Re-imagining sustainable events
Programme and teams
Sustainable Event Management
Re-set hackathon
Teams
Please select a team and join them on Slack, then join that 'break out group' in our online platform on Hack-a-thon-day.
Thanks for attending!
Thanks to everyone that participated in this global gathering of events professionals committed to a sustainable event industry re-set. The 30 min clip below left is a summary of the take-aways from many of the teams. You can watch each of the team meetings, read the chat (!), and see the take aways from each team below. Below right is a summary about the SEA. Join us!
Summary from the teams
About the Sustainable Event Alliance
Here are some more feature takeaways. We'll dig for the gold in the sessions and bring you more in the coming weeks!
Session 1
Wed 15 April, 2020
EU/Australia friendly time:
Wed 15th: Auckland 10pm / Sydney 8pm / Perth 6pm / Delhi 3:30pm / Dubai 2pm / Madrid 12 noon / London 11am / New York 6am / Denver 4am / Los Angeles 3am
Session 2
Wed 15/Thur 16 April, 2020
America/Australia friendly time:
Wed 15th: New York 6pm / Denver 4pm / Los Angeles 3pm / London 11pm / Thurs 16th: Auckland 10am / Sydney 8am / Perth 6am / Delhi 3:30am / Dubai 2am / Madrid midnight
Team 1: Social Glue
Events as the social glue - what now? In this session we will explore how the UN SDGs are a framework for the world working for everyone AND the global event industry. We will explore what could happen if the event industry told this story and was recognised as the ‘social glue’ for the world working for everyone. Join Slack #team-social-glue Facilitators: Fiona Pelham (Denmark) Positive Impact Events | Merrin Pearse (Hong Kong) The Purpose Business
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Merrin Pearse, There are summaries from the other sessions happening for us all, 2020-04-15
Jurgis Didžiulis, hi!, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, Pain Point - Nod or hub based events run at the same time rather than having to travel on one part of the world., 2020-04-15
Organizer - Suzanne Morrell, thanks :), 2020-04-15
Lindsay Seth, CMM, SMMC, Just a comment: Emmanuel Macron spoke (about COVID) to the people of France 2 days ago, and recongnised our inductry as one which has been severely impacted by the virus. First time I have heard a Presîdent who knows we exist., 2020-04-15
Jurgis Didžiulis, good points ?
Jurgis Didžiulis, perhaps include a code of conduct with those best practices?, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, If you want join on screen with us all click on the link at the top of the videos, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, How might we raise the profile of the global event industry?, 2020-04-15
Brett Osler, This is Yara (a Norwegian company which operates in various global markets) communicates on how it addresses each of the SDGs and where they are referenced in either annual reports or their Global Reporting Initiative - https://www.yara.com/this-is-yara/sustainability/commitments-and-policies/sustainable-development-goals/, 2020-04-15
Beatrice Jeavons, I think that access of events particularly within the arts to lower socio economical areas should be a priority, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, Pain Point - events are often held indoors without easy connection to the outdoors or nature., 2020-04-15
Lindsay Seth, CMM, SMMC, Thank you Fiona, this was a great session, really well managed! Thanks Merrin for the behind the scenes action :-), 2020-04-15
Kathryn Winfield, thank you all, Fiona great session and everyone involved - great voices/thoughts thanks, 2020-04-15
Jurgis Didžiulis, its a unique opportunity to bring about a new event industry culture. Use this digital hiatus to put on the "marketing hats" and define those standards, tools, and bring about that new culture (culture = beilfs+behaviours), 2020-04-15
Dawn Dennis, fully agree that showing the BUSINESS CASE for sustainable (redefined) events needs some attention., 2020-04-15
Tiffany Bower, Thanks for awesome facilitation Fiona and Merrin!, 2020-04-15
Camila López, Thank you Fiona & Merrin, thank you all for this lovely session :), 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, I only see red minus symbols, 2020-04-15
Dawn Dennis, thanks!, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, Looking forward to reading your questions, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, it is seen that we are a good trusted advisor beyond a one day event. We know about bringing communities together., 2020-04-15
kezy Mukiri, Key takeaway - we need to raise the profile of our industry globally by communicating more to our audiences, attendees and stakeholders what we are doing. As a company, for example, we run a lot of impact events here in Nairobi, Kenya championing the SDGs. We do indeed need to talk more about our contribution and impact. Thanks for the session., 2020-04-15
Jan-Jaap In der Maur, Why is raising our profile a goals in itself?, 2020-04-15
Jurgis Didžiulis, its nice to discover how much you can have in common with people you've never met in person..., 2020-04-15
Valeria Geritzen, thank you so much, you are spot on Fiona, 2020-04-15
Beatrice Jeavons, So that arts and cultural events can be accessed by all audiences, 2020-04-15
Jurgis Didžiulis, Spot on ?!! Standard, tools, unified resources and education to create a new industry culture!!!, 2020-04-15
Facilitator Fiona Pelham, www.positiveimpactevents.com, 2020-04-15
Brett Osler, Another is a project I was previously part of, Healthy Active by Design, which includes a range of things improving the health of our communities including the events (largely via Destinations and Sense of Place) and Healthy Food which has a reasonable focus on healthy food, minimal waste, etc including philosophies like 'paddock to plate' - https://www.healthyactivebydesign.com.au, 2020-04-15
Camila López, Idea: boost transdisciplinary collaboration to generate knowledge (more academic link with event industry) . must of the studies are based in UK, US, Australia .. expand this and also there is a gap in the academic research related to the social/cultural benefits of events (mainly festival industry). Boost academic exchange thru our fields., 2020-04-15
Amy Munro, Thank you all, 2020-04-15
Beatrice Jeavons, Thanks guys! been great!, 2020-04-15
Brett Osler, Good point. It is suggested that the fundamentals of diplomacy are: Representation, Negotiation and Communication, 2020-04-15
Info coming
Team 2: Data
Resetting the Baseline - Impact Metrics for a reDesigned Industry. Data. Analytics. Insights. Evidence-based decision making. In a world where more and more data is available, why is it that events related data is as sparse as ever? How do we change this? Join Slack #team-baseline-data
Facilitators: Lisa Erhart (Australia) Institute for Sustainable Events, Cameron Little (Australia) SEA Leadership Team
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Kerry South, expert advice is good but I'd like to see more collaboration within the event industry so that solutions are normalised and part of business as usual operations., 2020-04-15
Kerry South, need commonality in data sets to be able to extrapolate into the big picture in a useful way for our industry, 2020-04-15
Fac. Cameron Little, Solutions need to be scalable too - consistency is important but it isn't always going to be a one size fits all, 2020-04-15
Fac. Cameron Little, Agreed Kerry. SEA is certainly focused on how we can progress this, 2020-04-15
Kerry South, (throughout all the suppliers that are involved in an event), 2020-04-15
Abdelhadi Alomar, https://www.iswa.org/home/news/news-detail/browse/2/article/iswa-president-launches-ground-breaking-new-report-preparing-the-waste-management-industry-for-the-4/109/, 2020-04-15
Abdelhadi Alomar, Xander, what is the name of the institute you just mentioned?, 2020-04-15
Abdelhadi Alomar, Is it the same concept as the circular economy?, 2020-04-15
Andreas Peters, Thats true ! very difficult topic same as an overall guideline or standard, 2020-04-15
Fac. Cameron Little, Contractual requirement to provide verifiable data, 2020-04-15
Michael Pope, in all sessiopns, 2020-04-15
Kendra Sullivan, Greetings!, 2020-04-15
Andreas Peters, I think we need a digital solution to collect data from suppliers .. something like an integrated erp system., 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, https://www.kateraworth.com/ - Doughnut Economy, 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, AFTER your baseline measurement of course, 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, Strongly connected, but definitely not the same, 2020-04-15
Kerry South, @Xander - better some small steps for many than some bigger more complex steps for a few?, 2020-04-15
Fac. Cameron Little, Food traders are tricky - it's not really in their interests so we need to make it as reasonable as possible but also a non-negotiable. If they don't comply they can't come back, 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, Rockstrom Institute?, 2020-04-15
Andreas Peters, I think working with such a model might force them evn more into lying .., 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, just start somewhere and work that out really well, or don't do it at all, 2020-04-15
Andreas Peters, But its a good way to start, 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, #1 step to take, 2020-04-15
Xander Kotvis, https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/planetary-boundaries/planetary-boundaries/about-the-research/the-nine-planetary-boundaries.html, 2020-04-15
Abdelhadi Alomar, The Impact of the 4th Industrial Revolution on the ... - ISWAwww.iswa.org › eID=tx_iswaknowledgebase_download, 2020-04-15
Philip Wanless, Just a thought - measurement could be done using either the Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) - better for larger events. Or, use the CMVP (Certified Measurement & Verification Protocol., 2020-04-15
Fac. Cameron Little, One approach is to include an environmental bond. If they leave a mess or don't comply with guidelines they lose all or part of the environmental bond, 2020-04-15
Team 3: Destinations
Rethink, redesign, regenerate better event destinations. Join Slack #team-destinations
Facilitators: Guy Bigwood (Spain) GDSI | Aurora Dawn Benton (USA) Astrapto
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Becky Hargrove, Thanks so much for everyone...., 2020-04-15
Noah Joubert, Here is the link for viima: https://app.viima.com/gds-index/rethink-redesign-and-regenerate-better-destinations/, 2020-04-15
Noah Joubert, Calling in from Granada, Spain. Working as a Sustainability Consultant for the GDS-Index. 2020-04-15
Deanna Varga, Deanna from Sydney, Australia. I'm a consultant in business events (with CVB experience). I work on commercialisation projects and have clients globally as well as in Australia., 2020-04-15
Matthew Mak, check p.22. the target renewable energy mix is only 3-4% by 2030. Thats extraordinary low when comparing to other developed cities., 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, Guy & Noah, through the work you've done on GDS Index, are there any standout destinations where you've already seen they have got all the key stakeholders across their destination/region working cohesively together/funded effectively that we could look to as an example of how it could be done?, 2020-04-15
Fac: Aurora Dawn Benton, Aurora Dawn Benton - Astrapto - sustainability in hospitality and events (mostly I train suppliers), 2020-04-15
Hildur Björg Baeringsdottir, Thanks Becky, really great tip there., 2020-04-15
Fac: Aurora Dawn Benton, For anyone who didn't catch it earlier - double click on the video square where Guy's presentation is and it will make it larger and easier to view, 2020-04-15
Amanda Curtis, Hi all! I'm here and listening - will try and get involved through chats (and video) but have 2 kids running around at mo. Good to see you, 2020-04-15
Christina Dvinge, Christina from Denmark, working with sustainable tourism and destination development for the company NORRØN, 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, I'm having connectivity issues I'm afraid so it won't let my video connect but I can see and hear you all, 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, Absolutely!, 2020-04-15
Matthew Mak, Hong Kong has been talking about to be a sustainable city for decades. But the fact that we don't have the infrastructure to support that initiative. Our renewable energy mix is only 2%. 98% is rely on fossil fuel., 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, Hello all, it's Linda from regional Qld (Australia) here. I'm so excited to be here - I will keep video and audio off until essential (you don't need to see my crazy family life at 8pm!)., 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, Well worth checking out if you are a DMO or CVB, 2020-04-15
Helen Petkewitz, Very interesting. Thank you!, 2020-04-15
Fac: Aurora Dawn Benton, I added some comments in Viima, 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, It is a Facebook support group but they've set up also a support group that you sign up to via their website, 2020-04-15
Martijn Hulshof, Martijn, event traffic management pro. I'm in, 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, Tourism and events have a symbiotic relationship and we are starting to realise this in Australia. I agree - they need to come together., 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, My internet connection is not allowing me to use video and audio sorry. I will have to type my comments....this is the only downfall of living in regional Australia!, 2020-04-15
Helen Petkewitz, Hi everybody. I am calling in from Barcelona. I am a management trainee with Hilton, and I have been implementing green meeting packages with my hotel., 2020-04-15
Noah Joubert, https://app.viima.com/gds-index/rethink-redesign-and-regenerate-better-destinations/, 2020-04-15
