2019 Sustainable Business Summit

Building Your Business –

Reducing Your Footprint

May 8, 2019 at Hotel Henry

WE ARE SOLD OUT!

Meet up with peers, engage with sustainability leaders, and be inspired! We are building on last year’s success when we brought together over 180 people representing 87 businesses across WNY and South Ontario. This year, we are offering a thought provoking key note lunch you don’t want to miss, several hands-on breakout sessions and engaging networking events.

Keynote Speaker

Philip Ivey will share his insight and counsel of his sustainability journey over the past 30 years at Milliken—a global corporation that combines science, design and insight to tackle the issues and concerns of today with over 35 manufacturing facilities and 7,000 employees. He will convey the challenges and lessons learned along the way as well as how Milliken has created healthier materials that have spurred corporate opportunities and growth. Don’t miss out on the chance to learn, listen and engage with this inspiring sustainability speaker.

Philip Ivey is the Global Strategic Sustainability Leader for Milliken. As a professional sustainability leader, Philip manages sustainability drivers for Milliken’s global floor covering
division, including leading educational courses about material health transparency issues and programs. Philip was recently voted to the Carpet American Recovery Effort (C.A.R.E.) board of directors, which works on market-based solutions for the elimination of post-consumer carpet
going to landfills in the US. He graduated from Auburn University and is certified WELL Faculty, a LEED Green associate and a Lean/Six Sigma Black Belt.