Join LABC in discussing a sustainable future for LA!

Tue, 04/06/2010 - 07:30 - 14:00

LA - APA is pleased to join the Los Angeles Business Council, as a cooperating organization this year at the Los Angeles Business Council’s (LABC) 4th Annual Sustainability Summit entitled “Building a Green Economy: Connecting Sustainability to Business and Job Creation”. This year’s summit is hosted in concert with The Getty, Los Angeles City Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the LABC on Tuesday, April 6th from 7:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Harold M. Williams Auditorium at the Getty.

Much is in store for the upcoming 2010 Summit! We will introduce our inaugural “Salon of Masters”series convening a select group of sustainability industry pioneers. California Attorney General Jerry Brown will participate on the panel alongside former US Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor, Laura Lee Martin, Vice President and CFOR, Jones Lang LaSalle, Scott Lyle, Senior Vice President of Operations, Arden Realty, Kevin Ratner, Senior VP of Development, Forest City and Elon Musk, Founder and Chairman, Tesla Motors. The conversational roundtable will illuminate the defining moments along each of these pioneers’ paths, and their respective visions for the future.

Specific panel topics this year will include business’ role in helping achieve renewable goals and how we develop and grow green business. The Summit will feature an impressive line-up of speakers and panelists, including US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, California State Senator Alex Padilla, Chair, Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications, Mary Nichols, Chairwoman, California Air Resources Board, The Honorable Eric Garcetti, President, Los Angeles City Council, Alan Rothenberg, President, Board of LAWA Commissioner Bill Black, Director, Strategic Sales, Haworth, Inc., Tom Roell, Group Executive, Parsons, Tom Unterman, Founder and Managing Partners, Rustic Canyon Partner, Adam Werbach, Global Chief Executive Officer, Saatchi & Saatchi, Pedro Pizarro, Executive Vice President of Power Operations, Southern California Edison, Joseph Pettus, Senior Vice President of Fuel and Energy, Safeway, Inc and many others.

We are also proud to have the municipal and business support of Arden Realty; Gibbs, Giden, Locher, Turner & Senet LLP; National ITC Corporation; Servicon Systems, Inc.; Parsons Corporation; Turner Construction Company; Unisource Solutions; Haworth, Inc.; California Strategies; Los Angeles Department of Water and Power; Cedar Sinai; Forest City Residential West; Jones Lang LaSalle; Los Angeles World Airports; Los Angeles Convention Center; Watt Companies; Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP; Walmart; Rustic Canyon Partners, among many others. Many other industry leaders and stakeholders are also helping to create and inspire successful outcomes of this year’s summit.

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