Previous Corporate Summit Topics:
2011- Implementation of AB 32:California's Global Warming Solutions Act
2010 – Corporate Sustainability: Internal Innovation Approaches and New Venture Creation
2009 – Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanomaterials
2008 – Energy & Water: Partners in a Critical Dynamic
2007 – Doubling or Quadrupling Energy and Resource Efficiency: A Matter of Future Competitiveness
2006 – The Science, Management, and Economics of Catastrophes
2003 – The Business of Sustainability
More about Bren School Corporate Partners and the Corporate Partners Program
For more information about any aspect of the Corporate Partners program or the Corporate Partners Summit, please call Jennifer Purcell Deacon, Assistant Dean, Development, at 805-893-5743, or send her e-mail.
Previous Corporate Summit Speakers2010
Corporate Sustainability: Internal Innovation Approaches and New Venture Creation
- Bill Barber, President, Southern California Angels, LLC; co-founder & CEO, ISOmatrix, Inc.: Corporate Innovation and New Venture Creation
- Jay Clare, Vice President, Infrastructure & Environment Division, URS:
- Chris Costello, Professor, Bren School: Maximizing Corporate Partnership: Leveraging the Strengths of the Bren School
-
Steve Gaines, Dean, Bren School:
-
Roland Geyer, Assistant Professor, Bren School: Industrial Ecology, Production & Operations Management
-
Mark Heintz, Director, Corporate Social Responsibility, Deckers Outdoor Corporation:
-
Nikki Rodoni, Sustainability Coordinator, Gill's Onions: Internal Innovation: A Strategy to Zero Waste
-
Sangwon Suh, Assistant Professor, Bren School
2009
Environmental Applications and Implications of Nanomaterials
-
Patricia Holden, Professor, the Bren School: Manufactured Nanomaterials, Organisms, and the Environment — Discerning the "Nanoparticle Effect"
-
Fred Klaessig, Pennsylvania Bio Nano Systems: A View of New Product Development in an Uncertain Regulatory Climate
-
Dr. Paul Smokler, Vice President, AECOM Environment: "Nanotechnology in Consumer Products: Challenges and Opportunities for Environmental Health and Safety"
Energy & Water: Partners in a Critical Dynamic
-
Dr. Arturo Keller, Professor, the Bren School: Energy & Water Sustainability
-
Michael Murray, Director, Corporate Environmental Policy, Sempra Energy: The Water-Energy Nexus
-
Steven Ow, President, CEO, Mica-Tech: Demand Response
Doubling or Quadrupling Energy and Resource Efficiency: A Matter of Future Competitiveness
Presentations:
-
Dr. Ernst von Weizsacker, Dean, the Bren School: Quadrupling is Twice as Good as Doubling
-
Dr. Roland Geyer, Associate Professor, the Bren School: From Corporate Environmental Management to Green Business Models
-
Joshua Levine, Bren School alumnus, Financial Advisor, UBS Financial Services, Inc.: Risks and Opportunities of Climate Change in Capital Markets
The Science, Management and Economics of Catastrophes: Business Forecast and Opportunities
Presentations:
-
Dr. Ernst von Weizsacker, Dean, the Bren School, The Ecological Mindset; Current and Future.
-
Ms. Lindene Patton, Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel Zurich Specialties, Zurich North America Title, Insurance and Natural Catastrophe: Environmental Insurance at a Crossroads.
-
Dr. John Melack, Associate Dean, the Bren School, Science of Catastrophes.
-
Dr. Charles Kolstad, Environmental Economist Faculty, the Bren School, Climate Catastrophes.
Mobility: What Every Corporation Needs to Know About Policy Implications, the Environment and Innovative Strategies in this Decade
Presentations:
-
Paul D. Leinberger, Senior Vice President, RoperASW
-
Randall Crane, UCLA Professor of Urban Planning
-
Thomas Peters, Vice President, CH2MHill
-
Dan Werbin, Director, Volvo North America
Energy: What Every Corporation Should Know About Reliable, Renewable, and Distributed Generation
Presentations:
-
William L. Bryan, Division Vice President, Southern California Edison Company
-
Steve Meheen, consultant, BHP Billiton International
-
Timothy Tutt, Technical Director of the California Energy Commission.
The Business of Sustainability
Presentations:
-
Mary Jane McQuillen, Vice President & Analyst, Citigroup Asset Management /Citigroup Global Markets, Inc.
-
Roberto Piccioni, Director of Environmental Health & Safety, Baxter BioScience.
Current
Corporate Partners |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IN PERPETUITY |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
 |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
