Sustainable Life Media Announces Sustainable Brands '11 Dates, Calls for Speaker Nominations

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable Life Media announced today the dates for its flagship Sustainable Brands Conference in 2011.  The conference continues into its 5th year on June 7-10, 2011. Sustainable Brands has become the must-attend meeting of the year for sustainability innovation and brand leaders looking to identify and execute on opportunities to deliver new business and brand value via environmental and social innovation. Participants consistently rate the speakers, the content, the location, and the networking as among the most valuable business activities in which they engage each year.

Earlier this year, the SB'10 conference continued a four year pattern of growth in attendance, bringing together every element in the business community dedicated to sustainable innovation and value creation.  The event allows industry sectors including global brands and start-ups, NGOs and government, authors, professors and scientists, designers and communications experts, all to mingle, share ideas, and begin planning for the next phase of sustainable innovation in business. Leaders in business and brand strategy, innovation and sustainability gathered this past June for three days of extraordinary conversation, inspiration and insights and left empowered with new strategies and tactics for leading profitable innovation for sustainability into the coming decade.

Speakers and presenters who shared challenges and successes around sustainability came from innovation-leading companies like Timberland, Nike, Nokia, Ford, IDEO, EBay, Gensler, Wal-mart, Coca-Cola, Cisco, Ogilvy, IBM, Molson-Coors, Clorox, and Target.  Many more with stories from the trenches, words of wisdom for companies moving in similar directions, and warnings about pitfalls to avoid, are expected to attend and speak in 2011.

"In today's increasingly complex global marketplace, massive opportunity exists for re-designing your products and business to meet changing stakeholder demands," said KoAnn Skrzyniarz, CEO of Sustainable Life Media.  "Tomorrow's better brands will provide smarter, healthier solutions as they delight in design and compete in performance. They'll communicate their benefits authentically and they'll win in the market through the loyalty they earn from their customers."

Sustainable Life Media also announced their annual call for new speakers for the 2011 conference.  Each year the cutoff date gets earlier due to a constant increase in submissions.  Companies offering up a dramatic or instructive sustainable brands story, to be presented by the leading practitioner / expert within their company, may review instructions for speaker submissions at: http://bit.ly/dDgHf5.

Less than 10% of speaker nominations are ultimately chosen each year as Sustainable Brands Conference continues to raise the bar in presentation quality and education from year to year.

Sustainable Life Media offers select companies the opportunity to partner with Sustainable Life Media as a Sustainable Brands Conference Sponsor.  To learn more about sponsorship opportunities for SB'11, interested companies may contact the SLM sales team at [email protected], or phone 415-626-2212.

Sustainable Life Media values its growing communities of corporate and individual members. To fully enjoy the educational and group networking opportunities at SB'11 and throughout the year, Sustainable Life Media offers year-long Corporate or Professional memberships to maximize the value participants receive from in-person events, training, webinars, research studies and access to a growing online library of sustainable business education. For more information on memberships that include seats at SB'11, visit http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/membership.

About Sustainable Brands Conference

Widely reputed to be the most compelling sustainability conference of the year, Sustainable Brands 2011 will convene over 700 brand leaders, top executives from the global brands leading sustainable innovation today, all types of designers participating in this global shift, and an unprecedented list of others. Speakers and sessions will provide inspiration, techniques and best practices as economic realities, corporate responsibility and the environment come together to create new strategic business opportunities. For more information: http://www.sustainablebrands11.com.

About Sustainable Life Media

Sustainable Life Media (SLM) is the leading producer of sustainable business conferences and educational events, with products and services designed for the sustainable business community including membership, targeted e-newsletters, online learning programs, community, and the flagship Sustainable Brands conference.  SLM delivers top news stories related to the who, what and how of environmental and social innovation, and helps community members connect with thought leaders, peers, partners and solution providers who can help them quickly reach their goals. For more information, visit: http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/about. To subscribe to SLM Newsletters for free, visit http://www.sustainablelifemedia.com/newsletters.

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