2nd Steering Committee Meeting
Well, we just held our second Steering Committee meeting in Chicago and now one week later, I can look back with great pride. Some background, we held our first Steering Committee meeting in October of last year in Washington DC. This was just 2.5 months after we officially launched the Sustainability Consortium. As one can imagine, that meeting had loads of discussions on general ideas but less on progress of deliverables. In just six short months following that meeting great progress has been made by the staff and members of the Consortium!
A well thought out plan with specific deliverables was presented and positively received by the members. If you review the Power Point presentation of the meeting contained on the web site you will quickly realize how complex and scientifically detailed an effort we are embarking upon. The complexity is not just in terms of the interactions of the various sustainable system interactions, different geographies and different timelines, but also the divergency of our members. Yet, because we have defined our strategic vision of a SMRS outcome we are enabled to coalesce around an agreed upon pre-competitive outcome.
It is with great excitement that I look forward to our next Steering Committee meeting in six months and proudly watch as our team presents some very exciting deliverables that put us on the path for SMRS.
Dr. Jay Golden