Trellis Impact 26 Program | Top Sustainability Sessions & Workshops

Anisha Krishnakumar (RMI) Catherine Huyett (RMI) Christopher Wellise (Equinix) Timothy Smith (TASA Analytics & University of Minnesota) Yann Risz (Bureau Veritas)

Tutorial

Close the Loop

Balancing the Loop: How to Synchronize Supply and Demand for Circular Electronics

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Bob Mitchell (Global Electronics Council) Daniel Reid (Circular Electronics Partnership) Erica Terek (Global Electronics Council) Jennifer Foxworthy (HP)

Tutorial

Close the Loop

EPR Academy: What You Need to Know to Lead Your Company Through the Next Phase of Regulation

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Emily Lynch (WWF) Erin Simon ( WWF) Hannah Bogatin (WWF) Mary Jo Snavely (World Wildlife Fund) Megan Daum (American Beverage Association) Shane Buckingham (Circular Action Alliance)

Tutorial

Close the Loop

Building the Circular Fiber Supply Chain Your Brand Needs

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Brian London (Secondary Materials and Recycled Textiles Association; Whitehouse and Schapiro) Edd Denes (Accelerating Circularity) Meredith Boyd (UNIFI) Sarah Coulter (Accelerating Circularity) Sarika Bajaj (Refiberd)

Tutorial

Draw Down Carbon

How to Secure Carbon Credits that Deliver Maximum Climate Benefits

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Donna Lee (Calyx Global) Jim Giles (Trellis Group) Mark Chen (CNaught)

Tutorial

AI x Sustainability Program

Power the Future

Powering AI Responsibly: A Corporate Playbook for the Large Load Era

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

9:30 am - 12:00 pm

Henry Richardson (WattTime) Kelly Trombley (Ceres) Maria A. Lopez Silva (Dell) Michelle Moore (Groundswell)

Experiences & Activities

Design Your Next Chapter: 1:1 Coaching for Sustainability Practitioners

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

9:30 am - 4:00 pm

Kate Hanson (WSP)

Meals

Networking

Lunch & Expo

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Meals

Roundtable Lunches

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

Decarbonize Operations

Power the Future

AI and the New Industrial Supply Chain: Managing Risk in an Interdependent Economy (Sponsored Lunch)

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Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

Decarbonize Operations

From Disclosure to Dialogue: Building a Connected Reporting Ecosystem (Sponsored Lunch)

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

Keynote

Keynote: Future Forecast: Building AI Sustainably

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm

Danielle Decatur (Cloverleaf Infrastructure) Grant Harrison (Trellis Group) Hana Kajimura (Trellis Group) Heather Clancy (Trellis Group) Isabelle Ashley (Montana State University ) Jim Hanna (Microsoft) Katie Fehrenbacher (Axios) Katie Ryan (Trellis Group) Saikat Chakrabarti (New Consensus) Sierrah Paul (Code Girls United)

Expo

Networking

Networking Break & Expo

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

Nature as a Connector: Bringing Together Climate and Circularity Through Nature

SPONSORED BY

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Cheryl Baldwin, Ph.D. (Pure Strategies)

Workshops

Advanced Perspectives

Draw Down Carbon

Decarbonize Your Supply Chain With Environmental Attribute Certificates

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Laura Draucker (Center for Green Market Activation (GMA)) Oscar Hernandez (RMI)

Workshops

Power the Future

Part I: Choosing the Right Renewable Procurement Model for Your Business

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Amy Chiang (3Degrees) Rachel McLaughlin (Forefront Power) Wes Herche (Prologis)

Breakout

Close the Loop

When Policies Collide: Managing EPR and Recycled Content Requirements Together

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Anthony Tusino (The Recycling Partnership) Carolina Leonhardt (Mondelēz International) Jason Bergquist (RecycleMe USA) Nicol Sobczyk Costello (L'Oréal)

Workshops

Close the Loop

What Sells Circularity?

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Benjamin Errett (Green Standards) David Bourne (Google) Deanna Bratter (Crocs) Heidi Frasure (Green Standards)

Breakout

Decarbonize Operations

Acquiring Buy-In: Translating Sustainability to Your Board, Investors, and C-Suite

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Kari Hayden Pendoley (Impact Savvy) Marian Macindoe (Parnassus Investments)

Workshops

Decarbonize Operations

Your Fleet Is Your Fastest Scope 1 Win: Real Strategies from Companies Already Saving Money

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Brandon Jones (Ceres) Gerard Westhoff (RMI) Vartan Badalian (Center for Sustainable Energy)

Workshops

AI x Sustainability Program

How AI is Changing Investor Analysis of Corporate Disclosure

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Brett Miller (Sodali & Co) Sean McPhillips (Palo Alto Networks)

Networking

Opening Reception

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

RSVP Needed

Special Event

Exclusive Cocktail Reception: Joint Principles for Reducing Materials Footprint and Achieving Circularity

SPONSORED BY

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

5:15 pm - 7:00 pm

RSVP Needed

Special Event

What's Actually Working in Portfolio Decarbonization: A Dinner Conversation Hosted by êffecterra

