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What are company best practices for disclosing physical risk assessments and adaptation/resilience investments? Table Host: Mathew Lee, MSCI

What works for aligning government relations with sustainability communications? Table Host: Mike Hower, Hower Impact

How have you established and maintained alignment between your company’s public affairs and sustainability teams to advance corporate objectives? Table Host: Dominic Gogol, We Mean Business Coalition

How do we build water value chains that start with Indigenous stewardship and end in measurable impact? Table Host: Manisha Priyadarshini, ProgramEarth

What does it take to build corporate-nonprofit partnerships that generate real value on both Sides? Table Host: Jeff Senne, SandBar Solutions and Stephen Ritz, Green Bronx Machine

Code, Carbon, and Collaboration: How Can Sustainability Teams Can Better Engage Internal IT and Tech teams? Table Host: Paull Young, GitHub

How can we accelerate Scope 3 emissions reductions through value chain collaboration? Table Host: Christie Kochis, Arcadis

How do we reimagine the insurance industry due to climate change? Table Host: Steven Rothstein, Ceres

What types of metrics have been the most persuasive internally when making the business case for social sustainability and why? Table Host: Jarrid Green, BSR

Where are circular business models generating real new revenue today, and how can your company replicate this success? Table Host: Garr Punnett, Loop Layer

How do you make your climate risk assessment actionable within ERM? Table Host: Aaron Gress, Risilience

How can the private sector leverage cities to test circularity concepts before launching at a large scale? Table Host: Amanda Jordan, City of Phoenix

How can teams responsible for Scope 2 build more impactful procurement strategies? Table Host: Sam Cote, Solstice

How can AI for climate and nature be designed and deployed in ways that explicitly incorporate social impacts and human needs from the outset? Table Host: Alyson Greenhalgh-Ball, WBCSD

What does industrial heat decarbonization look like in 2026 and beyond? Table Host: Perry Hodgkins Jones, Renewable Thermal Collaborative

What does the next generation of collective action look like and what role can philanthropy best play? Table Host: Dayna Gross, Platform for Agriculture + Climate Transformation

What types of external assurance of ESG data do you expect to need in the next 1–2 years? Table Host: Slok Gyawali, Apex Companies

If flying is baked into your business model, how do you tackle travel emissions without grounding your growth? Table Host: Hetal Jain, Capital Group

What does it take to conduct an effective double materiality assessment? Table Host: Jenna Kunde, Johnson Controls

How does scaling reuse infrastructure impact corporate operations, supply chain, and partnerships? Table Host: Michael Martin, r.world

How do we progress sustainability in times of changing technological, political and societal dynamics? Table Host: Ben Wilinsky, Arbor Day Foundation

What does “food waste reduction at scale” actually require across procurement, operations, and suppliers? Table Host: Bill Kingman, Mill

How can sustainability thrive amid rapid technological, political, and societal change? Table Host: Karen Beadle, Sunbelt Rentals

Location Sunset Lawn

Session type Meals

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