AGENDA

Agenda
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Chair’s Opening Remarks
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Resilient by design: building future-ready supply chains in a volatile world
  • Lessons from geopolitical shocks such as tariffs and COVID-19: Strengthening supply chain visibility and flexibility
  • Mitigating geopolitical risk through diversification and regionalisation
  • Leveraging technology (AI, blockchain, IoT) to predict, adapt, and recover from disruptions
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Priorities for sustainable shipping: maritime logistics
  • Building better public private partnerships 
  • Utilising existing technologies
  • Supporting international collaboration
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Supporting research and innovation for a sustainable future
  • Breakthroughs in greentech innovation and scalable environmental solutions
  • How AI is transforming the development and deployment of sustainability strategies
  • Supporting cross-sector and public private partnerships
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Exploring the link between sustainability and long-term profitability – Case Study: Sustainability’s and ROI
  • Enhancing customer loyalty through sustainable values
  • Driving operational efficiency and cost savings
  • Strengthening resilience and adaptive capacity in a changing environment
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Morning networking break
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Powering supply chains with renewable energy
  • Integrating clean energy sourcing into procurement and logistics operations
  • Collaborating with suppliers to decarbonise upstream and downstream emissions
  • Overcoming infrastructure and financing challenges in renewable energy adoption across global supply chains
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Rethinking Resilience: Analytics-Driven Strategies for a Sustainable Supply Chain
  • Explore how data-driven operations can align inventory management with sustainability goals.
  • Discuss emerging models in carbon credit integration across global supply chains.
  • Examine the intersection of finance and sustainability to uncover risk-resilient supply chain strategies.
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Closing the sustainability skills gap
  • Expanding access to cutting-edge technologies 
  • Leveraging education programmes and talent development initiatives
  • Identifying key needs for building a future-ready workforce
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Lunch
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From scarcity to strategy: securing critical raw materials through circularity
  • Priorities for enhancing visibility across supply chains
  • Extended producer responsibility
  • Utilising data driven decision making
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Greentech in action: accelerating innovation
  • Leveraging greentech ecosystems in APAC region
  • Bridging research and commercialisation through startups, corporates, and government collaboration
  • Scaling climate solutions through investment, regulation, and cross-border partnerships
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Afternoon networking break
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Panel Session: Approaches to scope three emissions reductions
  • Building a collaborative relationship with suppliers
  • Approaches to procurement
  • Navigating changes to regulation
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Strategic foresight: research-driven roadmaps for collaborative, resilient supply chains
  • Emerging Insights, Tangible Impacts
  • Collaboration as Competitive Advantage: Examine data-driven frameworks for public-private partnerships, multi-tier supplier engagement, and shared innovation platforms.
  • From Insight to Action: Outline evidence-based, scalable strategies for industry leaders to operationalise resilience and collaboration — with Singapore as a testbed for global best practice
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Chair’s closing remarks