Special Programs
Sustainability Solutions Celebration

Join us for an evening of entertainment and networking opportunities at the Sustainability Solutions Celebration. The event brings together the business and academic worlds to celebrate young innovators who have reimagined global challenges to make the world a better place.
Emerging Leaders Scholarship

To empower the next generation of sustainable business leaders and encourage the sustainability field to welcome individuals from diverse backgrounds, we're thrilled to be able to offer the GreenBiz 20 Emerging Leaders Scholarship sponsored by PwC. Recipients are hand-selected from a competitive applicant pool to attend GreenBiz 20 — all expenses paid. The application for this program has closed.
Networking Reception

The unparalleled networking is just one of many reasons more than 1,500 sustainable business leaders will attend GreenBiz 20. Join us for the opening networking reception, sponsored by Dow, on Tuesday at the North Garden Lawn at sunset to connect with fellow attendees.
Coaching Corner

During a 15-minute personalized one on one coaching session with ICF-certified leadership coach and GreenBiz columnist, Shannon Houde, you will have time out to get perspective on what you personally want to be achieving in your work and life. Signups will be available on site at GreenBiz 20. Learn more here.
Community Tree Planting Event

(All-Access pass-holders only)
Join American Forests, the Arizona Sustainability Alliance and Microsoft in planting trees at a school that serves a marginalized community in Phoenix on February 4th. We'll mainly plant trees that are native to the area and can withstand the impacts of climate change. The trees also will produce food that the students and people in the community will be able to eat. The planting will help the school raise awareness about the value of trees in providing healthy food options, cooling cities, and more. The planting will be from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. You must have purchased an All-Access pass to participate.
Sunrise Yoga

Start the day bending your mind and body in yoga. Learn how to combine posture, breathing and meditation to improve strength, flexibility and stamina. Set your intentions for the second day of GreenBiz 20. All levels are welcome.
Roundtable Lunches

Join like-minded attendees for interactive moderated lunch discussions around a particular topic. Each discussion will be led by an expert with roundtables of up to 10 participants. These are free-form discussions, so bring your own challenges, questions and ideas.
Tree Planting

We are teaming up with One Tree Planted by planting three trees for every conference attendee! These trees will be contributed to their reforestation project in Rwanda. This will help reduce the carbon footprint of Greenbiz and have many positive social and environmental impacts in the region. The primary objectives of this project are agroforestry and food security, but reforestation efforts will also reduce soil erosion, landslides and severe floods downstream, as well as sequestering carbon and improving biodiversity. Reforestation allows agricultural systems to increase productivity, provides jobs, increases forest cover and reduces poverty among Rwandan citizens. This project is primarily organized by a women's-led cooperative, ensuring that women and local farmers have a say in the organization, distribution, impact, and equity of the overall project.
Desert Landscape Biomimicry Hike
Start off GreenBiz 20 by joining biomimicry professionals Joe Zazzera and Michelle Fehler for a morning hike in the Phoenix Mountain preserve. Science shows that being in nature reduces stress, anxiety, blood pressure, anger and fear. Exposure to nature contributes to overall wellbeing and productivity.
Set the stage for an inspiring conference by re-connecting with the natural systems of the Sonoran Desert. Joe and Michelle will discuss some design principles that have made life in the Sonoran prolific. Through the use of the tools of Biomimicry and Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing), they will help us to integrate some of these strategies into our business lives.