June 2027
Agenda
DAY 1
08:00 – 08:50
REGISTRATION
08:55 – 09:00
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
09:00 - 09:30
Strategy Execution at Philips
- From ambition to execution
- The 3 value drivers of sustainability
- Excellence scales sustainability
09:30 - 10:00
Transition to Low-Carbon a Capital Expense or a Competitive Edge?
- Introduction
- Financial Engine
- Brand Equity
- Importance of Innovation
- Summary
10:00 - 10:30
Turning Waste Heat into Profit: Practical Decarbonization for Industrial Processes
- Most industrial sites waste large amounts of energy as low-grade waste heat (40–60°C) that can be turned into valuable process steam instead of being lost
- Above 100°C, profitable and reliable alternatives to fossil fuels have been missing until now
- High-temperature heat pumps can upgrade waste heat into steam or hot water (100–200°C) with fast payback and minimal process disruption
- Reduce significantly energy costs and cut up to ~75% of fossil fuel use while meeting sustainability targets
10:35 - 11:25
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:00
From Imperfect Data to Informed Decisions: A Path to Scalable Sustainable Manufacturing
- Sustainability teams hold the data AI needs to succeed, giving them unexpected leverage in the budget conversation
- Most organizations aren’t AI-ready because their product and supply chain data is siloed, manual, and inconsistent and the cost of waiting compounds as regulation accelerates and competitors move first
- Fixing your data foundation once unlocks value across four domains simultaneously: sustainability, costing, compliance, and supply chain risk
- The path forward is to reframe sustainability as AI-ready data infrastructure, prove it at production scale, and capture AI investment to deliver measurable business value
12:00 - 12:30
Milliken: Where Sustainability Becomes Excellence
- Milliken story – how sustainability commitments translate into real performance.
- Performance Solutions by Milliken – the OpEx system behind ESG delivery.
- Leadership routines and behaviours to drive sustainable results.
- Sustainability and OpEx as one integrated system.
- Practical lessons for building resilient, high performing operations.
12:30 - 13:00
From Sustainability KPI's to Actual Results
- Technology shift in the compressor industry
- Total Cost of Ownership is the main driver of compressed air
- Proven solution for sustainability improvement
- Energy recovery impact of sustainability and TCO
- Customer cases
- Methodology of implementation
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
How to manage the Sustainability agenda through turbulent times?
- Sustainability is in a perfect storm at first sight
- Chaotic developments require sustainable countermeasures
- Short term results are required to keep the momentum
- Business value is the element that will drive the Sustainability agenda
14:30 – 15:00
Non-financial Reporting : Challenges and Opportunities
- Non-financial reporting has evolved into a core business requirement amid complex and fragmented global landscape
- Key operational challenges lie in assurance and data management
- In every challenge lies an opportunity (practical examples on how we converted challenges originated from legislation, auditing and data management; into opportunities)
- Future success depends on maturity and integration
15:00 – 15:30
Signify Circle - Circularity program @ Signify
- Introduction to next Signify’s Sustainability program Brighter Lives Better World 2026-2030
- Signify’s journey in integrating Circularity – one of the strategic topics
- Next step “Signify Circle”, our circularity program focussing on:
o Design for Circularity in products
o Remanufacturing, refurbishment & re-use
o Circular services, like product-as-a-Service
o Spare parts & upgrade kits
15:35 - 16:25
COFFEE BREAK
16:30 - 17:00
A closed-loop model of industrial intelligence built on three core capabilities—See, Learn, and Act.
- See: Organizations must first ensure that relevant data across assets, energy systems, and operations is connected and accessible.
- Learn: Data alone is not sufficient—context is critical. By structuring data through a common semantic model (ontology), businesses can move from raw data to meaningful insights and decision support.
- Act: The biggest shift is moving from manual decision-making to automated, intelligent actions. Emerging technologies such as domain-specific agents can continuously optimize operations—for example, dynamically managing energy consumption based on production needs and energy availability.
- The session will illustrate how this approach enables companies to:
– Reduce energy consumption and emissions
– Improve operational efficiency and production performance
– Extend asset lifetime and optimize capital expenditure
– Move from reactive reporting to proactive, real-time optimization
17:00 - 17:30
Operational Scope 3: Adding Daily Decisions to Annual Reporting
- Why Scope 3 data, despite improving year on year, still rarely informs day-to-day operational decisions in procurement, finance, or sustainability teams.
- The four conditions that turn climate data from a reporting output into an operational input.
