Zero Waste Conference

Keynotes

Futurist and Founding Partner, Greyspace

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Angela Oguntala

Futurist and Founding Partner, Greyspace

<div class="ExternalClass728100600CEB4A17B33161B3D85D6265"><p>Angela Oguntala is a founding partner at Greyspace, a foresight and design consultancy that partners with organizations to envision and transition towards desirable futures. She has led work in education, healthcare, finance, fashion, insurance and policy sectors to facilitate deliberation on emerging challenges and opportunities, inform strategy and develop new thinking.</p><p>She has deep expertise and interest in collective imagination, sustainable transitions and experimental processes to catalyze innovation. Selected clients of hers include IKEA, Hermès, Philips, Sky, The World Economic Forum, The World Trade Organization, Microsoft and Swiss Life.</p><p>Angela Oguntala is a Salzburg Global Fellow, was named a Future Innovator by The United Nations OICT & Ars Electronica for her work and speaks widely on future-facing themes, having been featured on TED, NPR and various international platforms.</p><p><br></p></div>

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Angela

Oguntala

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Founder and Director, Making Design Circular

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Katie Treggiden

Founder and Director, Making Design Circular

<div class="ExternalClass1471DE8668114F4884C75CED3C1B2A75"><p>Katie Treggiden is an author, journalist, podcaster and keynote speaker championing a circular approach to design. She is also the founder and director of Making Design Circular, a membership community in which designer-makers get to feel proud of contributing to a thriving planet with every product they make. With 20 years' experience in the creative industries, she regularly contributes to publications such as <em>The Guardian, Crafts Magazine and Design Milk</em>. She is currently exploring the question ‘can craft save the world?’ through an emerging body of work that includes her fifth book,<em> Wasted: When Trash Becomes Treasure</em> (Ludion, 2020), and a podcast, <em>Circular with Katie Treggiden</em>. She has launched, edited and published an award-winning design blog and an independent print magazine. She recently gained a distinction for her Master’s Degree in the History of Design from the University of Oxford. She was the co-founder of women’s network Bloom and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.<br><br></p></div>

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Katie

Treggiden

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Founder, Regenerators

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Laura Storm

Founder, Regenerators

<div class="ExternalClassBE24721DEF9248E7A6C70E49B02930A2"><p>Laura is an international keynote speaker, author, advisor, and expert on sustainability and regenerative leadership. She has spent her entire career advising global leaders on sustainability and building impact- and purpose-driven organizations. They have all focused on the global transformation to sustainability and include the Copenhagen Climate Council, the World Business Summit on Climate Change, Project Green Light and Sustainia. In 2018, she founded Regenerators - a collective focused on nature-inspired regenerative design, organizations, leadership and living.</p><p>She is the co-author of the much-praised book Regenerative Leadership and for her work, she has been awarded the title ‘Worldchanger’ by Greenbiz, is selected by the World Economic Forum as a ‘Young Global Leader,’ and named one world’s leading women in the sustainability & regeneration by Sustainable Brands. She serves on multiple Boards and the World Economic Forum’s Expert Network as an expert in sustainable development and climate change. Her academic background is a Master's in Political Communication and Leadership from Copenhagen Business School.</p> </div>

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Laura

Storm

Director, Exploration Architecture

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Michael Pawlyn

Director, Exploration Architecture

<div class="ExternalClass393ECBBD3B4B4273BF47138E1EF52301"><p>Michael Pawlyn has been described as an expert in regenerative design and biomimicry. He established his firm Exploration Architecture in 2007 to focus on high performance buildings and solutions for the circular economy.</p><p>Prior to setting up Exploration, he worked with Grimshaw for ten years and was central to the team that designed the Eden Project.</p><p>Michael jointly initiated the widely acclaimed Sahara Forest Project. In 2019, he co-initiated 'Architects Declare a Climate & Biodiversity Emergency' which has spread internationally with over 7,000 companies signed up to addressing the planetary crisis.</p><p>Since 2018 he has been increasingly providing advice to national governments and large companies on transformative change. He is the author of two books, <em>Biomimicry in Architecture</em> and <em>Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency</em>, co-authored with Sarah Ichioka.<br></p></div>

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Michael

Pawlyn

Co-hosts

Associate Professor, UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Kathryn Gretsinger

