RETAIL SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE 2014 SEPTEMBER 29 - OCTOBER 2 Hyatt Regency Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN INSIGHTS INNOVATION GROWTH ACCELERATING: RETAIL Title Sponsor: www.rila.org/rsc #RILARSC
ACCELERATING RETAIL I m excited to invite you the 2014 Retail Sustainability Conference, keynoted by Hubert Joly, CEO of Best Buy. We have redesigned our format for 2014, putting a spotlight on the future through breakthrough keynotes, future-focused workshops, high-impact microsessions, and deep-dive breakout sessions. This new format allows you to participate with other leading sustainability executives to discuss the challenges and opportunities of both today and tomorrow. Together with Forum for the Future, we have created future-focused workshops - a new, highly interactive format incorporating detailed scenarios about the future of retail. In the workshops, we will explore how to stimulate the retail industry to think long-term about the sustainability challenges it faces. In addition, traditional breakout sessions will focus on critical topics in three main tracks: environmental compliance, retail energy management, and sustainability. And rounding out the program are personal development workshops and offsite tours of local facilities that excel in sustainable practices - the 3M Innovation Center and Target Field. Look through this brochure. Check out the speakers, sessions, and additional activities. You ll see that this is no ordinary event. Then register you and your team to attend. Reserve your spot and be part of the conversation. Adam Siegel Vice President, Sustainability & Compliance Retail Industry Leaders Association Register at www.rila.org/rsc Unique Session Formats KEYNOTES From Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly to AeroVelo Co-founders Todd Reichart and Cameron Robertson, hear unique perspectives on C-suite s considerations for sustainability to innovations that take on the impossible. MICROSESSIONS High-impact sessions featuring short presentations on a range of diverse topics from thought leaders inside and outside the industry. FUTURE WORKSHOPS Interactive workshops provide detailed scenarios of retail s future to encourage long-term thinking. Sessions will focus on three areas: Future of Stores, Future of Value Chains, and Future of Consumers & Employees. BREAKOUTS Focused on critical topics and broken down into three tracks--sustainability, Environmental Compliance and Retail Energy Management--breakout sessions go in depth into the pressing issues you face today. Led by retailers, you ll hear what s working and the current challenges of retail sustainability and compliance. ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES Head offsite to see sustainable practices firsthand at either the 3M Innovation Center or Target Field. Or stay onsite and participate in either a leadership workshop on Effectively Communicating Sustainability in Professional Settings or a change management workshop featuring Gap s Mindspark Process for Solving Systemic Sustainability Problems.
FUTURE-FOCUSED WORKSHOPS Building on RILA s extensive research and interviews, RILA and Forum for the Future worked with the retail sustainability community to identify the trends that will drive change in the retail industry over the next 20 years. These trends cover six categories: Technology, Demographics, Big Data and Transparency, New Consumption Patterns, Economics and Politics, and Resource Constraints. Using a futures lens, the trends that will have the greatest impact on retail were identified. These were further tested through interviews with experts in government, engineering, energy and global trade and have been woven together to develop futures-based scenarios. Conference participants will explore the full implications that the trends may bring to scenarios focused on Stores, Products & Value Chains or Consumers & Employees and see how businesses have used these scenarios to create change within their organizations. Exploring Retail s Future From 3-d printing to big data, ubiquitous retail to the sharing economy, a raft of new trends threatens to disrupt retail and create new risks and opportunities for the industry. Learn more about these trends as we introduce the Futures project. What if? Exploring Future Scenarios How Will Emerging Trends Impact the Future Operating Context for Retailers There is only one thing certain about the future - it will be different from today. Exploring what the future might hold using future scenarios can lead to: business-critical insights new strategies innovation Attendees will have a chance to explore one of four alternative futures for retail in detail, an essential first step to developing future-proof businesses. This in-depth and interactive conversation will help attendees: Engage creatively with the future using the scenarios Identify challenges and opportunities for retail Create actions that could generate long-term sustainable value, whatever the future holds A Toolkit for the Future: Driving New Strategies & Innovation Get hands on experience on how to use futures toolkits to address sustainability challenges in your business Learn how to future-proof existing strategies or how to create innovative products and services Hear insights and tips from businesses that have already used futures-thinking to create change in their organizations Use practical strategy and innovation to teach you how to do it as well
