Tracks
Innovation is reshaping every corner of sustainable business. Turning that momentum into measurable business and climate impact takes two modes of innovation: technological innovation and business design innovation. Trellis Impact 27 is where the communities powering each come together.
Technological Innovation
Creating, adopting and scaling tomorrow’s tools, from AI applications to decarbonization technology and infrastructure-level energy solutions.
Energy
Modernizing the grid to keep pace with rising demand, through clean power procurement and distributed solutions like microgrids, on-site generation, and battery storage. Topics include:
- Grid modernization
- Clean power procurement
- AI/data center demand
- Distributed energy
Carbon
Cutting emissions at the source, through electrification, efficiency, and clean heat, then accounting for what’s left, through carbon markets, removal, capture, and measurement rigorous enough to trust. Topics include:
- Electrification
- Energy efficiency
- Clean heat
- Carbon removal & capture
- Carbon markets
Data
The information that supports every climate decision. From supply chain traceability to supplier emissions to critical minerals visibility, plus the governance and measurement practices that make data trustworthy enough to act on. Topics include:
- Data strategy
- Supply chain traceability
- Supplier emissions data
- Critical minerals visibility
- Data governance
- Value measurement
- Data infrastructure
AI Infrastructure
The physical build-out behind AI models, including data centers, chips, networking, energy, water, cooling, power equipment, communication and the financing that underpins it. This track explores the key decisions and supply chains sustainability teams are engaging with. Topics include:
- Data centers
- Chips
- Networking
- Cooling
- Power
- Hardware lifecycle
- Compute efficiency
- Hyperscalers
Business Design Innovation
The organizational shift toward business resilience and a circular economy, from product design to reverse logistics and supply chain transformation, with a focus on plastics & packaging, textiles & apparel, and electronics.
Resilience
Turning policy compliance into competitive advantage. Building resilient, future-proof business models, metrics, and communications that keep circularity profitable amid changing consumer preferences, market dynamics, and geopolitics. Topics include:
- EPR
- Circular business models
- Reuse & resale economics
- Profitability
- Geopolitics
Design
Designing products and materials for durability, repairability, and recovery from the start. Topics include:
- Circular design
- Material innovation
- Design for disassembly
- Recycled-content
Materials
Building the reverse logistics, remanufacturing, and recovery infrastructure that makes circularity operational at scale. Topics include:
- Reverse logistics
- Remanufacturing
- Take-back systems
- Critical minerals recovery
Programs
AI x Sustainability Program
Sustainability teams are navigating AI from two directions at once: a tool that multiplies their impact and an infrastructure demand they have to account for, from grid flexibility and carbon MRV to circular materials sorting and recovery. The AI x Sustainability Program explores how AI drives climate action while balancing its own infrastructure demands. Embedded across the event, it serves as a core lens rather than a standalone track.
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Circularity Program
Companies are turning circular economy principles that design out waste, circulate materials at their highest and best use, and regenerate nature into competitive advantage. The program covers everything from EPR compliance and reverse logistics to the communications that build internal buy-in and the business models that make circularity profitable.
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Advanced Perspectives Program
The Advanced Perspectives Program equips seasoned practitioners — those with 5+ years of experience — with the real-world intelligence needed to tackle what’s ahead. The program is open to all attendees and composed of a curated combination of deep-dive sessions, facilitated networking opportunities, interactive labs, and partner activations hosted throughout the 2.5 days of Trellis Impact 27 programming.
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