First Webinar in a New ASU Series: How "Smart" Systems Can Power Our Decarbonized Future
Thursday June 4th, 2020
1:15 to 2:45 PM EDT  
The New LightWorks' Series
Join LightWorks at Arizona State University and the Security and Sustainability Forum and our series partners IBM, Microsoft and Siemens in a new webinar program on How “Smart” Systems Can Power Our Decarbonized Future . The series focuses on the potential for society to use artificial intelligence to reduce GHG emissions while improving productivity, maintaining or increasing profitability and identifying the technological, business, policy and social challenges in its application to a decarbonized future. 
The First Webinar
Design thinking uses customer input and transdisciplinary collaboration to erase silos and re imagine archaic processes, opening opportunities to build smart system tools for decarbonization of operations and supply chains.

In this webinar we pose the question to design leaders Karel Vrendenburg , Director of Design at IBM and Cheryl Heller , Director of Design Integration with Arizona State University -  How can design be used to transform the culture and operations of an organization to embrace AI, blockchain and other smart tools and thrive in the New Carbon Economy?  Learn the principals of design thinking, its incredible power to free your creative thinking and hear how companies can use it to transform their carbon footprint and impact on the planet.  Additional panelists will be announced shortly.
Three other webinars in the series hosted through the summer - registration opens soon .

Webinar 2 : How Companies are Using Digital Technologies to Meet Their Carbon Reduction Commitments 
Webinar 3 : Decarbonization Using Natural Capital Solutions - S mart systems to link stakeholders with farmers, ranchers and foresters
Webinar 4: Can I trust Alexa?: What is a Trustworthy Smart System?
 
Smart systems has a good reputation for providing value to health and finance industries. However, it also has the capability to save our planet from human activity including global warming. In the future we may be dependent on AI to monitor CO2 levels, calculate our carbon footprints in real time and for determining natural disasters. 

With advances in machine learning and deep learning, we can now tap the predictive power of AI to make better data-driven models of industrial and environmental processes to improve our ability to study current and future trends, including water availability, ecosystems well being, and pollution and develop appropriate business practices and environmental policies. Please alert your colleagues to this new ASU webinar series.
A Conversation with White House Chronicle Founder Llewellyn King
Lessons from 60 Years of Observing Social Disruptions
Friday May 1, 2020
1:15 to 2:15 PM
"A dark cloud is passing across the nation and the world. When it passes, how will we have changed? How will we react after this national jolt? "

That is opening line from one of Llewellyn King 's recent and insightful blog posts . He goes on to chronicle how social beliefs changed after WWII, the turbulent 60s, energy crisis of the 70s and others as a kick off to additional articles about how life will change from the corona virus. A native of Zimbabwe, Llewellyn King began his journalism career in 1955 and has been a keen observer of humanity for more than 60 years.

Llewellyn is the founder and host of the lon running “ White House Chronicle ,” a weekly news and public affairs program, airing nationwide on PBS and public, educational and government (PEG) access stations, the commercial AMGTV network, and SiriusXM Radio. Download Llewellyn's biography .

Join SSF Executive Director Edward Saltzberg and Llewellyn looking back on the transforming social events in his journalitic career and his insights on new opportunities and pathways society can take to a more sustainable and equitable future.
Free SSF Webinar
Wednesday May 6th, 1:15 to 2:15 PM EDT
Can't make it? Register anyway and get the recording link .
SSF's next webinar in the new series " Tracking and Steering the Global Green Transition , A series of webinars led by Hazel Henderson" lets the audience listen into a conversation with futurist Hazel Henderson and sustainability pioneer, Mathis Wackernagel . Longtime allies, they will discuss the power of Mathis' Global Footprint Network and its famous metric of unsustainability , documenting “How Many Planets We Are Using.” Mathis is the co-author of the seminal book on human impacts on Earth systems, Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth. Mathis’ awards include the 2018 World Sustainability Award and the 2015 IAIA Global Environment Award, among many others
The Ecological Footprint measures human demand on nature, expressed as a single, easy-to-understand number that’s scalable from an individual to a global level.

Published regularly by UN agencies, WWF, World Economic Forum, and media from around the world, this ingenious meme has caught the attention of millions and shed light on humanity’s massive over-use of our planet Earth. 

Mathis and Hazel will review the overlooked opportunities conventional financial markets are missing for shifting investments from fossilized 19th and 20th Century economies in transitioning to the strongly emerging, cleaner, greener, more inclusive, knowledge-richer economy that thrives within the means of our one planet.”  
Futurist Hazel Henderson , founder of Ethical Markets , has been a transformative thinker, science policy advisor, global systems analyst, author of many books, and a sustainability activist for more than 50 years. Her colleagues and collaborators from around the world are among the most influential sustainability leaders of our time. Join Hazel and SSF for this other webinars in the Tracking and Steering the Global Green webinar series.
Register for Other May Webinars with Hazel
Peer into the future of society and the planet
Webinar 2: Sixty Minutes with Hazel and Chris Skroupa - about transitions to a sustainable society and economy, and how we will produce and distribute goods and services. Thursday May 21st, 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM EDT

Christopher P. Skroupa is the Founder and CEO of Skytop Strategies , a global media firm. He facilitates discussions among executive-level corporate leaders, institutional investors, stakeholders, reputable industry experts, and authoritative NGO/government agencies around corporate resilience strategy.

Chris was the Director of Marketing for Kaplan Fox LLP. Prior to that he was responsible for Information Management Network (IMN)'s portfolio of 50 conferences covering corporate governance, risk management, socially responsible investing and sustainability - in the U.S., Europe and Asia. 


Webinar 3: Sixty Minutes with Hazel and Frances Moore Lappé - about the fallacy of food scarcity, responsible government, and food security lessons from the pandemic.
Thursday May 28th, 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM EDT

Frances Moore Lappé is a researcher and author in the area of food and democracy policy and co-founder of the Small Planet Institute . She is the author of 19 books ,including the three-million-copy selling 1971 Diet for a Small Planet that the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History describes as “one of the most influential political tracts of the times." The fiftieth anniversary edition will be released in 2021.

Frances is the co-founder of three national organizations that explore the roots of hunger, poverty and environmental crises, as well as solutions now emerging worldwide through what she calls Living Democracy.
Edward Saltzberg
Sincerely ,

Ed.

Edward Saltzberg, PhD
Executive Director
Security and Sustainability Forum