Matthew Mak, Matthew from Hong Kong. I am interest in how Hong Kong can participate in the GDS index., 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, Funding is a BIG issue for DMO's in Australia - we seem to be fighting for funding and using time and energy just surviving as an organisation. We definitely need a new efficient model. Remove some layers perhaps?, 2020-04-15
Hildur Björg Baeringsdottir, Hi, I am Hildur from Meet in Reykjavik the convention bureau in Reykjavik, Iceland. We take part in the GDS-Index., 2020-04-15
Noah Joubert, Do you know if Hong Kong has a roadmap to improve those figures?, 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, Excellent work everyone. Stay in touch., 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, I'm Becky. I manage a regional Convention Bureau in South West Ireland. We have participated in the GDS Index for the last two years, 2020-04-15
Helen Petkewitz, I think space will become much more important, so I wonder if busy tourist spots will just disappear, 2020-04-15
Fac: Aurora Dawn Benton, If anyone in the chat would like to speak up, please select to participate (button at the top) and I will add you to the video group so we can hear from you., 2020-04-15
Linda Tillman, Great question, I would be very interested in this too, 2020-04-15
Matthew Mak, a paper on toward sustainable city. https://www.enb.gov.hk/sites/default/files/pdf/ClimateActionPlanEng.pdf, 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, great, thanks Guy. Good to see Dublin getting a mention as a positive example.... Just to flag the Destination Think DMO support forum/group is worth checking out as its a great network for us to tap into, ask questions and reach out to individual destinations, 2020-04-15
Becky Hargrove, https://www.facebook.com/groups/DTtravelsupport/, 2020-04-15
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Team 4: Landscape After Lockdown
Social behaviour; Is this the perfect storm to end the live event experience as we know it? How will social distancing affect live events? Join Slack #team-landscape-after-lockdown
Facilitators: Chris Pleydell (UK) The Green Energy Fund, Abena Poku-Awuah (UK) Legacy Events (SEA Leadership Team)
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Team 5: Rethinking sports
Could this crisis be an opportunity to rethink the dimension of sport events, and propose events of a new generation, embedding all dimensions of the sustainable development? Join Slack #team-rethinking-sports
Facilitators: Géraud Mousnier (France) Asveltri | Geert Hendriks (Switzerland) SANDSI
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- Alastair Duncan, I think Daniel/sVermont made a good point about event organisers including some kind os sustainability into the tender process. I have certainly done this in all tenders I have issued., 2020-04-15
- Sally Jones, Intro - Sally, working as events producer currently across a range of events, previous background is event and venue management for organising committees for large scale sports events. Based in London., 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, it needs to be developed, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, yes, 2020-04-15
- Adarsh Subramanian, There is some issue with joining in. In many education programs, there is a gap between the theory and what happens in the industry. In our masters at AISTS, we had great lectures couple of weeks ago on sustainability. The lectures were about what different events and sporting federations are doing now. There were some great ones like the Ocean Race which gave us a different perspective but also ones that were dud. But what is missing is a real hands-on experience. Converting theory to practice has been the gap and that is something that needs to be worked on in education. Apologies, most of this has already been discussed as I was typing., 2020-04-15
- Daniel Vermont, Paul Dewswould be great to chat about your bungee and cable tie troubles., 2020-04-15
- Alastair Duncan, Intro, I am Alastair, I work in sports events, mostly outdoor & mass participation (cycling, triathlons, maratons etc). Based in Estonia, I go where the work is. My background is in architecture & constructon, I, 2020-04-15
- Kristen Fulmer, Lucy Agreed! I think it's showing people who may not think that the ocean, for example, relates to them (if they do not feel close to it) that it's actually tied to other things they love - whether that's animals, or skiing, or anything else. This virus has a new way to show how truly global everything is, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, Paul Dews, International Event Consultant. Predominatly work on major multi sports event. Currently writing a paper on branding and signage sustainability in events, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, 1) exchange best practice among different sports on how to educate (activity, interactive games etc)., 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, Why and How, 2020-04-15
- Adarsh Subramanian, I'm Adarsh doing my Masters in Sports Management in Lausanne, Switzerland. Doing a research on sustainable sports events., 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, we are missing key role model figure which embrace and communicate the message of sustainability in the sport (there are some but not aligned, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, Sure, 2020-04-15
- Pierluigi Zacheo, I’m Pierluigi founder of MyStadium. I am based in London and I am a sustainability advisor working with companies in the sport industry., 2020-04-15
- Emilie Llorens, Emilie Llorens - Curve Communications & Events -UK - I work mostly for sport organisations on their sustainability programme., 2020-04-15
- Alastair Duncan, @Žiga can I ask how big a part sustainability played in your education? I was educated in 1980's, and event then it played a part in my education in Scotland, even though it was not really called 'sustainability' at that time., 2020-04-15
- Kristen Fulmer, Certification should be used a validation tool, instead of the method to lead decision-making... A conversation I've often had in real estate development regarding LEED certification (or other building standards), 2020-04-15
- Alastair Duncan, I cover venue design, overlay, safety, temporary infrastructure, look, branding etc, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, Good morning I am Cristiana Pace from Enovation Consulting. I am based in the UK near Silverstone and I working with a number of stakeholders in the motorsport sector., 2020-04-15
- Kristen Fulmer, @Ziga Here in the US, we're probably most productive when we can push private companies to sponsor these programs through pressures with corporate responsibility and private investment streams., 2020-04-15
- Adarsh Subramanian, 1) Sustainability is viewed differently in different parts of the world. The organizers / future event managers need to be educated to be sensitive to this and cater to the needs of the geography they are working in. (2) Before diving deep, should we take a step back and maybe think if there should be one common language for sustainability in events across the world. To draw a parallel, PMI has established a common language for Project Management. I'm not sure if this a backward step, but I believe this will bring in more people into sustainability., 2020-04-15
- Organiser: Meegan Jones, Hi 10 min warning.... don't forget to do a message recording of your main take away. And do a screen shot! You can leave early if you want to go and do some networking, look at the expo and get ready to do the pet therapy or stretching session!, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, in engineering we have transfer of technology networking event, can we have something similar to exchange best practice on education and engaging with young generation between different sports?, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, Also budget will still often take precedent over sustainability when it comes to the final assessment of a tender. Industry standards need to be raised. This is the repsonsibility of everyone from sponsors, to event owners to event organisers, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, @Alaistair @Daniel In Motorsport we have already introduce sustainability in the tender process. It has helped, but lots need to be done to extend the get across to the all ecosystem., 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, Education needs to be top down across the organisation, the more educated the workforce the more they will push for a pathway at junior level. Youth are already pretty engaged with the cause, the older generations are the ones that are less consistent, 2020-04-15
- Daniel Vermont, Agree to not being optional., 2020-04-15
- Žiga Bulc, Alastair Duncan So far it hasn't been included in the education program, it was all individual interest and motivation, only since I started with my professional internships I started to learn more and more and become more interested in, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews,
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- Cristiana Pace, we have ISO????, 2020-04-15
- Rico Tesio, interesting thought Kristen Fulmer , i see it as both, 2020-04-15
- Rico Tesio, www.bluestrikeenvironmental.com, 2020-04-15
- Lucy Hunt, Playmob have some sustainability games, 2020-04-15
- Kristen Fulmer, Kristen Fulmer - Recipric (www.recipric.com) -, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, I agree with Rico, I think there is a lack of education in general in the industry, 2020-04-15
- Lucy Hunt, youth lots of hands on activities to be launched later this month :), 2020-04-15
- Claire Poole, Hi there, I'm listening but can't participate because of a deadline :) Claire Poole, CEO of Sport Positive Summit, and Founder of ClearBright Consult, 2020-04-15
- Daniel Vermont, Dan Vermont - Super League Triathlon. Branding and Overlay. www.superleaguetriathlon.com., 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, ?Daniel Vermont (side topic)I led the Road Events Look Programme at 2012, we led with the bungee system on the first day of the Cycle Road Race and it got abandoned for cable ties for various reasons by day 2 - please stick with it!, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, i think you need to give measurables against though What's - what can you do and what will it achieve, 2020-04-15
- Alastair Duncan, Cristiana could it be that those who do embrace & communicate sustainability in sport all perhaps have a different definition of the word sustainability?, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, @Alastair agreed., 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, Organisation/industry, 2020-04-15
- Claire Poole, www.sportpositivesummit.com // claire.poole@sportpositivesummit.com, 2020-04-15
- Žiga Bulc, Kristen that is what I was wondering yes, thank you, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, I agree with Rico too, especially in our industry., 2020-04-15
- Rico Tesio, @ziga it does not help. thankfully there are enough people on the other side of the argument., 2020-04-15
- Daniel Vermont, I think the same way we deliver our Health and Safety Plans our Risk Assessments, Security Plans that we quite often copy from event to event we should have the same plans for sustainability practices., 2020-04-15
- Alastair Duncan, Cristiana I think most organisers include some kind of sustainable questions in their tenders, however I still see tenders issued to me, or done by others that do not include anything. IMO it's a basic part of any tender and a really simple and easy thing to include., 2020-04-15
- Daniel Vermont, NfL in London had huge bins that encouraged people to vote who would win by putting there rubbish into recycle bins. Ability to be interactive, 2020-04-15
- Žiga Bulc, what role should he IOC play in all this? We can use them effectively, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, we seems to have forgot the ability to showcase good initiatives in the short term, and role models to push this off to the media., 2020-04-15
- Žiga Bulc, Rico how much of a limit is the contradicting view of the national government on the funding and future possibilities of sustainability in sport?, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, As a federation World Sailing has a great program! Do you have some numbers on how many kids have engaged with over the year and what is the rate of change?, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, Best practice is always transferable!!!, 2020-04-15
- Lucy Hunt, The Ocean Race have Youth Academy and also run Ocean Health workshops at each race village and have online programme learning.theoceanrace.com .. Also keep an eye out for World Sailing Sustainability programme for, 2020-04-15
- Cristiana Pace, in our sport, the problem are not youngsters, but teaching the old generation, and the categories which are still run from mid 60s/70s year old people. I have 3 young kids and they are all learning sustainability at school, including impact in water and land, 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, Sustainability is a section of multi-sports events tenders, I am not convinced the stewardship post event is necessarily all that strong, however. Committees disband, the people move on (not just multi-sports events for the latter), 2020-04-15
- Daniel Vermont, I think a big part of education is the ability to show youth what sustainability is. Sky Ocean Rescue for example built a whale out of plastic waste that really hit home how much waste goes into the ocean each day, 2020-04-15
- Alastair Duncan, Adarsh this goes back to what I said earlier, that the term 'sustainability' means different things to different events. Perhaps defining what it means to specific events would be a start, almost like a specific 'sustainability' statement in the event mission statement., 2020-04-15
- Paul Dews, 20121, 2020-04-15
- Kristen Fulmer, Definitely a good guide to provide enhanced baseline (above minimum expectations), but hopefully that minimum expectation is being raised over time, which ultimately also pushes the certification to be more progressive as well., 2020-04-15
COMING SOON
Team 6: Event Safe Zones?
