Upcoming Appearances

Where Joel is speaking (and where he’s been).

2022

10/19
American Industrial Hygiene Association, Louisville

5/26
General Motors employee event, virtual

3/22
International Fresh Produce Association, San Francisco

3/14-15
Multiple Shell events at SXSW, Austin

3/11
National Wooden Pallet & Container Association, Carlsbad, Calif.

2021

11/6
Business for Nature event @ COP26, Glasgow, Scotland

4/27
American Chemistry Council Responsible Care & Sustainability Conference, virtual

4/24
TEDxISSP, virtual

4/13-14
GreenFin 21 (host), virtual

2/3
Waste Management Forum, virtual

2020

10/15
Aspen Webinar – The Next Move: Climate, virtual

9/29
VMworld 2020, virtual

4/22
Earth Day Event @ Workday, virtual

4/3
Expo West Climate Day CEO Panel, virtual

3/11
University of Florida/Florida Climate Institute, Gainesville, FL

2/28
UL Environment event, Los Angeles

1/24
Quantis company event, Paris

1/21
WBCSD at World Economic Forum Circular Economy, host, Davos, Switzerland

2019

12/11
ISSP/ACCO Summit, Chicago

11/13
Aviation Fuel Forum, New Orleans

9/24
Sustainable Aviation Summit @ Climate Week NYC, host

8/15
Posti (Finnish postal service), San Francisco

7/30
Television Critics Association, Los Angeles

7/8
American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Boston

6/24
Shell Powering Progress Together, San Francisco

6/12
Circularity 19, Minneapolis

6/12
In conversation with John Elkington, Volans London

6/4
Ellen MacArthur Foundation Summit, London

3/25
ENGIE executive briefing, Houston, TX

2018

12/4
Wall Street Journal CEO Council Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

10/16-18
VERGE 18, Oakland, Calif.

9/24-25
World Economic Forum, Sustainable Development Impact Summit (facilitator), New York, N.Y.

9/14
Aviation Climate Action Accelerator (moderator and host), San Francisco

9/12
Business Roundtable on a New Carbon Economy (moderator), San Francisco

6/12-14
VERGE Hawaii, Honolulu

5/24
Johnson Controls 
2018 Tech Challenge, Milwaukee, Wisc.

4/24
Salt River Project Earth Day Event, Phoenix, Ariz.

4/12-13
2018 Pathways to 100% Renewable Energy, University of California, Berkeley

4/9-10
Ball State University residency, Muncie, Ind.

3/15
GLOBE Forum, Vancouver, British Columbia

3/7
Natural Products Expo West Climate Day (Host), Anaheim, Calif.

2/22
Stanford University, Sustainability Leadership Speaker Series, Palo Alto, Calif.

2/6-8
GreenBiz 18, Phoenix, Ariz.

1/30
Google Environmental Offsite, San Francisco

2017

12/7
UN Global Compact: Forum on Technology and Sustainable Development, San Francisco

11/7
De Beers 2017 Diamond Conference, Gaborone, Botswana

10/25
BSR 2017 Conference, Huntington Beach, Calif.

10/16
Berkshire Hathaway Sustainability Conference, Montvale, N.J.

9/19-21
VERGE 17Santa Clara, Calif.

6/20-22
VERGE Hawaii, Honolulu

3/13
The Grainger Show, Orlando, Fla.

3/8
Climate Day at Expo West (host), Anaheim, Calif.

2/14-16
GreenBiz 17, Phoenix, Ariz.

2/13
2017 Presidential Climate Leadership Summit, Tempe, Ariz.

1/10
Outdoor Industry Association, Salt Lake City

2016

2015

12/7

World Business Council for Sustainable Development Council Meeting, COP21 Event, Paris

12/6
World Climate Summit, COP21 Event, Paris

10/26-29
VERGE 2015, San Jose, Calif.

10/8
SOCAP, San Francisco

9/17
AMD Company Event, San Francisco

9/16
NASCAR Green, Chicago

5/14
CleanMed 2015, Portland, Ore.

4/28
VERGE Salon: Supply-chain Transparency and Traceability, London, U.K.

4/21
Society of the Plastics Industry, Ft. Worth, Tex.

4/14-15
Robert Woods Johnson Professional in Residence, Penn State University, State College, Pa.

4/9
Shell: Powering Progress Together, Detroit

3/21
Annual Ahwahnee Conference for Local Elected Officials, Yosemite National Park, Calif.

3/14
South by Southwest, Austin, Tex.

3/12
NWP Energy Summit, Washington, D.C.

2/17-19
2015 GreenBiz Fourm, Scottsdale, Ariz.

2014

12/12
US-Japan Roundtable on Smart City Innovations, Tokyo

12/3
Renewable Energy Markets 2014, Sacramento

11/12
ISSP Annual Conference, Denver

11/7
2014 Net Impact Conference, Minneapolis

10/27-30
VERGE 2014, San Francisco

9/16
VERGE Salon: Data Solutions in Cities and Real Estate, New York

8/19
California Adaptation Forum, Sacramento

5/14
SHARE, San Francisco

5/5
Coca-Cola Sustainability Summit, Atlanta

4/12-14
Fortune Brainstorm Green, Laguna Nigel, Calif.

