SHINE SUMMIT 2018 NET POSITIVE
Handprinting and Net Positive: Accomplishments and Directions
The past 3 years have seen pioneering work in developing and applying methods to assess an enterprise's positive sustainability impacts, and to set these in the context of its footprints which are simultaneously being reduced. The SHINE Summit 2018 will take serious stock of both our achievements and the road ahead. What have we learned and gained? What do we need and why? Our goal is to size up the full potential of Net Positive and to identify the most urgent steps to take in order to realize it together.
This year' Net Positive summit consist of four plenary sessions, each with a combination of presentation and dialogue among panelists and attendees.
Agenda
Breaks, lunch, reception and dinner provided.
Speakers will be announced in July 2018.
8:30 to 9:00 AM Welcome Randolph Kirchain, Research Director, MIT Material Systems Laboratory' Co-
Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
Greg Norris, Director, SHINE MIT
9:00 to 10:30 AM Handprinting and Net Positive: What We've Achieved So Far
Some leading, pioneering companies have made progress in creating handprints, measuring them,
and using them in assessment towards net positivity. Some have also had success at engaging
employees and other stakeholders in this quest; some have made progress towards scalability of
bottom-up reporting to support company-wide assessment. We'll hear about successes, lessons,
value derived, impacts achieved, and near-term directions from these pioneers.
10:30 to 11:00 Break
11:00 to 12:30 PM Handprinting and Net Positive: Promoting Human Rights and SDGs
Human rights represent one of businesses’ greatest opportunities to grow their positive impacts.
This session will explore frameworks for handprint creation, data for social impact measurement,
strategies for augmenting human rights achievements and the place of collaboration in creating
sustainable impacts and contributing to the SDGs.
12:30 to 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 to 3:00 PM Handprinting and Net Positive: What We Need, and Why
Being able to augment footprint reduction and reporting with pursuit of, and reporting about,
positive impacts is a powerful goal for a host of reasons. What are the keys to its success? What
do we need to achieve in order to make this goal a practical and practiced reality? Are there key
enablers to include and obstacles to overcome in relation to methodology, practicality, and
messaging?
3:00 to 3:30 PM Break
3:30 to 4:30 PM Pursuing Global Convergence
Our final session will be about global convergence on Net Positive. Consistency is key for
stakeholder understanding, for credibility; stability and consistency are necessary to enable deep
and long-term investment in the pursuit of Net Positive. What gaps remain in relation to global
convergence on methods and reporting, and how do we close those gaps as rapidly as possible?
4:30 to 5:00 PM Closing remarks
5:00 PM onward Reception and Dinner - Endicott house
Handprinting and Net Positive: Accomplishments and Directions
The past 3 years have seen pioneering work in developing and applying methods to assess an enterprise's positive sustainability impacts, and to set these in the context of its footprints which are simultaneously being reduced. The SHINE Summit 2018 will take serious stock of both our achievements and the road ahead. What have we learned and gained? What do we need and why? Our goal is to size up the full potential of Net Positive and to identify the most urgent steps to take in order to realize it together.
This year' Net Positive summit consist of four plenary sessions, each with a combination of presentation and dialogue among panelists and attendees.
Agenda
Breaks, lunch, reception and dinner provided.
Speakers will be announced in July 2018.
8:30 to 9:00 AM Welcome Randolph Kirchain, Research Director, MIT Material Systems Laboratory' Co-
Director, MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub
Greg Norris, Director, SHINE MIT
9:00 to 10:30 AM Handprinting and Net Positive: What We've Achieved So Far
Some leading, pioneering companies have made progress in creating handprints, measuring them,
and using them in assessment towards net positivity. Some have also had success at engaging
employees and other stakeholders in this quest; some have made progress towards scalability of
bottom-up reporting to support company-wide assessment. We'll hear about successes, lessons,
value derived, impacts achieved, and near-term directions from these pioneers.
10:30 to 11:00 Break
11:00 to 12:30 PM Handprinting and Net Positive: Promoting Human Rights and SDGs
Human rights represent one of businesses’ greatest opportunities to grow their positive impacts.
This session will explore frameworks for handprint creation, data for social impact measurement,
strategies for augmenting human rights achievements and the place of collaboration in creating
sustainable impacts and contributing to the SDGs.
12:30 to 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 to 3:00 PM Handprinting and Net Positive: What We Need, and Why
Being able to augment footprint reduction and reporting with pursuit of, and reporting about,
positive impacts is a powerful goal for a host of reasons. What are the keys to its success? What
do we need to achieve in order to make this goal a practical and practiced reality? Are there key
enablers to include and obstacles to overcome in relation to methodology, practicality, and
messaging?
3:00 to 3:30 PM Break
3:30 to 4:30 PM Pursuing Global Convergence
Our final session will be about global convergence on Net Positive. Consistency is key for
stakeholder understanding, for credibility; stability and consistency are necessary to enable deep
and long-term investment in the pursuit of Net Positive. What gaps remain in relation to global
convergence on methods and reporting, and how do we close those gaps as rapidly as possible?
4:30 to 5:00 PM Closing remarks
5:00 PM onward Reception and Dinner - Endicott house