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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: Connecting Climate, Communities, and Corporate Responsibility - What Integrated Impact Actually Looks Like

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  • Where companies are successfully connecting environmental and social priorities — and where those efforts still operate separately
  • How workforce development, community investment, and supplier engagement are becoming part of broader sustainability strategies
  • Balancing climate goals with affordability, economic realities, and stakeholder expectations across different markets and communities
  • What makes sustainability and social impact initiatives resilient during periods of political, financial, or organisational pressure
  • Where companies still face challenges in measuring and communicating integrated impact across environmental and social outcomes
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

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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

General Motors

8:30 am - 9:05 am PANEL

Beyond Commitments: Delivering Sustainability at Scale

Josh Parker

Head of Sustainability

NVIDIA

Sam Harris

Chief Sustainability Officer

Tesla

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  • Moving from disclosure to decision-making: how sustainability data is driving real business outcomes
  • Integrating sustainability into core strategy, operations, and capital allocation
  • Shifting from commitments and reporting toward 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
9:10 am - 9:45 am Case Studies
Stream One - ESG Strategy

Closing the Loop: What It Takes to Make Circularity Work at Scale

Ann Tracy

Chief Sustainability Officer

Colgate-Palmolive

Jen Huffstetler

Chief Sustainability Officer, SVP Corporate Global Product Compliance & Sustainable Impact

HP

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  • Where circularity is actually working today — and what made those initiatives scalable
  • How product design, sourcing, and materials decisions are changing to support circular models
  • When circularity delivers commercial value — and where the economics remain challenging
  • The role of consumers, customers, and regulation in accelerating adoption and investment
  • What barriers still exist around infrastructure, recovery systems, and cross-industry collaboration
Stream Two - Innovation

Embedding AI Into Sustainability Operations: From Experimentation to Enterprise Adoption

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  • How AI is being integrated into sustainability, supply chain, and compliance functions
  • The organisational and data infrastructure required to scale AI effectively
  • How companies are aligning sustainability teams, IT, and operations around AI deployment
  • Lessons on what actually drives adoption at scale
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

Executive to be Announced

Deloitte Consulting LLP

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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: From Strategy to Execution: Embedding Sustainability Across the Business

Charles Fogg

Chief Sustainability Officer

Primo Brands

Dirk Voeste

Chief Sustainability Officer

Volkswagen Group

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  • How leading companies are moving sustainability from standalone strategy documents into embedded decision-making across business units, regions, and functions
  • What operating models actually work in practice — centralised, federated, and hybrid approaches to governance, ownership, and accountability
  • How sustainability leaders are driving execution through procurement, operations, product, and finance rather than relying on a centralized ESG function
  • The role of incentives, KPIs, and leadership accountability in turning sustainability commitments into consistent, repeatable business behaviour
Stream Two - Innovation

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 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

Executive to be Announced

Cascade Energy

Making the Business Case Under Cost Pressure

Executive to be Announced

EcoVadis

Supplier Engagement That Actually Changes Outcomes

Kyle Santos

Global Sustainability Director

Terumo BCT Inc

Biodiversity as a Business Risk

Executive to be Announced

Watershed

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

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

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
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

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

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

General Motors

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

General Motors

9:00 am - 9:35 am KEYNOTE

Sustainability Through Partnership: Delivering the LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games

Becky Dale

VP, Sustainability

LA28 Olympic and Paralympic Games

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  • What it takes to deliver sustainability commitments across venues, infrastructure, logistics, transportation, and operations at the scale of the Olympic and Paralympic Games
  • How LA28 is working with corporate partners to align sustainability goals, operational execution, and long-term impact across a highly complex ecosystem
  • The realities of collaboration at scale — balancing brand priorities, commercial objectives, emissions reduction, and community expectations across multiple stakeholders
  • How partnerships between organizers and global companies can accelerate innovation, infrastructure investment, and more sustainable event operations
  • What corporate sustainability leaders can learn from the LA28 partnership model and apply to large-scale enterprise transformation initiatives
9:40 am - 10:15 am 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

Rewiring Supply Chains for Sustainability, Resilience, and Accountability

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• How sustainability pressures are reshaping supplier relationships and sourcing strategies
• The growing intersection of resilience, traceability, emissions, and operational risk
• What companies are doing to move beyond supplier surveys toward measurable progress
• Where collaboration across value chains is becoming essential to execution

Stream Three - Environmental Leadership

Powering the Future: Energy Demand, Security, and the New Constraints on Growth

Allyson Anderson Book

Chief Sustainability Officer

Baker Hughes Company

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  • How rising demand from AI, data centres, electrification, and industrial growth is reshaping energy needs across sectors
  • Balancing energy security, affordability, reliability, and sustainability in an increasingly complex operating environment
  • Where new energy supply and infrastructure investments are needed to support future growth
  • How companies are adapting long-term strategies amid evolving energy markets, technologies, and policy landscapes
  • What business leaders need to understand about the opportunities and constraints shaping the future energy system
Stream Four - Social Impact

Making Social Impact a Leadership Priority: What Changes Executive Behaviour

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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 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
1:50 pm - 1:55 pm

Chair's Closing Remarks

Kristen Siemen

Former Chief Sustainability Officer

General Motors