- How a clear data matching hierarchy, starting with primary data, lifts the quality of the output at scale.
- Why the same data, used continuously through the year, makes annual reporting faster, higher quality, and audit-ready as a by-product.
- How pairing carbon with financial cost turns climate data into KPIs the whole organisation can use, not only sustainability.
- Live demo.
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
A 360° approach to circular economy – the Lighter case at BIC
- Holistic 360° approach, from science to valorisation
- Developing circular economy for nomad, cheap, plastic, disposable items
- Making the P&L work
- Key take aways
18:00 – 19:00
DRINKS RECEPTION
DAY 2
08:55 – 09:00
CHAIRPERSON’S OPENING REMARKS
09:00 – 09:30
Scaling circular services / I have a carbon footprint, what now?
- Carbon footprint, what now
- Measuring carbon footprints
- Education and value of the number
- Risk of comparing numbers
- Thinking ahead with carbon strategy
09:30 – 10:00
The challenges and opportunities of Product environmental impact assessments within the pharmaceutical industry
- What are Product Environmental Impact studies incl. concept of LCA
- Why should we all investigate the impact of our products to the environment?
- Challenges and opportunities incl. manual as well as automated approaches (linking to data governance and quality)
- Industry collaboration and supplier engagement are key – potential insights into work of the PEG Pharma LCA consortia
- Reflections and Q&A
10:00 - 10:30
Exploring resiliency through the intersection of AI, geopolitics and sustainability
- Discuss how sustainability can be reframed to bolster organizational resiliency to drive EHS&S progress within organizations
- Examine how sustainability strategies must evolve alongside disruptive global forces such as AI and geopolitical change
- Explore the combined impact of AI, geopolitics and sustainability on modern business risk management
- Identify critical short and long term risks and opportunities facing companies and future EHS&S professionals
10:35 - 11:25
COFFEE BREAK
11:30 – 12:00
Sustainability, AI and the rise of the sustainability business partner
- The world of corporate sustainability professionals looks very different than a year ago. Amidst geopolitical uncertainty, economic pressures and regulatory rollback, priorities have shifted elsewhere, and the conditions for investment in sustainability are challenging.
- Yet compliance hasn’t gone away. There is more uncertainty, are fewer resources, but there’s not less to do. Too many time-consuming, repeated tasks are still filling the diaries and clogging the to-do lists of in-house sustainability professionals because of underdeveloped systems and processes.
- In this environment, progress depends on brilliant basics. With AI and human oversight, compliance and credibility are taken care of in a smooth process at minimal hassle and cost. And sustainability teams can focus on transformation: talking to the business to set targets, agreeing actions and getting these implemented.
- In his presentation, Sytze will share examples of how AI can be applied to address real-life sustainability challenges and illustrate how sustainability professionals can continue delivering impact by acting as true business partners.
12:00 – 12:30
The Hidden Hit on Your Profits: Turn Sustainability Regulation into Competitive Advantage
- Most companies feel the squeeze as CBAM, ETS, ETS II and dozens more are silently crushing margins and reshaping the P&L. Few can pinpoint exactly where, on which product, or for which customer the damage is hitting hardest.
- Why traditional approached fall short.
- From regulatory chaos to crystal-clear control – DraghiAI merges regulatory intelligence, advanced AI, and your company data to reveal precise risks, model scenarios, and unlock hidden opportunities.
12:30 – 13:00
The Talent Behind the Transition: Skills That Will Define Sustainability Leaders
- In this session, we’ll take a step back from frameworks and headlines and look at sustainability through a headhunter’s lens: what companies are actually struggling to find when it comes to talent.
- We’ll explore how the profile of “sustainability professionals” is changing, and why hybrid skills across business, data, operations, and finance are now becoming the real differentiator.
- You’ll hear what hiring trends are emerging across industry right now, and which capabilities are becoming essential as organisations move from ambition to execution.
- Finally, we’ll translate this into something practical: how to position yourself and upskill over the next four years to stay relevant in a rapidly evolving market.
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
The Map Behind the Metrics: Understanding ESG Through Place
- How do you identify where your biggest E&S risks sit in your business?
- How do you determine the most relevant environmental and social topics for your supply-chain DD assessment,
- Is more resource consumption always worse?
- People understand the concept of place. How can we use it to provide a true risk lense for our organisation
14:30 - 15:00
Water and waste reduced by common sense & lean tools
- How much waste your industry produces?
- Approach to waste & water – leadership & lean tools
- Power of interdisciplinary workshops
- Simple, no capex ideas revealed