SPONSORED BY

Tuesday, Jun 23, 2026

6:45 pm - 8:45 pm

Full Program

Decarbonize Your Supply Chain to Lower Scope 3 Emissions

Balancing the Loop: How to Synchronize Supply and Demand for Circular Electronics

EPR Academy: What You Need to Know to Lead Your Company Through the Next Phase of Regulation

Building the Circular Fiber Supply Chain Your Brand Needs

How to Secure Carbon Credits that Deliver Maximum Climate Benefits

Powering AI Responsibly: A Corporate Playbook for the Large Load Era

Design Your Next Chapter: 1:1 Coaching for Sustainability Practitioners

Lunch & Expo

Roundtable Lunches

AI and the New Industrial Supply Chain: Managing Risk in an Interdependent Economy (Sponsored Lunch)

From Disclosure to Dialogue: Building a Connected Reporting Ecosystem (Sponsored Lunch)

Keynote: Future Forecast: Building AI Sustainably

Networking Break & Expo

Nature as a Connector: Bringing Together Climate and Circularity Through Nature

Decarbonize Your Supply Chain With Environmental Attribute Certificates

Part I: Choosing the Right Renewable Procurement Model for Your Business

When Policies Collide: Managing EPR and Recycled Content Requirements Together

What Sells Circularity?

Acquiring Buy-In: Translating Sustainability to Your Board, Investors, and C-Suite

Your Fleet Is Your Fastest Scope 1 Win: Real Strategies from Companies Already Saving Money

How AI is Changing Investor Analysis of Corporate Disclosure

Opening Reception

Exclusive Cocktail Reception: Joint Principles for Reducing Materials Footprint and Achieving Circularity

What's Actually Working in Portfolio Decarbonization: A Dinner Conversation Hosted by êffecterra

Using AI to Tackle Supply-Chain Deforestation and Create High-Quality Forest Carbon Credits

Startup Day Stage

Low-Tech Wins: Reducing Energy Waste in Industrial Buildings

The Polypropylene Breakthrough: How to Actually Scale Material Recycling

Making the Case for a National EPR Framework

The Future is Distributed: How DERs Can Power Communities and the Grid's Next Chapter

From Barrier to Blueprint: Case Studies on What's Working in Electrifying Industrial Heat

Lessons on Transition Planning from Tech Companies

Part II: Advancing Your Renewable Program — Compliance, Optimization, and Long-Term Performance

The Next Frontier of Circularity in Data Centers: Hardware

Metrics to Moonshot: Building Circular Economy KPIs That Actually Get You There

Design Your Next Chapter: 1:1 Coaching for Sustainability Practitioners

Networking Break & Expo

From “100% Renewable” to Real-World Impact: Redefining Corporate Clean Energy Leadership

Scaling Recycled Materials: What It Actually Takes to Design, Source, and Integrate

Built to Last: Repairability Starts at the Drawing Board

Battery Circularity: Where the Gaps Are and What Moves the Needle

Footwear Futures: Building Circular Infrastructure Through Collective Action

The Deep Tech Revolution in Circularity

Aggregated & Activated: How Buyers Alliances Are Accelerating Green Market Transformation

Beyond Pilots: Rethinking Climate Tech for Corporate Adoption

Climate Startup Toolkit: Raising Capital in a Constrained Market

The Fastest Ton: Making Super Pollutants Core to Your Decarbonization Roadmap

Curated Startup Matchmaking

Lunch & Expo

Roundtable Lunches

Keynote: Force Multipliers: The Tech Accelerating Sustainability

Corporate Reverse Pitch for Data Centers: What Climate Leaders Need Built Now

Climate Adaptation Technologies: Building Resilient Operations in an Age of Extremes

Unwrapping EPR: Turning Compliance into Competitive Advantage

Refill, Return, Repeat: Making Reuse Work at Scale

From Pilots to Purchase Orders: How to Engage Circularity Startups in Your Supply Chain

The Critical Minerals Crunch: Building Domestic Recovery Infrastructure

All-Electric, All Business: A Corporate Pathway for Building Electrification

AI x Sustainability Showcase

Storage Goldilocks: Finding the Right Battery Solution for Your Organization

Bridge to Power: Near-Term Solutions for a Constrained Grid

Enlisting Your Competitors in Sector-Level Decarbonization

Evening Reception

Global Plastics Policy: What Happens Now?

How They Built This: On AI Governance and Embedding Sustainability Into Business Systems

Can Water and Energy Both Win? Data Center Strategies Changing the Answer

Beyond Carbon: Using Planetary Boundaries to Unlock Business Value and Resilience

Design Your Next Chapter: 1:1 Coaching for Sustainability Practitioners

Networking Break & Expo

From Returned to Recovered: What It Actually Takes to Operationalize Reverse Logistics

Double Win: How Smart Design Drives Circularity and Business Value

Heat Below Our Feet: How Corporations Can Help Unlock the Geothermal Revolution

Cracking Scope 3: From SAF to AI, Strategies That Deliver Real Reductions

Is the Clean Energy Transition Still Happening?