Sustainability and Profitability. The CEO Perspective
Ensuring sustainability is a business imperative at the Board level: Balancing the short-term, quarterly expectations of shareholders and the reality of the long-term returns of sustainable strategies
Practical tips on framing the commercial opportunities, and risks, posed by sustainability impacts?
As old business models might fail due to climate change, how can organisations adapt, finding new undertakings and markets?
10.25
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
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?
10.55
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
As responsibility goes beyond creating a culture the CFO and CSO complement each other to drive change and advancing critical issues, managing risks, and creating both business and social value
11.15
Unlocking the Power of AI for Sustainability Reporting
In what ways can artificial intelligence (AI) be leveraged to drive sustainability initiatives within corporations, and what are the potential ethical considerations?
Hear the key considerations and strategies for leveraging AI data collection and analysis skills to meet the CSRD reporting requirements
Discover how AI can transform sustainability reporting, in efficiency, accuracy and completeness without human errors
11.30-12.30
Lunch
Theme
Ensuring Profitability. Sustainability as a Business Driver.
12.30
Panel: Leading a Sustainable Tomorrow
In times of slowing growth, geopolitical uncertainty and supply chain constraints, how are businesses keeping sustainability at the top of the corporate agenda?
Beyond metrics. Shifting the focus from reporting towards actions
How leaders are making it clear to all key share/stakeholders that sustainability is integral to the future success and prosperity of the business
How do you differentiate your business as a genuine trailblazer for the new era of sustainability
12.45
Supply Chain Due Diligence - Transparent, Resilient and Data-Rich
Reacting to the CSDR - what kind of partnerships might promote sustainable sourcing
How are tech innovations enhancing supply-chain transparency and traceability and helping companies collect and manage high volumes of data for ever-increasing demands of reporting?
How can Supply Chain Leads/CPOs help deliver greater impact and high-quality data without impacting other key supply chains KPIs?
13.05
Fireside Chat: Navigating the Duality of CSRD, CS3D and EU Taxonomy
How to manage the interoperability of regulations such as CSRD, EU Taxonomy and CS3D
The CSRD presents an opportunity for companies to go beyond compliance and create lasting change in business, centred around responsibility and impact
How CS3D compliance can be used to optimize CSDR reporting and how you best apply human rights and environment due diligence
Examine how EU Taxonomy can be used to conduct climate risk and vulnerability assessments and how that can be instrumental for your data points CSRD requirements
13.25
Delivering a Net-Zero Business
Building a resilient net zero pathway – The agile approach
Utilize your emissions data and other non-financial information to build a full understanding of your value chain to prepare your future agility strategy
How to build net zero a roadmap that is robust and ambitious but also sufficiently agile to evolve with climate technology changes
Explore the concept of double materiality and its importance when considering business-wide impacts and risks in your approach
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
Know how to build a strong narrative with non-financial data for stakeholders that models risk, avoids greenwash and conveys clear financial implications
How grounding sustainability messaging in verifiable data empowers businesses to avoid “greenhushing” and talk confidently about their environmental work
13.55-14:30
Networking Break
Theme
Collaborating for Impactful Change. Shifting from Intent to Tangible Results
14.30
Power Hour - Roll-up your Sleeves and Dive into an Actionable Table Discussion with Speakers, Experts and Peers
Choose between three tracks:
Strategy
Finance
Supply Chain
15.10
Fireside Chat: Shifting from Intent to Tangible Results
Design and implement programs that align with internal capabilities and strengths, while pursuing impact driven outcomes
How do you secure profitability in the transition in general – and in times of economic downturn especially?
How do you communicate and create willingness to change – on a company level and on an individual level?
15.25
Case
15.40
Key-Note
15.55
Closing Remarks: Scandinavia in a Global Context - What Criticalities Do We Still Have Ahead of Us
As carbon neutral isn’t enough – what is required in 2025. 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
Key considerations and strategies for leveraging AI (beyond reporting) in Sustainability
What does the next generation of sustainability leaders look like?
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