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.