2016 Conference

The WI Sustainable Business Council and Cool Choices want to both thank and congratulate Empire Screen Printing for hosting the 9th Annual WI Sustainable Business Conference. Empire Screen Printing was an ideal host, and everyone came away so impressed with both the culture at Empire and the accomplishments with respect to the use of LED lights for drying ink.

Below find the Agenda for the 2016 conferences with a link to Barbara Nick’s presentation. Also, each presenter is linked to a page with their bio.

We are indebted (again) to the Compass Group for preparing a summary report of the Conference’s Carbon Footprint. We have done this every year of the conference. The Conference Sustainability Report is available here:

2016 Sustainability Report

Note that we offset all of the conference’s carbon emissions through the purchase of Carbon Offsets. This year, we purchased offsets through Native Energy, TerraPass and Green Mountain Energy.

Agenda

2016 WI Sustainable Business Conference

7:30 - Registration begins

8:30 - Welcome and Opening Remarks

Tom Eggert – Wisconsin Sustainable Business Council
Mayor Tim Kabat

9:00 - Co-Host Welcome

Kathy Kuntz – Cool Choices

9:15 - Welcome from Empire Screen Printing

John Freismuth – President, Empire Screen Printing

10:00 - Morning Keynote (Watch the video here)

Barbara Nick – President, Dairyland Power Cooperative

10:45 - Break/Passing Time

11:15 - Morning Breakout Sessions

Sustainability Tools (water, energy, sustainability assessment)

Mick Schwedler – Trane
Randy Bertram – WMEP
Jim Vaudreuil – Huebsch Services

Everyone’s Part of the Solution: Employee Engagement

Jessy Ortiz – Outpost Natural Foods
Max Christman – UW-Health
Chris Drees – Mercury Marine

Public/Private Partnerships

Jim Bradley – Home Savings Bank
Jack Wilson – Box Latch Products
John Didion – Didion Milling

Alternative Fuel Vehicles – hands-on interaction with electric and CNG cars

Chris Schneider – Honda Motorwerks

(Concurrent tours of Empire Screen offered during breakouts)

12:15 - Lunch

1:15 - Green Masters Presentation

1:45 - Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Sharing Your Sustainability Story

Randy Nedrelo – LaCrosse County Landfill
David Donovan – Xcel Energy
Nicole Krenner – 3M

Using Renewable Energy in Your Business

Ben Reynolds – Reynolds Transfer
Alan Eber – Gundersen Health
Dan Andersen – Phillips Medisize

Women in Sustainability

Majo Thurman – Rockwell
Kim Flood – UL Environment
Leah Samson – WasteCap WI
Mandy Goetsch– InPro

(Concurrent tours of Empire Screen offered during breakouts)

2:45 - Break/Passing Time

3:15 - Afternoon Keynote

Jeff Rich, Executive Director, Gundersen Health System, GL Envision
Joel Hirschboeck, General Manager of Fuel Procurement and Marketing, Kwik Trip, Inc
Thomas Content – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel