Case Studies

See how Oracle OpenWorld achieves their event sustainability goals to: Waste Less, Be Cooler, Give Back and Have Fun. Read Case Study

Choosing the Vancouver Convention Center impacted the sustainable efforts of this event in a very positive way. This facility is equipped with front and back of house recycling, the conference signage was recycled by the convention center, and all MeetGreen minimum guidelines were met by the facility. Read Case Study

Sustainability is a core component of IMEX America and is addressed and refined throughout the year across the entire range of vendors and stakeholders, including onsite as well as pre/post event. There are several wins to note regarding the IMEX America 2017 waste stream. Overall volume of waste decreased significantly from 2016 due to efforts [...]

At BSR's annual meeting one of the initiatives was to eliminate single use plastic. By serving beverages in bulk they eliminated 4,097 single use containers. Carbon offsets were purchased for 100% of conference travel and energy use. Read Case Study

As an organization with a mission driven interest in global sustainable initiatives, the World Cocoa Foundation did a great job reducing its event's environmental footprint by the implementation of progressive approaches like food and beverage strategies to eliminate waste and get leftover food to people who need it, the 100% elimination of its printed program [...]

Oracle faced a number of systemic challenges in working to make the first Oracle OpenWorld India a sustainable event. As a result, Oracle focused evaluating opportunities to reduce, reuse and donate materials to minimize waste. Read Case Study

The 2016 IMEX America, our own internal planning team took a proactive approach to recycling the materials that we use for signage and, together with our vendors, ensured that they were put to valuable use in several different places (see Materials). We also reduced our paper use from onsite publications by more than 1,500 lbs [...]

Attendees in Sao Paulo, Brazil generated 60% less waste per person than in 2010. A contributing factor to this reduction was all signage was either recyclable, repurposed as a different item, or reused. Read Case Study

If you want to see how light the impact of 60,000 attendees from 141 countries meeting in San Francisco, California can have, this is required reading. Read Case Study

Never afraid to be bold, BSR’s sustainable food choices included 100% vegetarian lunches, 100% of the fruit was local and seasonal, 100% of the coffee fairly traded, and 100% of the meals were served on china (no disposables). Read Case Study