Associate Professor, UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media

<div class="ExternalClass856E05C34916462CAEF1D46D92876639"><p>In addition to being a professor at the UBC School of Journalism, Writing and Media, Kathryn is a long—time public broadcaster at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, with a record of creating award-winning work at the local and national level in Canada. She is also a Killam Teaching Prize winner and was named one of North America's top innovative journalism educators in 2018.</p><p>Kathryn is a respected mentor and trainer at CBC, where she continues to work in the public broadcaster's Learning and Development department. She works across platforms, but her first love is audio - leading training workshops for reporters, producers, editors and hosts on performance and audio skills, including podcasting and compelling storytelling. Kathryn's commitment to teaching, reporting, and fostering dialogue about issues of social justice, Indigenous relations, and mental health appears in the courses she teaches and in her key collaborations.<br></p></div>

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Kathryn

Gretsinger

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Founding Director and Director of Ancestral Services, Future Ancestors Services

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Chuk Odenigbo

Founding Director and Director of Ancestral Services, Future Ancestors Services

<div class="ExternalClassC9E43614224E4C0E9BE87B623F7DAE8B"><p>Proudly Franco-Albertan, Chúk is passionate about the ways in which the environment impacts human health and the role of justice in our understanding of how our societies function. This passion manifests itself in his work as one of the founding directors of Future Ancestors Services where he focuses on environmental and climate justice in his efforts to not only make green spaces accessible for everyone; but to fight environmental racism in all its forms and to popularize the understanding that you cannot create a society that is environmentally friendly if that same society is not just. Chúk is also a PhD candidate in medical geography where his research seeks to build from several forms of knowledge to better understand the impacts of the environment (biophysical, socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-political) on the vulnerability/resilience of a community to disease.</p><p>Chúk has worked in a variety of industries, including oil and gas, fashion retail, and academia. He is interested in the multidisciplinary nature of our existence and in exploring new solutions that respond to recurring problems. Chúk was ranked amongst the top 30 Sustainability Leaders under 30 by Corporate Knights, the top 30 Change-Making Albertans under 30 by the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation, the top 10 young Franco-Albertan leaders by Radio-Canada and the top 25 environmentalists under 25 in Canada by the Starfish for three years. Chúk was MEC's ambassador for the outdoors and is an alumni of the first Ocean Bridge cohort, a group of young Canadians leading ocean health and literacy projects across Canada.<br></p></div>

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Chúk

Odenigbo

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VP of Capital, Innovation and Engagement, ReFED

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Alexandria Coari

VP of Capital, Innovation and Engagement, ReFED

<div class="ExternalClass25B604C3899B4251A22059C39BBB189C"><p>Alexandria serves as ReFED’s VP of Capital, Innovation, & Engagement, working to catalyze the more than $14 billion of public, private, and philanthropic capital needed annually to scale innovation and accelerate the adoption of solutions to food waste by 2030. She brings 15 years of investment banking, sustainable food supply chain certification, and innovation acceleration experience with startups, corporates, and nonprofits in the U.S. and Latin America, including time at JP Morgan, Fair Trade USA, OLLY, and Agora Partnerships. She is passionate about helping mission-driven companies grow their impact and believes in the power of market-based approaches to solving today's biggest challenges.<br><br></p></div>

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Alexandria

Coari

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Senior Strategist and Practice Manager, BEworks

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Angela Cooper

Senior Strategist and Practice Manager, BEworks

<div class="ExternalClass6179DCD2A6E246C3A496AFED700DAC4A"><p>Angela holds a PhD in Linguistics from Northwestern University in Chicago, which was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship. At BEworks, she co-leads the sustainability portfolio and has led numerous projects across multiple domains, including a multi-year initiative to develop and validate a behavior change program aimed at reducing household food waste.<br><br></p></div>

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Angela

Cooper

Chair, Metro Vancouver Board

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Sav Dhaliwal

Chair, Metro Vancouver Board

<div class="ExternalClassCD8EF6F89B1B4E8D806CD2FE0BBF9009"><p>Sav Dhaliwal was elected Chair of the Metro Vancouver Board in November 2018, following a decade as a Board Director and 16 years as City of Burnaby Councillor. He has also served as president of both the Union of B.C. Municipalities and Lower Mainland Local Government Association and worked with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities as the Chair of the Standing Committee for Municipal Finance and as well as Infrastructure and Transportation Policy. </p><p>Prior to local politics, Sav enjoyed a long career in the private sector working in information technology at TELUS. He has also served not-for-profit organizations in Burnaby, including the Burnaby Minor Hockey Association, Burnaby Sports Hall of Fame Committee, New Vista Society and the Burnaby Lions Club. Sav has been recognized by the Government of Canada, the University of British Columbia & the Goel Family Charitable Foundation, the Fiji Association of British Columbia and the Chetna Association of Canada for his outstanding services to the Community. He and his wife, Cheryl, have lived in Burnaby for more than 40 years.<br><br></p></div>

