Event Agenda

Theme 1

Sustainability as Strategy: Growth, Resilience and Innovation

10:00

Opening Keynote: Sustainability in a Fractured World

Global outlook 2026: climate, regulation, and business in turbulent times
What CSOs must prioritise: resilience, trust, and profitability
From compliance burden to leadership opportunity

10:20

Sustainability and Profitability - The CEO Perspective

Balancing short-term shareholder expectations with the long-term returns of sustainable strategies at the Board level
Framing commercial opportunities and risks from sustainability impacts while adapting to climate-driven business model shifts and exploring new markets and opportunities
Leading through slowing growth, geopolitical uncertainty, and supply chain constraints by making sustainability central to future success, innovation and stakeholder trust

10:35

CASE: When Sustainability is the Business

Embedding sustainability in talent, culture, and the brand DNA
Moving from compliance check-lists to core strategy and innovation
New models and markets born from sustainability transformation

10:50

Sustainable AI: Extract what matters and go from Complexity to Clarity

Explore how AI empowers sustainability leaders with clarity, control, and confidence
Let AI connect current, historical, and proposed standards worldwide, delivering a more comprehensive understanding of obligations
Harness automated horizon scanning to anticipate regulatory changes and stay prepared before they appear on your radar

11:05

Circularity as a Tool to Spark Regional Growth

Benefits of building stronger regional economies: resilience, supply security, financial aspects
What is important when collaborating with competitors and across sectors?
Innovation in action: How symbiosis sparks new business models?

11:20

Panel: Culture as a Sustainability Engine

Empowering every function, from finance to procurement, to own sustainability
Driving behaviour change and organisational buy-in
The CSO as culture builder and change architect

Networking Lunch

11:40-12:40

Theme 2

The Data & Trust Agenda: AI, Regulation and Credibility

12:40

Panel: The Next Sustainability Shock - Preparing for Regulatory Overlap

Omnibus, CSRD, CS3D, EUDR, TNFD — what happens when frameworks collide?
How to avoid compliance fatigue and keep focus on impact
Turning regulatory turbulence into a competitive edge

13:00

Building Credibility in a Greenhushing-sensitive World

Inspire with bold, authentic and transparent storytelling that shapes brand, culture, and investor confidence
Harness AI and digital tools to verify data to build trust with investors and stakeholders
Strategies to prevent greenhushing: communicating credibly under scrutiny

13:15

Case: Delivering a Net-zero Business

Building resilient and robust net-zero roadmaps that are ambitious but also sufficiently agile to evolve with climate technology changes
Integrating double materiality into decision-making
Utilize your emissions data and other non-financial information to build a full understanding of your value chain to prepare your future agility strategy

13:30

The Power of AI: Moving the Needle on Climate Targets with Data

How can artificial intelligence (AI) help businesses be more sustainable, and what are the potential ethical considerations?
Experience how AI can be used to decentralise reporting for specific use cases across departments, allowing your team to focus on core sustainability impact
Learn how an AI-first approach to sustainability collaboration can look like

13:45

Beyond Compliance. Creating Lasting Business Impact and Competitive Edge

How CSOs shape business models, not just reporting
Circularity, new value chains, and innovation beyond compliance
Geopolitics, supply chain resilience, and sustainability as competitive advantage

Networking Break

14:00-14:30

Theme 3

Collaboration & Culture: From Intent to Tangible Results

14:30

Power Hour - EU Sustainability Regulations 2026

The New Rulebook – CSRD/CS3D, Omnibus, CBAM, TNFD, EUDR, ESPR/ISSB

Discuss the impact of EU's new package on business priorities and direction for Finance/Reporting, Supply chain and Strategy
Guidance on the new regulations. All you need to know!
What the evolving EU regulatory package means in practice
Know your obligations, responsibilities and the impacts on businesses
Which national changes are likely to follow to comply with EU guidelines
From Carbon to Nature: The Expanding Scope of ESG Accountability

15:10

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

15:25

Ecosystem Collaborations - From Intent to Tangible Impact

Selling the full value and shared responsibility to customers and partners despite complexity and fragmentation
Working with suppliers, customers and competitors to cut Scope 3
Industrial Partnerships cutting emissions and spreading costs more fairly without giving up commercial advantage
How rivals can work together on emissions without falling foul of competition law

15:40

Why the Next Nordic Unicorn must have Sustainability in its DNA

Turning sustainability from expense line to bottom-line
Embedding sustainability into design, R&D and new products
From minimising negatives to maximising positives through net-positive innovation
Will the next unicorn solve climate problems rather than creating them?

16:00

Closing Remarks: Leading a Sustainable Tomorrow. The Business Blueprint 2026-2027

What defines corporate sustainability leadership in the Nordics
How CSOs and Nordic enterprises can lead the global agenda
How are businesses keeping sustainability at the top of the corporate agenda?
Short-term execution vs long-term mission criticals
What skills will be most essential for tomorrow’s green jobs?

End of Day

16:20

16:30-17:30

Driving Business Resilience, Growth and Profits

Event Agenda

Sustainability as Strategy: Growth, Resilience and Innovation

10:00

10:20

10:35

10:50

11:05

11:20

Networking Lunch

The Data & Trust Agenda: AI, Regulation and Credibility

12:40

13:00

13:15

13:30

13:45

Networking Break

Collaboration & Culture: From Intent to Tangible Results

14:30

15:10

15:25

15:40

16:00

End of Day

Driving Sustainability and Profitability

Sustainable Business 2026

Strategy Talk Afterwork

Event

Date

April 14th

April 14th

April 21st

April 22nd

Time

12:00-16:30

16:30-17:30

11:00-13:00

11:00-13:00

Location

Sergel Hub Stockholm

Sergel Hub Stockholm

Sommerro House Oslo

Soho House Copenhagen

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