Dailycsr.com – 27 November 2017 – The leaders of the beverage industry from all over the world gather in “Guadalajara, Mexico” for three days from October 17, 2017 to October 19, 2017, to attend the semi-annual “Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable”, shortly called BIER.
 
The said event was organised by “Brown-Forman” featuring an agenda of tackling “pressing environmental sustainability issues” like watershed performance, the energy sector in regards to climate change, besides “regenerative agriculture, and transparency and disclosure”.
 
Moreover, Tequila Council also presented a take on sustainability from “a regional perspective” that came with “an insights review of the recent Latin American Water Forum” while the “discussion of regional best practices between members” followed. Furthermore, Ethical Performance informs:
“Meeting attendees also received a tour of Brown-Forman’s Casa Herradura Facility and enjoyed a Brown-Forman hosted Tequila Experience”.
 
Right from the year of 2006, since BIER’s inception took place, it has not only “pursued” but also “championed environmental sustainability practices”, whereby BIER considers “open sourcing” and “collaboration” to be “primary success factors”. In response to corporate decision makers’ internal pressure, made heavier with the support from “investors, and external stakeholders”, BIER presents its voice in a unique way.
 
Among the current initiative of BIER, there are the work of “defining context-based metrics for water use, developing energy assessment tools to help prioritize and mitigate climate change impacts, and establishing guiding principles around ecosystem dependencies and biodiversity conservation measures across the beverage product value chain”.
 
 
 
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Dailycsr.com – 30 October 2017 – The “Entrepreneur’s Journey” was hosted by Arrow Electronics during “Denver Startup Week 2017” at the “General Assembly”, wherein two entrepreneurs’ success stories were featured showcasing their journey to overcome the “challenges of developing and bringing smart, connected internet of things (IoT) products to market”.
 
Discussion was held between Eversleep’s Co-Founder, Chris Crowley, his counterpart at WaterBot, Chris Richter, and Business Development’s Senior Manager at Arrow, Jen Beasley, dealing with manufacturing, funding and prototyping. As per Beasley:
“Arrow’s global operations are headquartered right outside Denver, and Startup Week is a fantastic opportunity for us to connect with tech startups doing really exciting work here in our own backyard. It was great to showcase the success of Eversleep and Waterbot, two inspiring startups that we’re currently guiding along the complicated path to market. General Assembly is a great partner to the tech community here in Denver, and we look forward to our next collaboration.”
 
General Assembly’s Local Market Producer in Denver, Kylie Borgias, said:
“General Assembly was thrilled to host the experts from Arrow, Eversleep and Waterbot for an engaging Startup Week discussion around the real-life challenges of bringing a new tech product to market. Educational and immersive programming like this is right in General Assembly’s wheelhouse—we exist to add value and educational training around in-demand skills like product-development in an increasingly technological economy.”
 
Arrow is a “complete technology stack” of IoT solutions that operates within a wide spectrum ranging from “sensor to cloud”, besides “expert professional and managed services”. The company has more than “125,000 customers” worldwide, while it “helps large enterprises and small startups alike” in their product designing and building stages, along with guiding them in scale-efficiency as well effective costing to introduce the products “faster” in the market.
 
 
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ethicalperformance.com

Dailycsr.com – 24 October 2017 – The Chief Executive Officer of Paypal, Dan Schulman, in conversation with the counterpart of Kiva, Premal Shah, said:
“At PayPal, we believe every person has the right to participate in today’s global economy. Kiva is an international nonprofit that allows people to lend money to low-income entrepreneurs and students in over 80 countries and is an important partner in this mission. A few weeks ago, we launched our Kiva campaign: “Make A Small Loan, Make a Big Impact,” to our employees and customers around the globe to encourage them to make loans to entrepreneurs”.
 