DEEP-DIVE BREAKOUT SESSIONS Take a deeper dive into the critical topics you are focused on now, broken into the following tracks: Sustainability -- including recycling, supplier engagement, chemicals management, employee engagement, and more Environmental Compliance -- including regulatory trends, permitting, hazardous waste reporting, extended producer responsibility, and more Retail Energy Management -- including energy optimization, energy-leading construction practices, carbon reporting, next generation technologies, and more Sustainability Transparency Impact to Retail Value Chains Employee Engagement: Getting into a Green Routine Driving Step Change in the Recycling Value Chain Through Collaboration The Miracle of Collaboration Creating a Race to the Top: Driving Progress on Product Sustainability & Transparency Sustainability Valuation Is Not an Oxymoron: Quantifying in Dollar Terms the Impact on the Business Engaging & Driving Sustainable Action in Your Brands Retailer Initiatives for Sourcing & Selling Safer Products The Business Benefits of Environmental Reporting: From Disclosure to Performance Environmental Compliance Pharmaceutical Waste Reform Managing Retailer s Owned-Brands Under FIFRA One Person s Trash: Retail s Responsibility in Product End of Life Air Emissions Permitting of Diesel Engines for Generators & Fire Pumps at Stores Developing Compliant & Sustainable Products: Retailer-Manufacturer Collaboration Hazardous Waste Reporting & Data Management from a Continuous Improvement Perspective Retailers Beware: More Environmental Regulation Is in Store Retail Energy Management Innovative Energy Storage Solutions Being Utilized by Retailers Maximizing Operational Value from Corporate Carbon Reporting Construct, Refresh & Renovate Sustainably Energy Optimization: How Leading Retailers Are Managing Their Energy as an Asset Learning From the Best: Review of the U.S. EPA & DOE s Building Energy Programs
THE WHO S WHO OF RETAIL ATTENDS RILA S RETAIL SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE 3M Company Abercrombie & Fitch Ace Hardware Advance Auto Parts ALDO Group ANN INC. Army & Air Force Exchange Service AutoZone Avon Products Bed Bath & Beyond Belk Best Buy BJ's Wholesale Club Bridgestone Retail Operations Burt's Bees Cabela's Canadian Tire Carter's Church & Dwight Coca-Cola Coinstar Colgate-Palmolive Company Colony Brands Costco CVS Caremark Darden Restaurants Del Monte Foods Delhaize America Dick's Sporting Goods Disney Store Dollar General Dollar Tree DSW Eddie Bauer Estee Lauder Family Dollar Stores Fred Meyer Stores Fresh & Easy/Tesco Gap GE, Home & Business Solutions Georgia-Pacific Gildan Activewear Green Mountain Coffee Roasters H-E-B Henkel The Home Depot Home Hardware Stores Limited Hy-Vee IKEA North America J. Crew Group J.C. Penney Johnson & Johnson Kohl's Kroger Kum & Go L Brands Lasko Products LEGO Systems Lowe's Meijer MOM Brands Nestle Purina PetCare NIKE Nintendo of America Nordstrom Office Depot Outerwall Pacific Market International Pep Boys - Manny, Moe & Jack Petco PetSmart Philips Consumer Electronics Polo Ralph Lauren Publix Super Markets RadioShack Ralphs Grocery REI Rite Aid Rooms To Go Ross Stores Safeway Save Mart Sears Holdings Signet Jewelers Solo Cup Company Speck Products Staples Target Texas Instruments TJX Companies Tractor Supply Unilever VF Corporation Vons Wahl Clipper Walgreens Walmart Weis Markets West Marine WestPoint Home Whirlpool ADDITIONAL ACTIVITIES OPTION #1 OPTION #2 OPTIONS #3 & 4 Off-site Tour: 3M Innovation Center The 3M Innovation Center is designed to showcase the breadth and depth of the rich and diverse technologies processes and products 3M has created and it brings to life the spirit of 3M Innovation. A team of highly trained informative hosts from a variety of technical and professional backgrounds guide visitors on their journey of discovery. Off-site Tour: Target Field Target Field, home to the Minnesota Twins, is one of two LEED Silver Certified ballparks in the country. Target Field s design promotes growth for years to come with innovation surrounding indoor air quality, recycling practices, reduced heat island effect and brownfield remediation. Onsite Leadership Workshop: Effectively Communicating Sustainability in Professional Settings Onsite Change Management Workshop: Gap s Mindspark Process for Solving Systemic Sustainability Problems See www.rila.org/rsc for more information about additional activities.
AGENDA AT-A-GLANCE Join us at the Welcome Reception on Monday, September 29 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m in the Exhibit Hall 7:30 AM 8:00 AM Tuesday 9/30 Wednesday 10/1 Thursday 10/2 Continental fast Continental fast Continental fast Welcome & Opening Keynote Keynote Concurrent Environmental Compliance out out Sessions (all tracks) 9:00 AM Intro to Futures Workshops 10:00 AM Future Scenario Work Sessions Additional Activities out Sessions (all tracks) 11:00 AM Microsessions Keynote 12:00 PM Luncheon Luncheon Networking in Exhibit Hall Networking in Exhibit Hall 1:00 PM 2:00 PM 3:00 PM Future Scenario Workshops Concurrent Environmental Compliance out Networking 4:00 PM Microsessions 5:00 PM 6:00 PM Concurrent Environmental Compliance out Networking Reception in Exhibit Hall Future Scenario Workshops Concurrent Environmental Environmental Compliance Compliance out out Concurrent Retail Energy Retail Management Energy Management out out out Sessions (all tracks) Microsessions 7:00 PM Register today at www.rila.org/rsc
KEYNOTES Tuesday, September 30 8:00 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Sustainability from the C-suite Perspective Hubert Joly President &Chief Executive Officer Best Buy Co., Inc. Wednesday, October 1 8:00 a.m. 8:30 a.m. Jason Clay Senior Vice President, Market Transformation WWF 8:30 a.m. 9:00 a.m. Ten Ways Retailers Can Be More Sustainable and Profitable Jeffrey Hollender Founder & CEO Hollender Sustainable Brands Thursday, October 2 10:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Challenging the Impossible Todd Reichert Co-founder AeroVelo, Inc. Cameron Robertson Co-founder AeroVelo, Inc. HIGH-IMPACT MICROSESSIONS Tuesday, September 30 11:00 a.m. 11:45 a.m. Leveraging Technology, Transparency & Consumer Empowerment to Advance Sustainability Dara O Rourke Co-founder & Chief Sustainability Officer GoodGuide, Inc. Making Systems Thinking Sexy Eli Stefanski Chief Market Maker Business Innovation Factory 4:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Mike Vale Executive Vice President, Consumer & Office Business 3M Company The Sharing Economy is HUGE. Or Not. Suzanne Shelton Chief Executive Officer Shelton Group Wednesday, October 1 5:00 p.m. 5:45 p.m. Julie Krueger Director, Retail Industry Google Information Visualized Helping Audiences Connect Emotionally to Sustainability Arlene Birt Information Designer & Visual Storyteller If Necessity is the Mother of Invention, Happiness is the Father Mario Chamorro Founder & Chief Happiness Officer Make it Happy
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