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Sav

Dhaliwal

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President and CEO, PAC Global

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Jim Downham

President and CEO, PAC Global

<div class="ExternalClassD14875FEA77F4CC59F1A036439D2E10C"><p>Jim Downham leads the PAC Global team as President and CEO with over 40 years of packaging manufacturing and association executive management experience. He was inducted into the Packaging Hall of Fame in 2014 and has been a member of the Hall of Fame Judges Commission since 2018. He is the visionary behind the creation of IFS PAC SECURE, PAC NEXT, PAC FOOD, PIP360 and PAC IOU. Jim is responsible for the association’s increasing development and expansion efforts into high-growth, emerging international markets. He is dedicated to making meaningful change in the packaging industry, across the entire value change. </p><p>Jim is active on several boards including his position as Vice Chair of the National Zero Waste Council, Director of the Conference on Canadian Stewardship, and sits on the advisory committee of the Canada Plastics Pact.<br></p></div>

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Jim

Downham

Chair, National Zero Waste Council

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Jack Froese

Chair, National Zero Waste Council

<div class="ExternalClass781D8BD9D6BD439BAF701F5B48B8B2BB"><p>Jack Froese is the Mayor of the Township of Langley, which he has called home for 41 years. Mayor Jack Froese has lived, worked, and raised a family in Langley and was a successful business owner and farmer. Jack also sits on the Metro Vancouver Board of Directors and is the Chair of the Zero Waste Committee. He also is the Chair of the National Zero Waste Council, an initiative of Metro Vancouver that is a collaborative, cross sector approach to make advances in waste prevention and the transition to a circular economy across Canada. In all these capacities, Jack has the same approach of working collaboratively to identify and pursue solutions that contribute to community well-being, long-term prosperity and environmental sustainability, now and in the future. <br><br></p></div>

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Jack

Froese

Senior Lead, Capacity and Partnerships, Privy Council Office, Canada

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Julie Greene

Senior Lead, Capacity and Partnerships, Privy Council Office, Canada

<div class="ExternalClass31C03774766E43248DC4A7BE1D6F0CC7"><p>Julie is responsible for developing partnerships and building capacity for the Federal government to use outcomes-based funding approaches, including Challenge Prizes and pay-for-success projects. Her team’s current portfolio of projects spans agriculture, climate, health, housing and space.</p><p>Before joining the Privy Council Office, Julie was a key designer of an innovative chronic disease program, which was an early adopter in using matched funding with the private sector and pay-for-results methods. She co-led a program of research to explore these types of partnerships, and has jointly published several papers in this field.</p> <p><br></p></div>

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Julie

Greene

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Vice President Food Safety, Quality Assurance and Animal Welfare, A&W Food Services of Canada Inc

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Angela Griffiths

Vice President Food Safety, Quality Assurance and Animal Welfare, A&W Food Services of Canada Inc

<div class="ExternalClassE8309C6DEC014366ACE64004CFB8D571"><p>Angela joined A&W Food Services in June 2016 as the Vice President of Food Safety, Quality Assurance and Animal Welfare. Angela also leads A&W’s Doing What’s Right Strategy and environmental initiatives in our 1025+ restaurants. Prior to joining A&W, Angela held the position of Director of Innovation for UL Supply Chain and Sustainability from 2010 to 2016, and prior to that held various director and executive positions in environmental, conservation and consulting firms including the Vancouver Aquarium, The Sheltair Group, Clean Nova Scotia and Jacques Whitford. In August 2021, she joined the Board of Recycle BC and currently Chairs the Governance Committee. </p><p>Angela holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Western Ontario, a Master of Science in Microbiology and a PhD in Resource Management and Environmental Studies from the University of British Columbia.<br></p></div>

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Angela

Griffiths

CEO and Founder, Cheekbone Beauty Inc.

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Jennifer Harper

CEO and Founder, Cheekbone Beauty Inc.