Can events and festivals become ‘safe zones’ for COVID 19 immune people at some point? Join Slack #team-event-safe-zones
Facilitator: Jacob Bilabel (Germany) Green Music Initiative
Team 7: Climate Emergency
How might we bring SDGs and Climate Emergency into ‘headlines’ = integrate in all what we do? Join Slack #team-climate-chaos-emergency
Facilitators: Claudia van't Hullenaar (Germany) Sustained Impact, Lorenzo Orlandi (Italy) LOCOM (SEA Leadership Team)
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Claudia G. van´t Hullenaar, 1. Theme ‘Behaviour Change’: How might we push the importance of sustainability culture and environmental reverence as a driver of behavior change for fundamental transformation that would lead to a shift towards evolved SDG and climate action?, 2020-04-15
Milda Salciute, Inspiration, best practise exchange & sharing best cases, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, From the planner side: exclude venues that don't have sustainable practices by default and communicate this to the venues that weren't selected, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Lorenzo Orlandi, 2. Theme ‘Behaviour Change’: How might shift sustainability integration in event design from add-on/good-to-have to new normal?, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Lorenzo Orlandi, 3. Theme ‘Business models’: How might we move towards responsible business models, events, services, destinations, etc. ?, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Suppliers need to stop selling it as an add-on, 2020-04-15
Milda Salciute, Sustainable practises fully integrated in venues/hotels as part of the event package (not a good to have add-on), 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, This is a great graph showing that we're just at the beginning, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Lorenzo Orlandi, Q1- ‘Behaviour Change’ how might we push sustainability culture...., 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Lorenzo Orlandi, resilience, 2020-04-15
Alexander Hunting, Great graphs, 2020-04-15
Milda Salciute, Sustainability standards (point made by Lorenzo) is very important in my opinion, 2020-04-15
Laura Scorza Wade , Laura Lausanne Lane, 2020-04-15
Bart Van Loon, We work for Tomorrowland where we measure the energy consumption and they have a seperated team that works on love tomorrow, https://www.lovetomorrow.com, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Exchange of knowledge and best practice, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Commitment from leadership is very important IMO, 2020-04-15
Alexander Hunting, Will you share this presentation afterwards please?, 2020-04-15
Bart Van Loon, kind of energylabel on an event, like devices with an A of A+ or A++ label..., 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Encourage every employee to make suggestions relating to what they see in their daily tasks, like a feedback scheme, 2020-04-15
Milda Salciute, Clear direction and commitment from leadership, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, for example the stimulus packages for COVID19, 2020-04-15
Clare O'Connor, I'm Clare, from Ireland, 7, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Couple economic stimulus to sustainable practices, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Destinations need to stop selling green meetings and transform into a sustainable destination, including an impact report for every single event, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Lorenzo Orlandi, 4. Theme ‘Stakeholders’: What is the deepest need for this community to meet (different stakeholders eg. event organizers, destinations …..) in relation to sustainability, climate crisis and/or SDGs ?, 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Roger Lehner, Brighton UK, 6, 2020-04-15
Nancy Guevara Zavaleta, Nancy Im Mexican but leaving in Montreal., 2020-04-15
Roger Lehner, Education on the available standards and how to apply them to your business, 2020-04-15
Nancy Guevara Zavaleta, suppliers engagement, 2020-04-15
Team 8: Budgets & Mindsets
How do we manage budgets and mindsets to deliver sustainable events? Join Slack #team-budgets-mindsets.
Facilitators: Livvy Drake (UK) Sustainable Sidekicks | Fiona Pascoe (Australia)
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Sara Franzini Gabrielli, problem for sponsors: if they can't put their logo on merchandising or other things, how can they have a return on their image?, 2020-04-15
Camille Guitteau, Hi there - Camille here, co-Founder of Bye Bye Plastic Foundation. We're motivating and guiding the music industry (events & clubs) to remove single-use plastics by 2025, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, I don't think technology will work for arts and music events; live events in general., 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, In which sector can be applied? Eg in the world of sport is hard to do that, 2020-04-15
Andrea Frydl, Big buffets might raise a question to be used at events?, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, @SaraFranziniGabrielli, it could work for corporate events and perhaps talkfests (Eriters Festivals, Festival of ideas) but not sport or performing arts. Even for talkfests people come to see the "real" person., 2020-04-15
Marthe Neirings, I don't think so.., 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, accreditation, badges, 2020-04-15
Marthe Neirings, could you repeat that solution or put it here Jack?, 2020-04-15
Fac - Fiona Pascoe, 1st Question - What does a sustainable event mean to you?, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Livvy Drake, What does a sustainable event mean to you?, 2020-04-15
Andrea Frydl, and Branding, eg..Banners, Signage, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Livvy Drake, What are the biggest opportunities post-COVID19 to deliver sustainable events and address the problems we highlighted in 2? Event design Sponsor opportunities, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, No time allowed in planning to source sustainable items and to dispose of them., 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, I Hope people wil start using there onw cups, 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, Free thinking: Perhaps a big event, which make a lot of people happy, should also reserve a part of the budget for others who have less. Or for a sustainable goal. A percentage of the budget. A good environmental goal., 2020-04-15
Laura van de Voort, Hi, my name is Laura, co-owner of Green Events International (Netherlands). We support event organizers with becoming more sustainable., 2020-04-15
Serena Pacifico, clients don't find sustainability a need but rather a nice to have and are not keen in investing in it and also they don't want to disrupt their own way of doing things, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, Everyone will be trying to get their events off the ground and there will be less time for planning., 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, Toilets will be a bigger focus yes, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, Interesting regarding sponsors as it seems that they are asking more or more for events themselves to be sustainable., 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, Communicating via your event website of what the event is doing in the sustainability space and acknowledging each step taken, and how sponsors have been involved., 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, No budget lines to take care of costs for sustainable materials, for sustainable disposal/repurposing of materials., 2020-04-15
Fac - Fiona Pascoe, Guys who are listening there are spaces still avail if you want to jump in - just push particpate, 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, I think that is going to start in 20min now if you want you can go into the Networking session as to meet other people, 2020-04-15
Jack Jury, Francoise - I think thats a really interesting point. Agreed, having watched a lot of theatre productions at home its not the same thing at all! But instead of making the whole events virtual, can we do things like leaning more on video elements rather than physical built elements for productions?, 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, Hi Sara Franzini Gabrielli, Freelancer in sporting events organizations. University researcher on how to organize sporting events in a sustainable way. Trying to understand how sustainability can be an opportunity for also the more "profit oriented" organizers, 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, Social Media can be the key, 2020-04-15
Fac - Fiona Pascoe, Marthe i believe Jack was talking about hybrid events (half local/half virtual), 2020-04-15
Andrea Frydl, Hi, I'm Andrea and a Freelance Event Manager based in London. I'm very passionate about sustainability and want to include this more in the events industry., 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, There are some great food saving initiatives in Australia but again you have to plan ahead - you can't call them at the last minute; jsut as you can't call people at the last minute to find a home for perfectly good materials., 2020-04-15
Marthe Neirings, Marthe, ecofest, zero waste manager. We help festivals to become more sustainable and to lower their impact., 2020-04-15
Andrea Frydl, Agree hybrid events will become much bigger, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, Good evening, I am Françoise. I work in theatre and arts events in Adelaide, South Australia. I don't work in sustainable events per se but I am obsessed with sustainability. I am trying to get as many people and events I work with or on to take up sustainable behaviour. I also have a modest FB page called The French Brace where I encourage my community to adopt sustainable behaviours and also to save sets/props/materials etc from landfill., 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, also merchandising and prizes!, 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, Yes! Bring it positive. That can make the change, 2020-04-15
Fac - Fiona Pascoe, Hi there, anyone who is viewing and not on screen please add your name in the chatbox...we will swap people around thoughout the next 75 minutes...tks Fiona - Facilitator, 2020-04-15
Fac - Fiona Pascoe, Hello Fiona again, can you please add a very short intro about your experience with Sustainable Events?, 2020-04-15
Sarah Glaied, Hi - my name is Sarah Glaied, I am a Senior Event Producer. I am looking to establish good sustainable practices into all of my future events., 2020-04-15
Victor Baumert, Hey, Im Victor, working for byebyeplastic foundation, aiming at removing single use plastic from the music industry., 2020-04-15
Serena Pacifico, hello! My name is Serena, I'm Based in Singapore and I opened my event agency, evntACT 3 years ago, with the aim to only deliver sustainable events and share best practices on how to use events in the "right" way, 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, Hello. I'm Femke, I'm a senior event manager on roadshows. We need to becoming more sustainable. We are working on that. A lot of work to do there. Especially on technics, 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, insipre people, teach people how to live in a sustainable way, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, That's a lot of sanitiser!, 2020-04-15
Marthe Neirings, Do they realise they can wear gloves.. haha, 2020-04-15
Saffron Morgan, Hi Fiona! - We hear the challenge is single use is quicker, 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, In the world of roadshows branding is very important for our clients. So it's us as suppliers who think more about sustainable ways of branding. The we can make our clients still happy, 2020-04-15
Femke Terra, The prtoblem is the wall, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, And merchandising as the virtual delegates don't need an event bag!, 2020-04-15
Jack Jury, Morning All! I am Jack, I work for a company called Entourage (entourage.live) based in the UK, we specialise in producing Immersive theatrical events, along side building semi-permanent venues. We are trying to help transition to working a more sustainable way., 2020-04-15
Michael Kollmorgen, Hi all, I'm Michael and im an events producer for a melbourne based events agency, who specialise in custom builds and activations., 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Livvy Drake, Who should we be talking to and how should we be talking to them? How do we frame the conversations? Customer expectations Brand reputation and marketing opportunities, 2020-04-15
Jack Jury, Yes indeed!, 2020-04-15
Fac - Fiona Pascoe, Great sharing guys thanks for joining us, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Livvy Drake, What do you think the biggest sustainability impacts of events both positive and negative are pre-COVID19: Social Financial Environmental, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, RE: @Saffron - I agree, make sure that the event website has a page about what you are doing in that space, as events do in regarding access. Don't wait for the page to be perfect - it is good to see progress over time. I think SOH has a great example., 2020-04-15
Sarah Glaied, It is difficult to find suppliers that can provide real sustainable options, I don't feel that there is enough education out there in the industry on availabel resources and alternative solutions, 2020-04-15
Francoise Piron, @JackJury - good idea but video projection can have problems of its own in terms of technology etc and it has a certain aesthetic which doesn't suit all creative needs., 2020-04-15
Sara Franzini Gabrielli, also for inspire and teach to young people, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Livvy Drake, In terms of mindsets and budgets what were the biggest barriers pre-COVID19 that you experienced to deliver sustainable events?, 2020-04-15
Jack Jury, @sara - I think in the more corporate conferencing world this works better. Actually this platform looks really good for that sort of think, 2020-04-15
- Reduced budgets are an opportunity for less waste with longer-term planning on sets for reuse & doing more with less
- Concerns over travel and costs are an opportunity for high-bred events that include online and live interaction whilst significantly reducing the biggest carbon impact -travel
- We need to focus on the positive narratives and stories that sustainable initiatives offer which are a huge opportunity for the marketing team
- We need to highlight that sustainability and COVID19 are linked - people, planet and profit*Talking to the brand or marketing team can open up budgets
- And as ever we need to ensure there is a sustainability policy and action plan in place. This ensures everyone is clear on the annual priorities and it is manageable and not overwhelming.
