Conference: The Business of Water and Energy Sustainability
The Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, together with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), hosted a forum to address the role of business in energy and water sustainability. "The Business Challenges and Opportunities of Energy and Water Sustainability" was held on Oct. 13 at CSIS in Washington, D.C.
Conference: The Business of Water
and Energy Sustainability
The Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, together with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), recently hosted a forum to address the role of business in energy and water sustainability.
"The Business Challenges and Opportunities of Energy and Water Sustainability" was held on Oct. 13 at CSIS in Washington, D.C.
Smeal Dean James B. Thomas opened the event, followed by remarks by Fariborz Ghadar, director of the Center for Global Business Studies and distinguished scholar and senior adviser at CSIS. Ghadar also moderated a discussion on nuclear energy with Rick Etling, vice president, Strategy, of Westinghouse Electric Co.
Additionally, Gerald Susman, director of Smeal's Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change, was a member of the first panel discussion, "Sustainable Energy: Challenges, Opportunities, Technologies, and Strategies."
The forum's keynote speaker was Marielle Canter Weikel, senior manager for Business Policies and Practices at Conservation International, who delivered a talk entitled "Senior Manager for Business Policies and Practices."
The complete agenda is below. Links point to the presenters' PowerPoint presentations.
The Business Challenges and Opportunities of Energy and Water Sustainability
October 13, 2009
8:30 - 8:40 a.m
Welcome
Dean Jim
Thomas, Smeal College of Business
Opening Remarks
Fariborz
Ghadar, Smeal College of Business
Steven Schrage,
CSIS
8:40 - 9:00 a.m.
Keynote Address: Changing Notions of
Sustainability
Marielle Canter Weikel, Senior
Manager, Corporate Environmental Leadership Strategies, Center for Environmental
Leadership in Business, Conservation International
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Sustainable Energy: Challenges,
Opportunities, Technologies and Strategies
Ellen
Lutz, President & CEO, Clean Markets
Gerald
Susman, The Robert & Judith Klein
Professor of Management, Director of Center for the Management of Technological
and Organizational Change at the Smeal College of Business; Smeal Sustainability
Project
Seth Dunn, Renewables Policy Leader, Americas at GE
Energy
Moderated by Sarah Ladislaw, CSIS
10:15 -10:45 a.m.
Nuclear
Industry
Rick Etling, Vice President-Strategy,
Westinghouse Electric Company
Moderated by Fariborz Ghadar,
Penn State University
10:45 -11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 a.m.
Sustainable Water: Embedding Water
into the Business Plan
Introduction by Steven
Schrage, CSIS
Jan Dell, Vice President, Energy
Division, CH2M HILL
Omar Vargas, Director, Global Policy
& Government Affairs, PepsiCo
Moderated by Rachel Posner, CSIS
11:45 - noon Closing
Remarks
Fariborz Ghadar, Penn State
University
Steven Schrage, CSIS
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