This event originally took place February 21, 2024.
If your organization has set sustainability goals, where do meetings fit in? Too often, such efforts don’t adequately address goals or methods of minimizing the carbon footprint of in-person events. Sustainability experts will share strategies for initiating or expanding sustainable meeting planning practices.
Among the topics to be discussed:
- Finding a sustainability mentor
- Assessing the environmental impact of typical meetings
- Making the case for more sustainable practices
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Earns 1 Hour of CMP Credit
SPEAKERS
Michele Fox
Founder, Members United for Sustainable Events
Michele Fox is an event producer, sustainable-event consultant, and the founder of MUSE. She has produced conferences, trade shows, galas and experiential-marketing events around the globe. The mission of MUSE is to provide education, inspiration and community to empower events industry professionals to increase the positive social and environmental impacts of of their gatherings.
Shawna McKinley
Teacher, writer, researcher and consultant
Shawna McKinley is a teacher, writer, researcher and consultant with more than two decades spent furthering learning and action on how to travel and plan events in a time of climate change. She has led event sustainability-strategy development for Fortune 500 companies, intergovernmental agencies, nonprofit associations and event production agencies. She also facilitates classes in sustainable event management and ethics at the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver, British Columbia.
MODERATOR
Sally Braley
Managing Editor
Northstar Meetings Group
Sally oversees content on Northstar’s meetings-related websites, as well as the print edition of Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings, along with covering key beats. Sally joined M&C in 1994 as a senior editor, after spending eight years at New Jersey Monthly magazine. She holds a master’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a B.A. in Journalism (with minors in French, Greek and psychology) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
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