How companies are harnessing environmental thinking to create new products, services, and sources of business value.
Webcast By: Event Compression Group
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Speakers
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Valerie Casey, Global Practice Head, IDEO.
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Casey leads the digital experience practice at IDEO, where she provides strategic leadership for client relationships. Valerie works with organizations around the world to design products, services, and business models that create positive social and environmental impact. She specializes in helping companies and other organizations understand, shape, and ultimately capitalize on their internal and external networks to address cultural, economic, social, and environmental challenges with greater agility. Casey founded the Designers Accord, the global coalition of designers, corporate leaders, and educational institutions focused on integrating sustainability into all practice and production. More than 100,000 designers and organizations worldwide now participate in the Designers Accord.
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Dawn Danby, Sustainable Design Program Manager, Autodesk.
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Interdisciplinary designer Dawn Danby believes the things we make should benefit both people and the world. In the last decade, she has applied sustainability to just about every facet of design, from a tree-covered, wind-powered pedestrian bridge on the US-Canada border to closed-loop manufacturing strategies for a leading outdoor footwear manufacturer and a public art master plan for a major American airport. She currently manages Autodesk's Sustainable Design Program, integrating sustainable thinking into the digital tools used by 9 million designers and engineers worldwide. She is a co-author of WorldChanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century and the winner of a Royal Society of Arts (UK) fellowship as well as a Metropolis NEXT Generation runner-up for her work on food systems. Dawn holds an industrial design degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MBA in Sustainable Business from the Bainbridge Graduate Institute.
Resources
Autodesk Sustainability Report
Ask Nature: Biomimicry Portal
Autodesk’s Greenbuild 08
A Study about Green Building Awareness
Green Building Awareness Survey Tables
Press Release
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Robert Shelton, Director, PRTM; author, "Making Innovation Work".
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With over 30 years experience, Shelton has assisted leading government organizations and companies around the world. He specializes in developing and integrating innovative business models and new technologies to create valuable new business opportunities for his clients. Shelton is also co-author of Making Innovation Work (2006), which challenges the prevalent misconceptions about innovation and lays out the tools and processes necessary for an organization to harness and execute innovation. Shelton has spent his entire professional life working on innovation. He co-founded and currently sits on the board of a first-of-its-kind energy and environmental incubator in Silicon Valley 13 years ago. The incubator has received recognition from the White House and the governor’s and mayor’s offices.
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Peter Williams, CTO, Big Green Innovations, IBM.
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Dr. Williams is the CTO for IBM's Big Green Innovations unit, whose role is to identify environmentally focused businesses for IBM to either develop or participate in; he is personally responsible for assembling, maintaining and developing the portfolio of businesses included. Williams is a management consultant with more than 20 years’ experience of bringing technology and business issues together to develop novel solutions and business models. A native of the UK, he has lived in the US since 1999. His PhD was awarded by the School of Management at the University of Bath, England, in 1986.
