Ian Olson
Executive in Residence, Supply Chain Resiliency at Michigan State University
About
Ian Olson is Michigan State University's Executive in Residence for Supply Chain Resiliency. Olson focuses on partnerships, actionable innovation, connecting research with business strategies, and developing supply chain resilience curriculum. Olson previously led sustainability and supply chain resiliency work at McDonald's, Darden Restaurants, and Ford Motor Company.
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FEB
23
TUE
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FEB
25
THU
The program covers corporate sustainability strategy across finance and the business case, communications, organizational change, data and disclosure, AI tools, decarbonization, supply chains, nature, and circular systems. Its Energy and Water programs add sessions on corporate energy procurement, grid flexibility, and water stewardship. Listed sessions address battery storage and flexible power; clean-energy procurement amid uncertainty; hourly energy matching; building decarbonization; corporate AI’s carbon costs; critical-material sourcing and material recovery for supply-chain resilience; circularity’s business case; Scope 3 supplier engagement; water risk and corporate balance sheets; AI and water stewardship; and collective action on the Colorado River. Other sessions cover regenerative agriculture, nature finance, sustainability disclosure, and communicating sustainability to policymakers and markets. The event also lists a keynote, tutorials, breakouts, workshops, and an Advanced Perspectives Program.
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