Roundtable Lunches

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?

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