The purpose of the Congress is to provide a common information platform to practitioners of various physical and ecological sciences, engineering fields, economics, and social sciences. The conference will facilitate the exchange of emerging ideas about ways and means of protecting the environment and its resource depletion so that humans can achieve sustained economic growth and societal benefits through future generations. Additionally products, processes and systems for sustainability are among the major focuses of this conference.
Meeting Registration
Go To http://www.aiche.org/ifs/conferences/registration.aspx
Meeting registration includes breakfast and lunch on August 10th, 11th and 12th, plus a reception and banquet.
Plenary Speakers:
- The Vision of Sustainability Outcomes for International Industrial Operations
Roland Clift
Professor Emeritus Centre for Environmental Strategy
University of Surrey
President-elect, International Society for Industrial Ecology
- Chemical & Allied Industry Perspective
Edward G. Madzy
Director, EHS Product Regulations / Product Stewardship, BASF
- Consumer Products Perspective
Shekhar Mitra
P&G's Global Vice President for Research and Development
- Automotive Industry Perspective
Alan Taub
Executive Director of General Motors, Research & Development
- IT Industry Perspective
Chandrakant Patel
Hewlett Packard
HP Fellow and Director of the Sustainable IT Ecosystem Lab
Congress Topics:
- Perspectives of Industrial Sustainability Outcomes
- Sustainability as a scientific paradigm for solutions
- Measuring Sustainability
- Value chain sustainability
- Solutions for fossil and non-fossil power
- Solutions for sustainable transportation
- Sustainable design and architecture
- Sustainable material/product designs
- Sustainable processes from an LCA viewpoint
- Modeling for sustainability
- Standards and science-based guidance for sustainability
A one-day workshop on Water will follow the ICOSSE congress on August 13, 2009. The Water workshop is sponsored by NSF, NIST, and EPA. Contact ifs@aiche.org if you are interested.
Congress Steering Committee:
- Subhas Sikdar (US EPA), Congress Chair
- Ellyn Beary (NIST), Vice-Chair for International Advisory
- Eric Amis (NIST), Co-chair of Water workshop
- Bruce Hamilton (NSF), Co-chair of Water Workshop
- Herbert Fredrickson (US EPA), Co-chair for Water Workshop
- Heriberto Cabezas (US EPA)
- I. S. Jawahir (NIST), (U Kentucky), Vice chair for Publications and Conference Proceedings
- Yinlun Huang (Wayne State U. and Sustainable Engineering Forum), Vice Chair for Student Affairs and Posters.
- Darlene Schuster (AIChE-IfS)
Congress International Advisory Board and Program Steering Committee, click here.
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