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March 15th

2:30 pm

Registration

3:00 pm - 3:45 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Panel: Rising Leaders, Real Impact: How the Next Generation Is Shaping Sustainability Strategy Today

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  • How emerging leaders are moving from execution roles into strategic influence across the enterprise
  • What next-generation sustainability leadership looks like in practice — speed, accountability, and systems thinking
  • How new talent is reshaping approaches to Scope 1–3 delivery, collaboration, and innovation
  • The skills and mindsets required to succeed at the intersection of sustainability and business performance
3:50 pm - 4:25 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Workshop: The Connected Sustainability Enterprise: From Data to Action

Executive to be Announced

SAP

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  • How enterprises are connecting sustainability data across ERP, finance, and operational systems to enable enterprise-wide decision-making
  • Turning ESG information into embedded operational and financial decision signals rather than standalone reporting outputs
  • The role of system integration in enabling audit-ready, real-time sustainability performance across global organizations
  • What it takes to scale sustainability across complex enterprise architectures without creating parallel reporting systems
4:40 pm - 5:25 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Panel: Beyond Compliance - Turning Regulatory Pressure into Strategic Advantage

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  • How evolving regulation is reshaping sustainability expectations across global markets
  • Where policy is creating both risk and competitive advantage for early movers
  • Managing divergence across US, EU, and global ESG frameworks without duplicating systems
  • How investors, regulators, and customers are converging on a new definition of corporate accountability
5:30 pm - 6:05 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Workshop: Making Sustainability Real Inside the Business: Turning Strategy Into Day-to-Day Execution

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  • Why sustainability strategies often stall after approval — and what actually enables execution across the business
  • How leading companies are embedding sustainability into operational workflows (procurement, supply chain, product teams)
  • The role of accountability structures in turning commitments into delivery
  • What separates organizations that execute at pace from those that stay in planning mode
6:10 pm - 6:55 pm WELCOME DAY SPECIAL CONTENT

Panel: The Sustainability Value Shift: From Cost to Competitive Advantage

Charles Fogg

Chief Sustainability Officer

Primo Brands

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  • How leading companies are linking sustainability performance directly to growth, margin, and resilience
  • What it takes to move ESG from a reporting function to a core business and investment driver
  • The internal conversations that unlock executive buy-in — especially with CFOs and boards
  • Where sustainability is already creating competitive differentiation across industries
6:55 pm

Drinks Reception

7:25 pm

Executive dinner

(By Invite Only)
7:40 pm

Executive dinner

(By Invite Only)

March 16th

7:30 am - 8:15 am

registration & breakfast

8:15 am - 8:30 am

Opening Remarks, Important Announcements & Chair's Welcome Address

Kristen Siemen

Former Chief Sustainability Officer

GM

8:30 am - 9:05 am KEYNOTE

The Next Era of Sustainability: Driving Growth, Value, and Competitive Advantage

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  • What separates companies that are winning on sustainability from those that are stalling — and why the gap is growing
  • How sustainability leaders are reframing their work in the language of resilience, capital access, and competitive advantage
  • Where the biggest opportunities sit in the next three to five years — and what it takes to capture them
  • Leading sustainability at enterprise scale: authority, influence, and what it means to have a real seat at the table
9:10 am - 9:45 am Case Studies
Stream One - ESG Strategy

Building a Sustainability Strategy That Lasts: Materiality, Transparency, and Long-Term Thinking

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  • How double materiality assessments are changing the way companies set priorities – and what they surface that you didn’t expect
  • Moving from annual reporting to a living sustainability strategy that evolves with your business and stakeholder expectations
  • What transparency actually builds over time – and how to communicate progress honestly when the journey is complicated
  • Designing a sustainability framework that holds up across leadership changes, political shifts, and business transformation
Stream Two - Innovation

Redesigning for Circularity at Scale

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  • Why circularity requires rethinking design, sourcing, logistics, and the customer relationship simultaneously
  • Moving from linear to circular business models at scale: the infrastructure, partnerships, and trade-offs involved
  • How extended producer responsibility laws are reshaping product design decisions in real time
  • What progress looks like — and what remains genuinely hard
Stream Three - Environmental Leadership

Decarbonizing Global Operations: How Marriott Is Tackling Energy and Buildings at Scale