Team 9: Food Waste
How do we re-set our approach to wasteful catering, planning for food salvage and resource cycling through compost capture? Join Slack #team-food-waste
Facilitator: Miek Egberts (Monaco) Inspire Me | Gayle Murphy (Malta) Global Green Events
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Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, hehehe yes I work internationally but I am based between events in Malta (in the med =) and New Zealand, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, We can drive so much change in this industry right now -to do some external research about new ideas and options, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Hopefully things will rebooot in time to not deeply affect mass chains long term but its a time where we can promote the food waste issue - YES Miek -, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, most chefs really struggle, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Perhaps as an industry it would be good to really understand and research local options now raher than waiting to see what is available at the time, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, They chose to go for the sustainable options to make an example., 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, Good morning/afternoon/evening!, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Definitely important as if someone who is vegan is organising its important to get a meat eater to test the food. As its about taking care of all., 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, YES Claudia - and i think that with an increase in pricing and the resources - we will realise this too, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Hes a great example Miek - i wonder if the industry as a whole could do some reports on the savings of climate and env and health power of making different choices, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, As we ran a sustainable conference for normal humans this last year and made a kickass menu, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Claudia - I am also vegan and would choose to eat something natural over Beyond Burger but I think when it comes to feeding it to the masses it works, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I hear you Tracy - just not sure how many meat eaters would be 'satisfied' with some stuffed peppers :D, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Yes I think that the need will increase for 'food waste' that can be passed from the more affluent circles (running events once it gets going again) and supporting those that are still in a poor state post covid, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I agree there is a big opportunity for conversations around food to be more prominent. I mean the other possibility is that everyone goes into full on consumption mode once we are all let out!, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Agreed Miek - positive mindset and a change of values hopefully around food and its value, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, and thats from a mediterranean audience, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, YES to what Miek is saying -- definitely will be affecting suppliers of catering, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, thats why as organisers its good to focus on the menu choices. and tasting., 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, lollll hilarious vegan options, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, agreed!, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, So sustainable Eats and Treats is a restaurant cafe and bar certification, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I think organisers will have to be more dynamic - promoting the local sourcing and sustainable ways - perhaps even because they are now the only options. Staying safe by focussing on local food chains, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, lollll ironically toilet roll is on the *currently out of stock* list, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, It is not showing me that you want to come in. Have you clicked participate?, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, Gail, I did hit accept. Why not go out and try to come back in., 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Local foods may become more popular as well as food sourced naturally - as even here people are reverting to growing food and getting an awareness of what it means when supermarkets are not the reliable provider, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Here for example restaurants that are closed and freelance chefs are teaming up to feed those who really neeed it. We can team up with local initiatives to spread the left over foods to those that may still be suffering as a fall out to covid. I think that legalities for this will be loosened perhaps by local governemts for the needs increase, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, and this is a power point for our industry to be promoting this new way, 2020-04-15
Facilitator Miek Egberts, :-), 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Even meat eaters love it, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, with lots of pre event campaigning and signage on site and we had such good feedback, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Ensuring that the catering is still possible for a varied menu. And closing the loop for food waste and composting - feeding back into the local resource or spreading to those that need it, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, we do audits for hospitality outlets and then set them up with advice to get them to be more sustainable, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, So post covid I think that food waste is going to be much more of a focus, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Great that they are looking at this Tracey, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, in a few events we have run we have met with them first and even managed to set up an inhouse compost system and local food sourcing - which hotels are then mostly really happy to continue with as its a USP or upsell for their future clients, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, See the audience and what the limits are and whats possible, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, As I know from friends of mine that work in the food supply chain that things are already out of stock worldwide, as so there will be a lag time where some foods are available. Creating more of an awareness about amounts of food, serving sizes, menu choices. Rather than a consumption viewpoint, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, At IMEX America they had the Beyond Burger and even the meat eaters lovedddd it, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, hahaha - wow - the market is so interesting. YES to communicating it. I think also its important about the cheff, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I would be so unimpressed. I think maybe its not that they dont care, but unless you are vegan, you dont really know how to be innovative for good veggie and vegan eco friendly options, 2020-04-15
COMING SOON
Team 10: Step Up for Society
How can the Events Industry "step up for society” in moments of crisis? Join Slack #team-step-up-for-society
Facilitators: Rebecca Johnson (UK & Spain) GDSI | Charlotte Connell (Australia) Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia
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Fernanda Gil, Im working on a project called H U M A N passport, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Rebecca Johnson, cool, 2020-04-15
Dimana Tzoneva, Yes, I can hear you and I am on viima, 2020-04-15
Dimana Tzoneva, my name is Dimana I am in The Hague, the Netherlands and I am an Events Intern, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Rebecca Johnson, https://app.viima.com/sustainability-courses/leon---sustainability/?statuses=46911, 2020-04-15
Trang C, This is the article I mentioned on "corona-washing": https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/the-corporate-world-is-helping-to-combat-coronavirus-but-mind-the-virus-washing/, 2020-04-15
Crecilda Van der Merwe, Fernanda maybe want to do your intro on the chat?, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Rebecca Johnson, HI Fernanda & Zoe, 2020-04-15
Trang C, https://www.linkedin.com/in/trang-chu-minh/, 2020-04-15
Dimana Tzoneva, https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimana-tzoneva/, 2020-04-15
COMING SOON
Team 11: Food and Inclusion
Feeding engagement and nourishing inclusion through food. Join Slack #team-food-inclusion
Facilitator: Tracy Stuckrath (USA) Thrive Meetings
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Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, hehehe yes I work internationally but I am based between events in Malta (in the med =) and New Zealand, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, We can drive so much change in this industry right now -to do some external research about new ideas and options, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Hopefully things will rebooot in time to not deeply affect mass chains long term but its a time where we can promote the food waste issue - YES Miek -, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, most chefs really struggle, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Perhaps as an industry it would be good to really understand and research local options now raher than waiting to see what is available at the time, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, They chose to go for the sustainable options to make an example., 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, Good morning/afternoon/evening!, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Definitely important as if someone who is vegan is organising its important to get a meat eater to test the food. As its about taking care of all., 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, YES Claudia - and i think that with an increase in pricing and the resources - we will realise this too, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Hes a great example Miek - i wonder if the industry as a whole could do some reports on the savings of climate and env and health power of making different choices, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, As we ran a sustainable conference for normal humans this last year and made a kickass menu, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Claudia - I am also vegan and would choose to eat something natural over Beyond Burger but I think when it comes to feeding it to the masses it works, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I hear you Tracy - just not sure how many meat eaters would be 'satisfied' with some stuffed peppers :D, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Yes I think that the need will increase for 'food waste' that can be passed from the more affluent circles (running events once it gets going again) and supporting those that are still in a poor state post covid, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I agree there is a big opportunity for conversations around food to be more prominent. I mean the other possibility is that everyone goes into full on consumption mode once we are all let out!, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Agreed Miek - positive mindset and a change of values hopefully around food and its value, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, and thats from a mediterranean audience, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, YES to what Miek is saying -- definitely will be affecting suppliers of catering, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, thats why as organisers its good to focus on the menu choices. and tasting., 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, lollll hilarious vegan options, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, agreed!, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, So sustainable Eats and Treats is a restaurant cafe and bar certification, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I think organisers will have to be more dynamic - promoting the local sourcing and sustainable ways - perhaps even because they are now the only options. Staying safe by focussing on local food chains, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, lollll ironically toilet roll is on the *currently out of stock* list, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, It is not showing me that you want to come in. Have you clicked participate?, 2020-04-15
Facilitator - Tracy Stuckrath, Gail, I did hit accept. Why not go out and try to come back in., 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Local foods may become more popular as well as food sourced naturally - as even here people are reverting to growing food and getting an awareness of what it means when supermarkets are not the reliable provider, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Here for example restaurants that are closed and freelance chefs are teaming up to feed those who really neeed it. We can team up with local initiatives to spread the left over foods to those that may still be suffering as a fall out to covid. I think that legalities for this will be loosened perhaps by local governemts for the needs increase, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, and this is a power point for our industry to be promoting this new way, 2020-04-15
Facilitator Miek Egberts, :-), 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Even meat eaters love it, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, with lots of pre event campaigning and signage on site and we had such good feedback, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Ensuring that the catering is still possible for a varied menu. And closing the loop for food waste and composting - feeding back into the local resource or spreading to those that need it, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, we do audits for hospitality outlets and then set them up with advice to get them to be more sustainable, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, So post covid I think that food waste is going to be much more of a focus, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, Great that they are looking at this Tracey, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, in a few events we have run we have met with them first and even managed to set up an inhouse compost system and local food sourcing - which hotels are then mostly really happy to continue with as its a USP or upsell for their future clients, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, See the audience and what the limits are and whats possible, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, As I know from friends of mine that work in the food supply chain that things are already out of stock worldwide, as so there will be a lag time where some foods are available. Creating more of an awareness about amounts of food, serving sizes, menu choices. Rather than a consumption viewpoint, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, At IMEX America they had the Beyond Burger and even the meat eaters lovedddd it, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, hahaha - wow - the market is so interesting. YES to communicating it. I think also its important about the cheff, 2020-04-15
Co-Facilitator - Gayle Murphy, I would be so unimpressed. I think maybe its not that they dont care, but unless you are vegan, you dont really know how to be innovative for good veggie and vegan eco friendly options, 2020-04-15
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Team 12: Festival and Concert Practical Matters
Address issues such as single use plastic, social distancing, digital events, water usage, sanitation, safety, public trust, etc. Join Slack #team-festivals-practical-matters
Facilitators: Patricia Yague (France) Live Nation | Paul Schurink (Netherlands) Green Events International
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Antonio Cañas, In this case it is necessary to run a complete LCA to study alternatives, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Industrial cleaning should be mandatory, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Hi Stefan!, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, good point :), 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, Also, we found a supplier that makes drinking bottles from Corn., 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, post-pandemic, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Can we find solutions to make single use more sustainable?, 2020-04-15
Sue Hill, there is no pushback in my experience where reuseables are used. The roadblock for some organisers and venue operators is they feel the cost is too high for circular use vs single use, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Great Thomas. Do you think this will be the new standard for all events?, 2020-04-15
Marta Barahona Arroyo, At what time we will be back?, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Lisa Cameron, What if the single use vessel could be repurposed into something that added value to the festival site? i.e. event infrastructure?, 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, I think so. 2 years ago, nobody was thinking about that, but everything is changing., 2020-04-15
Sue Hill, events have special bins for these products - it gives them another income stream at the end of the day, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, The last 2 minutes we have to record a wrap up, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, rPET, 2020-04-15
Miguel Zamarripa, :), 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Transparency is key, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, rPET oly food aproved, rPP is not food aproved, 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, and now we are building drinking fountains with sensors, so you don't have to touch anything, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Alum is non renewable.. is it sustainable?, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Hello everyone! Testing the chat, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, What does an increased sense of health and safety mean for reusable products?, 2020-04-15
claire oneill, If we only drink really strong alcohol it will kill the bacteria?, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, I hear well... anyone else has the same problem?, 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, hi I am from MTD pure water and what we do is supply drinking fountains at festivals and events., 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Hi Thomas, Do you expect any H&S issues after Corona? And how can you dail with these?, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, What's the recyled content?, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, and right now... which is clsoe to post pandemic, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Please feel free to add questions and comments in the chat, 2020-04-15
Stefan Gevaert, Hello!, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Irish Whiskey only, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, You can also use only your own cup and have a refill at the bar, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Single-use items... could we think of a different material that is not plastic?, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Can we make disposables/ sigle use sustainable ?, 2020-04-15
Alya Palmer, They started using a similar system by making supermarket trolleys out of water bottles, i found a lot of people make comment on the signs saying '99 bottles made this trolley', 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, Please remember to mute your mics if not participating, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Please don't hesitate to ask anything in this chat, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Patricia Yagüe, yet, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, I got them, they taste awful ......, 2020-04-15
Indra van de Ven, I keep hearing half of what everyone's saying :') Is this a connection problem?, 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, the Race Formula E said to their customers to take their own drinking bottles., 2020-04-15
Sue Hill, in parts of Australia aluminum cans attract a 10c deposit when collected and taken to a recycling centre same for PET drink bottles, 2020-04-15
