Accelerate: Collaborating for Sustainability Conference | Agenda
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Date: Thursday, June 5, 2014
Location: Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, Ontario
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| 7:45-8:45 | Registration, Breakfast, and Networking |
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| 8:45-9:00 |
Introductions and Opening Remarks |
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| 9:00-10:00 |
Keynote - The Revolution is Still Necessary! Dr. Peter Senge, a highly-regarded pioneer in systems thinking, best-selling author of The Fifth Discipline and The Necessary Revolution, and globally recognized researcher and speaker, will share via videoconference his experiences and insights about what makes for effective systems level change.
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| 10:00-10:15 |
Networking Break |
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| 10:15-12:00 |
Sustainability as the Ultimate Wicked Opportunity Our society’s global sustainability challenge is the ultimate wicked problem. Could it also be the ultimate wicked opportunity? A panel of leading futurists and practitioners will challenge mindsets about sustainability and its role in innovation and bridge building.
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| 12:00-12:45 |
Lunch |
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| 12:45-1:15 |
Keynote - Excuse Me Canada, May We Collaborate? A true global citizen and proud Canadian, Cleantech Group Founding Chairman Nicholas Parker will situate Canada in the global innovation and sustainability context. |
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| 1:15-1:45 |
Scaling-up Change As a lead-in to the Open Space session that follows, powerful ideas for scaling-up sustainability-inspired collaboration and innovation in Canada will be shared. Topics will include:
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| 1:45-2:15 |
Collaboration Open Space Dialogues: Topic Development In addition to the topics introduced in the Scaling-up Change discussion, Accelerate delegates will have the opportunity to suggest additional topics and host a Collaboration Open Space Dialogue. What idea, topic, or initiative would you like to explore with others for scaling-up sustainability-driven collaboration and innovation in Canada? Bring your ideas to the conference.
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| 2:15-3:00 |
Collaboration Open Space Dialogues: Round 1 |
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| 3:00-3:15 |
Refreshments & Transition to Round 2 |
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| 3:15-4:00 |
Collaboration Open Space Dialogues: Round 2 |
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| 4:00-4:15 |
Collaboration Open Space Reflections |
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| 4:15-5:00 |
Keynote - Lessons from Sport: What the Sustainability Movement can Learn from Athletic Champions Jenn Heil, Canadian Olympic medalist and former Canadian Female Athlete of the Year, will share her reflections on collaboration, systems change, goal setting, and what success looks like from the top of the podium! |
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| 5:00-5:15 |
Closing Remarks for the Day |
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| 5:30-7:30 |
Reception & Future-Fit Business Benchmark Launch Join us to learn more about the Future-Fit Business Benchmark, and for refreshments and hors d'oeuvres. See what progress has been made, where we plan to go from here, and how you can get involved. The Future-Fit Business Benchmark is a new kind of metric that is:
To read more, please visit www.futurefitbusiness.org. *All attendees of Accelerate are encouraged to attend and do not need to RSVP. Other guests by invitation only. Finger food and refreshments will be served; host bar. For questions, please contact tseed(at)naturalstep.ca. |
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Date: Friday, June 6, 2014
Location: Evergreen Brick Works, Toronto, Ontario
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| 7:45-8:45 |
Breakfast and Networking |
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| 8:45-9:00 |
Reflections and Opening Remarks |
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| 9:00-9:30 |
Keynote - Pre-competitive Collaboration: The Secret Ingredient to Accelerate Industrial Change at Scale Social change agitator Avrim Lazar will describe how traditional thinking about competition creates barriers to large-scale change—and offers an alternative approach. |
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| 9:30-10:45 |
Driving Massive Change Through Creative Collaboration Experts will share collaboration insights, research, and tools that participants can use in their own organizations.
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| 10:45-11:00 |
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| 11:00-11:15 |
Special Announcement: Launch of Collaborative Report Published collaboratively by KPMG, SiG, Volans, and MaRS, Breaking Through: How Corporate Social Innovation Creates Business Opportunity looks at the positive power of business to drive the innovation needed to solve the growing social and environmental challenges on our plate.
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| 11:15-11:45 |
Wrestling with the Big Issues: An Introduction to Sustainability Transition Labs This session will provide a high-level overview to the Sustainability Transition Lab process, partners, projects, and lessons learned so far.
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| 11:45-12:15 |
Inside the Evergreen Brick Works! Get the behind-the-scenes story about the Brick Works, from the inside! |
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| 12:15-1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:00-2:15 |
Building Capacity for Systems Change: Rapid Prototyping and Backcasting in Systems Participants will experience the process of thinking and working as a system through an interactive backcasting exercise. |
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| 2:15-2:30 |
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| 2:30-4:00 |
Collaboration Skill-Building Collaboration requires developing new skills, approaches, and insights as professionals. In the context of learning from the whole conference, participants will select one of four sessions to explore and practice a capacity important for collaboration. |
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Session A: Demystifying Systems Mapping
Location: Holcim Gallery
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Session B: Intelligent Failure: Practical Tools for Learning, Innovation, and Resilience
Location: Blakes Room
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Session C: Collaboration Beyond the Buzzword: Tactics for Lasting Results
Location: BMO Atrium
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Session D: Enhancing Your Inner Leadership Capacities for Better Collaboration
Location: Meeting Room 2
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| 4:00-4:45 |
Closing Keynote - Evaluating Impact: How Will we Know When we get There? Internationally recognized developmental evaluation thought leader and speaker Mark Cabaj will provide conference reflections and ideas about how to begin the collaboration journey with the end in mind.
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| 4:45-5:00 | Final Reflections and Conference Closing |
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