Katrina Goulden

Vice President, Climate and Sustainability

Marriott International

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  • What a global decarbonization strategy looks like when you operate thousands of properties across every region
  • Scope 1 and 2 reduction in practice: energy procurement, electrification, and the role of on-site renewables
  • Making the business case for building decarbonization — framing it as resilience and cost strategy, not just sustainability
  • Engaging franchise owners and operators: how to move sustainability beyond the corporate center
Stream Four - Social Impact

Embedding Social Impact into Core Business Strategy: Lessons from Best Buy

Olivia Jefferson

Vice President, Social Impact

Best Buy

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  • How Best Buy connects community investment programs to core business outcomes — workforce, customer trust, and brand
  • Moving from philanthropy to materiality: designing social impact programs that survive budget and political pressure
  • Measuring what matters: the metrics that resonate with CFOs and leadership, not just CSR teams
  • Building partnerships that scale impact beyond what any one company can do alone
9:50 am - 10:25 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

From Carbon Accounting to Carbon Intelligence: What AI Can Actually Do for Your Sustainability Team

Executive to be Announced

Pulsora Inc.

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  • How AI-enabled workflows are transforming emissions accounting from manual collection to structured automation
  • Where AI meaningfully improves accuracy, speed, and consistency in sustainability reporting processes
  • What enterprise sustainability teams must get right before adopting AI for audit-ready disclosure
  • How organizations are moving from fragmented spreadsheets to unified sustainability data environments
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

AI Agents in Action: Moving from Exploration to Real-World Sustainability Impact

Executive to be Announced

Benchmark Gensuite

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  • How AI-enabled systems are improving operational risk detection and sustainability performance in real time
  • Using environmental and operational datasets to surface site-level risk across global operations and supply chains
  • Integrating EHS and ESG workflows to eliminate duplicate systems for reporting and compliance
  • What assurance-ready sustainability data looks like when embedded in operational systems of record
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

One Source of Truth: Connecting Financial and Sustainability Reporting

Executive to be Announced

Workiva Inc.

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  • Why finance-grade controls are now the foundation of credible sustainability reporting and assurance readines
  • How organizations are aligning CSRD, ISSB S1/S2, GRI, and SEC reporting through a unified data mode
  • Real examples of reducing reporting cycles from weeks to continuous, audit-ready workflow
  • Preparing for expanding disclosure requirements across climate, nature, and regulatory frameworks with a single system architecture
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

Measuring What Matters: Building Data-Driven Social Impact Programs That Scale

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  • How companies are moving from activity-based reporting to outcome-based social impact measurement
  • Building credible, scalable frameworks for workforce, community, and equity programs
  • Aligning social impact metrics with ESG disclosure requirements and internal performance tracking
  • What it takes to make social impact data useful for both executives and external stakeholders
10:30 am - 12:10 pm Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • 10:35 am – 10:55 am: Meeting Slot 1/Networking
  • 11:00 am – 11:20 am: Meeting Slot 2/Networking
  • 11:25 am – 11:45 am: Meeting Slot 3/Networking
  • 11:50 am – 12:10 pm: Meeting Slot 4/Networking
12:15 pm - 12:50 pm Case Studies
Stream One - ESG Strategy

Panel: Financing the Transition: How Capital Allocation Is Driving Sustainability Decisions

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  • How sustainability is influencing capital allocation decisions at the enterprise level
  • What investors and CFOs are now demanding in proof of performance vs commitments
  • Using finance structures to accelerate decarbonization and transformation
  • Where capital is flowing — and where it is still blocked
Stream Two - Innovation

Panel: Where Sustainability and AI Actually Intersect - What's Delivering and What's Overhyped

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  • The reality check — Where is AI genuinely changing how your sustainability team operates, and where has it fallen short of the promise?
  • The use cases that matter — Which applications — emissions calculation, supplier data, scenario modeling, reporting — are actually delivering value versus still in experimentation?
  • The governance question — How are you ensuring AI outputs are reliable enough to put in front of regulators, auditors, and boards?
  • The talent and adoption challenge — How are you getting sustainability teams to actually use AI tools effectively when most weren’t hired for that skill set?
  • What’s coming — Where do you think AI will have the biggest impact on sustainability work in the next two to three years — and what are you doing now to prepare?
Stream Three - Environmental Leadership

Panel: From Climate to Nature - The Next Frontier of Corporate Environmental Strategy

