2026 Agenda

Sustainability leaders are expected to use genAI, but without the right foundations, AI adoption stalls at isolated experiments instead of trusted, repeatable outcomes.

In this interactive session, you will learn:

• How to operationalize sustainability AI agents to accelerate data collection, supplier engagement, reporting, benchmarking, audit, insights, and recommendations
• What best-in-class looks like in practice with a live walkthrough of Pulsora’s sustainability AI agents, and how the #1-ranked platform in ISG’s Sustainability Emerging Buyers Guide 2025 is applying agents to accelerate credible reporting and decarbonization decisions

The rise of intelligent AI agents is redefining how organizations manage Sustainability and Disclosure Reporting programs. In this session, we’ll explore how autonomous AI-forward agents are moving beyond exploration into full-scale implementation—delivering real-time insights, automating routine tasks, and empowering teams to predict and prevent risks with precision.

Join us to discover how these agents are driving measurable impact across key Sustainability processes, enhancing stakeholder engagement, and accelerating business performance. Through live demonstrations and practical examples, you’ll gain a clear view of how AI agents are becoming trusted digital coworkers—reshaping the future of proactive sustainability and disclosure management.

The energy transition is entering a new phase of tension. Surging electricity demand – driven in part by AI, electrification, and reshoring – is colliding with aging grid infrastructure and sustainability goals. This session brings together two sustainability leaders who sit on opposite sides of the equation: one from a global leader in digital infrastructure (and one of the largest consumers of electricity on the grid), and one from the nation’s largest state-owned public utility. In this session, they’ll explore how sustainability executives can navigate the growing tension between powering growth and meeting sustainability commitments – and what new forms of collaboration energy producers and consumers may need to get there.

Sustainability is no longer just a marketing exercise—it’s a data challenge that can increase access to capital. The global regulatory landscape has shifted from voluntary disclosures to mandatory requirements like the CSRD and ISSB, and with that shift comes a demand for sustainability data that drives value.

Leveraging advanced technologies is becoming essential for managing data at scale and ensuring its integrity. AI is part of that shift: but although it can accelerate analysis and reporting, its output only matters if the data underpinning it can be trusted.

In this focused 35-minute session, Mark Mellen will moderate a candid conversation with sustainability leaders who have successfully transformed their sustainability programs into a strategic tool for value creation by shortening the time it takes to trust their data and act on it.

Moving beyond abstract theory, our panelists will share the specific “growing pains” and triumphs that comes with unifying finance and sustainability data. This session will focus strictly on actionable insights: how to structure data for limited assurance, how to break down silos between sustainability and finance teams, and the crucial role of data and AI governance in building trust and compliance.

Compliance sets the standards and benchmark on where an organization is as regards their Sustainable emissions and targets. True achievement of sustainability goals and deliver value to business would require moving “Beyond Compliance” to transform sustainability and social responsibility from mandatory, reactive obligations into strategic drivers of long-term value, innovation, and competitive advantage. By embedding environmental stewardship, and proactive social impact into core operations, businesses foster resilience, enhance brand reputation, attract talent, and drive profitability.

Toyota and Cognizant will share their vision of such a transformation, and they are transforming their business as well as their clients.

Many companies struggle to reduce Scope 3 emissions, the largest and most complex part of their carbon footprint. Without clear strategies, inaction can cost billions, harm reputation, and limit competitiveness.

Drawing on insights from 133,000 EcoVadis scorecards across 83,000 companies, this session explores how leading organizations are moving beyond reporting to turn supplier data into measurable decarbonization outcomes. Attendees will learn the five organizational actions that unlock Scope 3 results, why supplier engagement is the single most impactful driver, and how to prioritize initiatives that deliver cost-neutral emissions reductions with measurable ROI. Walk away with practical strategies to make Scope 3 reductions actionable.

• Why Strategy Must Come First in Decarbonization Planning: A high-level look at macro trends, shifts in frameworks (GHGP & SBTi) and opportunities like tax transfers that are reshaping how companies design credible and resilient decarbonization strategies
• Scope 1: Market-Based Instruments: How auditors think about the use of market based instruments in GHG Inventories
• Scope 2: Raising the Bar Without Raising Costs: How some companies are preparing for deliverability and time-matching requirements in Scope 2
• Scope 3: Tackling the big messy areas: How companies are leveraging digital solutions to scale supplier decarbonization, even amongst hard to reach supplier groups

• Discussing how Direct Air Capture (DAC) enables large-scale CO₂ removal to meet net-zero targets.
• Exploring how 1PointFive’s STRATOS facility exemplifies DAC’s potential for high-volume carbon removal.
• Looking at why strategic partnerships drive industry-wide adoption of carbon removal technologies.