Last Page! Commitments, Sign off, etc…
Obviously subject to the state of the world on October 6th.. The 12 th annual Clean50 Summit will take place on OCTOBER 6th 2022 in Toronto in the unique conference space in the Globe and Mail building, overlooking downtown. It runs from 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM
ALL PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO BE FULLY VACCINATED, and depending on circumstances, may also be required to test negative on a suitable rapid test before being permitted to enter the venue. (Last year we hosted 2 Summits back-to-back, with 300 people over two days, and had not a single case of COVID spread. We will take extensive and all reasonable precautions)
*ALL* incoming Canada’s Clean50 Honourees are expected to attend the Summit with their fellow current year’s Honourees, as well as many Clean50 Alumni from prior years, unique subject matter experts, and the remarkable Clean50 Advisory team, for the entire day.
The Summit is a full day affair, with no slide presentations or panel discussions, but rather, a hugely engaging series of facilitated workshops designed to allow Honourees to meet and work with as many of their peers from different industries as possible – to share learnings and consider solutions to a wide range of problems we all face. Comments / Ideas are always made under Chatham House Rules – never for attribution.
A critical part of being chosen as a Clean50 Honouree is the commitment Honourees make to each other to collaborate, both at the Summit, and thereafter.
We are extraordinarily pleased that, with the help of HP Canada we are able to ensure that all the past Honourees are invited back – and that typically, within less than 24 hours of Alumni tickets being made available, almost all are snapped up.
You are asked to commit at this point to being present at the Summit should you be named to the Clean50,
If for any reason we cannot deliver a safe conference, we will postpone.
A negative response will not necessarily exclude you at this point – but will certainly count against you (the purpose of the award is to drive collaboration – and it’s hard to connect for future collaboration if you’re not actually there…) and a change at the last minute for anything short of an illness accompanied by a doctor’s note, or evidence of a family catastrophe will most likely result in the award offer being rescinded.
We note again, the importance of your being there to serve the core purpose behind the creation of the award. It’s very hard to collaborate with people you’ve never met…
Every year, the Clean50 team is perpetually amazed at the photographs submitted by nominees that fail to meet these fairly simple (we thought) criteria. And so we ask nominees to read and attest to their understanding of this statement:
I will forward a PASSPORT-LIKE photograph of myself of at least 1000 x 1400 pixels resolution to Clean50photos@deltamanagement.com by August 1st.
And…
** Because I am a smart person, who can follow directions, the content of the picture I send will have my FACE make up at least 75% of the pixels. from approximately my throat up, with composition closely MATCHING those of those already on the Clean50 website. **
It will be well lit. It will be in focus. It will not have been taken by my friend using my Iphone (because that wide angle lens will distort my features and make my nose look big). It will NOT be of my torso, nor of me standing with my arms folded etc etc. (because then it would not be ~ 75% face) nor will it be a pic with a pipe or a tree or a vent or lights or an escalator or any other object appearing to come out of my head, vertically, diagonally, or horizontally, like failed attempts made before me by others.
It may include (if I have one) my beard, turban, as much hair as I want to show. or any other feature I consider part of my identity: what makes me, me, but I will bear in mind that including longer hair (i.e. half way down my chest) may then make my head / face appear smaller than that of my fellow honourees, should I make the list., when appearing in the Globe and Mail, so I will crop understanding those limitations. I will not be in a baseball cap nor a hipster hat, nor any other headgear not usually part of my identity (because that would not be passport-like).
I have copied these instructions and I will follow them! If this is a team nomination, I will ensure we ALL send both individual pics for each team member (as per above) AND ALSO a team picture that is also 5×7 in proportion (portrait mode) and also with a resolution of at least 1000 x 1400.
If I am unsure as to what any of this means I will email for further instructions, or I will forward these instructions to my comms team, who will then follow them**.
*** I realize that the Clean50 team will judge me on my ability to follow and comply with these simple instructions, and because I want to be a member of the Clean50, I will do my very best to actually read, understand and follow them!! ***