BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Sustainability Leaders Forum (SLF) is a SSV program aimed at building the capacity and effectiveness of sustainability leaders by sharing best practices and presenting expert knowledge about sustainability. SLF provides a platform to share experiences, identify common challenges and solutions and build expertise.

Designing for Sustainability through Biomimicry:

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• Have you wondered how to inspire sustainability thinking in different parts of your company?
• Have you pondered whether there is a more sustainable way for your company to design and make its products?

Design for Sustainability: There are many ways to make products and services more green. Through making products more energy and resource efficient and less toxic or by "dematerializing" products, companies can drive innovation, reduce costs and increase market opportunities.

Biomimicry is based on the idea that we can learn from natural processes to create products and buildings that are models of resource efficiency and beauty. Biomimicry has been used to more effectively and sustainably find solutions to design challenges by emulating nature‘s forms, processes and ecosystems.

Oh, the thinks you can think if you are willing to try! Come for this SLF event, bring along the product engineers and designers and developers from your company and “Think and wonder and dream- Far and wide as you dare!”

This event is suitable for sustainability leaders, designers, engineers, product marketing experts and others who want to learn an approach that can ignite your ingenuity and open new avenues for invention inspired by nature. For more background info on Biomimicry, view this video from Janine Benyus speaking at the Nobel Laureate Symposium in Stockholm May 2011.

About the Speakers:
Brian Gally is Sr. Director of Product Management for Qualcomm MEMS Technologies, Inc. (QMT). QMT’s mirasol™ display technology is a break-through low-power, sunlight-viewable, reflective display technology used in Qualcomm’s mobile wireless telecommunication products and services. Gally earned a Ph.D. in material science and engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in material science and engineering from Cornell University. He is a member of the Society of Information Display (SID).

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Find a compiled book list about Biomimicry here.