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Richard ter Avest Micha Thomas Mitch Tobin Senior Advisor, GOUDAPPEL COFFENG Founder, THE MiA PROJECT Editor, ECOWEST.ORG Richard works at Goudappel Coffeng. He specialises in urban cycling studies, cycle highways, sustainable road safety, and developing attractive and liveable city centers. Richard was project leader of several bicycle infrastructure projects in regions/cities like The Hague, Twente, Den Bosch, Grafschaft (Germany), San Jose and Austin (USA). Bike Curious? Dutch Style Cycling in the US MON, 10/7 3:15PM, LEVEL 3, MR 5ABC Micha Thomas is the co-founder of The MiA Project. A behind-thescenes storyteller, she's carved out marketing, content, branding and communication plans for clients such as Yahoo! Entertainment, Adobe, The Windish Agency, PopTech, Songkick, Krochet Kids intl. and Los Angeles Ballet among many others. Micha is also the founder of Continental 29, a collective of creatives and marketing specialists. Made in America TUE, 10/8 3:35PM, LEVEL 3, Austin Suite Mitch Tobin is editor of EcoWest. org, which tracks environmental trends in the American West. He was previously a reporter for the Napa Valley Register, Tucson Citizen and Arizona Daily Star. Mitch's book, Endangered: Biodiversity on the Brink, received a gold medal in the 2011 Independent Publisher Book Awards. Visualizing Environmental Trends WED, 10/9 12:40PM, LEVEL 3, Austin Suite Beth Terry Author/Activist, MY PLASTIC-FREE LIFE A founding member of the Plastic Pollution Coalition, Beth gives presentations on plastic-free living and why, despite what some critics assert, our personal actions really do make a difference. Her work and life have been profiled in the awardwinning film Bag It, as well as Susan Freinkel's book, Plastic: A Toxic Love Story and Captain Charles Moore's Plastic Ocean. The Elegant Connection: Reaching Consumers through Health for the Environment MON, 10/7 12:00PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9C Tezozomoc Director, SILICON VALLEY BANK Rick Thompson President & Co-Founder, GREENTECH MEDIA Rick Thompson co-founded Greentech Media in 2007. GTM is the leading media and market research firm covering the clean energy industry with a focus on solar, grid infrastructure and energy efficiency. Prior to founding GTM, Mr. Thompson held management positions at Sycamore Networks and other leading internet infrastructure startups. The Soft Grid: Next-Gen Electric Power Grids TUE, 10/8 4:30PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9AB NRDC Growing Green Award Winner, Food Justice Leader, SOUTH CENTRAL Brandon Tidwell HEALTH & EDUCATION FUND Brandon Tidwell is Manager of Sustainability for Darden Restaurants. In this role, he is responsible for the development and implementation of corporate sustainability strategies and policies across all of Darden, integrating environmental considerations into the operations, culture, and supply chain, which includes more than 1,500 suppliers in 30 countries. Are There Really Plenty of Fish in the Sea? WED, 10/9 4:30PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9C Tezozomoc rallied 350 families who grew food at a South Central LA community garden, engaging in one of America's most important battles for urban agricultural land use. Tezozomoc gave the garden new life through a now thriving 85-acre, 100% organic cooperative farm and the South Central Farmers Health and Education Fund (SCFHEF). Food in the City: Designing a Healthy Food Future TUE, 10/8 3:15PM, LEVEL 3, MR 9AB Rob Tompkins Manager of Sustainability, DARDEN Director and cleantech Sector Lead with SVB Analytics, Rob analyzes venture investment and financial data, and oversees valuation analyses for venture-backed companies and VC firms. He has worked in a variety of roles supporting the entrepreneurial ecosystem, including venture capital, consulting and sales/marketing for a startup based in Santiago, Chile. Financing Capital-Intensive Energy Businesses MON, 10/7 10:45AM, LEVEL 3, MR 9C Alan Townsend Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO AT BOULDER Alan teaches Environmental Science, at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has appointments in INSTAAR, the Dept of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and the Environmental Studies Program. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1996 and has been awarded an Aldo Leopold Leadership Fellow, and a Google Science Communication Fellow. Tropics & Polar Ice: The Science of Climate Change MON, 10/7 10:45AM, LEVEL 3, MR 8AB SXSW Eco | October 7-9, 2013 | sxsweco.com 109