3/26
Sustainable Packaging Coalition Spring Conference, Seattle

2/18-20
2014 GreenBiz Forum, Phoenix

2/17
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Ariz.

2/7-8
U.C. Berkeley, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, Calif.

2013

11/20
Greenbuild 2013 Executive Luncheon, Philadelphia

11/18
CDP/Deloitte 2013 US Water Report launch event, San Francisco

11/12-13
VERGE São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

11/7
Wakefield Foods corporate event, New Brunswick, N.J.

10/26
2013 Net Impact Conference, San Jose, Calif.

10/14-17
VERGE SF, San Francisco

9/10
AT&T corporate event, via telepresence

8/14
Food Marketing Institute/Grocery Manufacturers Association Global Sustainability Summit, Seattle

6/26-27
Convergence Paris, Issy les Moulineaux, France

6/6
Toronto and Region Conservation Authority, TRCA’s Partners in Project Green, Toronto

6/5
Office Depot Green Purchasing Summit, Boca Raton, Fla.

5/13-14
VERGE Boston, Boston

5/1
Fortune Brainstorm Green, Laguna Nigel, Calif.

4/24
Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco

4/17
Wells Fargo company event, Chicago

4/4
Shell Powering Progress Together forum, Houston

4/2
Intel Labs Trendspotting, Hillsboro, Ore.

3/6
Sprint IDEA Summit, Kansas City

2/20-21
GreenBiz Forum, New York

2/27-28
GreenBiz Forum, San Francisco

1/30
Waste Management company event, Phoenix

1/18
U.S. EPA corporate roundtable, Washington, D.C.

2012

11/12-13
VERGE at Greenbuild, San Francisco

11/7
Canadian Business for Social Responsibility – 10th Annual Summit, Toronto

11/05
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, Calif.

10/25
BSR Conference, New York, NY

10/23
CDP Global Water Forum, New York, NY

10/16
VERGE Brazil, São Paulo

9/7
Illinois Green Business Summit, Champaign, Ill.

8/8
California Resource Recovery Association Annual Conference, Oakland, Calif.

6/20
World Green Summit, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

5/22
Eighth International Conference on Remediation of Chlorinated and Recalcitrant Compounds, Monterey, Calif.

5/17
VERGE London, London, U.K.

5/9
ExpoMarketing, Bogota, Colombia

4/23
Best Buy E-Waste Summit, Washington, D.C.

4/17
Fortune Brainstorm:Green, Laguna Nigel, Calif.

4/12
Berkeley-Stanford Cleantech Conference, Palo Alto, Calif.

3/14-16
VERGE 2012, Washington, D.C.

3/12
Detroit Economic Club (with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris), Detroit

3/8
NREL Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis Annual Meeting, Golden, Colo.

3/7
Colorado Center for Renewable Energy Economic Development, Golden, Colo.

1/30
GreenBiz Forum, San Francisco

1/24
GreenBiz Forum, New York

1/19
GreenBiz Forum, Minneapolis

2011

11/17
Cambridge Programme for Sustainability Leadership, Cape Town, South Africa

11/10
The Big Green Conference, Bloomington, MN

11/3
BSR Conference 2011, San Francisco

10/11-13
GreenBiz Innovation Forum, San Francisco

10/3
SRI in the Rockies: Green, New Orleans

9/28
American Chamber of Commerce of Trinidad & Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad

9/21
Business Climate 2011, New York

9/9
Muddy Boot Festival, Portland, OR

6/28
NorthStar Initiative for Sustainable Enterprise, Minneapolis

6/27
SABIC company event, Pittsfield, Mass.

6/22
VERGE, San Francisco and online

6/9
Philips company event, Jacksonville, Fla.

5/16
Dow Sustainable Leadership Workshop, Berkeley, Calif.

4/28
Altria company event, Richmond, Va.

4/21
Green:Net, San Francisco

4/12
Commonwealth Club, San Francisco

4/5
Fortune Brainstorm: Green, Laguna Nigel, Calif.

3/29
Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C.

2/16-17
State of Green Business Forum, Washington, D.C.

2/9-10
State of Green Business Forum, Chicago

2/2-3
State of Green Business Forum, San Francisco

2010

12/7
Legrand US company event, Boca Raton, Fla.

11/29
Autodesk University, Las Vegas

11/1
Shelton Group company event, Charlotte, N.C.

10/27
Western Sustainability and Pollution Prevention Network conference, San Diego

9/24
WorkNet Pinellas Business and Education Summit, Clearwater, Fla.

8/31
California Air Pollution Control Officers Association Climate Change Forum, San Francisco

7/13
Xerox company event, New York

6/27
2010 Seeley Conference, Ithaca, N.Y.

6/24
2010 LOHAS Forum, Boulder, Colo.

6/18
The Business of Clean Energy in Alaska, Anchorage

6/15
Tremco, Inc. company event, Cleveland

6/8-9
World Innovation Forum, New York

5/6
Ceres Conference 2010, Boston

4/28
ConAgra Foods Sustainable Development Awards, Omaha

4/20
State Street Bank company event, Boston

4/16
Turning the Tide 2010, Sausalito, Calif.