<div class="ExternalClassE96C10ECF904407EA4DF54BEFE87198A"><p>An award-winning social entrepreneur, Jenn Harper is the founder and CEO of Cheekbone Beauty Cosmetics INC. Cheekbone Beauty is a digitally native direct to consumer brand that is helping Indigenous youth see themselves in a beauty brand while using the concept of Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) in the brands ethos and in developing products. Creating a new segment in the beauty industry - Sustainable Socially Conscious Beauty. </p><p>Jennifer Harper has been making a name for herself in the beauty industry for a number of years but has been gaining popularity quickly after being on the hit CBC show, Dragons Den in 2019. Cheekbone Beauty’s mission is to help every Indigenous youth see and feel their enormous value in the world while creating sustainable cosmetics.</p><p>Cheekbone Beauty is committed to donating 2% of revenues to organizations that support Indigenous youth. During Cheekbone Beauty’s infancy, Jenn endured a heavy personal loss with the suicide of her brother B.J. This loss, though difficult, has remained a driving force behind the desire to see Cheekbone Beauty succeed with its mission, to empower Indigenous youth.</p><p>In addition to Cheekbone’s mission, she strives to educate as many people as possible about the Residential School System and the effects it has had on my family and friends through decades of generational trauma. She speaks regularly to university, college and high school students about social entrepreneurship, empathy and the history of her First Nations family. She has also been invited to speak to various entrepreneur groups, women in business associations, Apple Canada and First Nations organizations.</p><p>In 2019, Jenn was named ‘Women of the Year’ by<a href="https://www.chatelaine.com/living/jennifer-harper-woman-of-the-year-2019/"> Chatelaine Magazine</a>. </p><p><br></p></div>

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Jennifer

Harper

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CEO and Co-founder, Reusables.com

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Jason Hawkins

CEO and Co-founder, Reusables.com

<div class="ExternalClass93A928E1B76C4AA6B6967671C943D70B"><p>Jason Hawkins is the CEO and Co-founder at Reusables.com with half a decade of experience in food technology and circular economy. His first venture was a farm-to-table marketplace for students, which Jason started during his Bachelor of Commerce degree at Queen’s University and sold to a grocery retailer in Ontario. Prior to starting Reusables.com, Jason served as Director of Business Development at a large eGrocery technology company in Canada. Jason saw the damaging impact of plastic packaging waste on the coastlines, mountain ranges and cities during a solo trip to Asia when he was 18. From that moment on, he has been focused on using business innovation as a force to counter the global environmental challenge. Residing in North Vancouver, Jason spends his free-time in the trails with family and friends.<br><br></p></div>

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Jason

Hawkins

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Architect, Senior Associate, Head of Innovation, SchmidtHammerLassen (SHL) Architects

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Enlai Hooi

Architect, Senior Associate, Head of Innovation, SchmidtHammerLassen (SHL) Architects

<div class="ExternalClass01ADAC8E45EA482F930A20FB8147D7E9"><p>Enlai is an architect and industrial designer specialising in the integration of engineering fields within circular design and architecture. He brings a variety of skills in dealing with complex challenges in the built environment.</p><p>As Head of Innovation, Enlai leads the practice’s sustainability approach in competitions and develops thought leadership together with Perkins+Will on the topics of adaptive transformation in architecture, circular construction methods, material health and strategy. His projects include the integration of circular design and engineering systems into architecture, adaptive recycling, master plans and the development of a range of patented products that contribute to the sustainable performance of buildings. Enlai has won a number of awards in both architecture and design.<br></p></div>

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Enlai

Hooi

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Special Advisor - Behaviour Change, WRAP

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Sam Hubble

Special Advisor - Behaviour Change, WRAP

<div class="ExternalClass3D1815B74937437DB335E23CBD2370A6"><p>Sam fell into the behavioural sciences by accident. A keen interest in the natural world led to an undergraduate degree spent studying the impacts of climate change on coral reefs and ocean ecosystems, and sparked frustration at how poorly scientific knowledge and advice was communicated to (and by) policymakers and the public. This led to a greater appreciation of the importance of the social sciences in tackling societal challenges. A subsequent MSc in Science Communication and PhD in Environmental Psychology – where he investigated how people's visions of the future influence influenced their actions in the presence - reaffirmed this belief, and after completing his PhD he joined WRAP's citizen behaviour change team. <br></p><p>Having joined WRAP in 2017, Sam has worked on projects that have brought together governments, businesses and individuals to make it easier for people to live more sustainable lives. He has employed behavioural science to develop creative campaigns and interventions that have tackled plastics, recycling and food waste in UK homes.<br></p></div>

