Driving Sustainability and Profitability

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01/04/2025

10:00-16:30

Sergel Hub Stockholm

April 01st - Hybrid Event

Agenda

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Corporate Sustainability Leadership

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10.00

Lennart Nordqvist
Sustainability Lead Sweden
Deloitte
Opening Remarks

WHAT TO DO NOW?
Navigating and keeping cool in the political crossfire

  • The backlash against ESG is forcing corporate leaders to rethink how they can sustain momentum by reframing the concept of sustainability
  • Yet with underlying risks remaining and consumer demand for responsible business remaining strong, future-proofing your business has never been more critical
  • What does effective leadership look like in this new landscape?
  • How can companies drive meaningful action and demonstrate the business case for change without getting caught in the political crossfire?
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10.20

Dr. Daniel Klier
CEO
South Pole

SUSTAINABILITY AND PROFITABILITY - The CEO Perspective

  • Ensuring sustainability is a business imperative at the Board level: Balancing the short-term, quarterly expectations of shareholders and the reality of the long-term returns of sustainable strategies
  • Practical tips on framing the commercial opportunities, and risks, posed by sustainability impacts?
  • As old business models might fail due to climate change, how can organisations adapt, finding new undertakings and markets?
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10.35

Thomas Hörnfeldt
VP Sustainable Business
SSAB

CASE: SSAB
SUSTAINABILITY  - SELLING THE FULL VALUE TO CUSTOMERS

  • Increasing customer value throughout the supply chain and for all stakeholders
  • Engage employees and your customers in the transformation  
  • Commercialising the sustainable offering and supporting customers to make the sustainable choice and become more competitive
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10.50

Dietmar Steinbichler
Sustainability Lead
SAP Sweden

UNLOCKING THE POWER OF AI FOR SUSTAINABILITY

  • How can artificial intelligence (AI) help businesses be more sustainable, and what are the potential ethical considerations?
  • Experience how AI can be used for specific sustainability use cases in every enterprise
  • Learn how a suite-centric and AI-first approach to sustainability can look like
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11.10

Viktor Wallström
SVP and Head of Group Sustainability
Saab Group
Sofia Storm
Project Manager Sustainability
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TRANSFORMING BUSINESS FOR THE BETTER

  • Many internal ways of doing things are persistent and misaligned with sustainable goals. How do you cultivate change and empower all functional leaders to push forward the sustainability agenda
  • Slicing the elephant: Decarbonizing business and society, one piece at a time
  • Framing sustainability as departmental imperatives: from legal and procurement, to finance and innovation supporting both short-term and long-term business success
  • As responsibility goes beyond creating a culture the CFO and CSO complement each other to drive change and advancing critical issues, managing risks, and creating both business and social value
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11.30-12.30

Networking Lunch

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Ensuring Profitability. Sustainability as a Business Driver.

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12.30

Camilla Goldbeck-Löwe
VP Sustainability
Epiroc
Maria Ekman
VP Head of Group Sustainability
Coor
Ulrika Leverenz
Head of Green Investment
H&M Group

LEADING A SUSTAINABLE TOMORROW

  • In times of slowing growth, geopolitical uncertainty and supply chain constraints, how are businesses keeping sustainability at the top of the corporate agenda?
  • Beyond metrics. Shifting the focus from reporting towards actions
  • How leaders are making it clear to all key share/stakeholders that sustainability is integral to the future success and prosperity of the business
  • How do you differentiate your business as a genuine trailblazer for the new era of sustainability
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12.50

Anna Lindstedt
ESG Supply Chain Lead
Stratsys
Cecilia Almér
ESG Lead
Stratsys

SUPPLY CHAIN DUE DILIGENCE & REPORTING

  • How to set up the ESG due diligence process to meet increasing compliance demands with limited resources
  • How procurement and sustainability departments cooperate efficiently with regards to reporting and sustainability expertise
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13.10

Joanne O’Donnell
Head of Compliance
Compliance & Risk

The Sustainability Marathon: EU Regulations and the Product Life Cycle Race

  • Setting the Pace in a Changing Regulatory Landscape
  • Navigating the Obstacles
  • Finishing Strong: Strategies for Success
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13.25

