Agenda

8:00 – 8:45 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:45 – 9:00

Introduction and Opening Remarks

Jeff Smoller 
President, Multi-State Working Group on Environmental Performance

Carl Griffith
Assistant Deputy Minister, Environmental Sciences & Standards Division

9:00 – 9:25

Keynote Address

Honourable Laurel C. Broten
Ontario Minister of the Environment

9:25 – 9:35

Petition for MSWG Affiliation: Environment and Public Health Network for Chinese Students and Scholars

9:35– 9:50

Presentation of MSWG Awards

9:50 – 10:15

Break and Networking

10:15 – 12:00

SESSION 1:   FROM PILOTS TO MAINSTREAM: ACHIEVING SUCCESS

Moderator:
Robert Stephens, United Nations Environment Program, Best Practices Network

Speakers:
Jay Benforado
Director, National Centre for Environmental Innovation, USEPA
"Environmental Results Program: Mainstreaming Innovative Pilots"

Gérald Girouard
Chief, Pollution Prevention and Innovation Unit, Environmental Protection Operation Directorate, Environment Canada
“Results and lessons learned from a Canadian program promoting pollution prevention in small businesses”

Tracey Moll
Team Lead, Environmental Assurance & Sustainability, Environmental Management, City of Calgary
“The City of Calgary: Striving for sustainability through vision, commitment and action”

12:00 – 1:30

Lunch – Keynote Speaker

Dr. Dan McGillivray
Managing Director, Centre for Earth and Environmental Technologies, Ontario Centres of Excellence Inc.
“Enabling Environmental Innovation: From Mind to Market”

1:30 – 3:00

Session 2:   Advancing Environmental Performance: Best Practices in Industry

Moderator:
Bob Minicucci, Special Projects Manager, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services

Speakers:
Rahumathulla Marikkar
Director, Technology and Environment, Interface Flor (Canada) Inc
“Design for sustainable manufacturing”

Melissa Clarke
Emergency Preparedness & Environmental Management System Coordinator, Trillium Health Centre
“Environmental innovation and health care”

Kevin Brady
Director, Five Winds International
“Innovations in environmental management – Concept, tools and examples”

3:00 – 3:15

Break and Networking

3:15 – 4:45 

Session 3:    Working Collaboratively: Sharing Risks and Rewards

Moderator:
Allison Morrison, Manager, Innovation and Sustainability, Strategic Asset Management, BC Hydro

Speakers:
Peter Watson
Deputy Minister, Alberta Environment
“Air management in Alberta - A model for working collaboratively?”

Ken Ogilvie
Executive Director, Pollution Probe
“Pollution Probe’s research into and experiences in collaboration”

Georges Portelance
Executive Director, Éco-Peinture
“Sentenced to cooperate – The paint recycling program in Québec”

8:00 – 8:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 10:15

Session 4: Challenges and Barriers to Innovation

Moderator:
Frances Westley, Professor and Director of the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Speakers:
Paul Griss
Coordinator, New Directions Group
“New directions in environmental governance?”

Dianne Zimmerman
Senior Manager, Issues Management and Stakeholder Engagement, Suncor Energy Inc.
“Suncor and Canada’s Oil Sands: Challenges and Barriers to Innovation”

George Ross
Assistant Deputy Minister, Research and Innovation Division, Ontario Ministry of Research and Innovation
“Addressing barriers to innovation - The Ontario context”

10:15 – 10:30

Break and Networking

10:30 – 12:15

Session 5: Integrating New Approaches to Environmental Management

Moderator:
David MacLeod, Senior Environmental Specialist, Toronto Environment Office, City of Toronto

Speakers:
Steve Neville
Senior Program Coordinator, Ontario Ministry of the Environment
“Current trends in innovation and integration in Ontario”

Robert Benson
Director, Sector Strategies Program, NCEI, Office of Policy, Economics, & Innovation, USEPA
“Addressing drivers & barriers with a sector bases approach”

Chris Wolnik
Executive Director, Canadian Centre for Pollution Prevention
“New approaches to environmental management- Perspective from the front lines”

12:15 – 12:30

Closing Remarks
Jeff Smoller, President, MSWG