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Sam

Hubble

Co-founder and Director of Research, Development and Innovation, TriCycle

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Louise Henault-Ethier

Co-founder and Director of Research, Development and Innovation, TriCycle

<div class="ExternalClass8E07550FF5C44554BC04CF7A78518765"><p>Louise is Co-founder and director of research, development and innovation at TriCycle.</p><p>Her post-doctoral research at Laval University focused on the use of insects such as mealworms and black soldier flies to valorize organic waste materials. For 15 years, she has been passionate about the management of organic waste. She has raised earthworms capable of handling 10 tonnes of organic matter per year and planned several institutional and industrial composting sites. She has also worked with insects at Espace pour la vie. She is an associate professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique du Québec and director of the Eau Terre Environnement Center and was previously head of scientific projects at the David Suzuki Foundation. Author of numerous scientific publications, she is also a popularizer appreciated by the media. </p><p><br></p></div>

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Louise

Hénault-Ethier

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Founder and CEO, ShareWares

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Cody Irwin

Founder and CEO, ShareWares

<div class="ExternalClassB32C8F4C441F400397BFA4AE575CD4EC"><p>Cody has a strong connection and love for nature, as well as a powerful draw to technology and innovation. He was born on a remote farm in Manitoba and later raised in uptown Toronto. He went on to study Mechanical Engineering at McGill University and moved to beautiful British Columbia after graduation. For the last decade he has called Vancouver home. There he started his first venture, Natural Source, offering corporate food services for technology companies. Over 10 years he grew this business into a local industry leader, until the pandemic closed offices and Natural Source's client base almost completely evaporated overnight. As devastating as this was, it proved to be an amazing opportunity. By repurposing his company's resources, he was able to build ShareWares with goals of eliminating single-use waste locally and worldwide.<br><br></p></div>

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Cody

Irwin

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President and CEO, W Dusk Energy Group

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/David Isaac

President and CEO, W Dusk Energy Group

<div class="ExternalClassE843D24C397A43BB991BCCD45DF3E1C7"><p>David Isaac is also known by his traditional name Wugadusk (Northern Lights). David is a Mi’kmaq originally from Listuguj, Quebec but was raised in Vancouver within the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples. He has been a long-time advocate for Indigenous health, the environment, and has previously served as the Executive Director for the Vancouver Native Health Society as well as the Centre for Native Policy & Research. Most recently, he joined the board of the India-Canada Centre for Innovative Multidisciplinary Partnerships to Accelerate Community Transformation and Sustainability (IC-IMPACTS), was named a Canadian Climate Change Champion in 2021, and serves on the governance expert panel for the Canada Climate Law Initiative. He also helped found the Indigenous Infrastructure Fund to meet the demands of community projects across the country.</p><p>David is the President and CEO of the W Dusk Energy Group, which works with Indigenous communities to harness the power of their renewable energy resources in tandem with broader community development initiatives, including food systems, to create Indigenous circular economies. W Dusk is actively deploying megawatt and community owned solar farms throughout Canada. In addition, the company is also developing green hydrogen and B.C.'s first fully solar community. Projects completed include two of British Columbia's largest community owned (distributed power) solar projects and North America's first Indigenous owned utility scale solar farm in the Fisher River Cree Nation.</p><p>When David is not working, he can be found in nature and is an avid sailor.<br></p></div>

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David

Isaac

Founder and Partner, Bio-architecture Formosana

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Kuo Ying-Chou

Founder and Partner, Bio-architecture Formosana

<div class="ExternalClassEFF5AC482E1D4182880EB7A636323F5A"><p>Kuo Ying-Chao is the principal architect of Bio-architecture Formosana (BaF) - a Taipei based architectural design firm. BaF has been one of the leading architecture firms in Taiwan, and its works range from culture, education, transportation, hospitality, workplace and housing for both public and private sectors. The Bei-Tou Library project completed in 2006 is Taiwan’s first certified green architecture project. The timber library is the most published Green building in Taiwan and was selected as one of the 25 most beautiful libraries in the world by US-based cultural news website Flavorwire.</p><p>Focusing on sustainability and circularity design, he incorporates biological-intelligence (BI) design approach, a design philosophy of the company, into the creation of architecture. Ying-Chao has won numerous awards for his design in sustainability and was the recipient of the 12th Awarding of Outstanding Architects in Taiwan in 2011. He has taught in several university as an Associate Professor.</p><p><br></p></div>