Catharina Nordeman
VP Group Sustainability
Höganäs

CASE: HÖGANÄS
DELIVERING A NET-ZERO BUSINESS

  • Building a resilient net zero pathway – The agile approach
  • Utilize your emissions data and other non-financial information to build a full understanding of your value chain to prepare your future agility strategy
  • How to build net zero a roadmap that is robust and ambitious but also sufficiently agile to evolve with climate technology changes
  • Explore the concept of double materiality and its importance when considering business-wide impacts and risks in your approach
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13.40

Annika Hansson
Sustainability Director, Analytics & Reporting
Oatly
Erin Lyon
Global Head of Channel Partnerships
EiQ by LRQA
Jaime Marijuán Castro
Head of Global Partnerships & Alliances
osapiens

FIRESIDE CHAT
SIMPLIFYING THE PATH TO CSRD, CS3D, EUDR AND EU TAXONOMY COMPLIANCE

  • How to manage the interoperability of regulations such as CSRD, EU Taxonomy and CS3D
  • The CSRD presents an opportunity for companies to go beyond compliance and create lasting change in business, centred around responsibility and impact
  • How CS3D compliance can be used to optimize CSDR reporting and how you best apply human rights and environment due diligence
  • Examine how EU Taxonomy can be used to conduct climate risk and vulnerability assessments and how that can be instrumental for your data points CSRD requirements
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14.00-14:30

Networking Break

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Collaborating for Impactful Change. Shifting from Intent to Tangible Results

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14.30

Power Hour - Roll-up your Sleeves and Dive into an Actionable Table Discussion with Speakers, Experts and Peers

Navigating the Omnibus chock:

Discuss the impact of EU's new package on business priorities and direction for Finance/Reporting, Supply chain and Strategy

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15.10

Lovisa Martinsson
Hållbarhetsansvarig
Castellum
Hanna Hallin
Chief Sustainable Impact Officer
Saint-Gobain Distribution Sweden

SHIFTING FROM INTENT TO TANGIBLE RESULTS

  • Design and implement programs that align with internal capabilities and strengths, while pursuing impact driven outcomes
  • How do you secure profitability in the transition in general – and in times of economic downturn especially?
  • How do you communicate and create willingness to change – on a company level and on an individual level?
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15.25

Marie Gustafsson
Principal Consultant Nordics
South Pole

Climate Transition Plans the Tool Future-Proofing Your Business

  • How a strong transition plan creates long-term value beyond compliance
  • What are the common challenges - and solutions to overcome them
  • Actionable steps to confidently start your own climate transition plan
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    15.40

    Jostein Birkeland
    Senior Technologist for Sustainable Transformation
    HPE

    IT SUSTAINABILITY: A Strategic approach to efficiency

      • How can the growing datacenter industry avoid becoming a major polluter?
      • Which practices have the power to reduce environmental impacts of IT?
      • How can you unbox IT efficiency into tangible categories you can measure?
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      16.00

      Jerker Sjöstrand
      Site Director - Vimmeby & Visby Dairy
      Arla
      Emil Wanngren
      Strategic Business & Investment Manager
      Adven

      CASE: Arla
      Making Sustainability Profitable: How Industrial Partnerships Are Cutting Emissions and Costs Today

        • How industries have turned sustainability plans into concrete results -reducing emissions, cutting costs, and increasing efficiency
        • Key challenges in industrial energy transition and how they were solved. Concrete obstacles and solutions from real-world projects
        • How can partnerships enhance your company's strengths, leading to better results and increased profitability in your sustainability efforts
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        16.15

        Anette Rosengren
        Nordic Manager Director
        Swedish Match
        Dr. Daniel Klier
        CEO
        South Pole
        Camilla Götbrant
        Partner - Sustainability
        Deloitte

        CLOSING REMARKS
        WHEN SUSTAINABILITY IS THE BUSINESS

          • A Sustainable Strategy or a Sustainability Strategy
          • Scandinavia in a Global Context - what challenges do we still have ahead of us
          • Beyond CSRD, Short and Longterm views on mission criticals
          • Developing new business models to drive innovation
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          16.35

          End of Day

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          16.40

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