AGENDA
Agenda
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Chair’s Opening Remarks
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Building Climate-Resilient Supply Chains: Strategies for a Net-Zero, Nature-Positive Future
- Climate Risks and Supply Chain Vulnerability: Explore how climate change is disrupting global commodity and energy supply chains and what this means for businesses, governments, and communities.
- Finance and Policy Levers for Adaptation: Learn how financial institutions, corporations, and policymakers can drive supply chain resilience while advancing net-zero and nature-positive outcomes.
- Sustainable Sourcing and Smallholder Empowerment: Discuss strategies to strengthen the resilience of critical commodities, such as palm oil, through deforestation-free sourcing and support for smallholder farmers.
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Future-Proofing Supply Chains with Resilient, Low-Carbon Infrastructure
- Case studies where Geekplus 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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Circular Economy in electronic wearables
- Implementing circularity to achieve emissions reduction
- Design and supply chain as part of the circular business model
- Return and repair to reduce environmental footprint
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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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Green Supply Chains: Key to Sustainable Industry Practice
- Why Green Supply Chains Matter?
- The Fruits of Going Green
- A Green Future Starts Today
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Lunch
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Building Responsible Fashion Supply Chains with Innovation and Partnership
- Innovation & partnership are catalysts: Discover how joint innovation and ecosystem partnerships unlock practical solutions to complex supply chain challenges.
- Sectoral plan as a strategic roadmap: Learn how the industry study, playbook, and toolkits will provide SMEs with practical guidance to embed sustainability into business strategies.
- Scaling impact: Understand how initiatives like TBFI Launchpad and Scale-Up, and the Open Innovation Platform are enabling start-ups and enterprises to accelerate adoption of circularity and responsible practices.
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Building Sustainable and Resilient Supply Chains: From Lean Six Sigma to Humanitarian Impact
- Integrating Lean Six Sigma for Sustainability – Explore how process improvement frameworks can reduce waste, optimize resources, and enhance long-term resilience in supply networks.
- Humanitarian and Healthcare Logistics Lessons – Apply insights from critical sectors where efficiency and responsibility directly impact lives, informing broader supply chain strategies.
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Measuring What Matters – Learn practical tools for performance measurement that balance efficiency, resilience, and environmental responsibility in today’s volatile global landscape.
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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
Speakers
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Chair’s closing remarks