How important are events such as this in furthering the cause of sustainability?
Nicola Acutt: I can’ t underscore how fantastic these events are for professionals in our space because it is an opportunity for us to connect as a professional community and to share insights with each other around the most top of mind topics and issues. They’ re also an opportunity for us to make connections on a grand scale because everyone’ s here in New York during climate week. So again, kudos to the team for putting this rich agenda together that brings us into the room and hence a loud room like we’ re in right now where people are having conversation, catching up, getting a bite to eat, and we’ re doing business together with the purpose of our shared thoughts.
Chris Walker: I think it’ s really easy to pick up a phone and talk to somebody one-on-one. It’ s much harder to do that in a bigger group setting. With events like this, not only are you bringing together different experts from different industries and different companies, but you’ re also fostering conversations.
And I think that’ s what can get a bit more tactical and honestly open up doors where random conversations on a weekly basis, whether it was a business review or a customer check-in, may not be able to do that. I think events like this really foster the collaboration that we’ re trying to create in this space.
Jim Andrew: I think events like this are very important to further the cause of sustainability because they bring people together: a curated group with a curated agenda on things that the organisers, who are in touch with their audience, think are important and are going to be helpful.
And so I think they serve a very valuable purpose. New York Climate Week, for example, is a massive, chaotic event. An event like Sustainability LIVE or any of the others really helps bring it down to a more manageable size with high quality programming so that people can really sink their teeth into a set of topics.
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