Sustainability: Green Chemistry, Upcycling, Biodiversity, Social Progress

Green Chemistry, Upcycling, Biodiversity, Social Progress, Circularity
About this Event

LOCATION:

Central Park Boathouse - Lake Room

AGENDA:

10:30am- Arrival and registration

11:15am- Opening Comments

11:30am (Speaker 1) Barnard College/Columbia Climate School – Circularity 101 and reshaping consumer expectations

Noon (Speaker 2) Spate – Sustainability trends

12:30pm (Speaker 3) HCT/packaging – Sustainable packaging: refillable, recyclable

1pm Lunch

2pm (Speaker 4) Novi – Connecting formulators and suppliers with sustainable offerings

2:30pm (Speaker 5) Arcaea – Sustainable biotech solutions

3:15pm Circularity Roundtable Q&A

3:30 pm Break

3:45pm (Speaker 6) Estée Lauder – Green chemistry, the Green Score, waterless formulations and more

4:15pm (Speaker 7) Cradle to Cradle – Certification program

4:45 (Speaker 8) Gattefossé – Action on Sustainable Derivatives (ASD): What’s next after RSPO?

5:15pm Roundtable Event Q&A

5:30pm Happy Hour

6:30pm End

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Sandra Goldmark (Barnard College/Columbia Climate School)

Circularity 101 and reshaping consumer expectations

Sandra Goldmark is a designer, teacher, and entrepreneur whose work focuses on circular and regenerative climate change solutions. She is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Director of Sustainability at Barnard College. She founded and operated Fixup, a social enterprise that operated short term repair shops and reuse events to help build healthy, sustainable modes of consumption for the circular economy. Originally a theatrical set designer, Sandra is a co-creator of the Sustainable Production Toolkit, a resource for climate action in the performing arts, and is the author of Fixation: How to Have Stuff without Breaking the Planet. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the BBC, WNYC, GreenBiz 350, Salon.com, the Sunday Times of London, and more.

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Yarden Horwitz (Spate)

Sustainability trends

Yarden Horwitz is the Co-Founder of Spate, the artificial intelligence trends platform for beauty. Prior to Spate, Yarden co-founded and led the Trendspotting division at Google – where she launched renowned reports such as The Google Fashion Trends Report and The Google Skin Care Trends Report. Her work at Google included spotting top trends such as Turmeric, Cold Brew, and Face Masks. Yarden was named the Future Voice of Fashion by The Business of Fashion, based on her work in leveraging data science for consumer trends prediction.

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Adrian Apodaca (HCT/packaging)

Sustainable packaging: refillable, recyclable

Adrian Apodaca is the Global Director of Engineering at HCT Group. Originally from Denver, CO, Adrian graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. With over 12 years of engineering experience in the cosmetics industry, Adrian made a name for himself by heading the technical development for key HCT clients on the West Coast. Now in charge of worldwide engineering operations, he leads the global engineering team with supplying key innovation and industrialization solutions for client needs. With an eye for detail and great technical creativity, Adrian and his team are prepared to take HCT to ever higher accomplishments in the beauty industry.

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Kimberly Shenk (Novi)

Connecting formulators and suppliers with sustainable offerings

Kimberly Shenk is Co-founder and CEO of Novi, which helps brands build sustainable products. Through a data-rich network of suppliers, manufacturers, and retailers. Novi allows brands to easily formulate, discover, sample, and purchase innovative ingredients and sustainable packaging as they build new products. Founded by Kimberly Shenk, an Air Force captain veteran and the former Head of Data Science at Eventbrite, Novi is backed by Tiger Global, Greylock Partners, and Defy.vc. For more information on Novi, visit noviconnect.com.

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Jasmina Aganovic (Arcaea)

Sustainable biotech solutions

Jasmina is a cosmetics industry professional who is driving innovation in beauty. As the CEO of Arcaea, she leverages the power of expressive biology to create a new wave of beauty products that provide consumers with innovative and sustainably sourced ingredients. Prior to launching Arcaea, she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Gingko Bioworks and the President of Mother Dirt, a skin microbiome brand that developed the first live probiotic and biome friendly products for the skin. Jasmina has a degree in chemical and biological engineering from MIT.

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Shaun Barker (Estée Lauder)

Green chemistry, the Green Score, waterless formulations and more

Shaun Barker is an Associate Research Fellow in Green Chemistry & Sustainability at the Estée Lauder Companies (ELC). Previously, he held roles at BASF, Henkel, and L’Oréal where he developed extensive expertise in polymers and surfactants and developed novel sustainable products for hair care applications. Shaun has brought this experience to ELC, where he is responsible for bringing in greener raw materials as well as working with Communications on ELC ingredient glossaries that aid in furthering ingredient and formula transparency. Shaun obtained his B.S. in Chemistry from Hunter College and M.S. in Chemistry from NYU.

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Laurent Schubnel (Gattefossé)

Action on Sustainable Derivatives (ASD): What’s next after RSPO?

Laurent Schubnel is Engineer in Biology and graduated also a master in Business Management. He’s been working in the Personal Care business for 22 years now, both in the finished products and raw material business. Laurent Schubnel joined Gattefossé in 2001 as International Technical Support. He’s now the Gattefossé Group CSR Leader.

Registration Online Prices:

Members $45

Non-Members $85

Student $10

Emeritus FREE

Door prices:

Members $70

Non-member $110

Student $20

Emeritus $20

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