Watch & Listen

• Myth 1: We should be fazing out plastic
• Myth 2: Feed supplements are the silver bullet to methane reduction
• Myth 3: The future of ‘green transportation’ should be electrified.

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• Saif's Journey: Lessons from activism, government work, NGO experience, and business ventures inform a robust approach to sustainability‍
• Engaging Stakeholders: Collaboration techniques across activists, government officials, NGOs, and suppliers to accelerate change,‍
• Why Altruistiq: The inspiration behind Altruistiq and what makes it different.

• Balancing trade-offs between product functionality and sustainability
• EPR policy inconsistencies and how to manage these across 150+ markets.
• Prioritising packaging initiatives: no brainer vs higher cost initiatives
• Strategies for collaboration with packaging suppliers
• Investing in innovative packaging solutions

• How different companies are approaching CSRD
• Which team(s) should own the CSRD reporting process
• Double materiality assessment best practices
• What to do with all the data that you're not ready for
• How to move beyond compliance and make CSRD impactful

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• Sustainability Linked Bonuses: Company-wide vs leadership (learnings from LEGO Group)
• Topic Deep Dive: Internal Sustainability Training Program
• Success Characteristics: The characteristics that distinguish a good training program from a transformative one
• Prioritising Teams: Which teams will benefit most from sustainability training and how to prioritise
• Creating Compelling Content: How to tailor content to resonate with specific team needs whilst making it scalable
• Engagement Levers: The most effective tools. initiatives and experiences to engage leadership teams and company-wide.

• Strategic Product Carbon Footprint (PCF) generation
• Trends catalysing supplier asks for PCFs
• How to use PCFs to re-engineer your product
• How to pitch your PCF internally (to R&D, Marketing, and commercial teams) and externally (to customers and consumers)

• Key regulatory reporting trends: the evolving landscape, AI and what it means for your business.
• How to optimise your reporting team: best practices for setting up a high-performing, reporting team.
• Collaboration tips: strategies for working effectively with finance and legal on reporting.
• How to streamline your approach: tools, data infrastructure and ways of working to improve your reporting process.

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• Measuring impact: the key indicators and data points needed to track and demonstrate progress against regenerative agriculture
• Building strategic partnerships: principles for identifying and developing partnerships (that will last)
• Farmer engagement toolbox: how to successfully engage farmers and make regenerative agriculture attractive
• Financial solutions: innovative financing solutions to tackle upfront costs
• Communication strategy: compelling B2B and B2c communication techniques to drive engagement and commercial value.

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• “Action first - reporting second”.
• Qualities of the “best” kind of decarbonisation initiatives
• Data transparency is very different between B2B vs B2C

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• How to make sure your circularity initiative is revenue-generating
• How to set a carbon cost
• How do you utilise carbon pricing when data in the supply chain at the product level is sparse?
• When is a carbon price most defensible
• Carbon pricing success stories

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• The principles of a successful insetting project
• The level of data accuracy needed for compliance vs action
• How to track and account for carbon removals (when standardisation is lacking)
• Best practices for monetising carbon insetting projects

• How the SEC’s climate disclosure ruling impacts your business
• How to build a strong business case for sustainability
• How to optimise team set up to unlock resources
• How to boost company-wide sustainability literacy and buy-in

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• Corporate black sliding on climate pledges: is this even a surprise?
• The Greenwashing clamp down: how to make water-tight claims
• Topic deep dive: Effective sustainability data comms
• Internal communication and engagement tactics for sustainability data buy-in
• External comms: how to demonstrate progress to stakeholders

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• Launch effective Farmer Reduction Plans: Lessons from McCains and Innocent
• Prepare for supply chain disruptions, drawing learnings from the recent coffee crisis
• Navigate insetting challenges, specifically how to avoid competitors ‘free riding’ off your reduction initiatives
• Maximise the value of your insets
• Make reductions work at farm level (multi year contracts)

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• Latest market highlights: the corporate sustainability report frenzy and the u-turn on CSDDD - is this even a bad thing?
• Upskilling your procurement team, including: 

• How to embed sustainability into procurement's BAU
• The tools and training to enable the procurement team
• The incentives to put on the table

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• Mission build fundamentals
• How to tailor your mission across a global market
• The big tech innovations to watch out for
• The benefits of building a meaningful mission

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• Prioritise data sets and manage against targets
• Solve for digitisation, granularity, flexibility, and usability in your infrastructure build
• Streamline interactions with other systems and organisations
• Establish optimal relationships with tech teams and third-party providers

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• What’s happening today: Mass surveying, “one platform rules them all” and an unrealistic push for “universal primary data”.
• Where we want to get to: data you can actually use.
• How to get there:  supplier contracts, blended procurement models, strategic upskilling, secure supplier data exchange (PACT)
• Key learnings from the transition

• Regenerative agriculture: what exactly regenerative agriculture means, how to fund it and how to implement it
• Optimising for supplier engagement and primary data use
• How far corporate influence goes when it comes to sustainability regulations, frameworks and standards

• Who's here (and who's not)
• What everyone is thinking, but not saying
• Where the real progress was made
• Reasons for optimism

• Primary vs secondary data collection strategies
• What primary and secondary data is
• Why we believe the "hybrid approach" is most effective
• How to implement a hybrid approach at scale

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• Team design: Create a clear strategy and vision, identify the optimal structure and organisational set-up for your team and understand where to resource and unlock budget.

• ‍Roles and responsibilities: Define the different roles and responsibilities needed, identify the skills and experience required for each role, find and recruit the best talent.

• Problems everyone is trying to solve.
• Rabbit holes everyone is going down.
• Light at the end of the tunnel that no one can see.

• Building a mission that is consistently sustainable
• Using data to prop up your mission
• Reinforcing your mission with appropriate governance
• Leveraging your data to reinforce incentives
• Greenwashing vs greenhushing
• Understanding when your data is 'good enough' to act upon

• The key challenges
• What's in it for business
• Key considerations to optimise product labelling

• What is FLAG
• The key challenges
• The business case for FLAG
• How to approach data gathering for FLAG
• FLAG in practice

• Why collaboration is hard
• Where to start
• Making the case for collaboration
• Key partnership opportunities