Jeremy Grantham
CO-FOUNDER AND CHIEF INVESTMENT STRATEGIST, GMO

When it comes to the built environment, our decisions have long memories. Considering the environmental impact wrapped up in every building, it's clear that sustainability improvements to the built environment can have a tremendous effect on our overall footprint. This session takes a deeper look at successful efforts in the built environment on multiple scales: cutting-edge green skyscrapers, building and neighborhood retrofits, transformation of real estate holdings, and the next generation of ratings/protocols.

A commonly cited barrier to achieving sustainability is that changes are hard to reconcile, or even incompatible—with the existing missions of our public and private institutions. However, a growing number of organizations are proving this to be a fallacy. In this panel, representatives from large organizations, both private and public, will discuss how they have been able not only to succeed but also thrive by embedding sustainability into their organizations' core operating principles. Panelists will discuss challenges to implementation and strategies for creating buy-in and alignment at all levels of the organization.

Jason Jay
SENIOR LECTURER AND DIRECTOR, SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE, MIT Sloan School of Management

Jeffrey Hollender
PRINCIPAL, Jeffrey Hollender Partners and Co-Founder and former CEO, Seventh Generation

Chris Park
PRINCIPAL, Deloitte Consulting

Nancy Gillis
DIRECTOR, U.S. General Services Administration Federal Supply Chain Emissions Program Management Office

Many of today's social and environmental innovators lack the knowledge, tools, and infrastructure to enter new markets. Compared to traditional private organizations, social enterprises may take a different approach to scaling, considering whether the goal is to scale the impact or the size of the organization itself. Blending perspectives from the social and private sectors, this panel, featuring practitioners, investors, and network facilitators' cutting edge practices, will discuss what it means to scale in the social sector and how social entrepreneurs and stakeholders can tackle this challenge together.

Tracie Neuhaus
MANAGER, Monitor Institute

Conor French
PRESIDENT, Indego Africa

Miguel Granier
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR, Invested Development

Blandine Antoine
DIRECTOR OF STRATEGY, EGG-Energy

As new advances in sustainable technologies or practices are created, they risk premature failure due to low adoption rates. We will examine this challenge through the lens of several emerging transportation alternatives and the necessary government infrastructure and economic ecosystems that enable their adoption. Panelists will discuss current business models such as bike and car share programs, alternative technologies designed at MIT including the Copenhagen Wheel, and the economic and governmental infrastructure driving adoption in both developed and emerging markets.

Kristian Kloeckl
RESEARCH SCIENTIST, MIT SENSEable City Laboratory

Henrietta Davis
MAYOR, City of Cambridge

John D. Macomber
SENIOR LECTURER IN FINANCE AND REAL ESTATE, Harvard Business School

Ruth Jurberg
COORDINATOR OF ACCELERATED GROWTH-PAC PROGRAM, Government of Rio de Janeiro

Scott Mullen
GENERAL MANAGER, Hubway Bikeshare

Businesses are increasingly using the power of groups to solve issues and get buy-in from all stakeholders. In this session, representatives from the Center for Collective Intelligence and Continuum will discuss the emerging practice of using both socially-mediated and technology-mediated collective action as methods of addressing complex sustainability challenges.

Jason Jay
SENIOR LECTURER AND DIRECTOR, SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE, MIT Sloan School of Management

Robert Laubacher
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, MIT Center for Collective Intelligence

Jenny Liang
STRATEGIST, Continuum

Larry Susskind
PROFESSOR OF URBAN AND ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING, MIT

Leaders in sustainability are faced with a growing array of standards from which to choose. While standards adoption is critical for building transparency and credibility, bringing sustainability to scale also requires investing in innovative strategies that aim to exceed stakeholder expectations. Join industry leaders in a dialogue on emerging standards and innovations that inspire teams, delight customers, and move organizations beyond best-practices.

Robert Eccles
CHAIRMAN, Arabesque Partners

Jeffrey Hollender
PRINCIPAL, Jeffrey Hollender Partners<br>Co-Founder and former CEO, Seventh Generation

Mindy Lubber
PRESIDENT, Ceres

Geoengineering is often thought of as a solution to climate change where large-scale technological solutions will step in to reengineer our climate system and save the day. Although geoengineering research is underway, it is still a controversial topic that brings up questions spanning science, geopolitics, industry, and ethics. In this panel, geoengineering experts at the forefront of science, business, and government discuss the feasibility and the ethics of geoengineering, and highlight key questions for future research. This session was developed with the help of MIT's Earth System Initiative.

Kerry Emanuel
PROFESSOR OF ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE, MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Ben Kravitz
POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATE, Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University

Eli Kintisch
REPORTER, &laquo;Science&raquo;<br>Author of &laquo;Hack the Planet&raquo;

Justin McClellan
AEROSPACE ANALYSIS GROUP LEAD, Aurora Flight Sciences

In collaboration with Continuum and the Climate CoLab, this unique workshop will demonstrate the facilitation process of using multi-stakeholder perspectives and opinions to address a pressing sustainability issue. Participants will work in groups to brainstorm potential solutions to a given sustainability challenge. At the end of the session, these ideas will be shared on the Climate CoLab website after the summit, where outside participants can provide feedback and responses, thereby increasing multi-stakeholder buy-in and maximizing collective intelligence.

Jenny Liang
STRATEGIST, Continuum

Tiffany Chu
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE, Continuum

Mike Clare
STRATEGIST, Continuum

Kelly Sherman
DESIGN STRATEGIST, Continuum

Erik Duhaime
DIRECTOR OF PARTNERSHIPS, Climate Co-Lab

Given today's unprecedented access to data and information, we have never been better equipped to address our current social, environmental, and economic challenges. On this panel, visionaries will highlight how big data is evolving to model earth systems and human behavior, and these leaders will discuss the opportunities that big data offers sustainability through meaningful behavior change. By exploring theories ranging from social statistics to science fiction, this panel will highlight the conditions required to model and apply big data, and investigate questions about ethics, privacy, and data ownership.
Alessandro Vespignani
STERNBERG DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS, Northeastern University


Cesar Hidalgo
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, MIT Media Lab<br>Faculty Associate, Harvard Center for International Development


Andrew Hoffman
PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT &AMP; ORGANIZATIONS, University of Michigan<br>Associate Director of the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise, University of Michigan


Francoise LeGoues
VICE PRESIDENT FOR INNOVATIVE INITIATIVES, IBM