claire oneill, Hellooo :), 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, Paul, we already noticed a change in use of a drinking fountain. years ago you could only drink from it with your mouth, now hygiene is more and more important and nobody want to touch things.. so that's why we are creating a drinking fountains with Sensors., 2020-04-15
claire oneill, There is a participate button in the top right corner, 2020-04-15
Fac. - Paul Schurink, Yes, this should be the new norm, 2020-04-15
Stefan Gevaert, Do you pose this question in the context of a post-pandemic world or right now?, 2020-04-15
Cristian D'Affuso, I think is also a problem of responsibility. Which management can encourage the use of reusable cups? bad sanitation can cause contagions. Moreover, in Italy there are really stringent rules on the hygiene of dishes, 2020-04-15
Neon Festival, I've applied yesterday but can not enter the Slack groups!, 2020-04-15
Antonio Cañas, Claire, I think it must be higher than 70º but dont really know. Cleaning alcohol is not valid for human consum, 2020-04-15
Thomas De Veylder, also in the sanitary we see that. A lot of organizers worked with chemical toilets, but with the hygiene, they are changing to flushing toilets or vaccuum toilets, 2020-04-15
Stefan Gevaert, To add to the previous topic without interrupting the flow: streamed and virtual events have unique proven potential in terms of 1) interaction and 2) tier-based incentives, which allow them to raise money and awareness for social/environmental sustainability effectively., 2020-04-15
COMING SOON
Team 13: Climate & Community
Creating Local Climate Action Communities. To address a massive problem, we need solutions on a massive scale but with a local focus. How do we create large scale adoption of sustainable practices in our industry, and how do we make these practices everlasting? Using 4 pillars - education, collaboration, inspiration and action - this session will focus on using our events to influence broader and deeper sustainability practices and grassroots activism. Join Slack #team-climate-chaos-emergency
Facilitators: Natalie Lowe (Canada) Sustainable Event Planner | Mélanie Delaplanche (Belgium) Sustainability Addict (SEA Leadership Team)
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Lucie Wehbe, Here an example of sustainable festival in Belgium http://www.ieperfest.com/green-policy, 2020-04-15
Co-facilitator: Mélanie Delaplanche Cahut, but do they not care because they're not educated? chicken and egg...., 2020-04-15
Courtney Lohmann, check out Path Water..., 2020-04-15
Chris Johnson, What is a sustainable bottle :0), 2020-04-15
Co-facilitator: Mélanie Delaplanche Cahut, I have awful echo, 2020-04-15
Courtney Lohmann, Do we think sustainability will be even harder to implement now that budgets will be tight as we come out of COVID-19?, 2020-04-15
Co-facilitator: Mélanie Delaplanche Cahut, SEA does that - trird party validation, 2020-04-15
Co-facilitator: Mélanie Delaplanche Cahut, I feel this conversation is bringing us back to EDUCATION and COLLABORATION, 2020-04-15
Lucie Wehbe, another issue is when event organisators are stucked with a sponsor such as Coca Cola., 2020-04-15
FAC - Natalie Lowe, hello, if you are viewing, please click the participate button and we'll have you join in so we can see and hear you!, 2020-04-15
Lucie Wehbe, no bottle is the best ;), 2020-04-15
Courtney Lohmann, The manufacturers are all moving to new products. The more we ask for or require them, the quicker we may see them., 2020-04-15
Courtney Lohmann, For coco-cola - can you put a clause into their contract that they need to provide a sustainable bottle?, 2020-04-15
COMING SOON
Team 14: Digital Reality
Digital events - can it be a natural part of the event mix after the lockdown? Online is the only way to stay connected and move further, but do they have more potential looking further? Let’s discuss the economical / sustainable / geographical impact that digital events could have on MICE business. Join Slack #team-digital-reality
Facilitators: Indre Blauzdziunaite (Lithuania) | Victoria Elena Rojas (UK)
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- Karl Schodt, Hi Bessie. nice to see another Kiwi, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, 1. Specialise in sustainability communications with a former life in archives/museums/heritage (including online environments for education, engagement and access)2. Living in Hong Kong for past 3 years (prior to that in London)3. Corporate events4. Plenty of hybrid events but none exclusively digital, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, Greetings from Cornwall, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, 3. Corporate conferences & events, mainly disability, tech and open data sectors, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, sustainable opportunity, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, Jenna/sConroy yes there is a whole role around inclusivity too, 2020-04-15
- Karl Schodt, great., 2020-04-15
- Bessie-Rose Mataele, sustainable opportunity, 2020-04-15
- Jenna Conroy, Hi from Melbourne, Australia, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, Programm management & marketing for Pop-Kultur Festival, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, only attended. haven't produced yet!, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, i believe that when people recognjse sustainability as an approach rather than an outcome, it can address all three - the elephant in the room is the lack of transparency in physical events, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , Carolina/sGoradesky not from what i know, as all this was done in no time. But it's defo something to look into, 2020-04-15
- Mitchell van Dooijeweerd, yeah to make it more accessible worldwide, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, event mix - why not > great possibilities, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, 1. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 2020-04-15
- Jon Roberts, 1. London & UK, 2020-04-15
- Joanne Jo, 1. Melbourne Australia 2. Convention Service Coordinator 3. Business Events - International Business Events 4. No experience with digital conferencing 5. www.linkedin.com/in/joanne-jo-771593147, 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, 2. Conference management but no virtual experience yet, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, Perth, Western Australia!, 2020-04-15
- Cristina Narciso, 1 and 3, 2020-04-15
- Dimana Tzoneva, 2. Events Intern, 2020-04-15
- Triinu Jogeda, 1. yes 2. yes. 3. .... not sure!, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, Benjamin/sHecke yes - death to 'why', hello 'why not', 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, From Brazil but working in Brussels, 2020-04-15
- Karl Schodt, Yes. we did live 2 way hologram presentations, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, :-(, 2020-04-15
- Triinu Jogeda, thanks a lot for an interesting discussion :), 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, hi from Tasmania, Australia, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, fine here., 2020-04-15
- Vera Nysetvold, They have to be part of the mix
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- Katie Henderson, 2. Events manager 3. Education, training and awareness campaigns, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, Sometimes simple tools are best as they can easier, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, mine is ok, 2020-04-15
- Cristina Narciso, 1. Melbourne, Aus 2. Events Officer - Early Childhood Aus 3. Conferences and Symposiums 4. Working on a virtual symposium for the first time 5. /cristinanarciso, 2020-04-15
- Jenna Conroy, Only webinars, nothing too interactive, 2020-04-15
- Iqbal Ansari, 1. Muscat, Oman, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, i really like those analogies ... i think that in a world where Glastonbury tickets should be £31 allowing for inflation but are actually way above that, I think that digital events can be democratising and inclusive..., 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , On digital sustainability research:, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, Do you also have the problem for the transmission of the sound or is it because of my internet?, 2020-04-15
- Emilija Vidtmann, Hi from Amsterdam :) Labas Indre!, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, Hi from Hong Kong, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, Hi from Germany, 2020-04-15
- Dimana Tzoneva, 1. The Hague, The Netherlands, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, 2. Project & Event Manager | Company Director, 2020-04-15
- Bessie-Rose Mataele, Auckland, NZ. 2. Events coordinator. 3 Summits, seminars, webinars, 2020-04-15
- Jenna Conroy, Sustainable - have a lot of rural members that can access digital events but wouldn't otherwise attend, 2020-04-15
- Dimana Tzoneva, Hi from the Hague !, 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, 1. Brussels, Belgium, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, Siân/sWynn-Jones and Adrian/sBossey KISS principle, 100%!, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, Aalen in Germany, Professor, Sustainability, https://www.linkedin.com/in/ulrich-holzbaur-a121a81/, 2020-04-15
- Jenna Conroy, 1. Melbourne, Australia 2. Conference and Events Coordinator 3. Educational events 4. Webinars but not much else - yet! 5. /jennaconroy, 2020-04-15
- Jenna Conroy, 1,2,3 yes, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, but with servers there is a choice to NOT use dirty energy, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, THX, 2020-04-15
- Karl Schodt, Hi from Auckland New Zealand, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, Welcome everyone!!, 2020-04-15
- Iqbal Ansari, 3. Trade events organizer, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, only digital teaching, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, @facilitator - Victoria Rojas, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, 2--yes, 2020-04-15
- Mitchell van Dooijeweerd, both, it will be an extension of the festival for whom will stay at home, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, This is a bit different so as an aside; there is a genre of 'networked events' in performing arts/music where in essence you have performers (and in-person audiences) in more than one place and the performance is not complete without access to all of the content ... in a way this event is similar..., 2020-04-15
- Emilija Vidtmann, As being an organizer of a major European B2B Conference, we have recognised that networking is one of our major priorities and advantages. How in your experience have you dealt with creating such connections digitally? Do you think this can be compared to eye-to-eye interactivity?, 2020-04-15
- Triinu Jogeda, I had the same issues Benjamin/sHecke , had to switch on VPN to have proper sound (but that's also because I'm based in the Middle East :) ), 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , https://theshiftproject.org/en/article/lean-ict-our-new-report/, 2020-04-15
- Linda Mertens, I think digital events will be a co-exist next to IRL events but audiences and organisers will want to meet in person and have full body experiences again, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, 1-yes, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , 1 - Yes, 2020-04-15
- Karl Schodt, Where are you Victoria?, 2020-04-15
- Iqbal Ansari, 2. Digital Strategist, 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, Can you explain further the networking/entertainment part of it?, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, My experience with virtual events has been brain-expanding!, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, YES absolutely for all three elements, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, ?MENTION_NAME=Ulrich/sHolzbaur&ID=110592 join us on stage to discuss 2 and 3 further. Click participate, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, I'm from Berlin ;P, 2020-04-15
- Emilija Vidtmann, Uncertainty, 2020-04-15
- Jon Roberts, Hi from UK, 2020-04-15
- Triinu Jogeda, Hello from Dubai!, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, Hello everyone, nice 2 e-meet you., 2020-04-15
- Bessie-Rose Mataele, 1. Auckland, New Zealand, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, Truro, UK. I am an academic and my background is in music and performing arts events. I have experience of doing networked events since 2014 with some interesting artists including Elton John and Pussy Riot ...., 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, Webinars and MPI Academy training, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, we run some online training courses for the live music industry which get some good student feedback ... there is a graduate in the room who might have some comments..., 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, opportunity!, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, thank you this has been really good ... it's exciting I think..., 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, Thanks for the great session. Really cool., 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, 1. Berlin / Germany, 2020-04-15
- Emilija Vidtmann, 1. I am currently based in The Netherlands, Amsterdam, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, 5. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sianwj/, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, https://www.linkedin.com/in/katiehenderson65/, 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, We can't hear you guys, too many mics on, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , Happy to connect! https://www.linkedin.com/in/indre-blauzdziunaite/, 2020-04-15
- Cristina Narciso, 3, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, :-) and many more, 2020-04-15
- Linda Mertens, That'd be great Indre!, 2020-04-15
- Jon Roberts, 1. UK 2. Executive Producer and Creative Technical Director. 3. Live events, theatre, live music, corporate. 4. Previous experience on live streams 5. jon-roberts-72548a29, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, I think all of us who joined need to go on mute perhaps?, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, sorry just re-read my last comment; I mean easier in terms of being more scaleable/inclusive, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, yes it is tricky and I feel as though I need more information and also love live in person events so it's not about stopping them, maybe it's about having small physical capacities ...If you think about Glastonbury demand always outstrips the supply of tickets and in a way the deal with the BBC for terrestrial TV coverage mitigates this and democratises the event as it provides a cheaper way to engage ..., 2020-04-15
- Joanne Jo, yes, yes, don't know, 2020-04-15
- Triinu Jogeda, I think they will become an inevitable part of events.. though it depends on the industry/sector. I don't see it replacing music festivals but technical workshops for sure, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, thanks for facilitating :-) great session, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, 4. haven't been working in digital events already but am getting it done quickly since the changes!, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, sustainable opportunity, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, This is one question I am very interested in, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, ?MENTION_NAME=Linda/sMertens&ID=104831 i agree, 2020-04-15
- Karl Schodt, Auckland new Zealand. Live holographic events., 2020-04-15
- Emilija Vidtmann, Please mute your microphones ! :), 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, ?MENTION_NAME=Adrian/sBossey&ID=122081 absolutely agree on KISS principle generally - clear objectives, reliability, user experience (awesome content + online context), 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, did the cost of event production increase?, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, 1 yes 2 ? 3 ??, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, 3. festival for music and performing art, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, ?MENTION_NAME=Benjamin/sHecke&ID=121644 Sounds clear to me. anyone else?, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, Ok, plugged into the charging cable - better now :), 2020-04-15
- Carolina Goradesky, Anyone already measuring the environmental impact of virtual events?, 2020-04-15
- Bessie-Rose Mataele, thank you, 2020-04-15
- Emilija Vidtmann, Thank you Victoria and Indre :), 2020-04-15
- Bessie-Rose Mataele, i agree with you Siân/sWynn-Jones, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, Adrian/sBossey - if you have no audience, do you have a lesser experience to digital participants?, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , this guy http://gauthierroussilhe.com/en/posts/convert-low-tech, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, well done guys - thank you for facilitating, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, sustainable opportunity, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, it already is mixed, the opportunity is to do it better and be more sustainable, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, Sian gets the prize!, 2020-04-15
- Mitchell van Dooijeweerd, Normally we had 40.000 visitors at the festival. Now it was free of charge and we had almost a milion visitors from 150 countries, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, We have many remote people that miss out on many of our training, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , 2 - Yes, 2020-04-15
- Katie Henderson, 1: yes 2: no 3: yes, 2020-04-15
- Benjamin Hecke, 1 yes 2 yo 3 yes, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, sustainable opportunity, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, 3-yes, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, FYI - we will add the content from this chat into the deck and share it all with you after the session, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , YEs Siân/sWynn-Jones . there is a good research on digital sustainability, I'll share the link after. I think we will see much more of digital sustainability initiatives after this, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, It's inclusive for poorer people too ..., 2020-04-15
- Facilitator - Victoria Rojas, aha! Benjamin/sHecke -such a digital trick!, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, ?MENTION_NAME=Mitchell/svan/sDooijeweerd&ID=101205 - any audience metrics?, 2020-04-15
- Mitchell van Dooijeweerd, 3, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, this is too short!, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, 1,2,3, YES, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, Yes to all, 2020-04-15
- Facilitator Indrė Blauzdžiūnaitė , 3 yes, 2020-04-15
- Ulrich Holzbaur, @adrian :-) #SDG1 #SDG10, 2020-04-15
- Siân Wynn-Jones, proba about 2 with the right algorithms they can be 5, 2020-04-15
- Organiser: Meegan Jones, Hi 10 min warning.... don't forget to do a message recording of your main take away. And do a screen shot! You can leave early if you want to go and do some networking, look at the expo and get ready to do the pet therapy or stretching session!, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, i think there is a range from 1 to 5, so average of 3, i've had good experiences and bad!, 2020-04-15
- Triinu Jogeda, 3, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, maybe SDG9 too?, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, thank u!, 2020-04-15
- Adrian Bossey, I mentioned my new research ... it would be brilliant if you could fill in the questionnaire here if at all possible, especially if you work in the live music industryhttps://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=s-4LVT1qRkahEfidAXd5LiSMwokxrkNMm2XU2u_lOLlUNTgwRjBLVU9IWTJBSlZNVUpRWDdRREMyNi4u, 2020-04-15
- Jan Bryson, for sure ?MENTION_NAME=Siân/sWynn-Jones&ID=109219, 2020-04-15
- Karl Schodt, thank u, 2020-04-15
SPECIAL SESSION:

After the hack-a-thon and before the final wrap we take time out for some therapy….. some PET THERAPY…. yes it’s bring your pet to work day. If you’ll have your fur-baby under your feet during the hack-a-thon, now is their time to take centre stage. In this 15 min interlude bring your pets onto the camera for all to enjoy. The session will be lead by Hong Kong based animal lover Merrin. Show your tricks, or just have them sat cutely on your lap. We don’t mind. We just want to see their gorgeousness.

