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Responsible Supply Chain Conference Brussels helps supply chain, procurement and sustainability leaders understand how their peers are responding to evolving requirements and putting responsible supply chain strategies into practice. Attendees gain practical lessons, benchmarking opportunities and real-world implementation insights they can take back to their organisation.

If you would like to be considered as a potential speaker for 2027, contact Elli.Vermillion@akabomedia.co.uk

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Chair's opening remarks
  • Why Brussels is the right place to examine how European policy is changing supply chain decision-making
  • Why the conversation has moved from regulation and commitments to implementation
  • The key challenges the day will explore across compliance, procurement, data, decarbonisation and resilience
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The 2027 EU rulebook: what supply chain leaders need to act on now
  • What the latest EU regulatory changes mean for supply chain, procurement and sustainability teams
  • Which requirements and implementation deadlines businesses need to prioritise during 2027 and beyond
  • How businesses can move from regulatory interpretation to practical implementation across procurement, legal, sustainability and supply chain functions
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Beyond tier one: building effective due diligence across extended supply chains
  • Identifying and prioritising human rights and environmental risks beyond tier one
  • Building supplier data, assurance, verification and remediation processes that work in practice
  • Understanding what works, where challenges remain and how due diligence approaches can improve
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EUDR goes live: what the first months of implementation have taught us
  • What EUDR implementation requires across sourcing, supplier engagement, traceability and data
  • Where the biggest operational challenges are emerging and how businesses can respond
  • What the first months of implementation can teach organisations developing or adapting their approach
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Networking break
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From sustainability policy to purchasing decision: putting responsible procurement into practice
  • How responsible sourcing requirements are embedded into everyday procurement and category decisions
  • How procurement teams balance sustainability with cost, availability, quality and resilience
  • How supplier expectations are translated into contracts, KPIs and practical supplier-management processes
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Panel: What do European buyers now expect from their suppliers?
  • What sustainability, traceability and responsible sourcing evidence major buyers now expect suppliers to provide
  • Where suppliers most commonly fall short and how expectations vary by size, maturity and sector
  • How buyers can raise standards while building stronger, longer-term supplier relationships
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Lunch & networking break
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From supplier spreadsheets to product passports: building traceability regulators can trust
  • How businesses are collecting and connecting reliable product and supplier data across multiple tiers
  • What Digital Product Passports and emerging traceability requirements mean for existing systems and processes
  • How organisations can make supply chain data useful for operational and commercial decision-making as well as compliance
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Panel: Scope 3 and supplier engagement: how do you actually get suppliers to act?
  • How organisations are moving from spend-based estimates towards better supplier-level data and measurable emissions reduction
  • Which incentives, commercial levers and capacity-building approaches actually improve supplier participation
  • How businesses can engage SMEs and less mature suppliers without simply demanding more data
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Networking break
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PPWR six months on: what implementation looks like inside a real supply chain
  • What PPWR has changed across packaging, sourcing, supplier requirements and reporting
  • Where implementation has created additional cost, data requirements or operational complexity
  • What businesses are learning about packaging reduction, reuse, recyclability and circularity in practice
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Resilience under pressure: redesigning supply chains for geopolitical, climate and cost risk
  • How businesses are reassessing supplier concentration, sourcing locations and critical dependencies
  • How geopolitical disruption, climate risk and economic volatility are changing supply chain design
  • How leaders can balance resilience with cost, sustainability and responsible sourcing
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Chair's closing remarks