"Best Green Practices: US companies' experiences"

At this half-day conference organized in co-operation with the US Embassy to Belgium, the results of the in-depth Best Green Practices Survey, carried out by A.T. Kearney, will be announced. The survey addressed how companies take ecological sustainability into account in all aspects of their activities. Thanks to this valuable resource, companies will now be able to benchmark their Green performance against other US and non-US companies.

The results will be further discussed in two Roundtables, where leaders among US companies from a variety of industries will share their ongoing practices to become Greener and Cleaner, including implementing a number of methods to make their procedures and processes more sustainable. This will be followed by a luncheon with keynote speech by US Ambassador Howard Gutman.

 Program:
12:00 p.m. Registration, collection of materials, welcome drink and networking
12:30 p.m. Welcome remarks by AmCham Belgium Chief Executive Marcel Claes and Frank Bruynsteen, Head of Faculty Management Belgium, BNP Paribas Fortis (tbc), and luncheon with keynote speech from US Ambassador Howard W. Gutman on The Politics of our Climate Future
2:00 p.m. Results of Best Green Practices Survey announced by Benoit Nachtergaele, Principal, A.T. Kearney
2:40 p.m. Putting Green Practices in a Global Environmental Framework, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Professor of Climatology at UCL and Vice-Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
3:00 p.m. Roundtable on Eco-Sustainability in the Supply Chain:
- Bert Stevens, Director European Operations, Nike
- Bea Buyle, Head Global Sustainability, Procter & Gamble
- Renaud Mazy, Managing Director, Baxter
- Dietrich Sinnaeve, Product Environmental, Health, Safety & Regulatory and REACH Manager, 3M
Moderator: James Kanter, International Herald Tribune
4:00 p.m. Refreshment break
4:15 p.m. Roundtable on Eco-Sustainability in the Business Model:
- William Miner, Director, US Overseas Building Operations Design and Engineering Division
- Agostino Renna, VP & GM, South & Central Europe, Global Energy Solutions, Johnson Controls
- Peter Tayar-Watson, Environmental Health & Safety Leader EMEA, General Electric
- FedEx (tbc)
Moderator: Johan Kestens, Managing Partner, A.T. Kearney
5:15 p.m. Closing remarks
5:30 p.m. Cocktails
6:30 p.m. Close

 This event is sponsored by BNP Paribas Fortis and Johnson Controls International.