Hervé Duteil
BNP Paribas
Chief Sustainability Officer, Americas
This two-day business conference will demonstrate how sustainable innovation can produce a positive impact on the environment AND the bottom line. We’ll discuss the practical steps for business to act on climate and waste reduction targets, whilst shifting the sustainability mindset from risk to opportunity.
The conference will also assess the latest methods to measure and determine the value of sustainability programs. We’ll look at what’s really working in practice, with a focus on how materiality and impact assessments can influence and better direct strategy, budgets and resources.
Circular innovation | Climate action | Impact and ROI
The speakers
Andy Knepp
Bayer Crop Science
Vice President, Environmental Strategy and Industry Activation
Ann Tracy
Colgate-Palmolive
Vice President, Safety, Sustainability and Supply Chain Strategy
David Nix
Braskem
Sustainability / Recycling Leader
Eunice Heath
The Dow Chemical Company
Corporate Director of Sustainability
Telva McGruder
General Motors
Director, Workplace Engineering and Operations Solutions
Anne van Riel
ING
Head of Sustainable Finance Americas
Maureen Kline
Pirelli Tire North America
Vice President, Public Affairs & Sustainability, North America
Agenda highlights
- Climate action: How to use climate science to drive board-level action on GHGs
- Defining materiality: How to balance competing interests
- Embedding Circularity: The fundamentals of a successful shift from linear to circular business models
- Science Based Targets: How they can drive and define company action on climate
- Consumer expectations: What do young consumers want from business? Youth panel opinions and outlooks
- The role of banks in financing sustainable innovation and business model change
- Navigating the SDGs: How to direct strategy to ensure materiality and impact
- Reporting on your impact: How do you talk to stakeholders effectively?
- Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration: The partnerships that have proven to cut impact, reduce waste, and MAKE MONEY
Why attend?
Discover best practices from industry leaders and get in-depth guidance on how to effectively implement policies
Meet & network with an influential audience of key stakeholders, including NGOs, business, government and supply chain actors
Benchmark company performance amongst a room of your peers and discover where you should be focusing efforts
What’s different about this forum?
Innovation Forum is:
- Candid: Entirely off-the-record discussion that enables open and honest disclosure from speakers and genuine participation from the audience.
- Practical: A clear focus on the practical and actionable guidance that can drive change throughout industries and supply chains.
- Focused: We provide enough time, resources and expertise to the issues that really matter. We don’t skate the surface, but get to the crux of the issues to provide in-depth, constructive discussion.
Innovation Forum is NOT:
- A PR platform: Enthusiastic speakers are NOT given free rein to fill a session presenting their companies, allowing no time to actually get to the crux of the issues.
- A talking shop: This is NOT an opportunity for a group people in a room to simply agree with everything said, regardless of outcomes.
- All promise, no delivery: We will NOT promise what we can’t deliver. The issues covered are complex. They won’t be solved at a two-day conference. But we will help deliver progress through in-depth, constructive and practical advice around specific issues.
Who attends
The venue
Located in the heart of downtown Detroit within the historic David Whitney building, next to the Grand Circus Park.
Aloft at David Whitney
One Park Avenue
Detroit
48226
USA
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