4/15
Innovation Takes Root 2010, Dallas

4/13
Fortune Brainstorm: Green, Laguna Nigel, Calif.

3/8-12
Japan speaking tour, sponsored by U.S. State Department, Fukuoka, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka

2/25
General Motors company event, Detroit

2/10
ING North America Corporate Responsibility Symposium 2010, Atlanta

2/9
State of Green Business Forum 2010, Chicago

2/4
State of Green Business Forum 2010, San Francisco

2009

11/3
Minnesota Agri-Growth Council, Minneapolis

10/28
Worldwide Food Expo, Chicago

10/2
Governors’ Global Climate Summit, Los Angeles

9/22
Food & Consumer Products Canada, 2009 CEO Conference, Toronto

9/21
Western Energy Institute Annual Meeting, Victoria, B.C.

9/5-12
U.S. State Department, Office of International Information Programs, speaking tour, Oslo, Norway and Copenhagen, Denmark

8/18
Food Marketing Institute 2009 Sustainability Summit, San Francisco

7/23
Ball Corporation, Broomfield, Colo.

6/17
Delta Institute, Chicago

6/4
Harvard Club of San Francisco, San Francisco

5/19-20
Greener by Design, San Francisco

5/13
The Green Enterprise: From Stimulus to Sustainment, Washington, D.C.

5/13

U.S. Green Building Council, National Capital Region, Washington, D.C.

5/9
2009 National Green Building Conference, Dallas

5/6
Kuleana Business Conference & Trade Show, Kona, Hawaii

4/24
Green Living Show, Toronto

4/23
Minnesota Waste Wise, Minneapolis

4/22
Sodexo 2009 Sustainability Summit, Irvine, Calif.

4/21
Young Presidents Organization, San Diego

4/21
Fortune Brainstorm: Green, San Diego

4/3
Green Business and Living Summit, Nashville

3/26-27
Aspen Environment Forum, Aspen, Colorado

3/23
National Association of State Procurement Officials, Chicago

3/19
Metropolis Live: Conversations on Design and Activism, Chicago

3/5
Natural Products Expo, Anaheim, Calif.

2/21
Compostmodern, San Francisco

2/19
Johnson & Johnson Green Marketing Summit, New Brunswick, New Jersey

2/3
Sodexo Sustainability and Environmental Expert Development (SEED) seminar, Davis, California

1/28
Association of the Nonwoven Fabrics Industry, New Orleans

2/2
State of Green Business Forum, San Francisco

1/21-22
Clean Tech Investor Summit, Palm Springs

2008

12/3
Good and Green 2008 Marketing Conference, Chicago

11/17
Rockwell Automation, Nashville

11/12
Co-op America Green Business Conference, San Francisco

11/11
Laboratory Products Association, Las Vegas

11/6
BSR Conference 2008, New York

11/3
The Clorox Company, Oakland, Calif.

10/29
Waste Management Tuck Forum, Hanover, NH

10/28
Wakefern Food Corporation, Edison, NJ

10/27
Public Relations Society of America 2008 International Conference, Detroit

10/23
Social Venture Network 208 Fall Conference, San Diego

10/22
Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco

10/21
Tag & Label Manufacturers Institute, Palm Beach, Fla.

10/17
2nd Annual International Conference on Business and Sustainability, Portland, Ore.

10/15
Mechanical Service Contractors of America, San Antonio

10/2
13th Annual Outdoor Industry Association Rendezvous, Boston

10/1
SustainCommWorld – The Green Media Show, Boston

9/12
Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade, Potomace Conference, Washington, DC

9/10
ISSA Interclean, Las Vegas

9/5
Johnson & Johnson, Philadelphia

7/23
Anchorage Economic Development Corp., Anchorage

6/27
Disney 2008 Environmentality Summit, Orlando

6/18
Padilla Speer Beardsley, Minneapolis

6/12-13
Greener by Design, Alexandria, Va.

5/14
High-Stakes Asset Intelligence, Toronto

4/28
Society of American Business Editors, Baltimore

4/16
Metro Waste Authority, Des Moines

4/15
University of Minnesota Conference on Sustainable Tourism, Duluth

4/14
Johnson Controls, Milwaukee

4/12
IBM, Augusta, Ga.

4/11
Global Retail Marketing Association, St. Petersburg, Fla.

4/9
Adobe, San Francisco

4/4
White Wave, Bear Springs, Colo.

4/2
Sustainable Packaging Coalition, San Francisco

3/31
Food Marketing Institute, Palm Springs

3/26
Aspen Environment Forum, Aspen

3/24

The North Face, San Leandro, Calif.

3/12
Autodesk One Team Conference, Las Vegas

2/28
Brown University Forum for Enterprise Conference on Green Technology, Providence, RI

2/11
Taylor Corp., Atlanta

2/9
North American Association of Food Equipment Manufacturers, San Diego

2/5
Art Center Summit: Systems, Cities & Sustainable Mobility, Pasadena

1/29
Steelcase Corp., Grand Rapids

1/19
Compostmodern, San Francisco