MIT Sloan Sustainability Summit

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Hours:	9am to 6pm
Ages:	Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Green Events

This year marks the fifth MIT Sustainability Summit, an annual event that has grown to include nearly 300 professionals, academics, and students.

This year’s Summit has the theme of “empowering action” on multiple scales.

This reflects the urgency of innovation, leadership, and change at numerous scales, from the individual to the firm and from the city to the world, in the pursuit of global sustainability.

It also reflects the fact that most sustainability interventions are scale-specific.

Actions that can effectively make progress at one scale are impractical or impossible at another.

As one of the world’s preeminent research universities, MIT and its five schools — science, engineering, architecture and planning, humanities and social science, and management — are in a unique position to bring business and societal leaders together with academic researchers and students to address challenges in sustainability.

Jason Jay, Director of the MIT Sloan Initiative for Sustainable Business and Society, says that “MIT is a place that understands and creates the future.

The Sustainability Summit is a unique chance to take part in that effort, to see what is over the horizon – the environmental, social, and economic challenges of the coming years, and the innovations they will drive in businesses and communities around the globe.”

We intend for our attendees to leave feeling empowered to take action towards a sustainable future, either in their existing personal or professional context or in a new one.

This is the motivation for showcasing a breadth of domains of action as well as offering deep dives.

We hope that germs of company, product, or project ideas spring from the panel and workshop sessions, and new communities of action emerge out of the formal and informal conversations over the weekend.

We invite you to join us at the 2013 MIT Sustainability Summit.
Summit Format

COST

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TICKET TYPE SALES END PRICEMIT Student (Early Bird) Apr 14, 2013 $45.00 Non MIT Student (Early Bird) Apr 14, 2013 $55.00 Academic, NGO, Start-up or Government (Early Bird) Apr 14, 2013 $80.00 Young Professional (Early Bird)For those under 35 years of ageApr 27, 2013 $80.00 General Admission (Early Bird) Apr 14, 2013 $150.00

WEBSITE

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sustainabilitysummit.mit.edu/index

LOCATION

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75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, 02139 map