Driving Sustainability and Profitability

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14/04/2026

10:00-16:30

Sergel Hub Stockholm

April 14th - Hybrid Event

Agenda

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Sustainability as Strategy - Growth, Resilience and Innovation

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10.00

Opening Keynote: Sustainability in a Fractured World

  • Global outlook 2026: climate, regulation, and business in turbulent times
  • What CSOs must prioritise: resilience, trust, and profitability
  • From compliance burden to leadership opportunity
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10.20

Sustainability and Profitability - The CEO Perspective

  • Balancing short-term shareholder expectations with the long-term returns of sustainable strategies at the Board level
  • Framing commercial opportunities and risks from sustainability impacts while adapting to climate-driven business model shifts and exploring new markets and opportunities
  • Leading through slowing growth, geopolitical uncertainty, and supply chain constraints by making sustainability central to future success, innovation and stakeholder trust
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10.35

CASE: When Sustainability is the Business

  • Embedding sustainability in talent, culture, and the brand DNA
  • Moving from compliance check-lists to core strategy and innovation
  • New models and markets born from sustainability transformation
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10.50

Sustainable AI: Extract what matters and go from Complexity to Clarity

  • Explore how AI empowers sustainability leaders with clarity, control, and confidence
  • Let AI connect current, historical, and proposed standards worldwide, delivering a more comprehensive understanding of obligations
  • Harness automated horizon scanning to anticipate regulatory changes and stay prepared before they appear on your radar
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11.05

The New Value Chain: Scope 3, Circularity and Partnerships

  • Tackle Scope 3 emissions with collaboration, not isolation
  • Use circular business models to unlock growth and profitability
  • Build ecosystems that extend sustainability impact beyond the enterprise
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11.20

Panel: Culture as a Sustainability Engine

  • Empowering every function, from finance to procurement, to own sustainability
  • Driving behaviour change and organisational buy-in
  • The CSO as culture builder and change architect
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11.40-12.40

Networking Lunch

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The Data & Trust Agenda - AI, Regulation and Credibility

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12.40

Panel: The Next Sustainability Shock - Preparing for Regulatory Overlap

  • Omnibus, CSRD, CS3D, EUDR, TNFD — what happens when frameworks collide?
  • How to avoid compliance fatigue and keep focus on impact
  • Turning regulatory turbulence into a competitive edge
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13.00

Building Credibility in a Greenhushing-sensitive World

  • Inspire with bold, authentic and transparent storytelling that shapes brand, culture, and investor confidence
  • Harness AI and digital tools to verify data to build trust with investors and stakeholders
  • Strategies to prevent greenhushing: communicating credibly under scrutiny
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13.15

Case: Delivering a Net-zero Business

  • Building resilient and robust net-zero roadmaps that are ambitious but also sufficiently agile to evolve with climate technology changes
  • Integrating double materiality into decision-making
  • Utilize your emissions data and other non-financial information to build a full understanding of your value chain to prepare your future agility strategy
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13.30

The Power of AI: Moving the Needle on Climate Targets with Data

  • How can artificial intelligence (AI) help businesses be more sustainable, and what are the potential ethical considerations?
  • Experience how AI can be used to decentralise reporting for specific use cases across departments, allowing your team to focus on core sustainability impact
  • Learn how an AI-first approach to sustainability collaboration can look like
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13.45

Beyond Compliance. Creating Lasting Business Impact and Competitive Edge

  • How CSOs shape business models, not just reporting
  • Circularity, new value chains, and innovation beyond compliance
  • Geopolitics, supply chain resilience, and sustainability as competitive advantage
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14.00-14:30

Networking Break

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Collaboration & Culture - From Intent to Tangible Results

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14.30

Power Hour - EU Sustainability Regulations 2026

The New Rulebook – CSRD/CS3D, Omnibus, CBAM, TNFD, EUDR, ESPR/ISSB

- Discuss the impact of EU's new package on business priorities and direction for Finance/Reporting, Supply chain and Strategy
- Guidance on the new regulations. All you need to know!
- What the evolving EU regulatory package means in practice
- Know your obligations, responsibilities and the impacts on businesses
- Which national changes are likely to follow to comply with EU guidelines
- From Carbon to Nature: The Expanding Scope of ESG Accountability

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15.10

Transforming Business for the Better

  • Many internal ways of doing things are persistent and misaligned with sustainable goals. How do you cultivate change and empower all functional leaders to push forward the sustainability agenda
  • Slicing the elephant: Decarbonizing business and society, one piece at a time
  • Framing sustainability as departmental imperatives: from legal and procurement, to finance and innovation supporting both short-term and long-term business success
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15.25

Ecosystem Collaborations - From Intent to Tangible Impact

  • Selling the full value and shared responsibility to customers and partners despite complexity and fragmentation
  • Working with suppliers, customers and competitors to cut Scope 3
  • Industrial Partnerships cutting emissions and spreading costs more fairly without giving up commercial advantage
  • How rivals can work together on emissions without falling foul of competition law
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    15.40

    Why the Next Nordic Unicorn must have Sustainability in its DNA

      • Turning sustainability from expense line to bottom-line
      • Embedding sustainability into design, R&D and new products
      • From minimising negatives to maximising positives through net-positive innovation
      • Will the next unicorn solve climate problems rather than creating them?
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      16.00

      Closing Remarks
      Leading a Sustainable Tomorrow. The Business Blueprint 2026-2027

        • What defines corporate sustainability leadership in the Nordics
        • How CSOs and Nordic enterprises can lead the global agenda
        • How are businesses keeping sustainability at the top of the corporate agenda?
        • Short-term execution vs long-term mission criticals
        • What skills will be most essential for tomorrow’s green jobs?
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        16.20

        End of Day

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        16.30

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