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UCLA Luskin Conference Center | September 24-25, 2025 | Los Angeles, California

We have no time to waste

Sustainability in AV (SAVe) was founded in 2022 with the mission of bringing the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals to our industry. We have achieved tremendous momentum, but the challenges before us require leadership and urgent, concerted action. Join us in Los Angeles at UCLA’s Luskin Conference Center and discover how you can help our industry do its part to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Get involved in a real way

Be a catalyst for change in an industry that not only needs to embrace sustainability, it hungers to do so. There’s a groundswell of support for our mission. All we have to do is activate and direct it. In whatever capacity you can contribute your time, talents and passion, know this: SAVe provides you a vehicle to become a true sustainability leader.

Get educated. Become empowered.

Attend SAVe 2025 with your colleagues and get your organization SAVe Certified through a workshop experience that results in development of an actionable, measurable sustainability plan. Learn how to give your AV gear a second life at the end of its first one, and how to make design and installation more sustainable. Gain knowledge and resources that will empower you to advocate in your community.

Meet your international allies

While SAVe is the first U.S.-based industry-wide organization of its kind, our mission is global, and so is our membership. At SAVe 2025 you’ll meet, learn from, and share ideas with like-minded change makers from across the planet. The experience will lay the ground for global change. But you, too, will be transformed by this opportunity to join a movement that grows by the day.

SAVe 2025 | September 24-25

UCLA Luskin Conference Center | Los Angeles, California

UCLA's Luskin Conference Center
Located in the heart of the UCLA campus, the Luskin Conference Center and adjoining hotel dazzle with architecture, resources and amenities purposefully designed to maximize engagement and elevate the spirit. UCLA Luskin is LEED Platinum Certified and taken ambitious steps toward integrating sustainability into all aspects of its facility and operations.

We have a discounted room block at the Luskin Center Hotel for attendees, sponsors, speakers and volunteers.

SAVe 2025 Sponsors

Sustaining Sponsor

Preservation Sponsor

Impact Sponsors

SAVe Partners

Agenda

March 14, 2024

7:30 - 9:30 AM PT
Registration
9:30 - 10:00 AM PT
Opening Welcome Speech Nurit Katz, Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA, Bonny Bentzin, Deputy Chief Sustainability Officer, UCLA, and Joe Way, Executive Director, Digital Spaces, UCLA, Christina De Bono, Founder & President, SAVe, Co-Founder and Joe Perez, CTO of ClearTech AV
10:00 - 10:50 AM PT
Keynote Presentation: Bringing Sustainability to AV Christina De Bono, Founder & President, SAVe and Joe Perez, Co-Founder and CTO of ClearTech AV
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM PT
Controlling AV Electronic Waste: There is No Away When You Throw it Away Carlos Hernandez, LATAM Coordinator of the UNIDO/GEF Program
12:00 - 1:15 PM PT
Networking Lunch
1:15 - 2:45 PM PT
The Invisible Footprint of Audiovisual Systems - Measuring the True Carbon Footprint Heather Galvin, Chief Information Officer | Principal, DLR Group, Prem Sundharam, Chief Climate Officer, DLR Group and Ray Kent, Principal, Senior Design Leader, DLR Group
3:00 - 5:00 PM PT
SAVe Certification Workshop Facilitated by SAVe Leadership Team
6:00 - 7:00 PM PT
Cocktail Reception
7:00 - 9:00 PM PT
Fundraising Dinner & Auction

March 15, 2024

7:30 - 8:30 AM PT
Networking Breakfast
8:30 - 9:45 AM PT
Sustainability is the Future - Our Role in Achieving the SDGs - Panel Discussion Christina De Bono, SAVe President (Moderator), Carlos Hernandez, LATAM Coordinator of the UNIDO/GEF Program, Althea Ricketts, VP of Corporate Initiatives, Shure, Kathryn Gaskell, Director of Eco-Design, Legrand AV, Keiko Yokoyama, Corporate Environment, Sony
10:00 - 11:15 AM PT
Breakout Session: Global Change Makers - SAVe Ambassador Panel Discussion Joe Perez (Moderator), Julie Legault, CEO, Techni+Contact, Juan Carlos Guiterrez, CEO, Integración AV, Juan Carlos Medina, CEO, Viewhaus, and Carolina Sosa, Marketing Director, Integración AV
10:00 - 11:15 AM PT
Breakout Session: Partnerships for the Goals Panel Discussion Christina De Bono (Moderator), Founder & President, Susan Angus, Executive Director, Commission on Voluntary Service & Action (CVSA), Joe Way, Executive Director, Digital Spaces, UCLA and Debbie Williamson, CEO, Tempest Technologies
11:30 AM - 1 :30 PM PT
Networking Lunch and Closing Ceremony
1:30 - 3:00 PM PT
UCLA Campus Tour Joe Way, Executive Director, Digital Spaces, UCLA

Speakers

Joe Way Executive Director, Digital Spaces, UCLA

PROGRAM TITLE Partnerships for the Goals

Premnath Sundharam Chief Climate Officer, DLR Group

PROGRAM TITLE Sustainability in AV

Heather Galvin Chief Information Officer | Principal, DLR Group

PROGRAM TITLE Global Change Makers

Althea Ricketts VP of Corporate Initiatives, Shure

PROGRAM TITLE Sustainability is the Future - Our Role in Achieving the SDGs

Carlos Hernández LATAM Coordinator of the UNIDO/GEF Program

PROGRAM TITLE Global Change Makers

Nurit Katz Chief Sustainability Officer at UCLA

PROGRAM TITLE Partnerships for the Goals

Bonny Bentzin Deputy Chief Sustainability at UCLA Officer

PROGRAM TITLE Partnerships for the Goals

Kathryn Gaskell Director of Eco-Design, Legrand AV

PROGRAM TITLE Sustainability is the Future - Our Role in Achieving the SDGs

Keiko Yokoyama Corporate Environment, Sony

PROGRAM TITLE Sustainability is the Future - Our Role in Achieving the SDGs

Ray Kent Principal, Senior Design Leader, DLR Group

PROGRAM TITLE Controlling AV E-Waste Panel Discussion

Christina De Bono Founder & President, SAVe

PROGRAM TITLE MC for Event and Partnerships for the Goals

Juan-Carlos Medina CEO, Viewhaus

PROGRAM TITLE Global Change Makers

Juan-Carlos Gutierrez CEO, Integración AV

PROGRAM TITLE Global Change Makers

Carolina Sosa Marketing Director, Integración AV

PROGRAM TITLE Global Change Makers

Julie Legault CEO, Techni+Contact

PROGRAM TITLE Global Change Makers

Debbie Williamson CEO, Tempest Technologies

PROGRAM TITLE Partnerships for the Goals

Susan Angus Executive Director, Commission on Voluntary Service & Action

PROGRAM TITLE Partnerships for the Goals

Joe Perez Co-Founder and CTO

PROGRAM TITLE SAVe a Second Life Panel Discussion and Global Change Makers

John Thomas SAVe

PROGRAM TITLE Controlling AV E-Waste Panel Discussion

Thuy To Co-Founder , SAVe

PROGRAM TITLE SAVe Certification Workshop Leader

Kelly Perkins SAVe Board Member

PROGRAM TITLE SAVe Certification Workshop Leader

Going, going, gone!

You don’t have to wait until we meet in order to make a difference. Participate in our online auction to help us raise the funds we need to organize and act.

Location

Luskin Conference Center
Los Angeles, CA
UCLA Campus, USA

September 24 – 25, 2025
Starting 8:00 AM PT