Explore the Agenda
8:00 am Check-In & Light Breakfast
8:45 am Chair’s Opening Remarks
Responding to Global & State Level ESG Regulation to Reduce Compliance Risk & Reporting Duplication
9:00 am Panel Discussion: Comparing Global ESG Regulations to Reduce Fragmentation Across Markets
- Contrasting EU, US, and state level requirements to clarify key differences across regions
- Identifying overlaps across frameworks to streamline reporting and reduce duplication
- Sharing practical approaches to managing conflicting regulatory expectations across markets
9:45 am Fireside Chat: Managing Political Risk to Strengthen Leadership Confidence & Decision Making
- Assessing how shifting political priorities are influencing sustainability investment, business planning, and stakeholder expectations
- Identifying how political shifts are influencing reporting expectations and internal priorities
- Supporting leadership conversations with clear risk-based narratives to maintain momentum
10:15 am Speed Networking Session:
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10:45 am Morning Break & Networking
11:14 am Strengthening Supply Chain Resilience & Accelerating Scope 3 Progress Across Complex Supplier Networks
11:15 am Evolving Supplier Engagement Models to Drive Procurement Ownership & Scope 3 Progress
- Transitioning from central sustainability ownership to embedding responsibility across procurement teams
- Building internal capability to enable consistent supplier conversations at scale
- Advancing engagement beyond target setting toward technical collaboration and data integration
11:45 am Reframing Supplier Engagement to Strengthen Supply Chain Resilience & Manage Emerging Risk
- Shifting supplier requirements from compliance driven requests to risk based procurement decision making
- Embedding sustainability into procurement processes including RFXs and supplier evaluation criteria
- Enabling suppliers to build capability and resilience to respond to disruption and changing expectations
Solutions Exchange: Solving Supplier Engagement Challenges to Accelerate Scope 3 Progress
Roundtable 1
12:15 pm Sustainability Teams Building Capability: Operating Supplier Engagement with Limited Resource to Improve Scope 3 Output
- How are you engaging suppliers without dedicated sustainability resource?
- How are you demonstrating value to suppliers that lack ESG capability?
- How are you balancing engagement efforts with limited internal bandwidth?
Roundtable 2
12:15 pm Sustainability Teams Scaling Capability: Scaling Supplier Engagement Across Large Supplier Networks to Improve Data & Compliance
- How are you prioritizing which suppliers to engage across thousands of relationships?
- How are you maintaining engagement momentum when progress is slow?
- How are you aligning procurement and sustainability teams to drive consistent supplier action?
12:45 pm Networking Lunch
Clarifying Ownership & Accountability Across Industry Partners & Internal Teams
1:45 pm Decarbonizing the MedTech Value Chain Through Collective Action: Lessons from the CHARME Initiative
- Convening health systems, MedTech suppliers, distributors and GPOs to tackle a supply chain that makes up 7% of the health sector’s US carbon footprint
- Comparing buyer and seller priorities across renewable energy, product innovation, clinical utilization and logistics, and applying a multi-organization model to accelerate Scope 3 progress
- Translating MedTech-specific decarbonization levers into transferable lessons for pharma, biotech and life science tools organizations
2:15 pm Presentation Details to be Announced
2:45 pm Aligning Data Ownership & Governance to Improve ESG Execution & Audit Readiness
- Clarifying ownership across functions to ensure consistent data collection and coordination
- Increasing data accuracy to meet regulatory and assurance requirements
- Reducing reporting inefficiencies caused by fragmented systems and processes
3:15 pm Afternoon Break & Poster Session
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Demonstrating Business Value to Strengthen Patient Access & Sustainable Health Impact
4:00 pm Turning Climate Commitments into Action: Practical Pathways to Decarbonization in Life Sciences
- Translating climate targets and GHG inventories into prioritized decarbonization roadmaps that deliver measurable emissions reductions and business value
- Exploring practical approaches to reducing emissions across laboratories, manufacturing facilities, utility systems, and other energy-intensive life sciences operations
- Scaling implementation through innovative delivery models, strategic partnerships, and AI-enabled insights that accelerate action and track results
4:30 pm Integrating Access Enterprise-wide to Drive Sustainable Health Impact
- Embedding access across the company, from innovation and commercialization to social impact programs and community partnerships
- Expanding market-specific solutions that address persistent barriers to care and strengthen pathways to sustainable access
- Measuring patient impact to demonstrate value for patients, health systems, communities, and the business