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Upcoming events Brown Bag: Pushing Your Vendors: How to Get Affordable Local, Organic Foods for Your Meetings and Events Location Change!!! - 120 S Riverside Plaza #2110, Chicago IL 60606 Fee: Free but registration is required Who: Anyone who serves food in their meetings and events, specifically meeting and event planners Other: Bring your own lunch. Beverages provided Where: 120 S Riverside Plaza #2110, Chicago IL 60606 No Registration Deadline On-site registrations will be honored. As local and federal governments push for standards around sustainable practice and consumers push for the availability of sustainable options in every aspect of their lives, event planners must be prepared to meet these increasing green demands. At the same time, in the current economic climate they must execute these events on budgets that are continually decreasing. One of the hardest aspects of planning a budget-friendly green meeting or event is finding sustainable food that is cost effective. This brown bag will focus on how to affordably integrate local and organic food and beverage into the menus for those meeting and events. Participants will learn how to get their F&B vendors to provide these foods for them and how to ask for these things in RFPs and RFIs. Discussion Points: · Trends in the global food system and the mental models that perpetuate them · How to work with your current vendors to serve more sustainable foods in a cost-effective manner · What to put in RFPs and RFIs to get what you want in regards to more sustainable foods Presenter Background Information: Recognized as "Chicago's Conscious Caterer™," Greg Christian, 48, a professional chef, caterer and entrepreneur, is a pioneer in the foodservice industry's zero-impact movement. Over the previous seventeen years, Christian’s catering company, Greg Christian Catering, has served clientele such as: Harpo Studios, Microsoft, Huron Consulting Group and the US Green Building Council. In addition, Christian is at the forefront of his non-profit organization, Organic School Project (OSP), an initiative he launched in 2005 to provide school children with positive food choices. Christian’s catering experience, as well as his involvement with OSP, led him to launch Greg Christian Consulting. As a leader in green business, Christian is a founding member of B-Corporation, a member of the Social Venture Network, and is currently helping to write policy and procedure for APEX, an organization focused on bringing together best practices for meeting and events. He is also part of the founding group of the Chicago Region Chapter of the International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP), the world’s leading professional association of sustainability practitioners. On a more local level, he was appointed by the Governor of Illinois to sit on the HB1300 taskforce, and is a member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the Chicago Sustainable Business Alliance. His work developing the Organic School Project has been recognized on a national level. Trained at the prestigious Culinary Institute of America, Greg's dynamic career includes sous chef at the renowned Gordon Restaurant and cooking at the Masters Golf Tournament and Kentucky Derby. Christian has been featured nationally in many large media outlets including New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Career Builder, Chef, Biz Bash, and Kiwi. He also serves as a regular source and contributor to media articles on the topic of sustainable efforts. He is author of Food and Forgiveness: How a Chicago Chef Came Around. About our Conference Center, Association Forum on the River: · Easily accessible by rail or interstate [click here for map/directions] · Equipped with comfortable and spacious meeting rooms · Houses a library complete with internet access and information on the latest association happenings · Provides complimentary beverages Simply put, our conference center is designed with you in mind. We’ve taken Essential Learning, Compelling Experiences, and Powerful Resources to the next level. Together, we are Forum! If you have a topic idea for future Forum events, please email education@associationforum.org
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