. Leading-edge thinkers and practitioners will present followed by a speed networking session that will directly connect participants. This will then be followed
by a Pecha Kucha
style series of 5 minute presentations on personal visions of
eco-innovation.
An OpenGreen workshop will be organised in the afternoon.
OpenGreen is an open innovation process aimed at identifying new
income generating opportunities for more sustainable products, services and
technologies.
Target audiences
This FREE workshop is aimed at companies with less than 250 employees based in the South East of England that design, produce and/or market sustainable, low carbon, resource and water efficient technologies, products, services and new business models.
Benefits of attending
- Leading-edge experience and knowledge
- Up-to-date information on new opportunities
- Networking with other like-minded companies
- Living lab for new ideas
Agenda
- 9:00
- Registration
- 9:30
- Introduction
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design @ UCA
Trudy Thompson, Founder & CEO, Bricks & Bread
- 9:40
- Eco-innovation: Trends and Issues
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design @ UCA
- 10:10
- Leadership, Eco-entrepreneurship and Innovation
Trudy Thompson, Founder & CEO, Bricks & Bread
- 10:40
- Get REAL
Gary Waterworth Owen, CEO, ResponseAbility Alliance
- 11:10
- Speed Networking & Coffee/Tea
- 12:10
- Eco-innovation Forum: Nine Personal Views and Visions - Pecha Kucha Style
Enterprise Allotments: Ross Atkin, Founder, Bricks and Sheds
Green Blues: Duncan Baker-Brown, Director, BBM Sustainable Design Ltd
Pioneering Ventures: Marc Carey, Managing Director, Carey Ambrose
Fifteen Lessons: Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design @ UCA
Casting Off: Alex Christie, Managing Director, Energi Recruitment
Growing Opportunities: Casper Gray, Director, Wax
Finite Life: Judith Needham, Founder, Willow Design
Disorganising Business: Simon Strong, Instigator, Human Zoo
NextGen Roofs, James Talman, CEO, Talman Associates
- 13:25
- Lunch
- 14:10
- OpenGreen Creative Process
Buildings
Mobility
Food
Retailing
Lifestyle
- 17:00
- Ten Lessons for Eco-Innovators & Concluding Remarks
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design @ UCA
- 17:15
- Concluding Remarks
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design @ UCA
Trudy Thompson, Founder & CEO, Bricks & Bread
- 17:30
- Networking
- 18:00
- Close
Fees & Registration
There is no charge for this event. Please download the Registration Form
Map & Directions
Please download the Map
SUSCIN Project
For more information email mcharter@ucreative.ac.uk and see cfsd.org.uk/sids for current activities
Our Funders
SUSCIN has been funded by South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) as part of the South East ERDF Competitiveness Programme 2007-2013.
The Centre for Sustainable Design and device is registered as a trade mark in the European Union
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