Verge Netzero 2022 | GreenBiz | 6 December 2022 | Online

Join professionals working on sustainability, supply chains, facilities, fleets, manufacturing and other key areas to learn from leaders behind the private sector’s most ambitious carbon targets.

Companies across business sectors and regions have now heard the call: to safeguard our climate, every organization must dramatically reduce its carbon footprint. Thousands of companies are now doing so, with more joining every month. Those involved know that net zero is easy to say, hard to do. The transition will be fraught with operational challenges and reputational risks — but it will also lead to new partnerships, products and pro.

2022 Speakers

Kaya Axelsson
Net Zero Policy Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford

Vartan Badalian
Transportation Analyst, GreenBiz Group

Elizabeth Balkan
Director, Reloop North America

Julianne Baroody
Senior Director / Program Development and Forest Carbon Innovation, Verra

Thomas Blackburn
Head of Business Development, SustainCERT

Chris Busch
Director of Research, Energy Innovation, LLC

Mia Diawara
Partner, Lowercarbon Capital

Annalise Downey
Technical Climate Consultant, Sylvera

Jennifer DuBuisson
Senior Director / Sustainability, Levi Strauss & Co.

Virginia Dundas
Head of Strategic Environment Programmes, Ørsted

Chris Fenwick
Head of ESG Center of Excellence, OneTrust

Maria Carolina Fujihara
CEO & Founder, SINAI Technologies Inc.

Justice Hadley
Disclosure Manager, CDP

Josh Henretig
Managing Director - Climate Intelligence, RMI

Conor Hickey
Research Fellow, University of Oxford

Takajiro Ishikawa
President & CEO, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries America

Kimm Jarden
Global Energy Manager, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

Katie Kennedy
Waste Diversion Lead, Seattle Public Utilities

Niki King
Sustainability Director for North America, Unilever

Jana Kraegenbring-Noor
Head of Group Environmental Protection / Energy Management & Sustainability, Mercedes-Benz

Nicole Labutong
Principal / Climate Intelligence, RMI

Katie Leone
Director / Corporate Social Responsibility, Hertz

Theresa Lieb
Food Systems Analyst, GreenBiz Group

Joel Makower
Chairman and Co-founder, GreenBiz Group

Andrew Mayock
Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, White House Council on Environmental Quality

Victoria Mills
Managing Director, Environmental Defense Fund

Marcene Mitchell
Senior Vice President - Climate Change, World Wildlife Fund

Rebekah Moses
VP of Impact Strategy, Iron Ox

James Mulligan
Head of Carbon Neutralization Science & Strategy, Amazon

Sara Neff
Head of ESG, Lendlease

Brandon Owens
Vice President - Sustainability, Insight Energy

Hans Pehrson
Head of the Polestar 0 Project, Polestar

Spencer Plumb
Manager - Forest Carbon Innovations, Verra

Sophie Purdom
Managing Partner & Co-Founder, Climate Tech VC

Neeta Ramnath
Principal Director - Strategy, Accenture

Lee Recht
Vice President Sustainability, Aleph Farms

Jörgen Sandström
Head of the Industrial Transformation Program, World Economic Forum

Volker Sick
Professor and Director / Global CO2 Initiative, University of Michigan

Annabelle Stamm
Director / Sustainability Strategy, Edison Energy

Anna Stanley
Director - Climate Action, World Business Council on Sustainable Development

Elizabeth Sturcken
Managing Director / EDF+Business, Environmental Defense Fund

Paulina Tarrant
Net Zero Engagement Manager, The Science Based Targets initiative

Drew Thompson
AVP - Connectivity & Commercial / Technology, Black & Veatch

Marion Verles
Co-founder & CEO, SustainCERT

Candace Vinke
Senior Director - Nature-based Innovation, Verra

Jay Watson
Climate and Regenerative Ecosystems Strategy Lead, General Mills

Sheldon Whitehouse
Senator - Rhode Island, U.S Senate

Drew Wilkinson
Community Program Manager, Microsoft

2022 Sponsors

PREMIER SPONSOR:
• Amazon

SUPPORTING SPONSOR:
• OneTrust

CONTRIBUTING SPONSORS:
• BB Pulse
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Pacific Gas and Electric Company
• Black & Veath
• Insight Energy
• Sylvera
• Convoy
• Meta
• Watershed
• Edison Energy
• Orsted
• Wells Fargo

PARTICIPATING SPONSORS:
• Ameresco
• Fill it Forward
• Redaptive
• South Pole

COMMUNITY PARTNERS:
• The Sustainability
• Consortium
• Ecosystem Marketplace
• New Energy Nexus
• Carbon180
• Nori Carbon Removal
• Armi
• Science Based Targets

NET ZERO PARTNER:
• Watershed

SUSTAINABILITY PARTNERS:
• South Pole
• rePurpose
• Bonneville Environmental Foundation