Interlude Office stretching
with Benas Blauzdžiūnas
When was the last time you gave yourself a good stretch? And we don’t mean reaching for the pack of cookies on the upper shelf! Make yourself a favour and use 15 min break for the quick back and neck workout.
Team 1: Social Glue
Events as the social glue - what now? In this session we will explore how the UN SDGs are a framework for the world working for everyone AND the global event industry. We will explore what could happen if the event industry told this story and was recognised as the ‘social glue’ for the world working for everyone. Join Slack #team-social-glue
Facilitator: Michele Fox (USA) SEA Leadership Team | Hailey Mason (Australia) Sorted Events
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- Hildur Björg Baeringsdottir, good evening from Reykjavik, Iceland, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Deborah Lesser - ATELIER EVENTS in DC. I do both social & nonprofit events. Was just starting to incorporate a sustainability focus when Covid hit. Spring events all postponed to fall so finding this a great time to get up to speed and see how I can contribute. Thank you to the organizers!, 2020-04-15
- Valerie Harvey, My name is Valerie, I'm from Montreal Canada. Been working in the corporate event industry for the last 20 years. I was actually in the process of looking for a new job when Covid hit us.. so it has been interesting and scary at the same time :) excited about this event . thanks :), 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, Hey Dan here from Sydney. Been managing corporate and travel events for 15 years. As a company owner I've never had so much time to "think" and connect with others. Launched 15 virtual team building packages during this period. And now (with my wife) wanting to make more of a positive sustainable and social impact within our industry and events., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, I want my mic to work. sadness. Tahira. Head of Events for SITE Global. I also have taught Sustainable Event Ops for a few years. I normally work remotely so Zoom is normal - but usually from somewhere else in the world., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Social Glue - Connecting event to community - the people experiencing the event but also how these people connect to the local community and have a positive impact / learn about where they are., 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, Hi all! I am one of the Facilitators for this session! I will start accepting you all in, please keep your mic's muted when you enter unless you are talking. Thanks!, 2020-04-15
- Natalie Brown, Hi team! Natalie from Brisbane, Australia here. I work for an organisation called Clubs Queensland, we're the peak industry body for community clubs. Have never worked from home before so it's been a learning curve and currently we're in hibernation mode so I'm using this time to do lots of reading and learning!, 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, Client/Stakeholder stress (rescheduling), social/team disconnection and economics (reduce overheads/cash flow forecast)...., 2020-04-15
- Elena Antoniou, What about creating an International Sustainability Standard for events - an alliance or organisation that event planners can be a part of., 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, I realized I forgot to say what I do. I just (March 6) started my own meetings and travel company. Amazing timing I have. But I am still very hopeful for our industry., 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, Yes we do have it in out mission, 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Using do no harm to start looking at the SDGs with different ways of participating., 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, what is social glue?, 2020-04-15
- Claire Amor-Haynes, I think its good to use our events to create awareness of ten SDG's, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, So is Rock and Wrap it UP., 2020-04-15
- Hildur Björg Baeringsdottir, Agree, choose 3 SDGs., 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, so many people listen to us, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, just learned about recently, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, For Hannah O - there is a Facebook group with Kevin Molesworth called Creative Safe Space - and they are sharing things each day that may help you get through this time., 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, DO YOU TALK ABOUT THE SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS AT THE EVENTS? SarahAND ATTENDEES REALISE? :-), 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, maybe it's a thing to inform and educate in course of the event; having an information booth on the UN 17 sustainability goals at events or even a lets say 3minutes empowerment speech from stage?, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, AND Meet Better - 167 Easy Ways to Make Your Events More Environmentally and socially Responsible - Mcilwraith, McKinley, Zavada https://meetgreen.com/products/meetgreen-books/, 2020-04-15
- Hannah Sweetman, International travel, when it comes back, is going to be really expensive so that will also increase cost of events in a situation where people don't have cashflow to pay more for attending events, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, 80% of the industry seems to be true plus today, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, It does not matter it seems if I choose my headst or my laptop mic... both not working. So I will listen, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, scoial glue is what makes the boat float!!!, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Some people have "survivor guilt" if still employed, others are furloughed or laid off and some have access to govt programs and some do not. Many live alone - they have been career focused and now this is not there and neither is a single solid relationship to lean on. Isolation and lonliness real for many., 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, I wonder is purpose focus may come back locally and regionally and then grow back to more broad-based events., 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Choose the SDGs with your client, 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, Michele what was the course/certification you were referencing when talking about Meegan's book?, 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, Or how do you as a person define that?, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, We are all facing grief - events we built have been torn down. Teams have been separated. Families have been separated. We are used to being very productive and now face inertia - and guilt about that. It really is the whole range we need safe places to talk about. THEN we need to manage clients - who are also going through these same feelings and with no control over their own meetings - or jobs - or teams., 2020-04-15
- Claire Amor-Haynes, Event sponsorship will also be severely impacted, 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, one of the other teams - local enterprises is also talking about food and local vendors so I'm sure we will get ideas from other teams. too., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Many orgs have what they say they are doing without translating that down to their events because they don't know how to / don't think about., 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, And we should possibly be prepared for some push back when we change "the way we've always done it" having the information on why and being committed it definitely key. sometimes we have to pull our members and attendees along the right path., 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, OUTPUT 3: SUPPORT A SET OF NON-NEGOTIABLES IN OUR INDUSTRY ?, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, thanks everyone, love the womensclub, 2020-04-15
- Jean kropper, Hello from Sydney. I design high end invitations, pop up direct mail, paper sculpture centrepieces and displays for launches & events, 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, purpose - disconnection and isolation, profit- cashflow and economic downturn, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, We just engaged in a collaborative effort with Sinai House in Washington, DC (residential facility for formerly homeless families with young children) in advance of an event to select age appropriate materials to build out their community playroom and use the items as the decor for the event. EVERYTHING (even containers) was selected with this purpose in mind and all was donated directly to Sinai House after the event., 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Hailey - hub & spoke - mini events going on in different places simultaneously and connected, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Agree, scale down to achievable goals event by event., 2020-04-15
- Arantxa Muro, engage local community in social/environmental initiatives beyond the event to create and keep a momentum going., 2020-04-15
- Hildur Björg Baeringsdottir, thanks for a great evening, hope to see you in the pet session, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Thanks Tahira!, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, We can thank David Adler, Bizbash, for that!, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, In area of reducing food waste - FOOD RESCUE US doing GREAT work. They handle a lot of the logistics in getting leftover food from events directly to a community/organization in need., 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, Sarah Do you work with local groups to find people interested in the events industry?, 2020-04-15
- Natalie Brown, 100% Claire! Not only are we hurting, our event sponsors are too, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, I think we need to think forward. Agree with Mary - the nature of events is going and to change dramatically. Different formats - hybrid, hub & spoke, & fully virtually. Particularly interested in how people think we can innovate in the social event arena., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, ie as many people fight obesity every day as die of hunger every day. something wrong with that., 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Tracking the positive differences over multi year events to show stakeholders really helps with the projects we are part of here in Hong Kong., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, I think we have a once in a lifetime advantage of everyone paying attention to WHO - UN - CDC - big govt organizations in a way they have not before so bringing forward SDGs can be done more easily now., 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, With some of the events we have postponed we are now offering the hybrid model to adjust to the impact of COVID and recession, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, We were already seeing Conscious Consumerism - now we can build on it - especially since people have not shopped - and not missed much - for a few weeks now., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Transparency to me is like hand-washing - why were we all not already doing this?!!, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, Social glue makes the community!, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, womenstyle ;), 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, I liked - implementing the "non-negotiables", 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, Valeria Yes we do -wherever possible, but not to overshadow the purpose of our clients events, 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, Ah cool - did not know there was a name for them :), 2020-04-15
- Amy Abel, 'Adopt a set of non-negotiables', 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, BOOK reco Saving Green by Going Green (Zavada, Spatrisino, McKinley), 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, I had not heard of hub and spoke, or at least that term. thanks! that's great., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Connect event community to local community., 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, Mary I totally agree with you , but i think if we are creating the future then we should be ambitious. I like "start where you are", 2020-04-15
- Ariela Giacco, Thank yooouuu, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Barriers are that the SDGs are just very BIG - how do you end poverty with an event or get to zero hunger - my personal event mission is to look at how we can do a better job of distriuting calories globally but that takes a movement., 2020-04-15
- Jean kropper, I agree we need to implement goals all through your own business, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Transformation and innovation are going to be critical to fostering prosperity for business and society. The fastest way to get to these is by bringing people together for meaningful dialogue, strategy development and action. As event designers our role is to create environments that are ideal for sharing the messages of our leaders (gov or corp or assoc) who are the social architects - and they are going to want to be showing the strongest foundation they can possible build - which must be at its heart more sustainable than ever before., 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, Great minds Amy, 2020-04-15
- Jean kropper, I like that a car company would be talking about creating jobs and carbon neutrality!, 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, great idea Valeria!, 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, I suspect that everyone already has a set of ethcis that they adhere too. It is about shining a light on these positives.., 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, Was terrific thank you, 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Event professionals know they are part of creating a community ... so share the social opportunities and eco opportunities, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, GO back to what your client's org websites say they are doing to be sustainable - and build this thinking in from your proposal to your design -, 2020-04-15
- Hannah Sweetman, I think as Claire touched on there's opportunities to educate event clients, attendees about the SDG's each and every time and over time work with them on how to increase the commitment and action on these goals - from little things big things grow!, 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, 17. Partnerships for the Goals - No event is standalone so how do we align our client to our own organization goals/missions and our sponsors so we design our events in a manner that meets the stakeholders and sponsors goals which presumably the participants - mandated corporate or buying in association or ticketed guests - would also be aligned with., 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Goal to reduce event waste in multiple ways and build community connections. This was a perfect kind of "social glue." Would like to do more - anyone doing this kind of thing?, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, AGREE Tahira. Need to educate and bring them along with us as we go down this road., 2020-04-15
- Tahira Endean, Good health and wellbeing has to start with all of us - we all need to make an effort to be not so "busy" that we don't take care of ourselves - set the example. Again, many of our clients - esp large orgs - are going to have HR / talent statements around health and wellness - and then we serve beige food, don't allow them time for adequate rest and have open bars at our events - we have a lot of control when we build our agendas and bulld our menus and we have ot be communicating with our clients the WHY we do these things (association/corp meetings), 2020-04-15
- Hannah Sweetman, I think it needs to be an output, 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, Gender equal panels is such a simple on - then cultural diverstiy on panels in the e room, 2020-04-15
- Sarah Gun, Great idea Valeria - this could be one of the outputs from the session?, 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, OUTPUT 2: WE DEVELOP AND ADOPT 1-3 SDG's IN ALL OUR EVENTS, 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, Sarah absolutely!!! big goals and take the steps to get there, 2020-04-15
- Fac - Hailey Mason, OUTPUT 1: Connect event community through emotion and shared experience, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, right: TALK about the set of ethics, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, we as an industry can make a huge difference, influencing clients and attendees, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Or at least support, if not adopt, 2020-04-15
- Hannah Sweetman, Sounds good Hailey, 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Don't like term "Not-negotiable" rather than core principles of how we work - need to think how wording sounds to client. Like it as principles., 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, love it, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, I think "non negotiable" may be too strong at early stage. Don't want to discourage participation and support., 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, IMPORTANT to have measurement and reporting framework on the 1-3 SDG's you choose, 2020-04-15
- Mary de la Fe, CAE, CMP, Dan measurement and reporting is definitely key. we have to show it works and why we need to continue., 2020-04-15
- Robbie Park, Thank you, 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Great session to facilitators!!!, 2020-04-15
- Hildur Björg Baeringsdottir, Also look at the country SGD report for the destination that your event will be hosted in and see what is the focus of the country with relation to SDGs. This is more details to how you can integrate/adopt the SDGs and how to choose them, link to the host destination of the event. I will put this in the slack and add a link to an example report., 2020-04-15
