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Driving Sustainability and Profitability

17/04/2024

10:00-16:15

7A POSTHUSET

STOCKHOLM

APRIL 17th - HYBRID EVENT

Agenda

Theme: Strategy, Engagement & Impact

Sustainable Business Stockholm

10.00

SUSTAINABILITY AND PROFITABILITY - The Executive Perspective

  • From Strategy to Execution. Sustainability as a business driver.

  • The perspective of the Board: Balancing the short-term, quarterly expectations of shareholders and the reality of the long-term returns of sustainable strategies.

  • Where sustainability and profitability conflict, how do you strike the right balance?

  • As old business models might fail due to climate change, how can organisations adapt and find new markets?

Lennart Nordqvist
Sustainability & Climate Lead Sweden
Deloitte

Sustainable Business Stockholm

10.25

FIRESIDE CHAT
SUSTAINABILITY  - SELLING THE FULL VALUE TO CUSTOMERS

  • Creating shared value for all stakeholders

  • Engage employees and your customers in the transformation  

  • Commercialising the sustainable offering and supporting customers to make the sustainable choice

Håkan Nordin
Sustainability Director
Bolon

Sustainable Business Stockholm

10.40

WHEN SUSTAINABILITY IS THE BUSINESS - Scaling your fundamentals

  • Developing new business models to drive innovation

  • Sustainability in culture, strategy and corporate identity

  • Why must the next unicorn have sustainability in their DNA?

Matilda Hasselmark
Sustainability Director
Instabee

Axel Thegerström Edh
Director Sustainability Assessment Products & Services
Essity

Sustainable Business

10.55

INTERVIEW
GAME RULES FOR SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS: Laws, contracts and morals

Sustainable Business

11.10

PANEL
A SUSTAINABLE STRATEGY OR A SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY –
Leading a sustainable tomorrow

  • In times of economic and geopolitical uncertainty, how are business keeping sustainability at the top of the corporate agenda?

  • More than metrics. Shifting the focus from reporting towards actions

  • ECOnomics: Giving back more than you take while securing profitability.

  • Sustainability is the new Digital: Driving new value, growth and permeating everything that we do

Sustainable Business

11.30-12.30

NETWORKING BREAK

FUTURE-PROOFING YOUR BUSINESS    

  • Climate risks are a real threat to most businesses - but what are they and how can you capitalize on climate opportunities?

  • What role do climate risks & opportunities play in your green transition?

  • Integrating climate risks and opportunities into strategic and financial planning

Anna Denell
Chief Sustainability Officer
Vasakronan

Maria Del Morales Burkle

Climate Risks and Opportunities Expert

South Pole

Heidi Peltonen
VP Sustainability
Outokumpu

Erik Florman
Chief Sustainability Officer
Akademiska Hus

Theme: What does ESG mean for business? Sustainability as a Business Driver.

Sustainable Business

12.30

FIRESIDE CHAT
NAVIGATING THE REGULATIONS – CSRD, ESRS, EU TAXONOMY AND TCFD

  • Will there still be use for the chief sustainability officer, when ESG is totally integrated?

  • The CSRD presents an opportunity for companies to go beyond compliance and create lasting change in business, centred around responsibility and impact

  • Reporting ESG impacts as standardized as possible in between different regimes, regions and legislations

Cecilia Almér
Sustainability Expert
Stratsys

Philip Thörn
Head of Sustainability
If

Kajsa Nylander
Head of Sustainability
Svenska Spel

Sustainable Business

12.45

BUILDING RESILIENT AND ETHICAL SUPPLY CHAINS – reacting to the CSRD

  • What kind of partnerships might promote sustainable sourcing

  • How to effectively manage sustainability in the supply chain

  • How do you incorporate sustainability into your procurement practices?
     

