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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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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Finance for Nature: Leveraging Strategic Foresight to Build Resilient, Inclusive Supply Chains
- Mobilising Capital for Biodiversity and Climate Resilience
- Nature as a Strategic Asset
- From Pilot to Policy
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Future-Proofing Supply Chains with Resilient, Low-Carbon Infrastructure
- Case studies where Geek+ clients were helped to reduce footprint and gain resilience (e.g. China, Europe, US).
- Avoiding overbuilding fixed infrastructure thanks to mobile, reconfigurable robotics.
- Responding to ESG pressures from regulators and customers by automating smartly.
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Morning networking break
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Collaborating for Impact: Embedding Responsible Sourcing in Global Supply Chains
- Building trusted supplier partnerships to drive transparency, accountability, and resilience
- Balancing cost efficiency with measurable social and environmental outcomes
- Leveraging stakeholder collaboration to scale responsible sourcing across global and regional networks
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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.
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Examine the intersection of finance and sustainability to uncover risk-resilient supply chain strategies.
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Sourcing, procurement and supply chain in a VUCA world
- Expanding access to cutting-edge technologies
- Leveraging education programmes and talent development initiatives
- Identifying key needs for building a future-ready workforce
Speaker
Procurement and Supply Chain Subject Matter Expert Global, Regional and Local
National University Singapore
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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