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Agenda

Thank you Google for supporting this event! 

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
Registration Opens & Breakfast

9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Opening Remarks

9:15 AM - 10:00 AM
Featured Speaker: Seizing the Opportunity of Safer Chemistry as we build a Circular Economy 

David Bourne, Lead Sustainability Strategist, Google

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
Session 1: Circular Pollution: How toxic chemicals in materials undermine circularity

Moderator: Bill Walsh, Director, Safer Chemistry Impact Fund

Panelists:

  • Cheri Peele, Markets and Government Policy Director, Toxic Free Future
  • Priya Premchandran, Vice President, Market Transformation, Habitable
  • Brian Loma, Hazardous Materials and Waste Diversion Advocate, GreenLatinos
  • Kate Bailey, Chief Policy Officer, Association of Recyclers

10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
Idea Burst: Revolutionizing beauty packaging through takeback and pre-competitive collaboration

Carly Snider, Executive Director, Pact Collective

11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Networking Break

11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 2: Ingredient Intelligence: You can't manage what you don't measure

Moderator: Stacy Glass, Co-Founder & Executive Director, ChemFORWARD

Panelists:

  • Ame Igharo, Sr. Director, Sustainability Strategy, Ulta
  • Renee Hackenmiller-Paradis, Senior Director, Chemicals Management, Lululemon 
  • Rachel Simon, Senior Manager, Safer Chemistry, ChemFORWARD

12:00 PM -12:15 PM 
Idea Burst: Enabling Circularity through Material Science

Jill Martin, Global Sustainability Fellow, Dow

12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Break

1:15 PM - 1:30 PM
Idea Burst:  Green Chemistry Innovations to Accelerate Circular Solutions

John Warner, President & CEO, The Technology Greenhouse

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
Session 3: Safe and sustainable innovations to accelerate circular solutions

Moderator: John Warner, President & CEO, The Technology Greenhouse

Panelists:

  • Paul Bloom, Chief Carbon & Innovation Officer, Gevo
  • Carrie Bales, Manager, NA Sustainability & External Engagements, BASF
  • Christian Lenges, Venture Director, International Flavors & Fragrances

2:15 PM - 2:30 PM 
Networking Break
 

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Breakout Discussion: Collaboration as an accelerator to circular solutions

Moderator: Rachel Simon, Senior Manager, Safer Chemistry, ChemFORWARD

3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Discussion Group Report Out

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Featured Panel: Charting a Pathway to Success for Sustainable Chemicals

Moderator: Jenny MacKellar, Program Director, Change Chemistry

  • Sonja Jost, CEO, DUDE CHEM
  • Julie Gorte, SVP for Sustainable Investing, Impax Asset Management

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM
Bringing it all together: A look ahead to circularity and cross pollination

Jon Smeja, VP of Circularity, Trellis Group

5:00 PM 
Ajourn