Global Business of Biodiversity
Friday, June 11, 2010 at 12:10PM There's a useful event coming up in July at Excel in London, looking at the ways that businesses can more effectively engage with the business of making biodiversity happen. I'm chairing a session that EcoSapiens people might find interesting:
New Models for Business – Biomimicry, Innovation and Inspiration
Chair: Andy Middleton, Chairman of the TYF Group
Nature can and has inspired a huge number of innovations within business. At the same time, increasing scarcity of resources and the need to manage them carefully is encouraging changes in business models and practices that can offer business opportunities. This session explores a number of new business models that are emerging in response to the natural resource crisis with which we are faced. In it business transformation and biomimicry experts explain, using examples from companies such as AkzoNobel, Nike and InterfaceFlor, how learning from nature can help future proof your business model during these turbulent times.
Lessons from nature, business innovation and future proofing
Giles Hutchins, Global Director, Head of Sustainability Solutions, Atos Origin
Biomimicry and inspirations for business
Denise de Luca, Project Lead, Swedish Biomimetics 3000 and Outreach Representative, the Biomimicry Institute
Infrastructure, architecture and the natural world
Michael Pawlyn, Director, Exploration
Product Innovation and the natural world
Nigel Stansfield, Director Product Design and Innovation, InterfaceFLOR
The employee challenge: inspiration and commitment through connecting with nature
Dave Hillyard, Director of International Partnerships, Earthwatch
Click here to find out more or register for the event
