The Climate Challenge Conference and Reception

investment network

Thursday 26 November 201516:00 - 21:00InterContinental Hotel, Malta

It gives me great pleasure to personally welcome each of you to the ClimateChallenge conference. It’s an exciting time for the Commonwealth EnvironmentalInvestment Platform (CEIP) as we continue to grow internationally, connecting withinnovators, investors and governments. We are excited to be here in Malta alongsideCHOGM.

The CEIP has identified recommendations from the New Climate Economy Report for2015 that we believe highlight areas where SMEs and Smart Cities go hand in hand.Smart Culture is set to become an integral part of cities, vital to remaining competitiveboth nationally and internationally.

There are 7.3 billion people alive today – an increase of 5 billion over the past 100years. The population of the planet continues to expand rapidly, at a time whennatural resources are already under stress. Demand for food, water and energy isincreasing, and meeting those needs is by no means a future certainty. Cities andurban areas are rapidly growing across the world.

Indeed, urbanisation is one of the greatest climate challenges of our time. With atleast 70% of the growing global population expected to be living in cities by 2050, thechallenge to manage urban growth sustainably provides a myriad of opportunities,including waste management, transport, energy, construction, technology and allutilities. I invite you to take full advantage of the day by engaging with the speakingexperts and those in the audience. We hope to gain an understanding of thechallenge of sustainability in an urban context, the full breadth of opportunities onoffer, and the learning opportunities available based on regional approaches toimplementing sustainability at the city level.

Malta – home to Europe’s first nationwide smart grid – is a perfect location for thisconference, with its pioneering grid collaboration between IBM and the MalteseGovernment. We hope to help to replicate this success across the Commonwealth,applying smart technologies and taking advantage of the many benefits of ourshared values and history. The Commonwealth is a valuable and proven network forfacilitating such connections.

The future is very challenging for us all, with climate change and resource scarcitythreatening the most vulnerable countries. Building resilience and low carboneconomic growth is vital to managing these threats.

Finally, many thanks to Commonwealth Argosy for kindly sponsoring the networkingreception. I hope you have an excellent conference and look forward to engagingwith you throughout the event.

Michael SippittChairman, The Commonwealth Environmental Investment Platform

Welcome

16:00 Registration and networking

17:00 The Climate Challenge

Michael SippittChairman, The Commonwealth Environmental Investment Platform

17:15 Smart Cities

Dr Michael DixonGeneral Manager, Smarter Cities, IBM Corporation

Mikele BrackFounding Partner, Urban Living Futures

17:55 Climate Change

Professor Simone BorgUniversity of Malta

Dr Adrian ChampionUniversity of Reading

Josh SawislakGlobal Director of Resilience, AECOM

18:35 Panel discussion and Q&A

Chaired by Gavin Ingham Brooke, Infinite Spada

19:00 Reception

Blue Economy

Chris DonnellyThe Institute for Statecraft

Sunil ShastriLecturer in Marine Policy, and Senior Tutor, University of Hull

Sponsored and hosted by Commonwealth Argosy

21:00 Close

Agenda

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Speakers

Michael Dixon leads IBM’s strategy and its implementation for Smarter Cities aroundthe world. With focus on transport, emergency management, water, buildings publicsafety and other areas, IBM delivers increasing levels of service and better value formoney. Cities have become more focused, more pragmatic and more focused onthe rapid returns possible from analytics, social media and mobile, secure servicesdelivered from the cloud, in a world of emerging cognitive systems.

During an IBM career spanning 30 years, Michael has held a series of sales,management and executive positions. His depth of industry experience has seen himworking with policy makers and senior executives in public sector organisationsthrough to presenting to Government leaders at APEC summits. He has also been anadvisory to Public Sector CEOS on strategy development and project implementationthrough to partnering with private companies to deliver associated services.

Michael is Chairman of the Commonwealth Environmental Investment Platform(CEIP), a pan-Commonwealth network linking entrepreneurs, companies andinvestors engaged in environmental and sustainable technologies and services. TheCEIP has been developed in alliance between the Royal Commonwealth Societyand Forbury Investment Network, which is operated by Clarkslegal LLP.