Åsa Beckius
Head of Sustainable Supplier Management
Sandvik

Martyna Wojciechowska
Sustainable Procurement Strategy
EcoVadis

Sustainable Business

13.05

AI IN THE SUSTAINABLE LANDSCAPE – Finding true value from the hype

  • Understand the current capabilities of AI when it comes to the collection, management and analysis of sustainability data and how it’s supporting improved decision making

  • Discover real world examples of how companies are using AI to bring greater clarity and oversight of their emissions data

  • Set AI to work the complexities in the sustainable landscape and dive into the future of sustainability reporting

Tihomir Cirkvencic
Sustainability Market Ecosystem Leader
IBM

Pekko Päivärinta
Technical Leader, Sustainability Software
IBM

Sustainable Business

13.25

ACCELERATING THE ENERGY TRANSITION WITH WASTE HEAT - Drive Energy Efficiency, Cut Fossil Fuels, and Decrease CO2 Emissions

  • Explore how increased energy efficiency can help to reduce energy-related emissions and facilitate a cost-effective transition to a more sustainable future

  • Discover how the largest untapped source of power - waste heat - can be repurposed to generate clean, sustainable electricity

  • Learn how cost-efficient waste heat recovery technology can deliver both economic and environmental benefits while reducing CO2 emissions and increasing sustainability

Lena Sundquist
CEO
Climeon

Sustainable Business

13.40

GREEN HUSHING AND GREENWASHING – How to walk the line & build credible sustainable branding

  • Trustworthy carbon data can both power impactful ESG work and verify its results 

  • How granular, comprehensive carbon accounting powers impactful ESG work

  • Why scientifically sound carbon data is crucial for preventing accusations of greenwashing

  • How grounding sustainability messaging in verifiable data empowers businesses to avoid “greenhushing” and talk confidently about their environmental work

Dr. Alexander Schmidt
Head of Science, Sustainability
and Climate Research
Normative

Sustainable Business

13.55-14.30

NETWORKING BREAK

Theme: Closing the gap between Ambition and Action – while ensuring Profitability

Sustainable Business

14.30

POWER HOUR - Roll-up your sleeves and dive into actionable table discussions with peers

Sustainable Logistics

AI & Sustainability

Consumer Journey

Scope 3

CSRD

Data & Tech

Reimagining Packaging

Sustainable Business

15.10

PANEL
CLOSING THE GAP BETWEEN AMBITION AND ACTION

  • Secure profitability in the transition in general – and in times of economic downturn

  • Build successful strategic partnerships to reach your sustainability goals

  • Create willingness to change – on a company level and on an individual level

Emil Wanngren
Strategic Business & Investment Manager
Adven

Lovisa Curman
Head of Sustainability
Sortera

Sustainable Business

15.25

CASE SWEDBANK
OPERATIONALISING ESG

  • A journey with emphasis on data, competence, and governance as opportunities. 

Shu-Wen Chan
Head of Sustainability Strategy & Transformation
Swedbank

Sustainable Business

THE 10 BILLION CHALLENGE NEEDS A CIRCULAR TRANSFORMATION

15.40

  • UN estimates there will be 10 billion people on the planet by 2025 and 70% of them will live in cities

  • To feed and house these 10 billion people while keeping the planet within our planetary boundaries, a circular transformation within infrastructure and housing is urgently needed

  • Today’s wastewater treatment plants will need to be the resource plants of tomorrow that both produce freshwater for reuse in agriculture and in industry, nutrients for food production and building material for our houses

Pär Larshans
Director Sustainability & Public Affairs
Ragn-Sells

Sustainable Business

CLOSING REMARKS
SCANDINAVIA IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT – what is next

15.55

  • Leveraging the ecosystem to accelerate innovation. Start-up, Corporate and National collaborations.

  • How much money is required to make a real impact - financing net zero while leading the organisation towards a more sustainable and profitable future

  • How much data should you disclose - balancing investors, clients and supply chain trust versus protecting your competitive advantage

  • As carbon neutral isn’t enough – what is required in 2024

Helena Nordström
Head of Sustainability Strategy & Transformation
Deloitte

Jens Olejak
Head of Climate Solutions & Managing Director Nordics
South Pole

Kristina Söderberg
Investment Manager
SEB Greentech VC

Sustainable Business

16.15

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