Agenda
DAY 1
08:00 – 08:50
REGISTRATION
08:55 – 09:00
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
09:00 - 09:30
Steel accelerating green transition – case Outokumpu
- Steel accounts to 10% of global greenhouse gas emissions – yet it has a pivotal role in accelerating the green transition and growth in clean industries
- Green steel demand across the value chain is driving forward the transition – what is the role of long-term, predictable climate regulation?
- Value of sustainability data – how to demonstrate the value all the way to the end-users?
Dr. Maximilian Wulfmeier, Head of Sustainable Solutions and Products Stainless Europe , Outokumpu
09:30 - 10:00
Opportunities to do more whilst using less: examples from industrial water & energy solutions by Grundfos
- Grundfos’ sustainability strategy and approved Net Zero commitment
- Examples and actions of the Grundfos Net Zero roadmap
- What sustainable impact for Grundfos’ customers looks like and why this matters
- Challenges and opportunities for driving the sustainability agenda forward
Therese Noorlander, Sustainability Director Grundfos Industry, Grundfos
10:00 - 10:30
We thought we were sustainable: How Traceability Secures Sustainability
- Sustainability is essential due to increasing regulations and consumer demands
- This session presents a real-world case study demonstrating how traceability enabled compliance and provided a competitive advantage
- Learn how a company improved supply chain visibility, reduced carbon emissions, and lowered costs through enhanced transparency
Florent Bouguin, Executive Vice-President, Chief Technology Officer, OPTEL Group
10:35 - 11:25
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:00
The Innovative New Approaches to Reducing Energy Usage, Designing for Circularity and How to Transition to Science Based Targets
- How to begin the transition to science-based targets including reviewing and setting a greenhouse gas target
- Energy Reduction strategy for industrial plants
- Case Studies
12:00 - 12:30
Sustainable Operational Excellence: The Milliken Way
- Milliken & Performance Solutions by Milliken history and approach to sustainability
- Sustaining Peak performance whilst respecting environmental and social responsibilities
- The Pillars of Sustainability
- Integration of Sustainability with Operational Excellence & Key Performance Indicators
- Challenges, roadblocks and client case study
- Questions & Answers
Darren O’Connor, Director of Business Development, Performance Solutions by Milliken
12:30 - 13:00
Beyond Compliance: Unlocking the True Power of Oil-Free Air
- The Critical Role of Oil-Free Air in Modern Industry
- Challenges Companies Face in Transitioning to Oil-Free Systems
- Strategic Advantages Beyond Compliance
- Building a Future-Proof Air Strategy
Brecht Vanlee, Chief Commercial Officer, Tamturbo
PLANNED INVESTMENT AREAS
- Energy Efficient Facilities
- Sustainable and Circular Materials
- Materials Procurement
- Compressed Air Innovations
- Climate Risk Assessment & Reporting
- Energy & Infrastructure Insurance Solutions
- PPA & VPPA
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Carbon Capture
- Data Governance
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Carbon Offsetting Solutions
- Process Quality Control
- Environmental Commodities
- Environmental Management Solutions
- Water Management Software
- Plastic/Waste Recycling
- Resource Management Software
- Air Emissions Management
- Factory-as-a-Service
- Sustainability & ESG Software
- Machine & Deep Learning
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Circular Economy Strategies
- ESG Strategy Solutions
- Sustainable Materials Management (SMM)
13:05 - 13:55
LUNCH
14:00 - 14:30
Catena-X: Standardised data exchange to reduce Product Carbon Footprint Emissions in the value chain
- Catena-X: Data Ecosystem for the Automotive Supply Chain
- Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) Use case
- Introduction Ford PCF Pilot
- Challenges & Opportunities
André Kremer, Sustainability Manager & Global Lead Catena-X, Ford Werke GmbH (subsidiary of Ford Motor Company)
14:30 – 15:00
From Global Vision to Local Action: Activating Sustainability in Market Operations
- What’s driving the disconnect: understanding the barriers
- You can’t manage what you can’t measure: the road to better data and analytics
- Ensuring relevance and impact: get on the leadership agenda
- Driving local & visible impact: upskilling and engagement
Danielle Byrne, Head of Sustainability – Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Reckitt
15:00 – 15:30
The road to Net Zero for an industrial coatings supply chain
- Beckers has made an exciting journey over the last two years to evaluate our total carbon footprint for all scopes and prepare our near term and net zero company roadmap
- We committed to SBTi and are in the process of validation with them
- We identified our two emission hot spots during this work, which are the raw material portfolio (scope 3 upstream) and the application of our coating at our direct customer (scope 3 downstream)
- We have identified the key activities and levers needed to tackle these hot spots, which are all outside our own organisation
- This requires intensive supply chain projects with suppliers, customers, downstream users of our products and industry organisations
- Obviously we target a major transformation of the total value chain and report on the status and findings so far
Thomas Lueder, Global Director Sustainability Partnerships, Beckers Group
15:35 - 16:25
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:00
Value creating and no regret moves in sustainability
- Gaining efficiency with positive sustainability effects
- Added value by sustainability leadership
- Untapping sustainability value pools
- Support decision making and implementation roadmaps
Martin Neuhold, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH WPG
17:00 - 17:30
Navigating the Evolution of Sustainability Reporting and Compliance: Trends, Standards, and Regulations
- Keep abreast on the recent updates in international sustainability standards that might impact your sustainability strategy
- Understand the significant developments related to mandatory requirements in sustainability reporting, with a particular emphasis on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD)