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Ying-Chou

Kuo

CEO and Co-founder, Intelligent City

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Oliver Lang

CEO and Co-founder, Intelligent City

<div class="ExternalClassAEF007749C38413A8081A35EF20660DA"><p>Oliver Lang is CEO and Co-Founder of Intelligent City. He is an industry leading and award-winning entrepreneur, developer and architect, who has consistently contributed through innovation and built solutions in the areas of design for urban housing and cultural projects, technology development, off-site prefabrication automation, mass timber construction and carbon net zero building technology.</p><p>Oliver is providing new visions and solutions for mixed-use housing, advanced prefabrication and green building strategies. He has chaired the advisory urban design panels of UBC and the City of Vancouver, and frequently provides public key notes and lectures across Canada, North America and abroad.<br></p></div>

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Oliver

Lang

Co-founder and CEO, Unless Collective

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Eric Liedtke

Co-founder and CEO, Unless Collective

<div class="ExternalClass9E473C78BE704112B7321D61F6ABA7BB"><p>Eric Liedtke is Co-founder and CEO of the Unless Collective, a zero-plastic, zero-waste streetwear brand with a regenerative creation model aimed at changing the way footwear, apparel and accessories are designed, distributed, collected and safely returned to the earth - serving as a lighthouse for industry to follow. At the end of December 2019, Eric stepped away from his Executive Board position at adidas, to pursue his passion for the fight against plastic waste full time. While in this role, Eric re-energized the adidas brand by unleashing a culture of collaboration and creativity by empowering employees, and inviting athletes, entertainers, consumers and partners to shape the future together with a true “open source” model. His cultural and strategic leadership enabled adidas to break new ground in the areas of material and process innovation, sustainability and streetwear driving consistent growth - out-pacing its competition adding over $8 billion dollars of revenue in 6 years on the job.</p><p>A former competitive swimmer, and Oceans Advocate, Eric has merged his passion for the water with his open-source approach to business, catalyzing a company-wide commitment to sustainability. To fight marine pollution, he initiated a partnership with Parley for the Oceans in 2014, committing to create 11 million pairs of shoes made of Parley Ocean Plastic in 2019, and drove the ambitious goal of eliminating virgin polyester from adidas products by 2024.</p><p>During his 26-year career with adidas, Eric was at the forefront of consumer-led innovation. He is a serial entrepreneur – marrying technology driven innovation with the fast-paced world of fashion, streetwear and youth culture fueling new segments, new businesses, excitement and growth.</p><p>In 2015 he spearheaded the products made from recycled ocean plastic, and in 6 years converted over 50% of business from virgin plastics to recycled plastics, leading the entire industry in this massive shift. And, he championed the introduction of Futurecraft Loop - the world’s first running shoe that was made to be remade. A true circular product concept and business model that allows consumers to return their used shoes or apparel to be completely reground and re-introduced into the supply chain to live again.<br></p><p>Eric is married with two daughters and a son. He lives along the Oregon Coast spending his free time surfing and working out. He also sits on the Parley for the Oceans Steering Committee.</p></div>

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Eric

Liedtke

Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Cascades Recovery +

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Mikhael Metauro

Director of Organizational Effectiveness, Cascades Recovery +

<div class="ExternalClassC1785E993BEC427C97BA06EFA21EECA7"><p>Mikhael has been a member of the Cascades Family for over 15 years focusing on the recovery of recycled materials and using those materials to create new products! Currently, Mikhael is the Director of Organizational Effectiveness within the Recovery+ division where he leads a team of business experts and LEAN masters focused on challenging the status quo and driving organizational transformation to deliver a world class customer experience. Cascades is a truly Circular Company and Mikhael is determined to leverage the company's knowledge and experience to continue lead the way to a Circular Economy! <br></p></div>

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Mikhael

Metauro

Project manager for CERIEC’s construction living lab

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Hortense Montoux

Project manager for CERIEC’s construction living lab

<div class="ExternalClassB82FCEC896784259B7680A7D7B18A984"><p>Hortense is in charge of the circular economy living lab for the construction industry at the Center for Intersectoral Studies and Research on the Circular Economy (CERIEC) at École de technologie supérieure (ETS). Since the launch of the lab in early 2021, she has helped shape the lab’s cocreation process that she is in charge of. This includes designing tools, mobilizing key stakeholders and animating cocreation workshops. All of which leads to the experimentation of solutions that can help accelerate the construction’s sector transition to a circular economy. Previously, she gathered over 10 years of experience in the field of sustainable development for public and private organizations, in France and in Quebec. She worked in the consulting field, in the industry and the non-profit sector, specializing in waste prevention and in the circular economy. </p> <br></div>

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CEO, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Jayson Myers