As Chairman, Michael leads a team active in the search for and preparation ofsuitable environmental technology proposals and in building links in the UK andinternationally with investors, universities and organisations interested in greentechnologies. He has particular interest in the international sharing of innovativetechnologies and investment opportunities, with special focus on meetingenvironmental needs in developing Commonwealth countries.

Concurrently, Michael is Chairman of Clarkslegal LLP, a commercial law firm whichalso has substantial expertise in environmental, human resources, and publicprocurement services. Michael also chairs Forbury People Limited, Clarkslegal’sassociated Human Resources consultancy, which operates in the UK andinternationally.

Mikele is Co-founder of Urban Living Futures, working with cities and real estatecompanies to create Innovation Districts (urban:ID) designed to accelerate highgrowth companies, establishing dynamic ecosystems of SMEs and tech businesses.She is also an advisor to smart city start-ups and an expert assessor for SME funding.

Mikele led a pioneering initiative at Canary Wharf, London – Cognicity, an innovationlab to attract novel smart city SMEs to enter an accelerator, develop their solutionsand pilot them on the estate. The programme kick-started a smart city innovatorecosystem which will continue adding value to the host.

Previously, Mikele helped establish the UK government’s Future Cities and EnergySystems Catapults and led the Cities and Government sector in General Electric’sGlobal Growth and Operations team, developing commercial models for sustainableenergy.

Earlier in her career Mikele led urban masterplans and sustainable developmentstudies for new urban areas, regeneration areas and urban infrastructure systems inAsia, Europe and North America.

Dr Michael DixonGeneral ManagerSmarter Cities, IBM Corporation

Michael SippittChairman,The CommonwealthEnvironmentalInvestment Platform

Mikele BrackFounding Partner,Urban Living Futures

Speakers

Prof Simone Borg read law at the University of Malta In 2009, she obtained her Ph.D.at the International Maritime Law Institute on the conservation of marine naturalresources. She is the ambassador for Malta on climate action. Prof Borg worked forthe public sector from 1991 to 2004 first as a First Secretary with the Ministry of ForeignAffairs and then Head of the Legal and Multilateral Affairs Section within the Ministryof the Environment. During this time she was mainly responsible for negotiating Malta’sposition in International Environmental Multilateral Agreements, including thenegotiations to the Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol and thecurrent UNFCCC negotiations. She has drafted legislation and legal policy making inenvironmental and energy law. She coordinated the transposition of theenvironmental and energy acquis communautaire during Malta’s negotiations tobecome an EU member State. She also participated as a freelance legal expert onenvironmental law in various projects with the European Union and the United Nations.Presently, she is Deputy Dean and the Head of Department of the Environmental lawand Resources law within the Faculty of Laws at the University of Malta, where she isa resident full time academic.

Adrian Champion is a member of the research staff within the Department ofMeteorology at the University of Reading. His research focusses on understanding theprocesses that lead to extreme weather events, specifically severe wind storms andflooding events, and how they may change in a warmer climate. He works closelywith the re-insurance industry in the UK as well as global energy companies, toimprove their understanding of these events and climate change.

Josh Sawislak is the global director of resilience for the firm AECOM. In this role, heworks across the entire enterprise of AECOM's offerings in planning, design,construction, finance, operations, and development to help develop and leverageresilient strategies projects and clients to address issues such as sustainability, climatechange, disaster preparedness, and enterprise risk management. He providesthought leadership and strategic advice to corporations, national governments,municipalities, NGOs, and international organizations across the globe.

Prior to rejoining AECOM, he served in the Administration of U.S. President BarackObama, most recently as the Associate Director for Climate Preparedness at theWhite House Council on Environmental Quality, where he develop U.S. federal policyon climate adaptation and resilience and worked with foreign governments andinternational organization on multilateral and bilateral efforts. He also led thedevelopment of the infrastructure recommendations for President Obama’sHurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force.

Professor Simone BorgUniversity of Malta

Josh SawislakGlobal Director ofResilience,AECOM

Dr Adrian ChampionUniversity of Reading

Speakers

A graduate of Manchester University and reserve officer in the British Army IntelligenceCorps, Chris Donnelly headed the British Army’s Soviet Studies Research Centre atRMA Sandhurst. Between 1989-2003, as Special Adviser to four NATO SecretariesGeneral, he was closely involved in dealing with the disintegration of the Soviet Union.In 2003 he founded the UK Defence Academy’s Advanced Research and AssessmentGroup. In 2010 he became co-Director of The Institute for Statecraft dealing with newsecurity threats and responses –specifically, new forms of conflict and warfare, andtransforming institutions so that they are fit for today’s rapidly changing securityenvironment.

