Inaugural Sustainability Symposium

2030 Gregg Street,Columbia SC 29201

27 October, 2022

Description

Morning Session: Sponsored by SC Department of Commerce Allied Partners 8:30 am: Registration 9:00 am: Welcome Mayor of Columbia, Daniel Rickenmann 9:15am: The Future in Sustainability Leadership from a Sustainability Leadership Initiative (SLI) Fellow: Rob Howell, Senior Vice President, Shareholder, Avison Young Past Sustain SC Board Chair 9:30am: Session One: Sustainability as Part of the Economic Development Equation Facilitator: Jean Cecil Frick, Vice President, NP Strategy Perspective from Commerce: Chantal Fryer, Director of Business Services, SC Department of Commerce Economic Development Perspective: Tushar Chikhliker, Member, Nexsen Pruet Perspective from a Corporation: Elizabeth Rhue, VP Global Environmental, Sustainability, & Technical Services, Sonoco Perspective from the Financial Lens: Lisa Shpritz, Senior Vice President and Environmental Operations Executive, Bank of America 10:45 am: Break 11:00 am: Session Two: How to Assess, Reduce, Offset, and Communicate Case Study: GEL Engineering's Sustainability Path Mac Hodgson, President & CEO, The GEL Group, Inc. Facilitator: Courtney Quinn, Furman University Sustainability Panel: Tim Baumgartner, Senior Environmental Manager, EPR Jarrett Branham, President, Branham Group, Inc. Andy Carr, President/CEO, SCMEP Trip Chavis, President/CEO, Milliken Advisors Tim Howard, Clemson University- Carboncents Caroline James, Director of Sustainability, Atlantic Packaging Case Study: The Golden Goose: Using AI to Drive ESG and Margin Goals at Nucor Steel Rick Oppedisano, President and CEO, Delta Bravo; with Nucor Darlington Operations Team 12:30 pm: Registration for Afternoon Session Participants 1:00 pm: Lunch by Loosh Culinaire Afternoon Session: 2:00 pm: Sustain SC Celebration Event Keynote speaker presented by Robert Hughes, President of Hughes Development Corporation Keynote Speaker: Halsey M. Cook Jr, President & CEO, Milliken & Company Sustain South Carolina Inaugural Award presented to Google Comments from Sustain SC's Board Chair: Tom Hutto, Principal, GEL Engineering Sustain SC Panel: Launch of the Sustain SC Land and Water Action Collaborative Fund Closing Remarks: Ethel Bunch, President & CEO, Sustain SC 4:30 pm: Happy House presented by SC Department of Agriculture SC Certified Food & Local Libations