Start your morning with a fresh coffee from our onsite barista and kick off the day in the best possible way. As you collect your drink, pick up your challenge pin, a simple, visual way to show others what you’re looking to solve, learn or explore at the event.

• Kickstart your day with focused connections and shared purpose
• Join a small group of peers for a fast, high‑impact morning session designed to help you clarify your priorities and meet others tackling similar challenges
• Connect on your key challenge so you can benchmark goals, exchange early insights, and build relationships you’ll return to throughout the event

• Hear how C-Suite executives are building credible business cases that connect sustainability commitments to measurable financial and operational outcomes
• Drive cross-functional accountability by embedding sustainability governance into enterprise decision-making structures that outlast individual champions and quarterly budget cycles
• Close the internal alignment gap between sustainability ambition and the execution strategy required to act on it

Elena Dimichino, Chief Sustainability Officer, EssilorLuxottica

Nancy Mahon, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Estee Lauder Companies

Pip Murray, Chief Executive Officer, Pip & Nut

Stephan de Barse, Chief Revenue Officer, osapiens

Moderator: Christine Diamente, Managing Director - Transformation, BSR

Take a moment to refuel, chat with fellow attendees, and reflect on the key takeaways so far. Opportunity to meet with exhibitors and partners to identify new technologies, benchmark your approach and uncover opportunities for collaboration.

• See how European regulations, including incoming disclosure requirements, are shaping capital access and competitiveness and where sustainability teams can add value beyond compliance

• Gain insight on what is still to come with simplified ESRS, CSDDD and learn more about the implementation of ISSB Standards including through the UK's SRS

• Establish what companies are subject to scope, and how out of scope companies could still be affected by reporting measures

Kerstin Lopatta, Chair Sustainability Reporting Board, EFRAG

Richard Barker, Board Member, ISSB

Moderator: Mardi McBrien, Senior Director - Corporate Performance & Accountability, WBCSD

Achim Steiner, Former Administrator, UNDP and Chair, Hamburg Sustainability Conference
Moderator: Axel Threlfall, Editor at Large, Reuters

This session is hosted by a Reuters journalist under the Reuters Trust Principles.

• Understand how leading organisations are identifying and prioritising nature-related risks across supply chains, operations and investments, and why these risks are becoming a board-level concern
• Explore how organisations are strengthening data, traceability and governance to support credible nature-related disclosures and demonstrate progress to investors, customers and employees
• Learn how businesses are building the case for action by connecting nature-related impacts and dependencies to resilience, growth, procurement, stakeholder expectations and long-term value creation

Maria Martha Luchetti, Chief Marketing, Innovation and Sustainability Officer, Deoleo
Nathalie Alquier, Chief Sustainability Officer, Danone
Inigo Larraya, Chief Sustainability Officer - Europe, L'Oreal
Moderator: Nicolas Pillet, Senior Regional Manager, Preferred by Nature

• Explore how decisions across sourcing, infrastructure, transport, resource use and investment are shaping the next generation of supply chains for sustainability leaders across pharmaceuticals, retail, FMCG, automotive and manufacturing

• Examine how changing supply chain models and increased physical climate risk create new pressures on energy, water and other critical resources, where trade-offs emerge between resilience, sustainability, cost and growth, and where different choices can create shared value

• Identify, through an interactive business challenge, where sustainability leaders can have the greatest influence and what new forms of collaboration are required across businesses, logistics partners and infrastructure providers

Ayla Bajwa, Senior Vice President - Sustainability, DP World

• Drive accountability at every level by moving sustainability metrics into the objectives, incentives, and reporting lines of the teams that control the levers of actual change
• Hear case studies on effective strategies that put sustainability impact and business value side by side
• Elevate sustainability execution from a project into a permanent organisational capability without losing momentum or strategic coherence

Tiffany Chow, Head of Strategy, Governance and Reporting, BT

Anne-Laure Demarcy, Head of Environmental Sustainability, UCB

David Pettet, Group Head of Sustainability, Nomad Foods

Moderator: Liam Dowd, Senior Manager, Innovation & Market Development, Reuters Professional

