Sustainability for Start-ups: Tips and Tools to Improve Profit and Green Operations

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED UNTIL A LATER DATE

Co-produced with Clean Tech Open

While shipping products or services at a profit is the eternal core of commerce, entrepreneurs in the 21^st century face the added imperative of conducting commerce sustainability. And the newest thinking is that sustainability is not merely noble, but can actually increase profitability.

Directly following Earth Day / Week, and in partnership with the Clean Tech Open national business competition, MITEF Venture Lab, for the first time, looks at this new essential to entrepreneurship, with start-up executives who have made green by going green, and a national thought-leader on sustainability in commerce.

Lead speakers 

• Morgan Rider, Senior Project Manager at national consultancy Ecology and Environment, Inc., and Sustainability Coaching Chair for Clean Tech Open NW
• Robin Beukers, Financial and Accounting Consultant, on recent trends in accounting standards that will be taking double / triple bottom lines, and increasingly MERGING them in public disclosures and investor analysis

Presenting companies

• Ron Davis, CMO, Vu1 Corporation – a clean tech product that struggled to assure it was also produced cleanly
• Matthew Bauer, President, BetterWorld Telecom – business-grade voice and data carrier and virtual office services… with a green slant
• Hydrovolts – winner of the 2009 National Award for Sustainability at Clean Tech Open
• Plus anecdotes of Xeko (games) and FMYI (SaaS)

Moderator

• Hal Calbom, Journalist, Media Developer and Producer of the documentary EverGreen – the Washington Clean Tech Story and SustainableME!, a new training / assessment media package designed to recruit, orient and educate job candidates and employers in green-collar career – path training and green – transition jobs

Note

Doors will open ½ hour later than usual at 6:00 pm and our event will run until 8:00 pm.