Welcome address by chairperson

Dr Martin Blake, Executive Director, The GreenAsia Group 

Industry address: Understanding sustainable development as more than just CSR

1. Why adopt sustainable development practices in your business?
2. The business case for sustainable plant design, ROI and standards
3. Sustainability in operations, energy efficiency, environmental applications and safety
4. Regulatory and competitive pressures for Sustainable Reporting

Graham Owens, Director, Climate Change and Sustainability, KPMG

Linking energy and finance, environment and enterprise
scales, scopes and systems for sustainability

1. Examples of businesses cases that have supported investment decisions in reducing costs and energy consumption
2. Understand the data requirements - qualitative, quantitative and financial - needed for accurate investment modelling
3. Insights into how Marginal Abatement Cost curves really works and how to use them to provide the basis for investment decisions
4. Development of MAC curve as an extremely informative investment tool that allows you to accurately evaluate between projects and to balance ROI with carbon reduction, regulatory and financial targets
5. Gain a better understanding of the risks and implications of future energy price inflation on your investment decisions

Dr Martin Blake, Executive Director, The GreenAsia Group 

Sustainability in the process industry

1. Process integration and optimization for resource sustainability
2. Goals and applications for improving energy and water efficiency of industrial energy users
3. Carbon emission planning and mitigation

Professor Zainuddin Abd. Manan, Dean, Faculty of Chemical Engineering
& Ir Dr. Sharifah Rafidah, Consultancy and Training Manager for Process Systems Engineering Centre (PROSPECT)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Insight into Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and carbon footprinting of products and services

1. Understanding how LCA becomes an essential element in setting and achieving environmental and business performance objectives
2. Assessing carbon footprint of product and manufacturing systems
3. Case studies showing findings and issues of the assessment
4. Identifying opportunities to improve environmental performance and manufacturing efficiency

Dr Fatida Rugrungruang, Research Engineer, Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech)

Case study: Sustainable business practices – Ricoh’s implementation of sustainable development through its vision of a low carbon economy across the value chain

1. Ricoh's value chain and its lifecycle management
2. Product design & environmental technology
3. Reducing environmental impact on production sites
4. Improving our logistics
5. Promotion of our green products to the market
6. Product recycling
7. Ricoh way of thinking on sustainable development
8. Controlling upstream impact
9. Reducing impact on customer sites

Masayo Hada, Manager, Regional Environment Management Group, Service & Environment Division, Ricoh Asia Pacific

Case study: An effective and reliable BOD estimate with a new, rapid COD measurement technology

1. Relevancy of PeCOD COD (Chemical Oxygen Demand) Analyzer for the wastewater industry
2. Treatment processes and operation
3. Comparison data

Robert Menegotto, President, Mantech Inc.

Q&A