Reinventing Business for a Resilient Future - SBN Forum

'The next few years will be the most extraordinary in your business careers' Rod Oram, Business journalist & Sunday Star Times columnist

At this time of unprecedented change there are exceptional opportunities for business.

Join us for an interactive, challenging & inspiring afternoon, involving presentations, facilitated discussions & work-shopping of ideas, followed by evening networking & drinks.

Reinventing Business for a Resilient Future will explore new thinking in sustainability, ideas about the next industrial revolution, learning from nature and the bringing together of sectors to create new business models which meet social, environmental and economic needs, and create investment opportunities.

The afternoon will open with a presentation by business journalist, Rod Oram, who will give an overview of business opportunities for a resilient future including: the 'next revolution'; biomimicry; cradle to cradle; social innovation and other new disciplines. These ideas will be explored in detail by pioneering New Zealand business speakers and then by forum participants, with a focus on practical approaches for moving ideas into action.

SPEAKERS will include:

- Vincent Heeringa, publisher of Idealog Magazine, on common themes from mould-breaking companies: how they identify opportunities; build capabilities; gather resources; make money

- Justine Munro, chief executive of the NZ Centre for Social Innovation, on how businesses, communities and governments are devising new ways to meet social needs.

- Mark Pennington, design director, Formway Furniture, on using deep sustainability principles to reinvent the company to meet the needs of users and the environment

http://www.sustainable.org.nz

Posted on: April 30, 2009