Sonoma County Forum offers an exciting array of speakers including leaders in business, education, health care, the arts, and local government. Our speakers provide an excellent way to gain knowledge of the community and learn about its vast resources.
Due to the current coronavirus pandemic, we have suspended our public meetings. Speakers will be presented via Zoom, until it is safe to resume public programs. For a link to the Zoom meeting, please click here.
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See the 2021 Program Calendar (below)
View past programs including a history of 2011-2020 programs (click here)
February 2 |
Caren McNamara, Founder of Conscious Container
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Caren McNamara
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Caren founded Conscious Container, a California Benefit Corporation, in 2017 to bring a refillable glass bottle marketplace back into our US economy and infrastructure. After over 20 years as a successful project and change management consultant Caren was inspired by the circular economy solutions refillables presented. As a boot-strapping start-up she set proof-of-concept collection pilots which proved the demand and desire for this refillable glass bottle marketplace. Caren is now working strategically with large beverage producers, key industry stakeholders, policymakers, non-profits and waste haulers to scale this ‘benefit for all’ sustainable refillable business model. Caren enjoys mountain sports, traveling, and sharing time with family and friends.
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February 16 |
The Maker Movement: Fostering a Creative Culture for Open Innovation, Dale Dougherty, President, Make: Community |
Dale Dougherty
Dale Dougherty is the leading advocate of the Maker Movement. He founded Make: Magazine in 2005, which first used the term “makers” to describe people who enjoyed “hands-on” work and play. He started Maker Faire in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2006, and this event has spread to nearly 200 locations in 40 countries, with over 1.5M attendees annually. In 2011 Dougherty was honored at the White House as a “Champion of Change” through an initiative that honors Americans who are “doing extraordinary things in their communities to out-innovate, out-educate and out-build the rest of the world.” At the 2014 White House Maker Faire he was introduced by President Obama as an American innovator making significant contributions to the fields of education and business. Come learn how the Maker Movement is continuing to foster a creative culture for open innovation.
Program Schedule
DATE |
Speaker |
Jan 5 |
Julie Tabsharani, Program Coordinator for the Juvenile Justice Center (to view Julie's Zoom presentation, please click here) |
Jan 19 |
Phyllis Rosenfield, Exec. Director/President, Listening for a Change (to view Phyllis' Zoom presentation, click here) |
Feb 2 |
Caren McNamara, Conscious Container |
Feb 16 |
"The Maker Movement: Fostering a Creative Culture for Open Innovation," Dale Dougherty, President of Make:Community. |
Mar 2 |
TBA |
Mar 16 |
TBA |
Apr 6 |
TBA |
Apr 20 |
TBA |
May 4 |
TBA |
May 18 |
TBA |
Jun 1 |
TBA |
Jun 15 |
TBA |
July 6 |
TBA |
July 20 |
TBA |
Aug 3 |
TBA |
Aug 17 |
TBA |
Sep 7 |
TBA |
Sep 21 |
TBA |
Oct 5 |
TBA |
Oct 19 |
TBA |
Nov 2 |
TBA |
Nov 16 |
TBA |
Dec 7 |
TBA |
Dec 21 |
TBA |
Meetings are held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 7:30-8:45 AM at Legends at the Bennett Valley Golf Course, 3328 Yulupa Avenue, Santa Rosa, CA.
Program Meetings are open to the public.
