The exciting line up for the 'Creating the Greenest County
Business and Environment Conference' has been announced. The event
will be hosted by BT and will occur at Adastral Park,
Martlesham on Tuesday 12 February 2008.
The speaker line up is as follows;
- Welcome by Phil Dance, BT’s MD Technology Exploitation and
Senior Manager at Adastral Park.
- Chair - Mike More, CEO, Suffolk County Council
- Opening address and keynote - Sir Michael Rake, Chair of
BT.
- Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability-Chris
Tuppen, BT Director of Sustainable Development.
- Green procurement and the supply chain – Al Collier, Head of
Procurement, Suffolk County Council.
- The approach taken by the Port of Felixstowe/Hutchisons – Chris
Lewis, CEO.
- SME presentation on green business (tbc)
- Why sign up to a Business Pledge - Peter McCarthy Ward, EEDA
and BT.
- Signing of Business Pledge and networking
- Creating the Greenest County Awards ceremony, presentation by
Peter McCarthy Ward.
- Closing speech – Councillor Jeremy Pembroke, Leader of Suffolk
County Council.
So what’s in it for me by attending the conference?, Well
the chance to bring your business up to speed with this rapidly
evolving area whether it be legislation, marketing or product
development Peter Mc Carthy-Ward, BT's Regional Director for the
East of England said: "Sustainability is a now a huge business
issue. As the CBI's task force recently concluded, the UK has a
unique opportunity to prosper in key markets of the future by
taking a lead in the development of low carbon technologies and
services in power, buildings, transport and industry.
For BT, sustainable development has been a priority for well over
ten years. Suffolk's initiative is a welcome advance of the
sustainability agenda. As a significant Suffolk employer BT looks
forward to playing its part, not least through the future evolution
of its Adastral Park site”.
Click here to book on to the
conference but do so soon, as places are limited.
The event is sponsored by SLP Energy, MLM Construction
Engineering, Blue Star Skips, the Environment Agency, Ransomes
Jacobsen and BT.