CEO, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada

<div class="ExternalClass56747743243E437DB591FD5851B0E560"><p>Jayson Myers is the Chief Executive Officer of Next Generation Manufacturing Canada. NGen is the organization that leads Canada’s Advanced Manufacturing Supercluster, an initiative funded by the Government of Canada that will leverage more than $600 million in collaborative, industry-led projects aimed at building world-leading advanced manufacturing capabilities in Canada.</p><p>Jay is an award-winning business economist who specializes in industrial and technological change. Between 2007 and 2016, he served as President & CEO of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters, Canada’s largest industry and trade association.</p><p>Jay has been widely recognized as one of the most influential economic policy advocates in Canada. He is an advisor to both private and public sector leaders, and has counselled Canadian prime ministers and premiers, as well as senior corporate executives and policymakers around the world. </p><p>He is a member of the Advisory Board of the World Manufacturing Forum and a leading advocate on the world stage on behalf of advanced manufacturing in Canada.</p><p>Jay has held a research fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford and lectureships in political economy at Oxford and the University of Warwick. He completed his academic studies at Queen’s University, UBC, the London School of Economics, and Oxford University.</p><p><br></p></div>

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Co-founder and COO, Moment Energy

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Sumreen Rattan

Co-founder and COO, Moment Energy

<div class="ExternalClassE62B299F0CFC4CF299D82F23D2338B57"><p>Sumreen is a Co-founder and COO at Moment Energy, a BC cleantech start-up that is creating sustainable energy storage systems by repurposing retired electric vehicle batteries. At Moment Energy, Sumreen leads their supply chain and marketing teams and is responsible for establishing relationships with the world’s largest auto manufacturers. Sumreen graduated from SFU with a degree in Mechatronics Systems Engineering. She gained extensive experience working in robotics and quality assurance at companies such as Apple, Archiact, and PNI Digital Media. Recently, Sumreen was announced as one of Canada’s Top 30 under 30 Sustainability Leaders, a Global & Mail Business Changemaker and Canada’s 2022 Clean-50 Emerging Leader. <br><br></p></div>

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CEO and Founder, FoodMesh

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Jessica Regan

CEO and Founder, FoodMesh

<div class="ExternalClass225E60D4D64E4E96B2161683F49D5571"><p>Jessica is a 4x entrepreneur, business strategist, and social impact investor. Over the past 15 years, Jessica has advised Fortune 500 corporations, startups, and all four levels of government, including the United Nations, in areas of community economic development and sustainability. </p><p>Named a Top 50 Women in Tech in 2019, and a recipient of the Clean50 award, Jessica's work concentrates on developing highly scalable startups using business as a vehicle for social change, including: Social Impact Technology Accelerator (SITA) and currently is the CEO and Founder of the Mesh Exchange (dba FoodMesh), technology based company building platforms to power the circular economy. For 13 years, Jessica volunteers as the Vice Chair of KASOW, a Kenyan based charity focusing on supporting women entrepreneurs, and is a Board of Director for the Gitga'at First Nation Economic Development Council. She is based in Vancouver with her husband and two young children. <br></p></div>

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Regan

Coordinator of CERIEC’s network of Living Labs on the Circular Economy

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Chantal Rossignol

Coordinator of CERIEC’s network of Living Labs on the Circular Economy

<div class="ExternalClass396778249726461CBF3F7CB9F32D49CD"><p>Chantal coordinates a network of Living Labs on the Circular Economy at the Center for Intersectoral Studies and Research on the Circular Economy (CERIEC) at École de technologie supérieure (ETS). Present since the network’s launch in 2021, she helped develop the network’s Living Lab approach to mobilize academic, public, private and nonprofit stakeholders across a given value chain to co-create, test, document and scale applied solutions. With 8 to 9 sectoral labs to be launched by 2025, she now oversees the launch of new labs and the practices to transfer knowledge and create synergies between the labs, their sectors and stakeholders. She is also completing a research-based M.A.Sc. in Innovation Management on a 2-step strategy to reduce garment volumes and improve garment fit for everyone. Previously, she managed complex high-stakes executive level multidisciplinary and multi stakeholder international environmental projects. </p> <br></div>

