Wakefield

Confirmed Speakers

• Greg Keeffe
  Professor of Sustainable Architecture, Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape + Design Greg Keeffe is an academic and designer who originally trained as an engineer and has 25 years experience in sustainability, energy use and its impact on the design of built form and urban space. He currently holds the prestigious Downing Chair of Sustainable Architecture at the Leeds School of Architecture. Previously he was the Head of Design at the Manchester School of Architecture, and founder of the bioclimatic architecture labs. Over the past 20 years he has sought to develop a series of theoretical hypotheses about sustainability. Most of his work comes out of a free-thinking open-ended discussion about how things should be. Greg has extensive experience of working closely with architects and planners to develop exciting ways of re-invigorating the city through innovative sustainable interventions, informing his work on the sustainable city as synergistic super-organism. He is author of the book ‘Means Means Means’; which develops a model of a new city, as a econose, of mutually compatible functional elements.
• Jamie Saunders
  Jamie Saunders is a passionate proponent of sustainability and a Strategy Coordinator based in the Chief Executive’s Office at the City of Bradford Metropolitan District Council. He has worked at the Council since 1992 and for the last 2 years has had a primary focus on whole systems, organisational and District sustainability - beyond ‘greening’ - supporting senior management, colleagues, partners and others in strategic thinking, planning, operations and cultural change. Alongside helping the Council and others face current significant challenges, Jamie is working as part of the efforts in developing a new set of organisational ambitions, operating models and ways of working focussed on the organisation as the democratic leader of place and community for Bradford District. A qualified futurist, he has an MA in Foresight and Futures Studies (Leeds Metropolitan University) as well as a BSc (Hons) in Environmental Science and Geography. He is an adviser to the Permaculture Association (Britain), a national sustainable design charity, a current Academician, Academy of Urbanism and was involved in the DEFRA funded Greenhouse Britain eco-art project by the Harrison Studio.
• Futerra Sustainability Communications
  Futerra’s mission is to make sustainable development so desirable it becomes normal. The agency was founded ten years ago as a crazy new idea. Today they are the industry leading sustainability communications agency (with the odd crazy idea still). Futerra will be sharing their latest thinking on behaviour change thought leadership, ‘Planet Brands’ and their new publication about pro-environmental behaviour and the Olympic Games, ‘Games Theory’.
• Joanne Pollard
  Joanne is the Chief Executive of CO2Sense CIC, a not-for-profit company which helps businesses, public-sector organisations and community groups cut their costs and improve their environmental performance. Before working for CO2Sense, Joanne worked in a range of sectors including retail, property and the financial services sector, where she has worked for organisations such as Legal and General, Abbey and BUPA. She has a strong Customer focus, and describes the work of CO2Sense as being ‘hard green’: everything requires both a sustainable and a commercial payback.
• David Hall
  David is the Yorkshire Regional Director for Sustrans. Sustrans makes smarter travel choices possible, desirable and inevitable and are a leading UK charity enabling people to travel by foot, bike or public transport for more of the journeys we make every day. Sustrans work with families, communities, policy-makers and partner organisations so that people are able to choose healthier, cleaner and cheaper journeys, with better places and spaces to move through and live in.
• Jose Ma de Cardenas
  Jose Maria started studies in mathematics and economics at the University of Sevilla before getting his final degree in Architecture. As a partner in charge of Eddea Iddip in the area of urban design and strategic town planning, he has led among others the design of the new sustainable district of Santa Barbara in Sevilla, awarded by ASPRIMA in Madrid as the best urban development 2007, and diferentes projects in Poland, Rumania and Austria. Since 2009 he is also responsable for the Eddea working team "Citythinking". 
He´s also cofounder and member of board of directors of the “Asociación Andalucia Sostenible”, and leads the course "Experto en Dirección Integrada de Proyectos” at the Instituto de Estudios Cajasol.