- Dan Udall, Thanks everyone, 2020-04-15
- Ellen Berry, Thank you!, 2020-04-15
- Deborah Lesser, Thank you!, 2020-04-15
- Merrin Pearse, Thanks have fun., 2020-04-15
- Valerie Harvey, this was so interesting thank you, 2020-04-15
- Valeria Geritzen, left side below sessions, 2020-04-15
Team 2: Reusables
Techniques for retaining reusables onsite. Potential creation for global safe guidelines Join Slack #team-reusables
Facilitators: Michael Cyr (USA) Cup Zero | Kim Renshaw (NZ) Beyond the Bin
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David Binstead, Wash is VERY different to sanitise to hygienic standards imho, and Food Safety Regs standards, 2020-04-15
Rachael Bailey, I've had experience of needing on-site washing but have had no access to it, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, If there is a much greater need for cups to service events, the capital investment needed to do this may need to be highlighted by the industry and perhaps funding received, 2020-04-15
Keiko Niccolini, CMO & General Manager at r.Cup - a rentable, reuseable cup system. US based, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Hi team, the intro will now be in the sessions button "NEW STAGE" on the left. They had some technical difficulties, 2020-04-15
Carlo Wiegand, Yes we definitly been dong on site washing, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, I feel like the pens and pads are a side issue to the cups and food vessels -, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Food and driknks vessel are usually turned over in the same event, and with droplet s on them, 2020-04-15
Rachael Bailey, Just what I was thinking!!!, 2020-04-15
Fac: Michael Cyr, Friendly reminder that Microsoft Edge will not work - use chrome or firefox etc., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Hey, hi from Tauranga NZ, 2020-04-15
Isabelle Landrigan, yeh correct, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Nada Piatek I think we need both., 2020-04-15
Ellen Walden, Kia ora, I'm an Event Organiser based in Wellington, New Zealand :), 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, wanna go into business liam?!, 2020-04-15
Fac: Michael Cyr, Welcome welcome - If you're just joining remember to request permission and I'll let you in., 2020-04-15
Keiko Niccolini, so sorry - my connection is poor - going to try to "leave" and come back., 2020-04-15
karen Lee, It's likely in NZ that food and drink industry will have this conversation underway - would be worth investigating, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, ?MENTION_NAME=Marina/sMcCoy&ID=129625 agree. SUC-Free Wanaka, University of Canterbury Students Association, Lincoln University all great examples of buy-in with coordinated and consistent comms, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, Based in HK, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Yes I've had experience, also can wear a regulatory hat, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, Hi from Hong Kong, 2020-04-15
Carlo Wiegand, Hi I'm co-director of a waste minimasation social enterprise in Nelson New Zealand - so a contractor to events, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, ?MENTION_NAME=Chad/sBuxton&ID=109230 this is cafe-facing, but has reasonable relevance for events: https://www.againagain.co/cafe-info, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Agree Carlo, 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, I never do my hair. What does that mean?, 2020-04-15
Dewi Gutierrez, Event Manager working for a venue in Sydney, 2020-04-15
Danielle Brooks, Also on Rachael's point- New ideas for packaging etc for Mints and lollies to provide to delegates at Business Events, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, It's all good - I am busy rescuing my current business! No go here., 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Yes ?MENTION_NAME=Nada/sPiatek&ID=112679 , we make 'infographic' type graphics that show the process of the reusable system and how we are washing them. In each phase, we explain in detail how it meets requirements. We saw that some graphics, were just graphics and left out the whole other side that attendees may have like, 'how is this safe? How does this meet regulations? What are the regulations?' Does that make sense?, 2020-04-15
Rachael Bailey, I'm an Event and Protocol Manager at the University of Auckland. Mainly organise events for the Vice-Chancellor's office, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, Cup reuse: how it works https://www.againagain.co/how-it-works, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, And if they meet regs, then they should stand, right?, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, Great summary and fac
Rachael Bailey, I wish I could have a virtual background like in Zoom!!!, 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, I would like to include implementation and payment of systems. Who pays and when, can you get the systems sponsored, how do you get buy in etc., 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, For cleansing pens it might be implementation of UV lights as sanitiser., 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, I'm on "waiting", 2020-04-15
David Binstead, , 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, I'm a sustainability consultant for events, 2020-04-15
Laura Dolos, Event Manager - Sydney Based, 2020-04-15
Esther Croft, Local govt - investing in events and delivering some, 2020-04-15
Nicole Pamani, Sustainability Consultant (focus on circular strategy), 2020-04-15
David Binstead, Coffee cup share system infrastructure for takeaway without the throwaway. 1 year young and from zero to nearly one million single use cups diverted from waste., 2020-04-15
karen Lee, background noise makes it hard to hear you?, 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, David Nice cups! Yes, I would love to know how to have an implementation system for events. Eg - what is the cost of the service to provide them to the event, what happens to no-returned cups (cost), how they get there and are managed, etc., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, IMHO the standards are fine. The workflow to interact between reusables and the existing systems are the question here., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, I'm a coffee cup reusable systems organiser for cafes - events pending., 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, Events Sustainability Advisor., 2020-04-15
Isabelle Landrigan, and pads and pens that venue provide?, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, Washing stations for attendees to use seem problematic -- the average person doesn't wash things clean enough, 2020-04-15
Danielle Brooks, Event Organiser- Melbourne, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, Hygiene protocols [cafe-scale] already in place: https://www.againagain.co/covid-19 It would be similar at a larger event scale, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Thanks Karen, love to get your thoughts after Marina, 2020-04-15
Rachael Bailey, I would -, 2020-04-15
Ellen Walden, Do we think people will go back to using 'compostable' items? This being problematic as lots of items that say they are compostable aren't actually compostable in reality, 2020-04-15
Liam Prince, Agree Nada, 2020-04-15
Liam Prince, Kia ora koutou, I'm Liam, a zero waste educator and advocate for public policy change. Also a professional musician, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, How are sanitization practices currently communicated to clients? Could part of the solution be better communication of what is already done cleanliness-wise?, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Yes for sure Nada, still reusable items at events in scope at present., 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, David Sounds great. A reuasble coffee cup service at events is a big waste reduction offer. ;), 2020-04-15
Laura Dolos, or for large events - its not practical., 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Hi! Marina McCoy - Founder/CEO of Waste Free Earth based in Burlington, Vermont. We work all across the country to build sustainable strategies for events., 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Artist riders - we try to shop in bulk, but some artists request for single-use, individually wrapped products., 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, Sustainability Strategist working for Corporates and Events in Hong Kong (I'm a Kiwi). Big project I work for is Hong Kong Rugby 7s tournament which introduced reusable cups last year., 2020-04-15
karen Lee, This may be a venue management question - good to investigate, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, Events are short-term, venues are long-term. Onsite wash +sanitise already exists, but just not at the right scale presently, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Can you elaborate on "visual timeline of our reusable process" ?MENTION_NAME=Marina/sMcCoy&ID=129625, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, But only if managed., 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Yes from 2015, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, Does that clean the exterior of the cup?, 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, ?MENTION_NAME=Julia/sSpangler&ID=110317 No, that doesn't clean the outside of the cup., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Have those self-wash systems ever actually met standards? Regs are same for all., 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, I agree, cups and food vessels are the main issue I'm concerned with, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, ?MENTION_NAME=Chad/sBuxton&ID=109230 thanks for cup +1! We have worked [early-stage] with smaller events on a per-event basis, and were just about to start with a venue running about 25 800-2500 pax events through the year. I'll DM you some indicatives a bit later, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Yes i"ve had experience, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, same - if we're going to stay with reusable there will have to be sanitising solutions at events, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Please can you mute your microphones if you're not talking, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, Compostable serviceware is tricky in the US also, 2020-04-15
Chad Buxton, yes, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, This will be a piece of work we look at through our Council, 2020-04-15
Fac: Michael Cyr, If you're watching feel free to jump back in, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Agree, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, Can you repeat that here in the chat Nada The biggest opportunity?, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Ellen Walden I think venues are going to have to rethink regardless, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, I've done on-site rinsing for dish return, but not washing for immediate resuse, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Karen, do. you think we need new sanitisation processes, or new workflow processes?, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, Nada agreed. IF managed, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Also not realistic to put expectation on customers to maintain regulatory levels of hygiene, as well as need to reduce handling risks, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Kim I'm going to leave group because I want to listen in to a couple of others. Will the chat notes be saved and shared?, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, NZ packaging forum stats, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, nice. - then they must still meet regs then?, 2020-04-15
Rachael Bailey, I have a question about non-restaurant/cafe venues, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Even if you did, I don't think that would comply Karen., 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Yes for sure Karen, 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, I think the "bar-tender" / "server staff" way of handling dirty and clean is a big issue as much as the cups itself., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, I'd like to add to the discussion that there are two issues here - what do we need to do operationally? And want we need to do to addresses the PERCEPTIONS of people that we are doing what we need to do?, 2020-04-15
Ellen Walden, Lots of venues aren't necessarily up to scratch around reusables and sustainable practices which can be frustrating, 2020-04-15
Liam Prince, I am but not working..., 2020-04-15
David Binstead, It may be in chrome audio permission settings ?MENTION_NAME=Liam/sPrince&ID=128246, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Great point Merrin, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, I don't believe the regs were being met properly, 2020-04-15
Fac: Michael Cyr, Marina - what steps should be added into the info-graphic to include sanitation points? Can you share? in video, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Marina do you work with Globelet? Would you consider sharing that with the group?, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Yes Nada, there are published solutions from councils, 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Kim yes I have worked with Globlet on their first US event, love Ryan and hope to work with him more. We also have our own reusable systems for smaller events under about 7,000 attendees., 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Great wrap of notes!, 2020-04-15
karen Lee, Agree Merrin - so perhaps its about getting agreed protocols with food and drink industry?, 2020-04-15
Niki Gassett, Big fan of the Globelet team! I have known Ryan for a couple years now having worked with him on a couple of events as well. Such a great cause and genuinely a company that wants to drive long term change., 2020-04-15
Merrin Pearse, True karen and particularly what are international standards rather than state or region based standards., 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, with four bin systems, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, *pre, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, THanks Karen, good point, 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, We have had great success with sustainable buy in when we lay out a visual timeline of our reusable process to attendees, staff members and local government. Filled with facts about how this system does meet health code regulations. We do this through all communication channels - newsletter, website, socials, pr, etc., 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, She did the calcs in our working group in 2015, 2020-04-15
Julia Spangler, Marina Those graphics sound great, 2020-04-15
Liam Prince, Hehe *nervous laughter*, 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, I can send one via email, we are in the process of updating one. I would be happy to share with anyone who wants it., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, BUt David, if the end point is managed, they are a viable option., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Awesome Marina - per-event is great., 2020-04-15
Liam Prince, Thanks all! Really valuable, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Thanks Ellen, I'll touch on this soon, 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Yes I agree, clear communication and transparency is super important, 2020-04-15
David Binstead, 'Compostables'. Cups - In NZ only 1 in 400 reach composting facility. 295m annum goto landfill, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek Julia/ A third party wash facility, that is dissociated from the hire of the vessels, is the worlds biggest commercial opportunity as circular economy is becoming normalised, 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, And festival app!! We have them send reminders, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, Love this "We have had great success with sustainable buy in when we lay out a visual timeline of our reusable process to attendees, staff members and local government. Filled with facts about how this system does meet health code regulations. We do this through all communication channels - newsletter, website, socials, pr, etc.", 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, MPI in NZ have the standards, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, I would argue that with good infrastructure, events are a good use case for compostables... way more than BAU-cafes where the end point is not managed., 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, That sounds awesome.... can you share a link to this at all?, 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, David those stats aren't accurate in NZ anymore, 2020-04-15
Marina McCoy, Thank you everyone! Great discussions, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, Thanks - great session., 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, CAn everyone come back on screen?, 2020-04-15
Nada Piatek, I totally support that statement idea Kim., 2020-04-15
Fac Kim Renshaw, I'll send out the notes on the slack channel, 2020-04-15
Laura Dolos, Thanks for the discussion points, 2020-04-15
COMING SOON
Team 3: Festival and Concert Leadership
Was COVID-19 the re-set button we needed in order to become more sustainable as an industry? How do live events emerge as leaders to guide this change? Join Slack #team-fest-concert-leadership
Facilitators: Stephanie Nelson (USA), Lisa Cameron (Australia) SEA Leadership Team
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Download PDF: Team 3 Festival and Concert Leadership Recap
Topic & Conversation Starters
How has the current global climate impacted the future of live events?