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Rossignol

Senior Vice President, Partner Solutions, MaRS Discovery District

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Alex Ryan

Senior Vice President, Partner Solutions, MaRS Discovery District

<div class="ExternalClass8A957B79E96E48FEBC88FA35A41BFF5B"><p>Alex Ryan leads partner solutions at MaRS, helping government and corporate partners accelerate the adoption of innovation in their organizations, markets and cities. He oversees teams that are helping decarbonize electricity grids, design inclusive smart cities, improve community health and well-being, employ thousands of not in education, employment, or training (NEET) youth, strengthen the impact investing market, and grow Canada’s innovation economy. His writing on smart cities, data governance, policy innovation, social innovation, systemic design, and complex systems science has been published by the World Economic Forum, Fast Company, Axios, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Complexity. </p><p>Alex is also co-founder of Alberta CoLab, the first provincial government innovation lab in Canada. He is an executive-in-residence at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. As a consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, Alex previously helped introduce operational and strategic design into the U.S. Army. He serves on several advisory boards, including Participatory City and Energy Futures Lab. His dissertation in applied mathematics advanced a multidisciplinary approach to complex systems design. <br></p></div>

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Executive Director, OneEarth

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Vanessa Timmer

Executive Director, OneEarth

<div class="ExternalClassFE1269F426C5461DB7E8D9C57CE5162C"><p> Dr. Vanessa Timmer is the Executive Director of OneEarth, a nonprofit 'think and do tank' that innovates and scales solutions for sustainable ways of living. OneEarth collaborates with partners around the world to transform how people live their lives – what they need, what they consume and produce, and what they aspire to – enabling everyone to live good quality lives within their fair share of our Earth's resources. Vanessa is also a Senior Research Fellow at Utrecht University with Pathways to Sustainability, the Urban Futures Studio, and the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. She has studied at Queen’s University, Oxford, UBC and Harvard. Vanessa sits on the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee for the UN Sustainable Lifestyles and Education Programme. In Canada, she is a board member of the National Zero Waste Council. OneEarth is a global leader on sustainable lifestyles through the Beacon for Sustainable Living co-led with the Hot or Cool Institute. In Canada, OneEarth leads a Lighter Living initiative in SW British Columbia in partnership with Vancity. OneEarth works with cities to enable sustainable living in partnership with C40 Cities and BCIT Centre for EcoCities. In 2018, Vanessa received the 2018 YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Environmental Sustainability.</p><br></div>

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Professor, Marketing and Behavioural Science Division, Sauder School of Business, UBC

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Kate White

Professor, Marketing and Behavioural Science Division, Sauder School of Business, UBC

<div class="ExternalClassEC3C5ED122EC4B13AC8685E9569FD899"><p>Dr. Kate White holds a Professorship in Consumer Insights, Prosocial Consumption, and Sustainability at the UBC Sauder School of Business. She is also the Senior Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Sustainability and the Academic Director of the Peter P. Dhillon Centre for Business Ethics.</p><p>Kate’s research focuses on how to encourage ethical and sustainable consumer behaviours. She is the author of the Elusive Green Consumer in Harvard Business Review and 50 published articles topics related to the psychology of consumption and encouraging more sustainable consumer behaviours.</p><p>Kate was honored as one of the top 5 Marketing Researchers in the world by the American Marketing Association and has been inducted to the College of Arts and Sciences, Royal Society of Canada. She was recently awarded a Canada Clean 50 Award for thought leadership in the domain of sustainability and the American Marketing Association’s Award for Responsible Research in Marketing. Kate currently serves as Associate Editor for the Journal of Marketing Research and is on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Marketing, and the Journal of Consumer Psychology.</p><p>Kate has collaborated on various behaviour-change projects with organizations such as The City of Calgary, Starbucks, Proctor and Gamble, Lululemon, The Share, Reuse, Repair Initiative, My Sustainable Canada, and BC Hydro.</p><p><br></p></div>

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Investment Principal, BASF Venture Capital

http://www.zwc.ca/speakers/Irene Yang

Investment Principal, BASF Venture Capital

<div class="ExternalClass2F419E6B6C55498C8706764C02BDB903"><p>Irene Yang joined BASF Venture Capital North America in February 2022 and is based in Toronto. Irene was previously BASF Canada’s Director of Business Development & Innovation, working alongside several business units on growth plans across industries and leading strategic partnerships. Joining BASF in 2013, Irene has also worked in BASF Asia Pacific and U.S.</p><p>Earlier, Irene held Director of Product Management and Strategic Partnership roles with AMD and was a consultant with McKinsey. Irene earned her MS Engineering (Electrical and Computer Science) and MBA degrees from MIT (USA), and B. Eng. & Management degree from McMaster University (Canada).</p><p><br></p></div>

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