Boston 2010 GIBN Solutions Lab

Thursday, September 16, 2010

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Logistics

Venue Address
Microsoft New England Research & Development Center
One Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142

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WiFi, Blogging & Tweeting
You are encouraged to blog, tweet, and post to this wiki! Use the hash tag #GIBN10 when tweeting so we can find your posts.

Topics

The Solutions Lab depends upon your ideas for themes and decide topics to discuss. This will happen both before the event -- via registration and discussion on this wiki -- and during the morning of the event. Post your ideas for potential challenging questions, themes and topics here...(you need to register for the event and sign up as a wiki member to edit or add information).

Agenda

Time	Topic	Objective
8:30 AM	Arrival	Registration and Breakfast
9:00 AM	Opening	Welcome, introduce day, basic housekeeping Thank hosts, supporters and team Odin Zackman, Facilitator Welcome comments from: Leah Brunson, Microsoft (3) Andre de Fontaine, Pew Center for Climate Change (5) Victoria Mills, EDF (5)
9:20 AM	Introductions	Meet the participants, hear about expectations
9:40 AM	Framing	Explain format, goals for the day
10:00 AM	Conversation Catalyst	Peter Senge (10) Questions, Feedback, Discussion (20)
10:30	Solutions Statement Session	Participants meet in initial groups to refine a topic into a particular focus question that will promote brainstorming of solutions
10:50	Brief Break
11:00 AM	Solutions Salon Breakouts Each table/breakout has a host and set of participants interested in particular topic—additional topics and themes may be proposed.	Participants explore several themes of choice for three 20 minute sessions. Some initial theme questions include: How do you make the business case for energy efficiency in a way that will resonate with senior management? What are creative ways of financing energy efficiency investments? What’s the best way of aligning energy efficiency incentives across departments? How do you best leverage partnerships across industries and sectors to make progress on energy efficiency? What are innovative ways of working with suppliers on energy efficiency? How can you best engage employees on energy efficiency efforts? How to incorporate green chemistry into product chain? And your suggestions…
12:00 PM	Solutions Salon Debrief	Learning from initial sessions shared to frame afternoon design session
12:15 PM	Lunch	Informal networking (30) Energy efficiency ‘talk show’ format with 2 invited guests and interviewer (25) Paul Fitzgerald, Sr. Director Facilities & Operations, EMC Richard Goode, Director of Sustainability, Alcatel-Lucent Devon Long-Lytle, Chapter President, Net Impact Boston
1:15	INNOVATE! Presentations	Four 3-minute presentations on a big idea in EE (15) David Douglas, Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems (former) Elaine Strunk, Environmental Program Manager, Saunders Hotel Group Frank Gorke, Director, Division of Energy Efficiency, MA Dept. of Energy Resources Victor Olgyay, AIA, Principal, Rocky Mountain Institute Bruce Buckbee, Managing Partner, Leisure Green LLC Feedback, Discussion (20)
1:50 PM	Design Session-Solutions Salon 75 minutes for design discussion and presentation of learning preparation and/or ongoing exploration of key challenges and potential solutions for participants	Participants choose the topic or theme from the morning session that was most interesting/most relevant to their work. Participants work together to design a set of solutions and a process and next steps for working on these solutions.
3:15 PM	Break
3:30 PM	Solutions and Innovations “Show and Tell”	Share key learning and new innovations/solutions in small group and large group format
4:15 PM	Large Group Debrief	Share what was learned & possible actions/next steps
4:30 PM	Thanks and Reflections	Key learning, proposed action steps, and network expansion ideas Thank supporters, participants
4:45-6:00 PM	Networking Reception	Continued informal networking

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