Social Impact Summit: Business and the Climate Crisis

by Net Impact (FT)

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Fri, Feb 28, 2020

12:30 PM – 5:30 PM CST (GMT-6)

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Gleacher Center

450 Cityfront Plaza Dr, Chicago, IL 60611, United States

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Booth Net Impact and Harris Ventures invite you to the Social Impact Summit: Business and the Climate Crisis. 

The Social Impact Summit is an educational event that brings together students across business, public policy, and other disciplines to engage and discover how to use resources within their company, organization, and themselves to enact change in their community and society. This year’s theme is Business and the Climate Crisis, which aims to deepen the conversation at The University of Chicago around what's being done by businesses to address climate change and what individuals can do in their careers and with their power as consumers to combat it. 

1pm | Climate Change and the Bottom Line
Featuring:
  • Angela Foster-Rice, SVP Business Development at Everland
  • Tim Frick, CEO of Mightybytes and Advisory Committee for B Local Illinois
  • Nicole Johnson-Hoffman, Chief Sustainability Officer and McDonald's Business Unit Leader at OSI Group
  • Rick Saines, Partner at Pollination
  • Josh Oleson '15, Vice President - Sustainability, Innovation and Packaging Development at HAVI

2:10pm | The Role of the Individual
Featuring:
  • Kim DuBuclet '89, Commissioner at Metropolitan Water Reclamation District
  • Bill Weihl, Founder and Executive Director of ClimateVoice, former Director of Sustainability at Facebook and Green Energy Czar at Google
  • Laura McCord, Executive Director Sustainability & Corporate Responsibility at KeHE Distributors
  • Tom Hodgman, Director of Conservation Transactions at NatureVest, The Nature Conservancy
  • Will Ritter, Social Impact Associate at Kearney

3:20pm | Measuring Impact: Philanthropy and Investing, sponsored by NGOrganize
Featuring:
  • Margot Gould, Head of US Fundraising at The Climate Group
  • Ronny Sage, Founder & CEO at ShoppingGives
  • Chris Wu, Associate at Impact Engine
  • Jen Bokoff, Director of Stakeholder Engagement at Candid

4:30pm | Special talk by Bill Weihl, Founder and Executive Director of ClimateVoice, former Director of Sustainability at Facebook and Green Energy Czar at Google

Doors open at 12:30pm. Networking reception to follow at 4:45pm.

Sponsored by The Rustandy Center, The University of Chicago Graduate Council, and NGOrganize.
 
Dress Business Casual
Food Provided (Networking reception with frosty beverages and appetizers to follow.)

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Gleacher Center

450 Cityfront Plaza Dr, Chicago, IL 60611, United States

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