Tracks
Sustainability moves in cycles, and today’s leaders are building through this moment to catch the next wave. The program centers on the strategies that get them there, anchored by the following topic areas.
Finance and the Business Case
How to fund, justify, and embed sustainability in the language of enterprise value, budget, and risk, from speaking the CFO’s language to monetizing sustainability and putting it to work in capital allocation. Topics include:
- ROI
- Transition Finance
- Monetizing Sustainability
- CFO Fluency
- Access to Capital
Comms in Context
Reaching the right audiences with the right message in the right moment, so sustainability communications drives results. Topics include:
- Storytelling
- Anti-greenhushing
- Tactical Discipline
- Audience Engagement
- Business Relevance
- LLM Discoverability
- Trust & Reputation
Leading Through Change
Managing the strategy, teams, and resilience to keep sustainability moving and create momentum when conditions get harder, from structuring lean, effective teams to building influence, engaging senior leaders, and creating broader organizational ownership. Topics include:
- Organizational Strategy
- Change Management
- Executive Influence
- Board Engagement
Data, Disclosure, and AI Tools
The tools, data practices, and disclosure strategies that turn sustainability reporting from a burden into an advantage, including AI tooling that earns its keep and data quality built for assurance. Topics include:
- Software Solutions
- Data Infrastructure
- Assurance
- Agentic AI
- Sustainability Regulations
- Corporate Reporting
Drawdown and Decarb
The strategies that cut emissions at the source, decarbonizing energy, heavy industry, buildings, and fleets, and address what’s left with carbon offsets credible enough to stand behind. Topics include:
- Clean Power Procurement
- Industrial Heat
- Building & Fleet Electrification
- Carbon Markets
Scope 3 and Value Chains
Measuring and reducing emissions and risks across suppliers, products, and the value chain, including supplier engagement, product-level footprinting, and agricultural supply chains. Topics include:
- Supplier Engagement
- Data
- Product-level Footprinting
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Risk
Integrating Nature
Managing nature and biodiversity as a material business risk and an emerging disclosure obligation, examining high-impact sectors like food and beverage through the lens of readiness, risk quantification, and strategy. Topics include:
- Water Strategy
- Food and Beverage
- Nature-based Solutions
- Environmental Risks
Advancing Circular Systems
Designing out waste and building circular business models that hold up commercially, from EPR readiness to product and material circularity. Topics include:
- Brand-level EPR
- Packaging
- Procurement Strategy