To tell the world about Kiva’s work in supporting entrepreneurs across the globe, the Co-founder as well as the president of Kiva, Premal Shah, holds a live discussion. In order to know more about it, kindly visit:
http://3blmedia.com/embed/video/281841?width=640&height=370&iframe=true
 
However, all interested ones wishing to make “a Kiva loan” through Paypal campaign, kindly visit the website mentioned below as the first ten thousand people making the loan of “$25 or more” will bag a “$25 Kiva credit to make another loan”.
https://www.kiva.org/paypal/smallloansbigimpact
 
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com

Dailycsr.com – 12 June 2017 – The “traditional conference” expo’s concept is being altered at Sustainable Brands, wherein it is turning into a “collaborative environment” featuring “tools, solutions and breakthrough ideas” that come from the audience who attend the sessions.
 
The “Activation Hub” that took place at “SB’17 Detroit” from the 22^nd of May to the 25^th May 2017, in Downtown Detroit’s “Cobo Center”, brought together around two thousand “leading, companies, “insightful” agents of change as well as entrepreneurs, in a collaborate attempt to reshape “the global economy”.
 
The session “SB’17 Detroit” focussed on “Redefining the Good Life”. The “Activation Hub” showcased product and companies that has made commitment of working to transform their respective “market sectors” while their stakeholders too are partners in their endeavour, together they provide “better support” to a “changing view” of tomorrow to create a ‘Good Life’.
 
Pavilions within the hub listed “formal content” that included “presentations” featuring path breaking innovation put together by “sector thought leaders”. On the other hand, the “Innovation Labs” found in every pavilion sought to capture the “wisdom of the crowd” in regards to “new designing principles” which could be used by brands for bridging the distance that lies between “shifting societal aspirations” and in profitable delivery. Some of the leading consultancies in “sustainable brand innovation”, like “BBMG, Futerra, Forum for the Future, SustainAbility” along with others, led the discussions.
 
Here is the list of “Activation Hub pavilions for SB'17 Detroit”, as mentioned by Ethical Performance:

 
In the words of Sustainable Brands’ founder, KoAnn Vikoren:
“We are excited that as we launch our second decade as a community, we are now in a place collectively where we can tap into extensive expertise we have in the room to help accelerate the transition to a cleaner, healthier economy around the world. By bringing leading brands, visionary nonprofits and disruptive innovators — all of whom are part of the SB community — together in one place to explore the tools on display, devise new ideas and ideate on what might come next, the Activation Hub will become an accelerator of the good economy and the ‘Good Life’ of the future.”
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com 

Dailycsr.com – 24 May 2017 – Trane is among the “leading” companies that provides “indoor comfort systems and services” and forms part of the “Ingersoll Rand” brand, whereby it took part in the panel discussion of “EE Global Forum” for the year of 2017 that was held in “Washington D.C., on May 8 at 1:15pm ET”.
 
 
The said discussion went under the name “No More Status Quo: Are Technologies Disrupting Conventional Models”, wherein Trane’s Director of Energy Services, Brad Trevillian, dealt with subjects like the efficiency of “connected building technology” for commercial sectors, besides “how the transition to an integrated systems and services model is transforming the industry”.
 
In Trevillian’s words:
“In order to transform the industry and build new, effective models for energy management, we must look beyond individual system efficiency. By focusing on the customer experience and making it easy for facility teams to gather and analyze data within their building systems, we can show measurable results that can be replicated across other industries.”
 
Throughout the world, buildings take up a major part of energy consumption, as in the U.S. over forty percent of the energy consumption take place by the buildings. Moreover, Ethical Performance added:
“With 60 percent of that total coming from heating, ventilation, air conditioning (HVAC) and lighting systems, there is a great opportunity for facility management teams to improve energy management efforts to drive efficiencies by improving the efficiency of their operations”.
 
Trevillian also stressed upon the point that the “connected buildings” are changing the management scenario for commercial buildings. Moreover, Trevillian also shared:
“…how Trane is evolving beyond the mechanical systems to connect the building and other important systems together, which help drive efficiency and provide real results for organizations who have sustainability efforts”.
 
 
 
References:
ethicalperformance.com