SHAWANO, WIS.—The NEWH Sustainable Hospitality Committee announces the return of Green Voice Conversations during the upcoming HD Expo in Las Vegas, May 14 to 16 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. The live sessions will feature a combination of one-on-one interviews in The Social Hub booth #1955 during show hours open to all show attendees and a CEU-accredited panel discussion in the HD conference meeting rooms for paid conference pass holders.
Green Voice is now in its third year, continuing to grow in scope and popularity each year. This year’s sessions feature eight industry experts actively involved in sustainable practices across many facets of hospitality, lodging, dining, and business. Presenters, moderators and speakers will lead the audience through five conversations covering sustainable principles and practices that impact the hospitality industry from a unique range of perspectives.
“The NEWH Sustainable Hospitality Committee has been addressing sustainability for a very long time and our Green Voice programs are one of the ways we get to share this with the expanded hospitality community,” said David Mahood of Olive Hospitality Consulting. Mahood, one of the early members of the NEWH Sustainable Hospitality committee, is an interviewer and will moderate a panel discussion during Green Voice.
Schedule of Events
Wednesday, May 14: 11:30 a.m., The Social Hub, booth #1955: “The Far Ranging Impact of the Food We Serve in our Restaurants. What you Need to Know.” Helen Reed of HL Reed Design & SEElogix will interview Susan Wolfla, Executive Chef of Mandalay Bay Resort. At noon in The Social Hub will be the NEWH Sustainable Design Competition Student Scholarship Award Presentations. At 1 p.m. in The Social Hub: “Large Companies Don’t Have to Have Large Environmental Footprints: MGM Resorts’ Ongoing Commitment to Organic Design and Development.” Glenn Hasek, publisher and editor of Green Lodging News, will interview Todd Megrath, Director of Sustainability Strategies at MGM Resorts.
Thursday, May 15: 11 a.m., The Social Hub, booth #1955: “The Vision of Fred Stitt: How the Award Winning Educator and Architect in the Field of Ecological Design Sees the World.” David Mahood of Olive Hospitality will interview Fred Stitt, founder of San Francisco Institute of Architecture. At 1:30 p.m. in the conference center meeting rooms a panel topic will be: “Rendering Nature: How Organic Design Impacts the Hospitality Industry from Soil, Food, and Waste to Architecture and Development.” David Mahood of Olive Hospitality will moderate a roundtable panel discussion with Tom Herlihy of Worm Power, Fred A. Stitt of San Francisco Institute of Architecture, Todd Megrath of MGM Resorts, and Susan Wolfla of Mandalay Bay
Resort (qualifies for .1 CEU or 1.0 LU and requires a paid conference pass for entry.) At 3:30 p.m. at The Social Hub, the topic will be: “A Million Worms, Organic Waste, Perfect Soil. The Incredible Story of Worm Power.” Dina Belon-Sayre of Mindclick Global will interview Tom Herlihy, CEO, Worm Power.
All live interviews will be open to all registered attendees and exhibitors can join in the audience at no extra charge. The roundtable panel discussion is part of the conference seminar pass
and will be held in the conference breakout rooms and qualifies for .1 CEU or 1.0 LU. To register for the conference and show go to www.HDexpo.com. For more information on NEWH Green Voice presentations, click here.
