2026 Agenda

If ESG is treated merely as a compliance requirement or cost center, it risks being a missed opportunity for long-term value creation.  Join Charles Fogg, Chief Sustainability Officer at Primo Brands, for a strategic discussion on how ESG can be embedded across core business functions – including finance, enterprise risk, product development, marketing, sales, supply chain, and operations – to drive performance, resilience, and sustainable growth.  Learn how integrating ESG into corporate strategy can unlock competitive advantage and deliver measurable returns for investors.

Being good partners means collaborating on shared responsibilities and commitments. Yet the volume and complexity of customer requests can stretch internal teams already balancing multiple priorities. Join Rebecca Ott, Director, Sustainability at The J.M. Smucker Co., and your fellow leaders to explore how to navigate and harness customer sustainability requests.

The biggest social challenges need more resources than any one company can provide, but teaming up is easier said than done. Join Alison Mathias, Head of Corporate & Foundation Giving at MassMutual to dig into what’s holding us back. What conditions must exist for partnering to work? Where are the roadblocks…and which are in our power to remove? What incentivizes our companies to give shared initiatives a shot?

Has collaboration become the make-or-break skill for ESG leaders? Join Courtney Hadden of Hitachi Digital to dig into strategies for finding the win/wins and inspiring stakeholders across the business to move with you on ESG opportunities and priorities.

The same policy volatility that is upturning every other area of our work is bringing new unpredictability to our efforts to promote and protect sustainable supply chains. New countries of origin, labor challenges with reshoring, and timelines that make due diligence harder than ever, join Jill Davies, Senior Director Corporate Responsibility at Best Buy to talk out how we’re keeping forward progress on sustainability as we adapt to new supply chain pain.

Companies with place-based approaches to corporate social impact need to align their strategic priorities with the needs most urgent for their communities. But with technology, markets, and global politics in a constant state of flux, finding and keeping that alignment can feel harder than ever. Join Charu Adesnik Executive Director, Cisco Foundation and Director, Social Impact and Innovation Investments, Cisco Systems Inc to discuss keeping CSR responsive to community-driven needs.

Biodiversity isn’t new, but expectations are on the rise from communities, investors, regulators, and other important stakeholders. Join Christy Clark at DTE Energy and your fellow leaders to talk through identifying which nature-based solutions make sense site-by-site, meeting new reporting standards, and tackling changing demands to quantify your company’s impact.

Whether it’s a rapidly changing world or a business going through big changes, rebooting your sustainability and ESG strategies touches almost every part of your business. How are we supposed to pull that off while still delivering on our day-to-day obligations? Join Vierah Hulley, Director, Sustainability at Oxy to talk out how we’re convening stakeholders, making plans, and winning support for big changes at our companies.

What strategies can today’s leaders use to build CSR programs whose budgets, business cases, and tie-in to company values can weather changing economic, market, and political circumstances? Learn how Jessica Schultz, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Hyatt is building for resilience and then dig into what other strategies leaders are leveraging now to ensure their company’s continuing investments in corporate philanthropy.

While most companies have gotten some type of Scope 3 reporting strategy rolling, few (if any!) are happy with where their Scope 3 strategy stands today. So, now what? Join Amanda Kardosh, Sr. Director of Sustainability at Bloomin’ Brands to talk what’s next with calculation methodologies, toolstack, assurance, and engaging stakeholders (beyond suppliers) in your company’s Scope 3 journey.

Join this vendor-free, corporate ESG leaders-only conversation to get real about the trends in our ESG tool stacks: what’s working, what’s not, and what are we still waiting on a tool to help us solve. Our tool stack is an increasingly critical part of our company’s ESG roadmap – and one of our biggest investments. Let’s hear the hard lessons we’ve all learned and what we’re hoping for in the future.

We all dream of showing big real-world benefits from our giving down to the dollar, but most of us are stuck capturing the same output numbers we’ve been reporting for years. How do we make that shift from outputs to outcomes without crushing our own bottom lines? Join a confidential, off-the-record conversation with other major corporate philanthropy leaders to share what we’re trying.