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  • Nature hits the balance sheet — When did resource and ecosystem risk stop being an environmental issue and start showing up in your operations and financial planning?
  • Beyond carbon — What does it take to build a broader environmental resilience strategy — and how did you make that case internally?
  • Where it’s changing decisions — Where are nature and resource constraints already influencing how you source, invest, and manage your supply chain?
  • The investor and regulator question — How are you responding to rising expectations on nature without it becoming just another reporting obligation?
Stream Four - Social Impact

Panel: From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes - What Separates High-Impact Social Programs from the Rest

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  • Setting the bar — What does genuinely high-impact look like in your organization, and how do you know when you’ve hit it?
  • The measurement problem — How are you moving beyond activity metrics to demonstrate outcomes that actually mean something to the business?
  • Making it stick — What separates social impact programs that survive leadership changes and budget cycles from the ones that don’t?
  • The partnership question — Where do you draw the line between doing it yourself and finding partners who can deliver better outcomes than you can alone?
12:55 pm - 1:55 pm THEMED LUNCH DISCUSSIONS

Explore this year’s themed lunch discussions led by industry leaders, where executives engage in focused conversations over a meal, discussing topics they’re passionate about alongside their peers.

Scope 3: What’s Actually Working in 2027

Making the Business Case Under Cost Pressure

Biodiversity as a Business Risk

Water Risk: From Local Issue to Global Constraint

AI in Sustainability: What’s Real vs Hype

Decarbonizing Logistics and Freight Systems

Navigating the ESG Regulatory Maze

Supplier Engagement That Actually Changes Outcomes

From Data to Assurance: Readiness for Scrutiny

Refreshing Sustainability Strategy Without Losing Momentum

Social Impact Under Pressure: Doing More With Less

Workforce Development as a Climate and Equity Strategy

2:00 pm - 2:35 pm Case Studies
Stream One - ESG Strategy

Carbon Fluency in Action: Turning Carbon into a Business Decision Tool

Scott Collick

Chief Sustainability Officer

DuPont

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  • From enterprise metrics to action: Embedding carbon at the product level to drive real decarbonization decisions
  • From concept to choice: Using carbon – footprint and handprint – as a hard trade‑off across products and applications
  • Testing the green premium: When lower‑PCF materials create value, and when they don’t
Stream Two - Innovation

Reinventing Logistics and Transport for a Low-Emissions Future

Page Motes

Chief Compliance & Sustainability Officer

Hertz

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  • Where the biggest decarbonization opportunities sit in logistics and freight — and what’s actually moving the needle
  • Fleet electrification, sustainable fuels, and modal shift: the real state of play in 2027
  • Engaging carriers, third-party logistics providers, and suppliers on emissions reduction
  • Making the economics work: how companies are funding transport decarbonization without killing margins
Stream Three - Environmental Leadership

From Conservation to Value Creation: The Business Case for Nature-Driven Strategies

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  • How leading companies are moving from TNFD disclosure to integrating nature into core business strategy
  • Where nature risk is showing up on the balance sheet — and how to get ahead of it
  • Nature-based solutions that deliver for both the business and ecosystems: what works, what doesn’t
  • Talking to investors and boards about nature: the language and data that land
Stream Four - Social Impact

Community Investment That Delivers Measurable Outcomes

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  • How companies are moving from input metrics to genuine outcome measurement in their community programs
  • Designing grant portfolios and partnerships that deliver for communities and for the business
  • Making the measurement case without overwhelming small nonprofit partners
  • What ‘impact’ actually means when your CFO and your community partners have different definitions of success
2:40 pm - 3:15 pm Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

The Most Overlooked Climate Lever: Making Buildings and Infrastructure Work for Your Decarbonization Strategy

Executive to be Announced

Trane Technologies

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  • Why buildings and infrastructure remain the largest untapped lever in enterprise decarbonization strategies
  • How AI-enabled building systems are turning sustainability goals into automated operational outcomes
  • Lessons from large-scale deployment of building efficiency and electrification programs across global portfolios
  • How companies are building the business case for infrastructure investment through resilience and cost reduction
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

Beyond the SAQ: Turning Supplier Sustainability Ratings into Real Scope 3 Reductions

Executive to be Announced

EcoVadis

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  • Why most Scope 3 programs stall at assessment — and what drives actual supplier decarbonization
  • Insights from global supplier data on the actions that consistently reduce emissions performance
  • Moving from compliance-driven disclosure to procurement-driven emissions reduction strategies
  • How companies are using supplier engagement to shift from reporting Scope 3 to actively reducing it
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Operationalizing Climate Risk: From Physical Risk Data to Board-Level Decisions

