BYO Challenge, Part 1: A Hands-On Workshop for Breakthrough Solutions

Name: BYO Challenge, Part 1: A Hands-On Workshop for Breakthrough Solutions
Start: 2023-02-15T14:45:00-08:00
End: 2023-02-15T15:45:00-08:00
Location: Paradise Ballroom 1-2

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

Location:

Paradise Ballroom 1-2

Bring your specific sustainability challenges and opportunities to the table and workshop solutions that leverage the exceptional knowledge, expertise and ambition of the GreenBiz community in this special, extended working session. Facilitators will support an open space designed to elicit the breakthrough solutions you are seeking in your organization or industry. Harness collaborative advantages to rein in your wicked problems with the support of other leaders, and support your peers to overcome their own.

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Session Speakers

Nicole-Anne

Boyer

Partner, Director, & Chair

NOW Partners

Nicole-Anne

Boyer

Partner, Director, & Chair

NOW Partners

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As a strategic foresight specialist, Nicole is passionate about helping leaders be more adaptive and innovative in the face of disruptive change, especially climate and ecological change. Named one of the top 10 female futurists worldwide— not for her predictions but for “helping leaders get into action in the face of uncertainty”— Nicole has spent decades leading breakthrough strategy and stakeholder projects focused around our most critical long-term issues. Working across sectors, on everything from the future of famine, fashion, to fast-moving goods, she has worked with senior leaders in P&G, Dupont, Cargill, Masterfoods, Bunge, L’OREAL, the World Bank, UNESCO, research institutions like DARPA, to many governments and cities such as San Francisco, Detroit, to Dubai. As Partner at NOW Partners, Nicole works with Fortune 50 companies, governments and institutions transitioning to a post-carbon, regenerative economy. Nicole also serves on several nonprofit boards and has taught in INSEAD, Stanford Graduate School, and King’s College London. Originally from Vancouver BC, she has lived in Singapore, India, Paris and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and tween daughter.

Sessions

BYO Challenge, Part 1: A Hands-On Workshop for Breakthrough Solutions

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

BYO Challenge, Part 2: A Hands-On Workshop for Breakthrough Solutions

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Shana

Rappaport

SVP, Climate Tech & Executive Director, VERGE

GreenBiz Group

Shana

Rappaport

SVP, Climate Tech & Executive Director, VERGE

GreenBiz Group

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Shana Rappaport has dedicated her career as a convener and community builder to advancing systemic solutions to the climate crisis.

Over the last ten years, Shana has built and scaled VERGE — the leading climate tech event focused on accelerating a just transition to a clean economy. VERGE convenes the world’s largest companies, public sector leaders and technology innovators to advance solutions to the climate crisis and our most pressing global challenges.

Outside of her work leading VERGE with GreenBiz Group, Shana is a sought after public speaker, moderator and facilitator around sustainability and systems change. She previously served as Board Director of Project Drawdown and the Buckminster Fuller Institute, and is a trained leader of Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project. Shana also Associate Edited a book published in 2019, “Evolving Leadership for Collective Wellbeing: Lessons for Implementing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”.

Shana previously served as Director of Education for Bioneers, and as a nationally recognized community leader during her time as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Southern California.

Sessions

BYO Challenge, Part 1: A Hands-On Workshop for Breakthrough Solutions

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

BYO Challenge, Part 2: A Hands-On Workshop for Breakthrough Solutions

Wednesday, February 15, 2023

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm

Tracks

Leading Change

Event Topics

Conscious Leadership

Session Type

Breakout