• Maximise ROI from double materiality assessments by extracting insights that inform and accelerate progress across multiple sustainability targets beyond compliance
• Strengthen internal credibility and secure board buy-in by translating technical reporting outputs into business-focused language that demonstrate strategic value and competitive positioning
• Scale compliance efficiency by deploying materiality findings to satisfy multiple regulatory frameworks simultaneously, from ESRS, to ISSB and GRI

Jennifer Wakely, Global ESG Reporting Lead, Specsavers

Sian Chapman, Global Head of Corporate Affairs & Sustainability, Nestlé Waters & Premium Beverages

Moderator: David Carlin, Founder and CEO, D.A Carlin and Company

• Participate in this highly interactive workshop to cut through the complexity of nature-related risk, dependencies and opportunities, including water availability, land use, biodiversity and pollution.

• Through expert insights, practical activities, and real-world case studies, analyse how nature dependencies create financial and operational exposure

• Collaboratively translate nature materiality into a focused set of practical metrics that support risk management, investment decisions and upcoming nature related disclosures

Nicolas Pillet, Senior Regional Manager, Preferred by Nature

• Understand consumer data and what still justifies sustainability investment when willingness to pay declines
• Learn how to separate non-negotiable investments from discretionary, brand led initiatives, helping finance and boards prioritise spend with confidence
• Leave with a clear framework to position sustainability spend internally, ensuring resources are focused on protecting value rather than maintaining initiatives that no longer hold up commercially

Rodolfo Nervi, VP Sustainability, Bacardi
Danielle Da'Silva, Director of Sustainability, Booking.com

Karl Shuker, VP, Sustainability and Social Impact, Mastercard

Moderator: Nikki Gwillian-Beeharee, Head of Stakeholder and Policy Engagement, World Benchmarking Alliance

Take a moment to refuel, chat with fellow attendees, and reflect on the key takeaways so far.

• Explore how sustainability leaders across industries are reshaping the function, and how professionals can adapt their skillsets to remain effective as expectations evolve
• Compare approaches to governance, including how organisations are empowering managers as key coordinators of data, decision-making, and execution across the business
• Examine where the role is gaining influence as regulation increases, and how to translate this into clearer ownership, measurable impact, and stronger commercial relevance

Ana Mitrasevic, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, Delivery Hero

Isidora Diaz Heredia, Chief Sustainability and HSE Officer, Parques Reunidos

Nathalie Erdmanis, Group Director Sustainability, Ageas

Moderator: David Grayson, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility

In these interactive roundtables, continue the conversation by exploring how the sustainability function is evolving in practice. Exchange perspectives with peers on how roles, responsibilities, and influence are shifting across organisations, and what this means for your day-to-day work.

David Grayson, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Responsibility

Ana Mitrasevic, Chief People and Sustainability Officer, Delivery Hero

Isidora Diaz Heredia, Chief Sustainability and HSE Officer, Parques Reunidos

Nathalie Erdmanis, Group Director Sustainability, Ageas

After a full day of insights and discussion, round off day one with informal networking drinks.

Join us for our Women is Sustainability breakfast; a focused, early‑morning networking session bringing together women and allies leading sustainability functions across Europe. This workshop will offer a relaxed forum to share experiences, compare approaches to evolving demands, and build supportive connections with peers driving transparency and impact into your organisation.

As expectations on Scope 3 emissions continue to rise, corporate travel is moving from a reporting challenge to a strategic business priority. With evolving SBTi guidance, growing investor scrutiny, and new disclosure requirements on the horizon, organisations need practical plans to manage travel emissions while maintaining business performance.

Join this interactive breakfast workshop to explore how leading companies are building credible travel decarbonisation roadmaps, aligning with emerging regulatory expectations, and evaluating the role of solutions such as Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) within broader transition plans.

• Understand the regulatory, investor and stakeholder pressures reshaping corporate travel and climate strategy
• Learn how to set credible travel emissions targets and build transition plans aligned with evolving SBTi guidance and reporting expectations
• Explore practical implementation strategies, including travel policy, internal governance, supplier engagement and SAF adoption, to accelerate progress while maintaining commercial objectives

Amelia Ransome, Director of Products, SkyNRG

Start your morning with a fresh coffee from our onsite barista and kick off the day in the best possible way. As you collect your drink, pick up your challenge pin, a simple, visual way to show others what you’re looking to solve, learn or explore at the event.

