WHY SUSTAINABILITY IS CRITICAL FOR BUSINESS SUCCESS

BILL SHIREMAN, CEO, Future 500 - Profitable Sustainability: The Key to Triple Bottom Line Success

ANITA BURKE, The Role of Business in Creating Healthy Communities

SARAH SEVERN – Director of Corporate Sustainable Development, Nike, Inc., USA, How Working with Nature can Contribute to your Company's Competitive Advantage

THE THIRD WAVE IN BIOTECHNOLOGY: CREATING A NEW AND MORE SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

BRENT ERICKSON, VP, I & E Biotechnology Industry Organization

DENNIS STILES, Pacific Northwest National Laboratories

PAT GRUBER, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Cargill-Dow LLC

Moderator:
INGRID RASCH, Vice President, Human Resources, SONUS Pharmaceuticals

Intro: Industrial biotechnology is creating a new industrial revolution and changing our manufacturing infrastructure and how we process raw materials. Introductions will be followed by a discussion of how a biobased infrastructure and economy can be nurtured and the importance of integrating concepts of industrial ecology into such an infrastructure.

INCREASE PROSPERITY WITH GREEN BUILDING

Moderator:
ROB BENNETT, City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development

Panel:

HAMILTON HAZLEHURST, Development Manager, Vulcan, Inc.

BERT GREGORY, President, Mithun

LYNNE BARKER, City of Seattle

Intro: With more than 5% of all new U.S. construction projects being built green, more and more organizations are experiencing the benefits of building and leasing green space. This forum will focus on these benefits and how to achieve them.

BUILDING COMMUNITY PROSPERITY AND LOCAL ECONOMIES

Moderator:

NIK BLOSSER, Celilo Group Media, Inc. Sustainable Industries Journal

Panel:

How Sustainable Investment Benefits Rural Communities
DAVID WILLIAMS, CEO, ShoreBank Pacific

Local Business Loops For Community Advantage
MICHELLE LONG, Executive Director, Sustainable Connections of NW Washington & Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)

The Global Corporation -- Developing new markets in the service of community needs.
KEN LARSON, Corporate Social Responsibility Manager, Hewlett-Packard

Intro: In this session, we explore several different models of how business can thrive while directly contributing to the needs and values of the communities in which they operate

CREATING PROFIT & JOBS WITH ENERGY SAVINGS TECHNOLOGIES & RENEWABLES

JOEL MAKOWER, CEO GreenBiz.com

MAURA O’NEIL, President & CEO of Explore Life and Northwest Award Winning Business Leader

KAREN GRIESER
Manager, Demonstration Projects, Northwest Energy Technology Collaborative

HEIDI SICKERT
Director of the Environment and Business Leadership (ENABLE) Program, Oregon Environmental Council

Moderator:

KC GOLDEN, Climate Solutions

Intro: Technology and market opportunities for businesses that offer, purchase, and encourage clean, efficient energy solutions emerge as a bright light on the Northwest’s economic horizon.

DESIGNING, PRODUCING, AND MARKETING FOR THE TRIPLE BOTTOM LINE

GRANT WATKINSON, President, Coastwide Laboratories

DENNIS MCGREW, Chief Marketing Officer, Cargill-Dow / Nature Works

MATTHEW BUCK, Assistant Director, the Food Alliance

JASON FINNIS, President, Hemptown Clothing Company

Moderator:

BILL SHIREMAN

Intro: This forum will present perspectives on the drivers of clean product development that are emerging from new technologies, public policy, the financial sectors, and the evolving demands of consumers and NGO’s from around the world.

HOW WORLD TRADE CAN CONTRIBUTE TO SUSTAINABLE PROSPERITY

TACHI KIUCHI, Chairman of the Future 500, CEO of Tokyo-based E-Square, and former Managing Director of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

ED QUEVEDO, Director, Environmental Management and Sustainability programs, WSP, Environmental N.A.

CHANDRAN NAIR, Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT) and Former Chairman, ERM Asia Pacific

DAVID BATKER, Executive Director, APEX Center for Applied Ecological Economics

Moderator:

BILL CENTER, President Washington Council on International Trade

HOW TO APPROACH ZERO WASTE: strategies that cut costs, improve
competitiveness and improve environmental performance

LARRY CHALFAN, Zero Waste Alliance

VICTOR DRAPER, Senior VP, Support Services Group, REI Strategic Office, Ricoh Electronics Inc.

RORY BAKKE, Senior Program Director, Alameda County, Waste Management Authority and Recycling Board

EMMA JOHNSON, Washington State Department of Ecology

LESSONS LEARNED FROM SCANDINAVIA - THINKING REGIONALLY ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY

This presentation will look at the Oresund region of Denmark and Sweden as a case study in regional sustainability, and will suggest lessons that could benefit Cascadia's own sustainability initiatives among business.

Representatives from a group of Northwest professionals that traveled to the Oresund region in the spring of 2004:

ANDREA RAMAGE, Program Manager, Sustainable Development, CH2M Hill

CATHERINE HART, B.Sc., M.Sc., B. Arch, MAIBC, AIA, LEEDTM AP, FRSA, VIA Suzuki Architecture

MARK D. HUPPERT, Principal, Catapult Community Developers

SUSAN JONES, AIA, atelierjones llc.

DREW GANGNES, P.E., Magnussen Klemencic Associates

SEIZING THE FUTURE: LEADERSHIP FOR A CONNECTED WORLD

CHANDRAN NAIR, Global Institute for Tomorrow (GIFT), former chairman, ERM Asia -- Pacific

Intro: The key challenge of sustainable development in the developing countries, where the majority of the world's population live, is that of managing the use of natural resources and leveraging human capital to reduce poverty. World trade can certainly help in this regard, by creating vibrant markets and fueling economic activity. Chandran Nair discusses the challenges of aligning enlightened self-interest with long-term visibility in the complex global marketplace.