Upcoming 2010 Responsible Career Conferences

Responsible Careers:  It is well known that professionals conferences can serve as valuable responsible career accelerators.  If you are an emerging responsible leader, you might feel as though you are the only in your current workplace that thinks about the social and environmental ramifications of the business decisions made everyday at your company.  If this is your case, attending conferences offers a number of advantages.  First and foremost,  meeting like-minded career professionals can really help you renew your commitment to responsible business and might restore your motivation to take on new challenges when going back to the office.  Another key advantage of attending professional conferences is to learn more about new approaches and frameworks to get business done better.

In this tight economy, you might be wondering whether it makes sense for you to spend money to attend professional conferences.  Remember that in a tough economy, lower conference attendance might be a great opportunity for you.  Indeed, lower attendance promotes more interactions among participants.  Also, the attendees in that conference are more likely to be very invested or interested in the topic of the conference, which in turn increase the quality of the interactions.  So attending a relevant professional conference in 2010 might help you make more contacts, and higher quality contacts than in a good economy.

You might be wondering which conference would be a good investment for your next responsible career move.  Building upon a previous list of social enterprise conferences provided by Marcia Stepanek on our justmeans social enterprise blog, here are a variety of responsible career conferences that might be worth considering as you plan your next responsible career move.  If you know of other 2010 conferences you would like to see listed, please mention them in the comment section and I will post an updated list in August.

Leadership Development Conference - June 10-11, 2010 (San Diego, CA - USA)

Enterprise 2.0 Conference - June 14-17, 2010 (Boston, MA - USA)

International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility - June 15-20, 2010 (Zagreb - CROATIA)

Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Conference - June 17-18, 2010 (New York, NY - USA)

Responsible Energy Finance Forum Wall Street - June 29-30, 2010 (New York, NY - USA)

Sustainable Tourism 2010 - July 5-7, 2010 (New Forest - UK)

Initiate The Future Conference - July 9, 2010 (Syndey - Australia)

Sustainable Architecture and Urban Development - July 12-14, 2010 (Amman - JORDAN)

TED Global 2010 - July 12-16, 2010 (Oxford - UK)

Green Biopharma - July 14-15, 2010 (Philadelphia, PA - USA)

Psychologists for Social Responsibility Conference - July 15-17, 2010 (Boston, MA - USA)

Biomass (Renewable power, fuel, and chemicals) - July 20-21, 2010 (Grand Forks, ND - USA)

Corporate Community Involvement Conference - July 22-23, 2010 (New York, NY - USA)

ARTBA Public-Private Partnerships in Transportation Conference - July 22-23, 2010 (Washington, DC - USA)

Margheb/Middle East Renewable Energy Conference - July 26-27, 2010 (Marrakech, MOROCCO)

Sustainable Agricultural Partnerships - August 10-11, 2010 (San Francisco, CA - USA)

Hydropower Africa - August 16-20, 2010 (Johannesburg - SOUTH AFRICA)

Advances In Solar And Wind Power (RENEWCON) - August 26-27, 2010 (Mumbai - INDIA)

IASTED Water Resource Management Conference - September 6-8, 2010 (Gaborone - BOTSWANA)

Corporate Responsibility Research Conference - September 15-17, 2010 (Marseille - FRANCE)

International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility - September 22-24, 2010 (Berlin - GERMANY)

Opportunity Green Career Conference - September 22-24, 2010 (Los Angeles, CA - USA)

National Association of Women MBAs Annual Conference - October 1-2, 2010 (Louisville, KY - USA)

Feast On Good - October 15, 2010 (New York, NY - USA)

Green Festival - Washington, DC - October 23-24, 2010 (Washington, DC - USA)

Net Impact North American Conference - October 28-30, 2010 (Ann Arbor, MI - USA)

Business For Social Responsibility Annual Conference - November 2-5, 2010 (New York, NY - USA)

Renewable Energy World - Asia - November 2-4, 2010 (Singapore - SINGAPORE)

Green Festival - San Francisco - November 4-7, 2010 (San Francisco, CA - US)

International Conference on Infrastructure Systems for Eco-Cities - November 11-13, 2010 (Shenzen - CHINA)

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey - November 22-30, 2010 (Mumbai - INDIA)

International Conference On Food Safety And Security - December 6-7, 2010 (Paneng - MALAYSIA)

The diversity of the conference topics and locations listed above might help you realize that although you might feel isolated in your current place of work, you are part of a broad network of professionals who want to build responsible careers to get business done - better!  Let me know if you would like to see other 2010 responsible career conference included in this list, and I will post them in an updated list in August.

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