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  • How organizations are translating physical climate risk into operational and financial decision-making
  • Turning climate scenarios into site-level, supply chain, and infrastructure risk insights
  • Integrating climate risk into capital planning, insurance, and resilience strategies
  • What “actionable climate intelligence” looks like beyond reporting and disclosure
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

What Social Impact Looks Like When It Has to Survive Business Pressure

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  • How companies are redesigning social impact programs to withstand budget pressure and shifting priorities
  • Moving from “nice to have” initiatives to embedded business-aligned impact work
  • What it takes to keep workforce and community programs funded through cycles of change
  • How organizations are defining and defending social impact in today’s environment
3:20 pm - 4:35 pm Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

  • 3:25 pm – 3:45 pm: Meeting Slot 5/Networking
  • 3:50 pm – 4:10 pm: Meeting Slot 6/Networking
  • 4:15 pm – 4:35 pm: Meeting Slot 7/Networking
4:40 pm - 5:15 pm KEYNOTE

Staying True: Making Sustainability Decisions When Growth and Climate Commitments Collide

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  • How companies make trade-off decisions when commercial pressure and sustainability commitment conflict
  • What it means to treat sustainability as a non-negotiable — and how that shapes strategy, governance, and culture
  • Communicating sustainability authentically in an era of skepticism and greenwashing accusations
5:15 pm - 5:20 pm

Chair's Closing Remarks

Kristen Siemen

Former Chief Sustainability Officer

GM

5:20 pm

Drinks Reception

6:00 pm

Executive dinner

(By Invite Only)

March 17th

8:00 am - 8:45 am

Breakfast

8:10 am - 8:45 am breakfast workshops
STREAM 1 BREAKFAST WORKSHOP

Beyond Reporting: What Your Climate Scenario Analysis Should Actually Be Doing for Your Strategy

Executive to be Announced

Sodali & Co

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  • Year two reality check: after completing their first climate scenario analysis in 2025, what are companies finding in year two — and where are the surprises?
  • From compliance output to strategic input: how companies are using physical and transition risk findings to drive capital planning and resilience strategy
  • What investors actually want to see: Sodali’s engagement data on how $17+ trillion in AUM is reading climate risk disclosure in 2027
  • Global alignment in practice: how one robust scenario analysis can serve CSRD/ESRS E1, IFRS S2, and UK SRS simultaneously
8:50 am - 9:00 am

Chair's Opening Remarks

Kristen Siemen

Former Chief Sustainability Officer

GM

9:00 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE

Leading Through Complexity: Balancing Climate, Nature, and Social Impact

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  • What it means to lead sustainability when climate, nature, and social responsibilities are all becoming material at the same time
  • How to set priorities without sacrificing one commitment to fund another
  • The stakeholder conversations that matter most — investors, employees, regulators, and communities — and how the language is shifting
  • What good leadership looks like when the operating environment keeps changing
9:40 am - 10:15 am Case Studies
Stream One - ESG Strategy

Delivering Sustainability: Lessons from the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Becky Dale

VP, Sustainability

LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games

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  • How the LA28 Games are approaching low-carbon operations across venues, logistics, and supply chains at a scale few organizations ever face
  • Transit-first planning in practice: designing an event where public and active transport is the default, not an afterthought
  • Creating long-term environmental and community impact that outlasts the Games themselves
  • What corporate sustainability teams can take from the LA28 playbook and apply to their own operations
Stream Two - Innovation

Driving Sustainable Products at Scale: Balancing Growth, Cost, and Impact

Ann Tracy

Chief Sustainability Officer

Colgate-Palmolive

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  • What it takes to redesign a global product portfolio for lower environmental impact without compromising commercial performance
  • Connecting product-level sustainability to consumer demand, retailer requirements, and regulatory disclosure
  • How Colgate-Palmolive builds the business case for sustainable innovation at scale
  • Lessons from managing trade-offs between speed to market, cost, and impact ambition
Stream Three - Environmental Leadership

Scope 1 and 2 in Practice: Real Reductions, Real Numbers, Real Lessons

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  • How companies are delivering meaningful Scope 1 and 2 reductions beyond renewable energy certificates — operational changes that actually move the needle
  • Fleet electrification, on-site renewables, fuel switching, and process redesign: what’s working and what the payback periods actually look like
  • Building the internal case for capital investment in emissions reduction when budgets are tight
  • What good looks like in 2027 — the benchmarks, the verification approaches, and the results that hold up to scrutiny
Stream Four - Social Impact

