Sustainable UK Cities: Manchester, 16th October 2008

Crowne Plaza, 70 Shudehill, Manchester

Agenda

2.30pm Registration

3.00pm Introduction and welcome
- David Green, Chief Executive, UKBCSE
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3.05pm The energy challenge
- James Smith, Chairman, Shell UK
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3.20pm Q&A session with James Smith

3.40pm The role of Local Authorities
David Green, Chief Executive, UKBCSE
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4.00pm Business response to the economic challenges and opportunities of climate change within the city region
Angie Robinson, Chief Executive, Manchester Chamber of Commerce
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4.20pm Brainstorm questions on Manchester Mini Stern

4.40pm Panel discussion and Q&A
Chaired by Phil Korbel, 100 Months Club
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- Mike Dinsdale, Brother UK
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- Mike Reardon, Strategic Director of Neighbourhood Services, Manchester City Council
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- Nick Gerrard, Deputy Chief Executive, Manchester Enterprises
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- Dr Kate Ardern, Director of Public Heath, Wigan Borough
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5.20pm Drinks reception

7.00pm End

David Green OBE, FRSA FiE
Chief Executive, UKBCSE

David is Chief Executive of the UK Business Council for Sustainable Energy (UKBCSE) that he created in 2002, building on his past work as the Director of the Combined Heat and Power Association.

He was appointed by the Mayor of London to Chair the London Energy Partnership. He is a member of the UK Government delegations to the World Summit on Sustainable Development and in 2004 took part in the International Conference on Renewable Energy. He was a Commissioner for the LGA Climate Change Commission, which released its final report in December 2007. He is also a member of the high level Ministerial Advisory Group on Sustainable Communities. David Green was awarded the MBE in 1986 and the OBE in 2003.

James Smith
Chairman, Shell UK

James is the Chairman of Shell UK. He has been with Shell since 1983 and has worked in all the Group’s major businesses. Until the end of 2003 he was on the global board of Shell Chemicals as head of technology, strategy and sustainable development. He has also been head of resourcing, which principally involved ensuring there is a highly talented and diverse group of leaders for the top 200 jobs in Shell.

Much of James’ early career was in upstream oil and gas production, latterly in business development. He has been extensively involved in Shell business in a number of Middle Eastern countries and in the US. In addition, he was MD of Shell’s downstream business in Brunei and chaired Shell’s global catalyst business during a period of restructuring for profitability. James has a degree in physics and is a chartered accountant. Before joining Shell he worked with Accenture.

Angie Robinson
Chief Executive, Manchester Chamber of Commerce

Angie was appointed Chief Executive of Manchester Chamber of Commerce and Industry in July 2000. The Chamber has undergone considerable change since her arrival, most notably in 2004 when it became Greater Manchester Chamber, following the merger of all Chambers in Greater Manchester. It is now recognised to have one of the strongest policy and public relation functions in the country. The Chamber has the largest number of members in the UK

Angie holds a variety of board level positions in various Manchester organisations. Previously, Angie was the Chief Executive of Shropshire Chamber of Commerce, Training and Enterprise and Business Link. During her two and half years tenure, the Chamber doubled its membership and established extensive international links. The Chamber also successfully secured the contract to deliver the Government’s Small Business Service Activity.

Phil Korbel, BA (Law) Hons FRSA
Founder, 100 Months Club

Phil is a founder of Manchester’s high level network for climate change action, The 100 Months Club. His day job is running the award-winning charity Radio Regen which leads the country in the development of community radio (www.radioregen.org). He sits on the board of the Manchester Local Strategic Partnership as well as the organising committee for The Sony Awards. He used to run an independent radio production company, and has made a number of documentaries for BBC Radio 4.

Mike Dinsdale
Communications Director, Brother UK

Originally joining Brother in 1974 to repair calculators, Mike moved through various departments before founding Brother UK’s service and call centre facilities. In 2003 he was appointed Marketing Director; this drew on his industry experience to incorporate customer needs into Brother’s product design and development programmes. In 2005 Mike became Brother’s Communications Director. He is now responsible for corporate communications and implementing Brother’s corporate social responsibility strategy.

Mike Reardon
Strategic Director of Neighbourhood Services, Manchester City Council

Mike joined Manchester City Council as Strategic Director of the newly established Neighbourhood Services directorate in May 2006. He has worked in the public sector for over 30 years. The first half of his career was spent in the housing field with a number of local authorities, with Shelter and as Housing Adviser to the Association of Metropolitan Authorities. He went on to successfully manage the reorganisation of Southampton City Council in the Nineties. Building on that experience, he was appointed as Deputy Chief Executive with Trafford MBC in 1997.

He took the opportunity to join Office of Deputy Prime Minister as Director of Local Government Practice in 2000 where he had a variety of roles, mostly involved with designing and delivering policies to tackle underperformance. His current portfolio within the Neighborhood Services Directorate includes responsibility for Housing, Environmental Services, Trading Services and Adult Social Services. Mike chairs the Sustainable Neighborhoods Partnership, sits on the Crime and Disorder Partnership and leads on City region developments with respect to the environment and climate change.

Nick Gerrard
Deputy Chief Executive, Manchester Enterprises

Nick has over 20 years experience of the broad ranging economic development and regeneration agenda in the Northwest working in a wide range of business-led organisations.

Since December 2006 he has been on secondment as Deputy Chief Executive at Manchester Enterprises, the economic development agency for Greater Manchester whose vision is for Manchester to be a world-class city region at the heart of a thriving North. Responsibilities include leading the coordination of the Greater Manchester City Strategy and the implementation of the Regional Economic Strategy in Greater Manchester. Prior to Manchester Enterprises, as Head of Strategy and Policy at the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) he was responsible for a wide range of functions including the highly acclaimed Regional Economic Strategy, leading the North West’s input to the innovative pan-regional Northern Way initiative, the development of city regional policy, and managing the Agency’s Corporate Planning and Policy teams.

Dr Kate Ardern, MB, ChB, MSc, FFPH
Director of Public Heath, Borough of Wigan

In 1998 Kate became one of country’s first consultants in Environmental Public Health. In Sept 2006, she was appointed to be Associate Director of Public Health for NHS Northwest leading on the implementation of the “Choosing Health” agenda. She was the author of the North West NHS Sustainable Development Work Programme, which has been commended by the Sustainable Development Commission and is a member of the national Advisory Expert Panel reviewing the Sustainable Development Commission’s Good Corporate Citizens’ Toolkit for the NHS. She is currently lead Director of Public Health for both Greater Manchester and the North West on Sustainable Development and Climate Change.

 

 

 

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