<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class=""><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><b class=""><font size="4" class="">Panel Discussion Invitation</font></b></span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class="">..........................................................................................</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><b class=""><font color="#993300" class="">’The Circular Economy - Building a Vision for New York City'</font></b></i></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><i class=""><font color="#993300" class=""> </font>……………………………………………………………………………</i></font></div><div class="" style="font-size: 12.8px; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><font size="4" class="">Host</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">Baruch College </font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">Co-Sponsor</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><b class="" style="text-align: start;"><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">New York City Economic Development Corporation </font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-align: center;"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class=""><font class="">RSVP</font></span></span><font class=""><b class="">:</b><font class=""><b class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128);"> </b><span class=""><font color="#0433ff" class=""><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-circular-economy-building-a-vision-for-new-york-city-tickets-37945657483" class="">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-circular-economy-building-a-vision-for-new-york-city-tickets-37945657483</a></font></span></font></font></span></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><span class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><b class="">Date: </b> October 11</span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">, 2017</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><br class=""></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><b class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><span class="">Time</span>: </b><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">6:00 – 8:00pm </span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></span></font></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"><span class=""><b class="">Venue:</b></span> </font><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;">Baruch College l Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity</span><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"> - Room 750, 151 E. 25</span><sup class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="">th</span></sup><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"> Street (between Lexington and 3</span><sup class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="">rd</span></sup><span class="" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Calibri;"> Avenue)</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Moderator:</b></span></span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""> </span></font></span></span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Chambers, </span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Director, NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Panelists:</b></span></span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class=""> </span></font></span><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Dr. Malo Hutson, Associate Professor, Urban Planning, Columbia University; Amanda Kaminsky, Founder, Building Product Ecosystems LLC; Tom Kennedy, Partner, Arup; Cynthia Power, Facilitating Manager, Eileen Fisher Renew</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><span class="" style="white-space: pre-wrap; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><font face="Calibri" class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class=""><span class=""><font class=""><span class=""><span class=""><b class="">Topic:</b></span> </span></font></span></font><span class="">‘<span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Circular Economy - Building a Vision for New York City</span>’</span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The circular economy is gaining increasing attention in Europe and around the world as a potential way for our society to increase prosperity, while reducing dependence on primary materials and energy. The last 150 years of industrial revolution have been dominated by a one-way or linear model of production and consumption in which goods are manufactured from raw materials, sold, used and discarded as waste. This model has been exceptionally successful in providing affordable products to consumers and material prosperity to billions. Where there is still room for the linear model to expand geographically and realize even higher efficiencies, a global middle class of nearly 5 billion by 2030 will present unprecedented challenges: increasing strain on the environment, increasing stress to access new resources, increasing costs and commodity price volatility.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">New York City is a global hub for innovation, and our anchor industries such as finance, fashion, and real estate will play a key role in advancing a circular economy. As emerging technologies disrupt traditional business models, anchor and emerging companies alike will benefit from tapping a new vision for value creation, in which economic growth is decoupled from resource depletion. Whether through sharing economy models, leasing models that treat a product as service, or reuse models that keep valuable resources in use and out of the linear waste stream, businesses in New York City have the opportunity to lead the world in creating new markets by transitioning industries to more sustainable long-term growth. How can we use our power as influencers, consumers, and practitioners to drive and support circular innovation in the buildings and communities we inhabit and the clothes we wear?<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-size: 11pt;">Join RZCCI, SPN and NYCEDC as our panel of leaders in the built environment, fashion, real estate construction, and sustainable community development discuss emerging circular models already in use in New York City, and best practices from around the world that will shape the circular city of the future.</span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Calibri" class=""><br class=""></font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b class="" style="font-family: ArialMT;"><font face="Calibri" class="">About the Sponsors:</font></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri;">The <span class=""><b class="">Sustainability Practice Network</b></span></span><font class="" style="font-family: Calibri;"> (SPN) is a New York based inter-disciplinary community of professionals who seek to learn and share knowledge to advance sustainable development across sectors and disciplines. We mobilize our members to practice sustainability in their lives and work. Our mission is to raise awareness of the importance of individual and corporate sustainability and thereby create a more stable and equitable world. </font></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: ArialMT; word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font class="" face="Calibri"><br class=""></font></span></span></div><div class=""><div class="" style="word-wrap: break-word;"><div class="" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><div class=""><b class=""><span class="" style="font-size: 15px;"><font face="Calibri" class="">Baruch College - Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity</font></span></b></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 15px;">The Robert Zicklin Center for Corporate Integrity is a forum for discussion of a broad range of contemporary issues confronting US corporations and capital markets. Our concerns include: transparency of corporate reporting, corporate governance, examining legal and ethical corporate behavior, spotlighting executive accountability, corporate responsibility in global business development, risk assessment and amelioration, resolving conflicting corporate stakeholder interests, and evaluating the role of governmental regulation.</span></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br class=""></b></div><div class=""><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">New York City Economic Development Corporation</b><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> (NYCEDC) is dedicated to the creation of a dynamic, equitable, and sustainable urban economy. As the City's primary vehicle for promoting economic development in each of the five boroughs, NYCEDC's mission is to stimulate growth through programs that create quality jobs for New Yorkers, encourage investment, generate prosperity and strengthen the City's competitive position. Visit </span><a href="https://www.nycedc.com%3chttps:/www.nycedc.com/" class="" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">https://www.nycedc.com<https://www.nycedc.com/</a><span class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">> to learn more about NYCEDC projects and initiatives.</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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