CAT Salon West - Green Team Anti-patterns (Panel)
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In this Salon, we will be joined by panelists who will explain their journeys, take your questions and give you straightforward (practical) advice on how to take action individually and within your companies. Our panelists will talk about their learnings in getting climate initiatives up and running in their organisations. The discussion will revolve around how you get buy-in from your company on a climate project, and how to get it resourced and make it successful.
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ClimateAction.tech is a community of tech profs with the goal to inspire and empower each other to take climate action.
We run this call to share ideas and facilitate conversation with our community.
Typical Agenda:
- Intro, level setting & panel
- Discussion (private, chatham house rules)
- Share-out, Q&A
Note: In the discussions we follow the Chatham House Rules which means that participants are free to use information received, but neither identity nor affiliations of the participants may be revealed unless they give their consent.
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About our panelists!
Trent Wolbe is Sustainability Lead for Events & Experiences at Google. He's focused on identifying, measuring, and mitigating carbon and waste at scale - and helping everyone discover how they can use their leverage to keep global warming under 1.5 °C. Whatever he’s doing right now, he’d rather be listening to Kraftwerk by a campfire.
Mia Ketterling is the Workplace Sustainability Manager at Pinterest. In her role, she is responsible for measuring Pinterest’s comprehensive carbon footprint, identifying options for a carbon reduction target, and managing sustainability projects on the Workplace team. She is also a crucial member of Pinterest’s re-launched global employee climate community – PinPlanet – who are a group of employees passionate about taking action on the climate crisis. Previously, Mia was a Program Manager on the Design team and was the founder of Pinterest’s first green employee resource group – PECO – focused on workplace sustainability. Before joining Pinterest, she was a Senior Producer at Apple. Mia earned a bachelor’s of science degree in Business and International Business from California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. She lives with her husband and two wild kids in Pacifica, California.
Kevin Houldsworth is a Senior Partner Manager on the advertising sales team at Pinterest. Always a lover of nature and wildlife, Kevin's awakening as a climate advocate was sparked as he traveled the world and saw the changes that were happening in real time. Kevin also spent some time working at The Weather Channel and gained a deeper understanding of the effects of climate change. Now he is dedicated to unlocking the creativity, innovation and scale of the tech community to help solve the climate crisis. Kevin lives in Chicago with his partner Nick and dog Jesse a few blocks from Lake Michigan.
Andy Dunstan is a software engineer who co-founded a green team in a large UK employer. After two years of highs, lows and plateaus the team is growing fast.