- Though live music is a powerful source of entertainment and influence, has it really harnessed that power for maximum impact when it comes to sustainability? (pre covid)
- In the post- COVID-19 world, will ethical and sustainable experiences matter more or less to fans?
- Will a sort of social distancing become a universal norm to respect while visiting formerly crowded destinations, which will enhance strict carrying capacity measurements?
- From a venue or festival site standpoint, how can we create solutions or re-design functionality to help society and address a heightened awareness of hygiene?
- What type of impact will the current shift to digital performance and digital festivals have an on the future of in person live events?
- Will these ideas soon be the benchmark for the future live entertainment?
Observations, Learnings & Reoccurring Themes
- The group appreciate that live music and events are an excellent vehicle for change and a platform to communicate messages of sustainability around the world. The events industry may like to use this downtime to review and reflect on the PURPOSE of their event (or running of their business) and how they are contributing to the greater good (UN SDGs). Applicable to events large and small
- **BIG ONE** Huge emphasis on the importance of HEALTH and the relationship between humans and the environment, as Covid-19 is top of mind. How can we as leaders amplify this message? Importance of building RESILIENCE and utilising our global network of event professionals to achieve a more resilient global events community
- The shutdown may be an opportunity to access the collective impact your event/s and others held in the immediate area are having on the community. This conversation re-raised questions around the sustainability of mass gatherings including concerts and festivals, and potential moving away from the historical trend of growing and developing by scaling up and attracting more attendees
- In response to COVID-19 and heightened awareness among consumers, venues and events may look to redesign their service delivery methods to integrate enhanced health and safety standards and procedures. There will be challenges around single-use so, as an industry we will need to be careful not to relax our standards. SEA may be well placed to communicate this message on a global scale?
- BUILDING CAPACITY of the supply chain – or what’s left of it – now will assist events producers to continue to implement sustainable event management practices during the recovery. The group are conscious not to overwhelm suppliers with increasingly onerous t’s and c’s, as it’s plausible that following the pandemic there will be tightened health and safety conditions imposed on them
- The conversation segued into the role of the authorities in lifting the overall sustainability standards of suppliers with regard to their product/ service offering. The group would prefer to see businesses align themselves with the SDGs, whole-heartedly adopt sustainable management and choose to embed a sustainability mindset and practices in all aspects of their business than for government to regulate this. Government could help push the envelope by supporting business
- HUGE demand for access to a list of suppliers, sorted by region/ speciality aka SEA DATABASE
- Events should be prepared for a new world, where live and virtual event experiences are integrated and coexist. While live events will remain the core, from a sustainability stand-point, herein lies great opportunity. We will be faced with challenges surrounding pricing and financial viability/ sustainability, new technology and consumer expectations etc
Resources & References
Live Nation - Green Nation Global Sustainability Coalition and “Sustainability Rocks” program
Green Touring Guide (Germany) written in collaboration with the Green Music Initiative
Ticketmaster 2019 Ticketmaster State of Play Study
SEA Leadership Team – please connect with your ‘local’ SEA rep
SEA Supplier Database (SEA Member resource)Communication and Marketing As Climate Change-Intervention Assets. A Public Health Perspective
TED Talk – Coronavirus is our future
SE Qld Power: https://www.premiairhire.com.au/events/biodiesel/
https://substation33.com.au/projects/solar-trailer/
Vision 2020 – UK based. Aims to inspire and support a 50% reduction in the environmental impacts of the events sector by 2025.
Team 4: Stand behind the science
COVID taught us to listen to science, here’s how events must benefit in future. Whenever a reusable item is purchased - the user is taking on a debt of reuse, the construction of that more robust and reusable item no doubt being more impactful than the single use alternative it replaces. Join Slack #team-stand-behind-science
Facilitators: Blake Lindley (Australia) Edge Environment | Cameron Little (Australia) SEA Leadership Team
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- Fac. Cameron Little, Come on in the water's great!, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Thanks Philip. We'll capture all of these great comments and contributions you've been making and include them in the report later, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, I loved being there and chatting with lots of people before and after the session too, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, www.sciencebasedtargets.org - Look at Step 2, Setting a Target. Considering the comparison on screen - Conference vs Expo - it's easy to assume the largest slice of the pie is the best target for reductions, but the SBTi approach measures your emissions against the 1.5 degree target. This often identifies non-obvious savings that an organisation can make that deliver a greater contribution to the 1.5 degree target than obvious choices., 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, Scope 1 & 2 emissions are relatively easy to calculate but always dwarfed by Scope 3 emissions, which are considered too complicated to assess by most organisations. The Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) provides some good advice on how to begin identifying and quantifying Scope 3 - worth checking out., 2020-04-15
- Lacey Landesmann, Kerry do you mean wider spread statistics to show clients?, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Jump in and tell is a bit more about it Philip. We'd love to hear about it, 2020-04-15
- Ashley Astells, Agree Karen, I am in NZ, 2020-04-15
- Lacey Landesmann, Hi Odile!, 2020-04-15
- Ashley Astells, ISO 20121, 2020-04-15
- Odile Fajardo, I loved you talk. thanks, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, In the UK, we have the SECR (use Google) reporting requirements for organisations of 250+ people - 1st reports must be submitted this year. The report must provide the organisations Scope 1 & 2 emissions for the last business year. Scope 3 data is voluntary. All reports are available to view on-line at Companies House (UK businesses). I bet almost no reports will have Scope 3, but worth looking at some reports to get a sense of the scale between 1,2 & 3 emissions. Not sure if similar regulations apply to non-UK countries., 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, Karen - assume you are referring to ISO 14001 and ISO 50001. ISO 50015 also very useful., 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, There are organisations in NZ that could be contracted to create emissions reduction templates for events if such things dont exist. Could be a project for local govt collaboration., 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Thanks Philip - that sounds like a good area for us to follow up on in the slack channel post event and gather info to share, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Welcome Karen!, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, Events management, like many other sectors, needs the tools to challenge and verify the statements made regarding environmental benefits. In energy management we often use the EVO Measurement & Verification Protocol (again, use google) to scientifically measure actual versus expected energy savings. This approach could work in event management and provide Ashley with a very robust tool to use., 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, No - ghg protocol 14060 from memory, 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, Agree Philip Wanless. In NZ as local govt we are using ISO standards for science based approach to emissions measusrement. Would be good to see this made more accessible to event organisers., 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Come on in the water's great!, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Blake Lindley, hi all - please all hit the blue participate button at top of screen, 2020-04-15
- Lucy August-Perna, Hi i requested to participate, can you see my request?, 2020-04-15
- Ashley Astells, Hello :), 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Thanks Philip. We'll capture all of these great comments and contributions you've been making and include them in the report later, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, We need more of you on screen please :), 2020-04-15
- Ashley Astells, Thanks Philp, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Hooray! Welcome Ruby!, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Hi Odile - yes you sure did :), 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, I loved being there and chatting with lots of people before and after the session too, 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, thanks, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Lucy - no. Can you refresh your browser and try again?, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, www.sciencebasedtargets.org - Look at Step 2, Setting a Target. Considering the comparison on screen - Conference vs Expo - it's easy to assume the largest slice of the pie is the best target for reductions, but the SBTi approach measures your emissions against the 1.5 degree target. This often identifies non-obvious savings that an organisation can make that deliver a greater contribution to the 1.5 degree target than obvious choices., 2020-04-15
- Odile Fajardo, Cameron, did I see you at PCOA at ICC?, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Welcome Lucy!, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Welcome Lacey!, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Welcome Chad!, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, Scope 1 & 2 emissions are relatively easy to calculate but always dwarfed by Scope 3 emissions, which are considered too complicated to assess by most organisations. The Science Based Target Initiative (SBTi) provides some good advice on how to begin identifying and quantifying Scope 3 - worth checking out., 2020-04-15
- Lacey Landesmann, Kerry do you mean wider spread statistics to show clients?, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Jump in and tell is a bit more about it Philip. We'd love to hear about it, 2020-04-15
- Organiser: Meegan Jones, After your 15 min networking or pet therapy break, come back to the STAGE (not the 'session' stage) the original STAGE!!, 2020-04-15
- Ashley Astells, Agree Karen, I am in NZ, 2020-04-15
- Lacey Landesmann, Hi Odile!, 2020-04-15
- Lacey Landesmann, Sorry my computer died!, 2020-04-15
- Ashley Astells, ISO 20121, 2020-04-15
- Odile Fajardo, I loved you talk. thanks, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, In the UK, we have the SECR (use Google) reporting requirements for organisations of 250+ people - 1st reports must be submitted this year. The report must provide the organisations Scope 1 & 2 emissions for the last business year. Scope 3 data is voluntary. All reports are available to view on-line at Companies House (UK businesses). I bet almost no reports will have Scope 3, but worth looking at some reports to get a sense of the scale between 1,2 & 3 emissions. Not sure if similar regulations apply to non-UK countries., 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, Karen - assume you are referring to ISO 14001 and ISO 50001. ISO 50015 also very useful., 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, There are organisations in NZ that could be contracted to create emissions reduction templates for events if such things dont exist. Could be a project for local govt collaboration., 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Thanks Philip - that sounds like a good area for us to follow up on in the slack channel post event and gather info to share, 2020-04-15
- Fac. Cameron Little, Welcome Karen!, 2020-04-15
- Organiser: Meegan Jones, 5 min warning. Remember to record a message for us to use....!!, 2020-04-15
- Philip Wanless, Events management, like many other sectors, needs the tools to challenge and verify the statements made regarding environmental benefits. In energy management we often use the EVO Measurement & Verification Protocol (again, use google) to scientifically measure actual versus expected energy savings. This approach could work in event management and provide Ashley with a very robust tool to use., 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, No - ghg protocol 14060 from memery, 2020-04-15
- karen Lee, Agree Philip Wanless. In NZ as local govt we are using ISO standards for science based approach to emissions measusrement. Would be good to see this made more accessible to event organisers., 2020-04-15
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Team 6: Health & Safety
Event Organizers - Time to adapt! Will events and sustainability managers be responsible for meeting new health & safety requirements? How can events foster health and safety for their attendees, staff and communities?