Sustainable Enterprise 2008 focuses on meeting the following objectives and providing these benefits to attendees:
- Understand sustainability and the challenges and opportunities it presents.
- Discuss environmental impacts and ways in which enterprises can reduce their impact.
- Offer tools that are strategic and practical - from generating a vision of a sustainable enterprise, to optimizing resource management, to metrics systems for measuring progress.
- Develop frameworks for producing or reformulating products and services that are environmentally and socially sound.
- Illustrate, through experiences or cases, the rewards and risks of sustainability initiatives as an entrepreneur or within a larger enterprise.
- Explore strategies for communicating and creating alignment among coworkers and colleagues.
- Network with other organizations and people to successfully implement innovative sustainable operating practices and policies.