Conference will show you how to be sustainable

Businesses have increasingly focused on becoming more sustainable, with many keen to reign in waste, bad habits and poor production processes.

They’ll get some expert ideas on how to meet those challenges, in the Sustainable Brands Conference being held in Sydney from June 27-29 – where the UK’s Forum for the Future CEO Dr Sally Uren, will give the keynote address to business leaders, marketing innovators and sustainability professionals.

Dr Uren will outline how people on all levels of industry can collaborate on making their brand more sustainable.

“I will highlight key opportunities such as system innovation, the circular economy, pre-competitive collaboration and closing the circle between government, business and the consumer/community,” Dr Uren says.

“I encourage professionals from all industries including marketing, design, construction, architecture, finance, medicine, communication, technology — and so many more — to join us in shaping a more sustainable future.

“The role of business in delivering solutions to society’s current set of significant and complex sustainability challenges has never before attracted so much attention.”

Dr Uren says the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris agreement on climate change emissions give us a shared direction that’s never been clearer.

“Unleashing the power of business to act as agents of transformative change requires…transformation, and SB16 Sydney will provide a platform to discuss the challenges, collaborate, and act to ensure a more sustainable future,” she says.

“It’s critical to transform the key systems we rely on and to do that everyone in the value chain must be involved, from the producers and manufacturers right through to the end-user, all working together towards a common aim.”

The SB16 Sydney Conference aims to educate, inspire and motivate — to help brands, businesses, and people, across all industries, problem solve solutions to create a more sustainable future and to see what human ingenuity and innovation can produce .

Other speakers at the Sustainable Brands Conference are: TerraCycle founder and CEO Tom Szaky; We First founder and CEO Simon Mainwaring; of and MUD Jeans CEO Bern van Son.