Getting Executives Truly Invested in Your Social Impact Program

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  • How to connect social impact work to business strategy in ways that earn genuine executive commitment — not just sign-off
  • What workforce development, economic mobility, and community investment look like when they’re tied to core business outcomes
  • Building social impact programs that survive leadership changes, budget pressure, and shifting political winds
  • Measuring social impact in ways that satisfy both the communities you serve and the CFO
10:20 am - 11:15 am Pre-Arranged One-To-One Meetings Arrow Icon

These mutually agreed-upon conversations are arranged and facilitated by Executive Platforms staff to ensure attendees have valuable discussions about their top-of-mind questions, challenges, and opportunities.

10:30 am – 10:50 am: Meeting Slot 8/Networking
10:55 am – 11:15 am: Meeting Slot 9/Networking

11:20 am - 11:55 am Workshops
STREAM 1 WORKSHOP

Building the Operational Data Foundation for Product, Risk, and Assurance Readiness

Executive to be Announced

Sphera

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  • What the evolving regulatory landscape (CSRD, CSDDD, IFRS S2) means for product and operational sustainability data
  • The infrastructure decisions required to connect lifecycle, product, and environmental data into audit-ready systems
  • How organizations are bridging engineering, operations, and sustainability teams to improve data reliability and traceability
  • Where AI supports validation and where human governance is still essential for assurance-quality reporting
STREAM 2 WORKSHOP

From ESG Data Collection to ESG Intelligence: Why Finance-Grade Rigor Changes Everything

Executive to be Announced

Novisto

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  • Why ESG data governance — not just collection — is the foundation of investor-grade disclosure
  • How enterprises are reducing ESG reporting burden through structured data models and automated workflows
  • Operationalizing double materiality through consistent metric frameworks across business units and regions
  • Using ESG intelligence to move from backward-looking reporting to forward-looking decision support
STREAM 3 WORKSHOP

Energy Transition in Practice: What It Takes to Keep Operations Running While Decarbonizing

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  • How companies are balancing operational reliability with decarbonization goals
  • The real-world constraints of electrification, renewables, and energy sourcing
  • Where execution is breaking down — and what leading companies are doing differently
  • How energy decisions are being embedded into core operational planning
STREAM 4 WORKSHOP

From Local Programs to Enterprise Trust: How Social Impact Builds License to Operate

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  • How companies are linking social impact investments to long-term brand trust and stakeholder acceptance
  • What “license to operate” means in practice across communities, regulators, and employees
  • Moving beyond standalone initiatives to integrated community strategies tied to business presence and growth
  • How leading organizations are aligning social investment with workforce, supply chain, and regional priorities
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm THEMED LUNCH DISCUSSIONS

Explore this year’s themed lunch discussions led by industry leaders, where executives engage in focused conversations over a meal, discussing topics they’re passionate about alongside their peers.

Climate Risk Hits the Balance Sheet: What Changes Next

Nature Credits: Opportunity or Risk Signal

Scaling Circularity Beyond Packaging

Energy Transition: What’s Blocking Progress at Scale

Capital Allocation and the Sustainability Investment Case

Turning Social Impact into Measurable Outcomes

Cross-Industry Collaboration That Actually Delivers

Embedding ESG into Core Business Decision-Making

Communicating Sustainability to Investors in 2027

Building Resilience Across Operations and Supply Chains

Community Investment That Drives Real Economic Opportunity

The Future of Corporate Social Impact: From Programs to Systems

1:05 pm - 1:50 pm PANEL

Beyond the Report - What the Next Chapter of ESG and CSR Looks Like

Sam Harris

Chief Sustainability Officer

Tesla

Josh Parker

Head of Sustainability

NVIDIA

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  • Moving from disclosure to decision-making: how ESG and CSR data are being used to drive real business outcomes
  • Integrating ESG and CSR into core strategy, operations, and capital allocation
  • Shifting from commitments and reporting to measurable impact and accountability
  • Navigating evolving expectations across regulators, investors, customers, and communities
  • What the next phase requires in terms of governance, data, and cross-functional execution
1:50 pm - 1:55 pm

Chair's Closing Remarks

Kristen Siemen

Former Chief Sustainability Officer

GM