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Planet C Spring Conference
Date and Time
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM BSTItinerary: 09:00 Arrival – Please sign in at the Upper Stannary on Penryn Campus. 09:30 Introduction - Hatty Hopkinson, Impact, Partnership, Development Manager, Evolve Futures, University of Exeter
- PhD Candidate, Global Systems Institute – Systems Thinking and Regenerative Agriculture
09:40 Welcome to the Sustainable Futures, University of Exeter Business School - Allen Alexander, Professor in Innovation and Circular Economy, and Head of Sustainable Futures, University of Exeter
10:00 Local Investment in Nature Cornwall (LINC) Cornwall Council - Cllr Linda Taylor (Leader), Kate Kennally (CEO) and Philippa Hoskin (Nature Recovery Manager)
- LINC is an exciting initiative supporting investment-ready natural capital projects in Cornwall to engage with funders. We enable landowners and farmers to develop and bring unique site-based projects to the marketplace where delivery of nature recovery can be rewarded.
10:15 How business can be a force for good - John Brown - Don’t Cry Wolf
- Don’t Cry Wolf is a creative agency with an activism heart.
- Hear from University of Exeter students about what they want from an employer.
10:30 Tools to get started and achieve your goals - Bella Collins - Brand & Strategy Director - Flexi-Hex
- Cornish based business creating an innovative, honeycomb design paper packaging that protects products and the planet.
10:40 Consciam - Phil Clarke 10:50 Climate Change - Hot Topics
Amanda Forman & Dave Parish from Planet A Solutions11:00 Break – Upper Stannary 11:30 Choice of three workshops. Choose one option: Workshop 1 Innovation in the Wild - Join Allen Alexander, Head of Sustainable Futures and Hollie Kirk, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship for a netwalking tour of campus, including a visit to ESI (Environment and Sustainability Institute)
Workshop 2 Building Better legal documents; how to embed sustainability into your documents.
A practical workshop from Stephens Scown LLP (B Corp certified) with Verity Slater, Laurie Trounce & Lexie Williams as presenters.- HR Practice and policies e.g. Garden leave, Sabbatical policies etc;
- Protecting values when seeking investment or selling;
- Useful clauses to put into commercial contracts; and
- Property clauses including green leases and land protection.
Workshop 3 Nature is Good for You and Good for Business - Environment and Human Health Workshop - Join Lewis Elliott, Senior Lecturer from the European Centre for Environment and Human Health, University of Exeter. Understand the latest science around the links between wellbeing and nature, then map this scientific evidence to your business, so that you can articulate how the natural environment of Cornwall could benefit your customers.
12:30 Lunch – Upper Stannary 13:30 Choice of three workshops. You can choose two options: Workshop 1 Innovation and Circular Economy - Allen Alexander, Head of Sustainable Futures and Hollie Kirk, Lecturer in Entrepreneurship lead this workshop on innovation and circular economy.
Workshop 2 Pioneering Visual Technologies for a Greener Tomorrow - Join Johnny Pope, our data visualisation expert to explore how innovative visual technologies can contribute to a sustainable future, includes a visit to our visualisation suite based in Camborne School of Mines.
- He joined by Louisa Inch who has revolutionised the wastewater and groundwater market by investing and obtaining grant money to develop new enviro-sensors to provide real time data from inside the treatment plants / pump stations and from the bottom of boreholes across Cornwall.
Workshop 3 Net Zero - Want to learn more about Net Zero, and take away some practical steps to reduce your environmental impact?
- Join Laura Hudspith, (Head of Operations and Sustainability at HiYield, The Climate Conscious digital product studio), Andrew Robinson (Konnect for Business) and Chris Phillips (University of Exeter). Understand how to calculate and reduce your emissions and progress on your journey to Net Zero.
14:30 Break – Upper Stannary 15:00 Choice of three workshops. You can choose two options (as above). 16:00 Close Subsidy Control (formerly State Aid) Where applicable (if you are attending this event as a representative of a business or go on to start a business), this event will accrue towards your subsidy control allowance (formerly known as State Aid). By attending, you are confirming that this, along with any previous support received (e.g. de minimis) will not exceed the Minimum Financial Assistance (“MFA”) threshold of £315,000 cumulated over the current and the previous two financial years). In compliance with the UK subsidy control, a statement of the value of this event will be provided to you by the organisers after attendance. £774 flat rate per intervention You will need to inform us of previous state aid. Please provide this information prior to the event. Photo Consent Photographs will be taken at this event. We intend to use the images in our promotional material to tell others about the benefits of the project (Evolve Futures). We would like to use your photograph in publicity which may appear locally, nationally and worldwide (such as, social media, websites or other forms of marketing materials). On arrival, we will ask you to sign a sign-in sheet where you will be able to opt in-out of photography consent. By indicating ‘yes’, you are giving consent for your image to be used. The University of Exeter will keep your image on our records. The information will only be used in accordance with applicable data protection legislation. For more information on your rights please visit: exeter.ac.uk/dataprotection/rights Funding Information The University of Exeter has been commissioned to deliver the EVOLVE FUTURES project on behalf of the Growth Hub by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (SPF) (1) as part of the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Good Growth Programme. The programme is delivered through the University of Exeter in partnership with Cornwall Chamber of Commerce and Cornwall Rural Community Charity and aims to improve the opportunities for enterprises across Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly that aspire to good growth and to accelerate their development through the provision of expert business support. The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK Government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2025. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK by investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus Data Protection and Privacy To aid organisation of this event, attendee information may be shared with relevant staff in the University e.g. a list of attendees could be provided to the University host or guest speaker. We will store your information securely, so that we can communicate to you about the event (e.g. cancellation of event, changes to the itinerary). Confirmation of your attendance at this event will be stored confidentially by the Evolve Futures programme for a period of up to seven years to allow us to comply with our funder. Your details will also be shared with the Growth Hub (CIOSGH) as we are working together to deliver Good Growth Commissioned services to businesses in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. More information on the University's privacy policies can be found here. For more information on Growth Hub’s own privacy policy, please visit this page. Location
Penryn Campus, University of Exeter Penryn Campus, Penryn, Cornwall, TR10 9FE.
Description
This year, we are holding our first Spring Planet C Conference at the University of Exeter Penryn Campus. Our Planet C conference is focused on giving all businesses - from sole traders, to SMEs, through to our large enterprises in Cornwall, the tools to be able to start shifting their culture to create positive change.
Planet C is about providing Cornwall’s businesses with tangible ways to help reduce the global average temperature, without compromising the stability of their organisation. It’s all about broadening the mindset and making everyone realise just how much impact they can have. The conference will start with some fantastic speakers, then move into a variety of workshops. You can choose one workshop out of three in the morning and two in the afternoon, out of four options.Tell a Friend
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