Keynote Speakers

Andrea Moffat is the Senior Director of Corporate Programs and oversees Ceres' Corporate Accountability, Corporate Governance, and Corporate Outreach programs. With over 10 years of experience, Andrea manages a team, which engages with over 70 companies to help them meet sustainability commitments and achieve greater performance results. Andrea works directly with company leadership in over two-dozen Fortune 500 companies in order to develop new strategies, facilitate stakeholder engagement, and elevate sustainability to the boardroom.

Andrea also works to encourage businesses to become Ceres Companies so they can realize the business value of engaging with stakeholders, reporting publicly, and committing to continuously improve environmental and social performance.

Before joining Ceres, Andrea led and managed a corporate responsibility program for Canada's Environment Department. This program was focused on supporting corporations in a number of areas, including sustainability reporting, developing the link between sustainability and business value, and providing corporations with sustainability tools, research and information. Establishing partnerships with a wide-range of stakeholder groups was an important component of this program.

Andrea's other professional experience includes community development work with the African Medical Research Foundation in East Africa, research with the Canadian Environmental Law Association, and an environmental lecturer at the University of Toronto.

Andrea has a Master of Environmental Studies degree from Dalhousie University and a Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in sociology/psychology from Queen's University, Canada.

Other Speakers:

ISO 26000 – Guidance on Corporate Social Responsibility: An Overview of What it Means for Your Company

Speakers: Ted Freeman, Principal, Praxis Consulting Group, Inc.; Peter J. Hall, C.G., CEA, Principal, Sustainability Practice Leader – EHS Management, MACTEC Engineering and Consulting, Inc.; Carolyn Schmidt, Program Director, ECOLOGIA / Virtual Foundation

The Triple Bottom Line as a Decision Making Tool for Sustainable Business Practices

Speakers: Dan Vooris, LEED AP, Energy and Sustainability Consultant, Integrated Building Energy Associates LLC; Eric Lowitt, Manager of Strategy & Operations Practice, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Getting Started in Corporate Social Responsibility–A Practical Guide

Speakers: Robin Eichert, Principal, PeopleSense Consulting LLC; Jeff Allar, Vice President - Human Resources, Stonyfield Farm; Amanda Osmer, General Manager, Grappone Automotive Group

What the Recession has Taught us about Business Sustainability

Speakers: Spencer Putnam, Adjunct Professor, Green Mountain College; Val Zanchuk, President, Graphicast Inc., Johanna C. Jobin, Sustainability Programs Manager, Millipore Corporation