8:30am - 9:00am

Registration

9:00am - 9:15am

Welcoming Remarks
Mayor of Columbia, Daniel Rickenmann

9:15am - 9:30am

Opening Comments

The Future in Sustainability Leadership from a Sustainability Leadership Initiative (SLI) Fellow
Rob Howell,  Senior Vice President, Shareholder, Avison Young
Past Sustain SC Board Chair 

9:30am - 10:45am

Session One: Sustainability as Part of the Economic Development Equation

Facilitator: Jean Cecil Frick, Vice President, NP Strategy

Perspective from Commerce: Chantal Fryer, Director of Business Services, SC Department of Commerce

Economic Development Perspective:  Brent Jonas, Chief Operating Officer, Sustain SC

Perspective from a Corporation: Elizabeth Rhue, VP Global Environmental, Sustainability, & Technical Services, Sonoco

10:45am - 11:00am

Break

11:00am - 12:30pm

Session Two: How to Assess, Reduce, Offset, and Communicate

Case Study: GEL Engineering's Sustainability Path
Mac Hodgson, President & CEO, The GEL Group, Inc.

Facilitator: Courtney Quinn, Nested Sustainability Consulting

Sustainability Panel:
Tim Baumgartner, Senior Environmental Manager, EPR
Jarrett Branham, President, Branham Group, Inc.
Andy Carr, President/CEO, SCMEP
Trip Chavis, President/CEO, Milliken Advisors
Tim Howard, Clemson University- Carboncents
Caroline James, Director of Sustainability, Atlantic Packaging

Case Study: The Golden Goose: Using AI to Drive ESG and Margin Goals at Nucor Steel
Rick Oppedisano, President and CEO, Delta Bravo; with Nucor Darlington Operations Team

12:30pm

Afternoon Registration (Half-day attendees)

1:00 pm - 2:00pm

Lunch

Catered by Loosh Culinaire

2:00pm - 4:00pm

Sustain SC Symposium Celebration Event

Welcoming Remarks
Ethel Bunch, President & CEO, Sustain SC

Introduction of Keynote Speaker
Symposium Lead Sponsor, Robert Hughes, President, Hughes Development Corporation

Keynote Address

Sustain SC Inaugural Award Presented to Google

Introduction of Panel: Tom Hutto, Principal, GEL Engineering, Sustain SC Board Chair

Sustain SC Panel: Launch of the Sustain SC Land and Water Action Collaborative Fund

Facilitator: Ashely Teasdel, Deputy Secretary, SC Department of Commerce

Senator George "Chip" Campsen III, Senator, District 43
Michael L. Mancuso, Executive Director and Principal, Waccamaw Community Foundation
Amber Tillman, Head of Data Center Economic and Community Development, Eastern US, Google
Maria Whitehead, Vice President of Land, Southeast, Open Space Institute

Closing Remarks
Ethel Bunch, Founder & CEO, Sustain SC

4:30pm

Happy Hour

SC Certified Food & Local Libations