Registration, networking and exhibition

Welcome from conference chair

Leadership Panel: Navigating Uncertainty and Unlocking Value
Against the perfect storm of mounting stakeholder pressure, tariff turmoil and the escalating impacts of climate change, our opening session of the Summit brings together a selection of sustainability and supply chain leaders to share how businesses can move from risk to resilience and unlock hidden value through effective supply chain management strategies.

Discussion points:

• Overcoming the biggest supply chain risks facing business in 2025-26
• Taking a data-driven approach to supply chain sustainability and non-financial reporting
• What climate adaptation and resilience looks like in practice

Chair: Matt Mace, Editor, edie

Beyond 'carbon tunnel vision' - implementing nature-positive strategies

• Why nature is crucial to supply chain resiliency: How can supply chains measure and address nature-positive impacts alongside carbon emissions?
• Incentivising suppliers: Can businesses incentivise suppliers to adopt nature-positive practices?
• Collaborating with stakeholders: What local considerations must be explored to champion nature-positive outcomes?
• Leveraging frameworks: How can businesses leverage the TNFD and other frameworks to impact nature-related risks and opportunities?

Building resilience with nature-positive farming

• Measuring environmental impact through collaboration with suppliers
• Nature-positive strategies to increase climate resilience in the supply chain
• The use of nature-based solutions to improve biodiversity and reduce supply chain emissions

Dragons' Den

Our 'Dragons' Den' session provides each partner with an opportunity to deliver a short 60 second pitch, explaining why they are here and how their services can help tackle some of the sector's ongoing challenges. This is also an excellent opportunity for our community to gain access to our best-in-class partners.

Refreshments, networking and exhibition

Circular strategies: reducing waste and enhancing resource efficiency

• Minimising waste: What practical steps can businesses take to minimise waste and reuse materials efficiently?
• From policy to practice: What challenges do organisations face when implementing circular economy principles, and how can these be overcome?
• Driving circular practices: How can technology and innovation drive the adoption of circular practices in supply chains.

Understanding Your Risk with the Environment Agency

• Practical steps to understanding climate-related risks to your business and your supply chain
• What can you do to adapt and to increase your resilience now, and into the future?
• Collaborating with others to build collective resilience

Engaging and empowering suppliers for long-lasting value

This session underscores the need for companies to define their materiality within their value chains. We'll examine corporate responsibility, ownership, and showcase the Royal Mail case study. Expect insights and actionable recommendations on implementing processes and policies to transform value chain accountability into a sustainable business model.

• Fostering collaboration: Finding a collaborative approach that empowers the value chain
• Simplifying supplier efforts: Leveraging tools and strategies to simplify emissions management
• How to align suppliers with your core objectives: Designing incentives that harmonise supplier expectations with business and environmental objectives

Chair: Matt Mace, Editor, edie

Lunch & networking

STREAM A: Identification, measurement and analysis

Designed for organisations that are earlier on in their Scope 3 emissions reduction journey, this workshop stream will focus on how to effectively calculate and measure value chain emissions; and how to factor Scope 3 into net-zero strategies – including the interlinkages with non-financial reporting frameworks.

Identification and assessment

• How should organisational activities be mapped across the 15 Scope 3 categories and which categories are most or least relevant?
• Where are the ‘emissions hotspots’ and therefore the most material areas of the value chain to focus on?
• How can suppliers be analysed and segmented to create targeted interaction models?

Net-zero alignment and target-setting

• How should Scope 3 emissions be aligned with broader net-zero strategies and transition plans?
• How should a Scope 3 reduction target be effectively set and implemented across a business?
• And how can we ensure these targets are credible and will be acted upon immediately?

Calculation and measurement

• How can existing emissions data be utilised to establish baselines? What are the data requirements to reduce Scope 3 emissions?
• How can Scope 3 emissions be calculated in line with the UK standard GHG Protocol?
• What digital enablers (data, software) exist to better measure and track your Scope 3 footprint and reduction efforts?

Outcomes 

1. Understand what makes an ambitious, impactful and credible Scope 3 strategy  
2. Assess where you are now and identifying your Scope 3 emission hotspots
3. Identify tools and techniques to support your emissions calculations approach 

STREAM B: Action, engagement and reporting

Designed for organisations that are progressing along their Scope 3 emissions journey and have already gathered key data and identified particular hotspots, this workshop stream will explore the specific steps and actions that can be taken to drive reductions and value chain improvements – from engaging colleagues to incentivising and collaborating with suppliers – along with methods to effectively report on Scope 3 initiatives.

Stakeholder engagement

• What does good governance on Scope 3 emissions look like?
• How should different job functions be engaging on Scope 3 (e.g. sustainability, procurement, c-suite)?
• What other internal engagement approaches could be effective – e.g. education and training, and staff incentives, broader collaborative programmes?

Supply chain actions

• What actions can be taken to accelerate emissions reductions across the value chain?
• How can supplier criteria be reviewed and reshaped to drive change?
• What engagement and incentivisation strategies can be implemented to improve value chain emissions?
• How can new collaborations be formed to drive continual improvement?

Reporting and assurance

• How should businesses be effectively reporting on Scope 3 emissions and associated reduction programmes?
• How does Scope 3 reporting link with other reporting mechanisms, e.g. CDP, SBTi, TCFD and CSRD?
• And how can third-party assurance support the credibility of a Scope 3 and net-zero strategy?

Outcomes 

1. Learn how to approach internal teams and senior management to cut Scope 3 emissions 
2. Gain specific insights and actions to reduce supplier emissions and increase efficiencies  
3. Shape your emissions reporting strategy in ways which drive continual improvement 

Afternoon Refreshments & networking

Leveraging AI & Delivering on ROI expectations

We know that building smarter and more resilient supply chains is imperative to success, but at what cost and how are leading organisations approaching this? 

• What are the current pitfalls of data collection?
• How can emerging technologies be leveraged to improve traceability, logistics, and risk prediction in sustainable supply chains?
• How can businesses use data and innovation to drive measurable emissions reductions and address complex challenges?

Future Readiness: Preparing for Volatility risk and climate disruption 

• What are the key sustainability risks in supply chains, particularly in the context of climate shocks like flooding drought and extreme weather and how can businesses proactively identify and address them 
• What strategies and contingency plans can organisations implement to enhance supply chain resiliency?  
• What role does long-term risk planning play in mitigating these impacts? 

Chair's closing remarks

Post-event networking

Continue the conversation and connect with peers over networking drinks