AGENDA
The conference is a two-day virtual event where delegates hear directly from industry-leading speakers on how business sustainability can influence their bottom line. The first day will focus on identifying immediate actionable challenges and the second day will look ahead at layering the groundwork for long-term policy, infrastructure and financial strategies.
Both days of the conference will run from 9:00 until 13:00 CET (GMT +1)
If you would like to be considered as a potential speaker for 2025, contact mia.stanbridge@akabomedia.co.uk
9AM (CET)
8AM (GMT)
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Chairs Opening Remarks
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Navigating the EU Sustainability landscape and its implication for business
- The state of play of the EU sustainability agenda
- Better regulation for stronger implementation: towards a competitive, inclusive and sustainable Europe
- Multi-stakeholder collaboration in practice
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Globally inclusive textile EPR: The Role of Producer Responsibility Organisations
- How to build justice-Oriented EPR Frameworks for textiles
- Transparent, Accountable, and Inclusive Governance of PROs
- Policy & stakeholder recommendations for more inclusive EPR systems
Speaker
Co-Managing Director & Circular Textiles Lead
Circular Berlin - Zirkuläre Stadt e.V
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Buying into sustainability: Making procurement a driver of change
- Why is sustainable procurement so hard?
- Turning sustainability into procurement value
- Organisational tips to build an effective collaboration
Sponsor
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Comfort Break
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Sustainability Requirements in Flux: Navigating the EU’s Shifting Regulatory Landscape
- Understand the latest EU sustainability policy developments surrounding supply chain due diligence and reporting requirements
- Recognize how the EU’s competitiveness agenda is reshaping sustainability regulations
- Assess the opportunities and challenges that arise for businesses in this changing regulatory environment
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Panel Session: Transforming Waste into Worth: Circular Innovation for a Sustainable Future
- Exploring how cross-sector collaboration turns by-products into new value streams
- Accelerating the green and digital transition through circular design and systemic thinking
- Bridging research, technology, and industry to deliver climate-positive impact at scale
Speakers
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Comfort Break
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Institutionalising Sustainability in Business and Supply Chain Activities
- Company responses to sustainability reporting regulations
- The opportunities and barriers of public procurement criteria to advance sustainable supply chains
- The need for capacities and resources to support SMEs in achieving these objectives
Speaker
Research Associate
Leibniz Institute Ecological Urban and Regional Development
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Getting started with nature-related risk – understanding impact and financial materiality
- Discover where to begin in assessing an organisation’s key nature-related impacts and dependencies across the value chain
- Learn how to connect these impacts and dependencies to tangible business risks and opportunities — and prioritise what’s most material
- Take away practical guidance and real-world examples to help start small, streamline the approach, and make early progress without heavy resource demands
Sponsor
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Sustainable Supply Chains: Industry Perspectives on Building a Greener Economy
- Trends in corporate methods and motivations for sustainability implementation
- Practical barriers to achieving sustainability goals in business operations
- Analysis of Aurora Insights novel datasets on sustainable supply chains
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Hringvarmi: Transforming Data into Dinner
- Showcasing the development of the Icelandic startup, Hringvarmi from idea to innovative new product.
- Exploring how excess heat from industry can be harnessed for local food production.
- Maximising sustainable development of hardware through an optimised supply chain
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Chairs closing remarks
The conference is a two-day virtual event where delegates hear directly from industry-leading speakers on how business sustainability can influence their bottom line. The first day will focus on identifying immediate actionable challenges and the second day will look ahead at layering the groundwork for long-term policy, infrastructure and financial strategies.
If you would like to be considered as a potential speaker for 2025, contact mia.stanbridge@akabomedia.co.uk
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Chair’s Opening Remarks
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Incentivising Environmental Performance in Global Supply Chains: Key Insights and Implementation Pathways
- Understand the barriers and drivers
- Explore incentive-based approaches
- Apply actionable recommendations
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Circular Economy in Germany and the EU
- Priorities for senior leadership and engaging stakeholders
- Unlocking the value of existing initiatives
- Integrating sustainability into decision making
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Building Supply Chain Resilience in an Uncertain World
- Persistent disruption has required more focus on supply chain resilience Actors generally took a “hold your breath” approach to acute disruption and disequilibrium No preparation for protracted (e.g. pandemic) or catastrophic (e.g. cyber attack) disruption
- Protracted and catastrophic disruption risk is rising as social (labor), environmental (extreme weather, regulation), and political (trade regulation, conflict) stresses increase Need to complement supply chain design with system adaptation capability
- Study the complex adaptive systems that comprise global supply chains Surveil weak signals and rapidly validate emerging issues Create evidence to pre-stage effective interventions (policy, capacity, management, etc.) Supply chains span organisations and resilience requires co-operative design, monitoring and adaptation
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Comfort Break
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Building an EU sustainable market: Redirecting financial flows towards sustainable economic activities
- Strengthening ESG resilience through risk-informed assurance
- Leveraging digital solutions to streamline compliance and transparency
- Adapting to evolving frameworks, including the ESG Omnibus and global standards
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Forming and Governing Sustainable Supply Chains through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems and Systemic Co-Design
- Strategies for forming & governing sustainable Supply Chains
- Drive sustainable innovations through Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
- Use Systemic Co-Design principles to tackle complex challenges
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Comfort Break
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The Role of Technology in the Shift to a Resilient Future
- Assessing circular value creation
- Going green by tech
- Shifting from supply chain to supply circles
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Panel Session: Approaches to visibility and traceability in responsible reporting
- Harnessing AI, IoT and blockchain tools for data collection
- Engaging with suppliers and partners
- Priorities for measurement and standardisation
Speakers
Sponsor
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Chair’s closing remarks