Chris has written three books as well as articles on defence, security, strategy andstatecraft. He has been specialist Adviser to three UK Defence Secretaries and was amember of Lady Thatcher’s Soviet advisory team. He currently serves as SpecialistAdviser on the House of Commons Defence Committee, and is adviser to the ForeignMinister of Lithuania.

Sunil has taught marine policy since 1994 at the University of Hull where he has served,among other committees, on the Council, Court and Senate. Pacem in Maribus wasthe catalyst that ignited his passion in Ocean and Environmental Governance in 1982and it has since become his mission in life. He travels extensively through his speakingand consultancy engagements. Sunil advises governments, intergovernmental/non-governmental organizations and corporations and regularly delivers his MasterClassat numerous institutions, forums and conferences. He was educated at IIT Kharagpurand LSE and belongs to several professional bodies. Sunil conducted the MarineForum in the 1990s and was invited to join the Greenwich Forum in 2007. He is acommitted Rotarian and a Past-President of the Rotary Club of ScarboroughCavaliers. Sunil was born in Pune, India in 1955 and has lived in the United Kingdomsince 1988 with his wife Smita and their son Sumedh.

Chris DonnellyThe Institute forStatecraft

Sunil ShastriLecturer in MarinePolicy, and SeniorTutor, University of Hull

Gavin Ingham Brooke is Chief Executive of Infinite Spada, an international PR,branding and content consultancy with offices in London, New York and SanFrancisco.

Gavin advises business leaders on high stakes communications and branding issues– frequently alongside other professionals such as industrial relations and defamationlawyers as well as accountants and restructuring consultants. His crisis work for largecorporates spans the aftermath of single incidents such as fatalities, data breachesor insolvencies through to longer lasting periods of negative press scrutiny, fuelled byactive opposition.

Gavin’s career began as a modern languages tutor, followed by spells in journalismand publishing before he joined the international built environment consultancy,Travers Morgan, as chief editor and head of graphic design. He headed theprofessional practices team at a top thirty UK communications consultancy for sixyears before starting Spada in 1994.

He is a co-author of the Law Society’s Practice Management handbook, and variousother professional reference materials.

Gavin Ingham BrookeChief ExecutiveInfinite Spada

Sponsors

Clarkslegal LLP

Clarkslegal LLP is a leading, full service commercial law firm with a reputationfor being innovative, practical, commercial and strategic, able to draw onexpertise from our associated companies to help deliver solutions for our clientsin the UK and internationally.

We act for a wide range of businesses, from start up and SMEs, to multinationalsand FTSE250 companies as well as numerous public sector bodies andindividual clients.

Our aim is to make things happen for our clients, whether from a legalperspective or by helping them make the right connections to achieve theirdesired business outcomes.

Internationally, we are part of TAGLaw, a major global network of law firmsgiving clients access to high-quality legal advice in nearly 100 countries.

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Commonwealth Argosy Ltd

The Commonwealth Argosy is an international commercial initiative,capitalising on the fast growing potential for increased trade within and onbehalf of the Commonwealth. Our aim is to promote and strengthen businessopportunities primarily for the SME and private company segment.

Commonwealth Argosy Ltd is primarily an events and expert network businesswith a portfolio of B2B and B2G events within its Argosy Calendar. It also offersevents delivery and networking solutions to clients through a fee basedmembership of the Argosy Club.

Operating through three specialised subsidiaries the Commonwealth Argosydelivers events and membership; the online retailing of high endCommonwealth produced merchandise; and in due course a ship basedevents venue.

The Argosy group also supports the Commonwealth Argosy Foundationfocused on the protection and sustainable development of the maritimeenvironment.

For further information please visit www.commonwealthargosy.com

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The Commonwealth Environmental Investment Platform (CEIP) is an alliance between The Royal Commonwealth Society and Forbury In-vestment Network and is managed by Forbury Investment Network Ltd. Forbury Investment Network Ltd is wholly owned by ClarkslegalLLP. Registered Number: 07307015. Registered Office: 12 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London WC2E 8LH.