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The mission of the Boston Area Sustainability Group (BASG)is to break down the silos of knowledge within sustainability, to assist the perpetual education of ourselves and our peers, and to grow a robust community of subject matter experts equipped to collectively drive sustainability forward. We are an affinity group of 1600+ sustainability professionals representing a myriad of industries, academia, government, NGO, and not-for-profit entities in the Boston area. Since 2009, we have come together on a regular basis to network, to learn, and to exchange on critical topics of sustainability. Learn more at www.basg.org.

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Touted as the key to determining the best sustainability strategy, materiality assessments intimidate mere mortals trying to move their organization’s sustainability initiatives forward. Yet, those who have done them and live to tell the tale, say they are critical to gaining organizational alignment. We’ve asked veterans of materiality assessments Asheen Phansey and Alyssa Caddle to lead our discussion. If you have similar experience, or are simply intrigued, please join us! 
A materiality assessment is a process of engaging stakeholders to identify what environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues are most important to an organization. These findings can help an organization prioritize both where their sustainability initiatives should focus and what’s most important for them to report.
Leading our discussion are:
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Asheen Phansey has served in various roles as a corporate sustainability leader at Dassault Systèmes since 2010. Dassault Systèmes is a $3B software company that provides businesses and people with 3D modeling apps and experiences to harmonize product, nature, and life. 
Asheen lectures and advises students at Babson College and Harvard University, serves on the Net Impact Advisory Council, and ranks as one of the most influential social media thought leaders in corporate sustainability (twitter: @asheen). Asheen has experience in the biotech and aerospace industries, and holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA in Technology Entrepreneurship from Babson College.
Asheen enjoys learning new languages, speaking at Toastmasters, philosophizing over espresso or whiskey, and running (sometimes after his young kids). Among his greatest achievements in life are speaking at BASG for now his third time, and counting Carol and Johanna as friends.
Asheen plans to speak about Dassault Systèmes Handprinting/Net-Positive as a way of addressing materiality challenges, and about conducting a scope 3 GHG materiality study for the aerospace sector on behalf of the International Aerospace Environmental Group.
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Alyssa Caddle is a Consultant Program Manager in the CSR team at Dell, Inc (formerly EMC Corporation). She is engaged in activities across the spectrum of sustainability including governance, human rights, product efficiency, and interaction with the company’s finance and risk organizations. She serves as a liaison to organizations such as Business for Social Responsibility and the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition on behalf of Dell, as well as representing Dell in the GreenBiz Executive Network. A nine year veteran of the company, Alyssa has experience in both technical and non-technical roles within Supply Chain, Hardware Engineering, and IT. She holds a BS and MS in engineering from Northeastern University.

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