- Get an overview of the latest trends in jurisdiction-specific sustainability regulations and implications for global business
- Understand the main developments in regulations applicable to environmental, social, and governance and the risks they pose to your company
PLANNED INVESTMENT AREAS
- Energy Efficient Facilities
- Sustainable and Circular Materials
- Materials Procurement
- Compressed Air Innovations
- Climate Risk Assessment & Reporting
- Energy & Infrastructure Insurance Solutions
- PPA & VPPA
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Carbon Capture
- Data Governance
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Carbon Offsetting Solutions
- Process Quality Control
- Environmental Commodities
- Environmental Management Solutions
- Water Management Software
- Plastic/Waste Recycling
- Resource Management Software
- Air Emissions Management
- Factory-as-a-Service
- Sustainability & ESG Software
- Machine & Deep Learning
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Circular Economy Strategies
- ESG Strategy Solutions
- Sustainable Materials Management (SMM)
17:30 - 18:00
Preparing Your Organization for CSRD and Global Sustainability Regulations
- The significance of CSRD and its impact
- Aligning with global sustainability regulations
- Enhancing sustainability reporting and performance
Stefan Kürbis, VP Sustainability, Novanta
18:00 – 19:00
DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2
08:55 – 09:00
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
09:00 – 09:30
How to drive engagement across the organization
- Why you need to involve your organization in the Sustainability journey: the cost of inaction
- Change Management as a key element in driving Sustainability strategy
- Different tools to engage, across the various organizational levels
Francesca Bellucci, VP Strategy & Sustainability, Sidel
09:30 – 10:00
Improving Circularity to Save Natural Resources & Protect Competitiveness in a Fast-Paced Environment
- The soda ash business has a big challenges regarding valorization and circular economy in order to protect our site long term license to operate, improve our competitiveness and save natural resources:
• Transform mineral co-product, by-products and wastes to reuse them as raw or finished materials for several industries with 2 key open questions: - Create more values for partners
- Use right internal and external leverages
- Case studies will be presented
Olivier Bodson, Head of Valorization & Circularity Program SA&D, Solvay
10:00 - 10:30
Improving Supply Chain Sustainability and Management to Ensure You Are on Track to Reach Sciences Based Targets
- Enhancing the tracking of all ESG related data with a cross-company database and revealing the lessons learned from an entire ESG reporting cycle
- Improving supplier engagement and building their capabilities in emissions, admissions tracking and management space
- Improving supply chain engagement to better map progress and setting up for meaningful emissions reductions in category 1 in both the short and long term to reach our 2050 net zero goal
10:35 - 11:25
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00
Leveraging your supply chain to boost sustainability
- Supply chain as key lever for sustainability
- Navigating and fulfilling key supply chain due diligence requirements (CSDDD, LkSG, VSoTr, NTA, etc.)
- Achieving climate objectives through tech-driven supply chain decarbonization
- Reporting according to recognized sustainability standards like CBAM, CSRD/ESRS and GRI
12:00 – 12:30
Corporate sustainability in 2025: delivering value and impact in uncertain times
- How manufacturing companies are shifting their sustainability priorities in an uncertain macro-economic and regulatory environment
- Three areas of sustainability initiatives that continue to remain critical for value creation and resilience
- Case studies of manufacturing companies connecting sustainability to business priorities in strategy, risk management and communication
- Delivering commercial value by connecting sustainability and sales
Sytze Dijkstra, Netherlands Country Manager, Simply Sustainable
12:30 – 13:00
Sustainable Compressed Air – an Oxymoron?
- How to build a strong foundation of sustainable solutions for compressed air treatment
- Start with where and how to visualise improvements. Keep it simple. Keep it smart
- Avoid costly compressed air losses with state-of-the-art measurement technology
- Ensure environmentally smart solutions for economical, ecological, and efficient processes
- Monitor your compressed air system 24/7 to ensure optimal performance at all times
Sara Deckers, Focus Industry Manager, BEKO Technologies B.V.
PLANNED INVESTMENT AREAS
- Energy Efficient Facilities
- Sustainable and Circular Materials
- Materials Procurement
- Compressed Air Innovations
- Climate Risk Assessment & Reporting
- Energy & Infrastructure Insurance Solutions
- PPA & VPPA
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Carbon Capture
- Data Governance
- Renewable Energy
- Energy Storage Solutions
- Carbon Offsetting Solutions
- Process Quality Control
- Environmental Commodities
- Environmental Management Solutions
- Water Management Software
- Plastic/Waste Recycling
- Resource Management Software
- Air Emissions Management
- Factory-as-a-Service
- Sustainability & ESG Software
- Machine & Deep Learning
- Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
- Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
- Circular Economy Strategies
- ESG Strategy Solutions
- Sustainable Materials Management (SMM)
13:05 - 13:55
LUNCH
14:00 – 14:30
Sustainability reporting obligation; a burden or a business driver?
- Sustainability data reporting requires a lot of effort to collect the complex data over numerous systems
- The challenges that were experienced were numerous
- How to avoid the pitfall to use the data only for reporting?
- Canon Production Printing approach to embed Sustainability in our business model
- The next step in execution; how to make our business future proof by using Sustainability data management?
Dr. Frank Scheepers, Director Quality & Sustainability, Canon Production Printing
14:30 - 15:00
A methodology to build a CO2 reduction roadmap
- The “Why” behind the roadmap
- The study our your activities to define the priorities
- From roadmap to programs with timeline and resources
- Extend your view : it is not only about CO2
Clémentine Lannes, Group Environmental Manager, BMI Group