Name: Cornell Business Impact Symposium 2019
Start: 2019-03-09T09:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-03-09T17:00:00-05:00
Location: Breazzano Family Center for Business Education, Cornell University
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                Cornell Business Impact Symposium 2019            
March 
09
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2019
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Driving Sustainable Solutions

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The Future Is Now 
 
Environmental and socioeconomic issues - including climate change, food security, financial inclusion, circular economy, traceability, equity, and more - are in the headlines every day. Future business and societal leaders need to be able to take actions that promote solutions to those problems now. Creativity and innovation have never been more important.

Attend Cornell Business Impact Symposium 2019 to hear directly from managers about what is being done by businesses today to drive solutions to achieve sustainability.

Dress Code is Business Casual
The Location

Cornell University is located in the beautiful Ithaca, NY with great views of downtown and the glistening Cayuga Lake. 

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The Speakers

ELISE BALLEGEER
Rhode Island School of Design
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LYDIAH KEMUNTO BOSIRE
8B Education Investments
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CHRISTINA CHAN
Cornell University (MBA '19)
Designer - Redshoe

ALLISON CHATRCHYAN
Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions
Designer - Redshoe

RAVID CHOWDHURY
RC Ventures
Designer - Redshoe

BEN CONARD
Five North Chocolate
Designer - Redshoe

GLEN DOWELL
Johnson Graduate School of Management
 
Designer - Redshoe

SCOTT DOYLE
Tompkins County Department of Planning & Sustainability
Designer - Redshoe

ASHISH GADNIS
BanQu
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ORIOL GIMENEZ
CPG Hospitality
Designer - Redshoe

JANET HELMS
Inter IKEA Group
Designer - Redshoe

MATTHEW HIMMEL
Committee of Sustainable Assessment
Designer - Redshoe

JENNIFER IFFT
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics & Management
Designer - Redshoe

JOSÉ KOECHLIN VON STEIN
Inkaterra
Designer - Redshoe

DEREK LACLAIR
EMPEQ
Designer - Redshoe

ALLISON LATHAM
Cornell University (MBA '20)
Designer - Redshoe

YRENILSA LOPEZ
Women's World Banking Asset Management
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KEITH LORENZETTI
Smart Grids for AVANGRID Networks
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BRUCE MONGER
Cornell University
Designer - Redshoe

SUMMER RAYNE OAKES
 Source4Style(now LeSouk)& Homestead Brooklyn
 
Designer - Redshoe

EROL ODABASI
The Hain Celestial Group
Designer - Redshoe

LISA PARK
J.Crew
Designer - Redshoe

VIVIANA RUIZ-GUTIERREZ
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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IAN SHAPIRO
Taitem
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PATRICK STARR
USAID
Designer - Redshoe

ISAAC TOUSSIE
Rocky Mountain Institute
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CHRIS WOOD
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Environmental and socioeconomic issues - including climate change, food security, financial inclusion, circular economy, traceability, equity, and more - are in the headlines every day. Future business and societal leaders need to be able to take actions that promote solutions to those problems now. Creativity and innovation have never been more important.

Attend Cornell Business Impact Symposium 2019 to hear directly from managers about what is being done by businesses today to drive solutions to achieve sustainability.

Dress Code is Business Casual
 
Agenda
Breazzano Family Center, Dryden Road, Ithaca NY
08:30 AM - 09:30 AM
Registration & Breakfast - Foyer & Community Rm

09:30 AM - 09:45 AM
Welcome & Opening Remarks - Rm 123
• Mark Milstein, Director, 
  Center for Sustainable 
  Global Enterprise, Cornell 
  University
• Monica Touesnard, 
  Associate Director, Center 
  for Sustainable Global
  Enterprise, Cornell 
  University
09:45 AM - 10:30 AM
Keynote Speaker - Rm 123
 
Blockchain for Social Impact 
 
• Ashish Gadnis, Co-
  Founder/CEO of BanQu
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Coffee Break - Community Rm

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Concurrent Session #1
 
1. Building Climate Resilience in our Communities - Rm 221

2. Transforming to Ethical Fashion - Rm 223

• Scott D. Doyle, AICP,
  Associate Planner,
  Tompkins County Department
  of Planning and
  Sustainability
• Keith Lorenzetti, Director
  – Smart Grids at AVANGRID
• Ian Shapiro, Senior
  Engineer & Founder at
  Taitem Engineering, PC
• Isaac Toussie (MBA ’16),
  Senior Associate at Rocky
  Mountain Institute
• Allison Chatrchyan,
  Director of Cornell
  Institute for Climate
  Smart Solutions (moderator)
 
• Elise Ballegeer, Founder &
  Designer of Elise
  Ballegeer
• Lisa Park (BS), Director,
  Knit R + D at J.Crew
• Summer Rayne Oakes (BS
  ’04), Co-founder of
  Source4Style (now
  LeSouk), & Founder 
  of Homestead Brooklyn
• Christina Chan (MBA '19)
  Graduate Student at
  Cornell University
  (moderator)
12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Lunch - Community Rm

1:15 PM - 2:15 PM
Concurrent Sessions #2

1. Technology for Sustainability - Rm 221
 
2. Next on the Map: Impact investing in emerging markets - Rm 223

• Ashish Gadnis, Co-Founder
  & CEO of BanQu
• Derek LaClair (MBA '14),
  President & CEO of Empower
  Equity, Inc (EMPEQ)
• Bruce Monger, Senior
  Lecturer of Earth and
  Atmospheric Sciences at
  Cornell University
• Glen Dowell, Associate
  Professor for Management
  and Organizations at
  Cornell University
  (moderator)

• Lydiah Kemunto Bosire (BA 
  ‘02, MPA '02),
  Founder/CEO, 8B Education
  Investments 
• Ravid Chowdhury, Partner,
  RC Ventures
• Matthew Himmel, Senior
  Manager for Strategic
  Value Chain Systems at the
  Committee
  on Sustainability
  Assessment (COSA)
• Yrenilsa Lopez (BA '07,
  MPA '09), Portfolio
  Manager, Sr. Investment
  Officer at Women's World
  Banking Asset Management
  (WAM)
• Patrick Starr (MBA '14),
  Financial Specialist at
  USAID
• Allison Latham (MBA ’20)
  Graduate Student at
  Cornell University
  (moderator)
02:15 PM - 02:30 PM
Break - Community Rm
 
02:30 PM - 03:30 PM
Concurrent Session #3
 
1. Sustainable Tourism: Past, present and future - Rm 221
 
2. Food Sustainability Certifications: Hype or hope - Rm 223

• José Koecklin von Stein,
  Founder of Inkaterra
• Oriol Gimenez (MMH’06),
  Partner at CPG Hospitality
• Chris Wood, Assistant 
  Director of Information 
  Science, Cornell Lab of 
  Ornithology
• Viviana Ruiz-Gutierrez,
  Research Scientist,
  Cornell Lab of
  Ornithology (moderator)
 
• Ben Conard, Founder of
  Five North Chocolate
• Janet Helms (CALS '88, MBA
  ’07), Sustainability
  Developer at Inter IKEA 
  Group
• Matthew Himmel, Senior
  Manager for Strategic
  Value Chain Systems at the
  Committee on
  Sustainability Assessment
  (COSA)
• Erol Odabasi, Senior
  Sustainability Director at
  The Hain Celestial Group
• Jennifer Ifft, Assistant
  Professor and Mueller
  Family Sesquicentennial
  Faculty Fellow in
  Agribusiness and Farm
  Management at Cornell
  University (moderator)
03:30 PM - 04:45 PM
Networking Reception and Poster Session - Basement Foyer
 
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