Sustainable Entrepreneurship Speaker Series
This speaker series is designed to take the unique and innovative approaches to emerging trends in technology and development to the next level by bringing in some of B.C.’s most innovative, sustainable entrepreneurs to share their experiences and show that profit and improving the community and environment are not mutually exclusive.
Past Speakers
Sustainability Meets Entrepreneurship, Web 2.0 and Mobile Applications
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Dr. Boyd Cohen Dr. Boyd Cohen is as an assistant
professor charged with developing a new technology entrepreneurship
program for SFU Surrey's undergraduate business program. He is also
affiliated with SFU's Centre for Sustainable Community Development. |
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Transforming the Development Sector Towards Sustainability: A Surrey Perspective
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Mark Allison Mark Allison is a community and regional planner who is currently a Senior Policy Planner with the City of Surrey, heading up planning for sustainability and the City Centre. Before Surrey, Mark was the Transportation Planner for the City of New Westminster, the Regional Growth Strategy Coordinator for the Fraser Valley Regional District and a sustainability planning consultant after finishing his masters degree in urban planning at UBC. Long an advocate of Smart Growth, Sustainable Development and Transit Oriented Development, Mark is an active board member with Smart Growth BC and the Community Energy Association. |
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Robert Dominick Robert Dominick is Vice President of Sales and Acquisitions for WestStone Properties Ltd. His expansive real estate sales, marketing and business background, coupled with a visionary understanding of the real estate marketplace, has helped him move forward through many spheres of change in the real estate development industry and become a firm advocate in sustainable building practices. One of his current projects is WestStone’s $1 billion Urban Village development that sits just west of the SFU Surrey campus. He has taken this master planned community development from its initial land assembly through to the near completion of its first two phases all the while introducing sustainable elements at each stage. Robert currently serves as Vice-President of the Downtown Surrey Business Improvement Association and is Chairman of the Public Space and Land Use Committee. |
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship in the Information Age
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Chris Godsall Chris Godsall is the CEO of Triton Logging Inc. He leads a team that has spent the last nine years growing the company from a concept into the world’s leading integrated underwater forestry company. Triton designs, builds and operates patented underwater logging technology currently operating on hydro reservoirs in Asia and British Columbia. The company has won numerous awards and has attracted worldwide media attention for its innovative technology and business model. Chris has a B.A. from McGill University and an M.Sc. in Responsibility and Business Practice from the University of Bath (UK). He is also the founder and former Executive Director of Montreal-based NGO Santropol Roulant, which the Globe and Mail described as One of the Ten Best Places to Put Your Money. |
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SFU Business and SFU Continuing Studies are proud to sponsor this event in partnership with BMO Bank of Montreal.