• Identify where material, data, and chain of custody integrity break down across supply chains and how to implement credible multi tier verification
• Embed traceability into procurement, logistics, and operations by treating it as a shared operational discipline, not a standalone technology purchase
• Design scalable traceability frameworks by prioritising a small number of high value data points that support decision making, regulation, and circular claims

Maurice Loosschilder, Head of Sustainability, Signify
Andreas Walingen, Head of Circular Economy, Volkswagen

Vanessa Harrer, Senior Director Global Impact, Mondelēz International

Moderator: Terry Slavin, Editor in Chief - Ethical, Reuters Professional

• Understand how organisations are quantifying nature risk by linking ecosystem dependencies to tangible financial exposure for CFO and executive decisions
• Hear examples of how sustainability and finance teams are integrating nature related financial risk into double materiality and taxonomy processes
• Learn how leading companies are prioritising nature risk mitigation by stress testing high exposure scenarios against budgets, supply chain resilience and capital planning

Sandra Schoonhoven, Global Head of Sustainability Expertise, ING Bank NV
Peter Wübben, SVP Group Communications & Sustainability, Douglas

Moderator: Ciara Burke, Director, Europe, A4S

• Strengthen Scope 3 data integrity across fragmented supply chains by embedding traceability requirements directly into supplier contracts and commercial frameworks from the outset before visibility gaps become compliance liabilities

• Scale supplier tracking without overhauling existing relationships by deploying tiered KPI structures that set regular, proportionate reporting cadences at each supplier tier, matched to the complexity of individual product lines

• Unlock supply chain visibility while protecting competitive positioning by leveraging long-standing factory relationships as a foundation for collaborative data-sharing systems and software

Hadrien Dellicour, External Manufacturing Sustainability Lead | Sustainable Supply Chains & Scope 3, UCB

Vanessa Miler-Fels, SVP Global Supply Chain Safety, Sustainability and Real Estate, Schneider Electric

Moderator: Dr Sally Uren, Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer, Forum for the Future

Take a moment to refuel, chat with fellow attendees, and reflect on the key takeaways so far.

• Explore how organisations are responding to changing reporting requirements across global frameworks and local jurisdictions, while balancing central and local ownership to maintain consistency, credibility and efficiency.
• Discuss how peers are moving beyond compliance, using sustainability data and reporting to inform financial decision-making, capital allocation and long-term business value. Exchange approaches, challenges and lessons learned as reporting strategies continue to evolve.
• Discover practical tools and guidance for engaging CFOs and finance teams, helping embed sustainability into core business processes and everyday decision-making.

Ciara Burke, Director, Europe A4S

• Learn how C-suite leaders are scaling approaches to manage, communicate, and forecast supply chain risks amid rising costs and ongoing disruption, while keeping sustainability in mind

• Hear from executive sustainability and supply chain experts on which operational changes reduce Scope 3 emissions without sacrificing growth or supplier relationships

• Learn from real life examples, when proven traceability strategies have turned into sustained emissions reduction

Roel Van Poppel, Chief Sustainability Officer, ofi

Gunnar Buechter, Global Head of Sustainability, Yanfeng

Shu Fei Zeng, Founder, KH Marque

Moderator: Dr Sally Uren, Executive Director and Chief Acceleration Officer, Forum for the Future

Climate change and nature loss are reshaping investment, business strategy and livelihoods. Drawing on recent Reuters reporting, this discussion examines the financing of biodiversity, the impact of warming seas on fisheries, and how hotter, less predictable seasons are disrupting fashion and retail. The journalists will also look ahead to COP31 in Türkiye and assess whether governments and financial institutions can turn climate commitments into investment, adaptation and measurable results.

Simon Jessop, Sustainable Finance Editor, Reuters
Helen Reid, European Luxury and Retail Correspondent, Reuters

Moderator: Karin Strohecker, Chief Emerging Markets Correspondent, Reuters

Take advantage of our extended lunch period to recharge and connect. Whether you join an invite only workshop, participate in a lunchtime roundtable, enjoy informal networking, or settle into a one to one meeting, this is your time to build relationships and dive into the conversations that matter most.