Online and Interactive

 

8:00 am, PT

Small Group Session:

Where are you from and what’s your role in protecting the planet?

 
 

8:20 am

Welcome

Brad Peirce, Founder, Sustainability Mindshift

Libba Pinchot, Co-Founder, Pinchot & Co

Glenn Hallam, Co-Founder, Green Dock Ventures

 
 

8:35 am

Edith Cecchini, Ocean Conservancy

 
 
 

Edith leads Ocean Conservancy’s Trash Free Seas Alliance, a multi-stakeholder forum that includes companies, conservation organizations and academia. Edith also manages Ocean Conservancy’s engagement in a number of private-sector initiatives, including Closed Loop Partner’s Beyond the Bag Initiative, and the U.S. Plastics Pact.

 
 

8:55 am

Rachael Zoe, Rozalia Project

 
 
 

Rachael Zoe Miller is an expedition scientist, inventor, National Geographic Explorer and Explorers Club Fellow working to protect the ocean. She is the Founder of Rozalia Project for a Clean Ocean, a nonprofit working on the problem of marine debris and co-inventor of the Cora Ball, the world’s first microfiber-catching laundry ball.

 

9:15

Small Group Session

What’s your vision for helping to save the planet?

 

9:35

Matt Prindiville and Linda Corrado, Upstream

 
 

Upstream is a non-profit organization sparking innovative solutions to plastic pollution by helping people, businesses and communities shift from single-use to reuse.

9:50

John Charles Meyer, Plastic Free Restaurants

 
 

John Charles Meyer founded Plastic Free Restaurants, a 501(c)(3) non-profit which eliminates petroleum-based single-use plastic from restaurants and schools by subsidizing the purchase of reusables.

 

10:05

Small Group Session

 

10:25

Chris Parker, ClimeCo

 
 

Chris leads ClimeCo’s plastics program, which partners with projects around the world to recover ocean bound plastic and provide a productive next life solution. The program is developing plastic credits to fund ecosystem restoration, create new waste mgt. infrastructure, and scale recycle capacity. Supporting companies are implementing project environmental and social impacts into ESG, CSR, and sustainability programs.

 

10:45

Close with Optional Small Groups