This session will highlight the biggest threats from climate change today, as well as offer a cutting-edge insight into how businesses can navigate the modern world with confidence and an ethical, practical approach.

Key areas covered:

• Climate change
• Sustainable business practices
• Thought leadership (sustainability & supply chain)
• Integration of disparate sectors

One of the first rules of business and sustainability is being ready for the future; early-entrants to blossoming sectors always prosper after all. With this in mind, this session will be dedicated to analysing future technologies, practices, developments and realities that any ambitious and green business must be aware of in order to survive and thrive.

Key areas covered:

• Future technologies
• Future business practices
• Climate changes in the future
• Incoming regulation
• Futureproofing

Use this time to take advantage of networking, as well as to survey our conference area, our sponsors displays and to enjoy the complimentary refreshments and snacks on offer.

This session will look into the ways in which businesses can harmonise with other organisations in order to make their supply chains highly efficient, easy-to-understand, and most importantly, green. By harnessing the wisdom of experts in sustainability, business and logistics, you will get a holistic understanding of what your business needs.

Key areas covered:

• Sustainable business practices
• Future business practices
• Supply chains & logistics
• Governance & regulation

Take the time to sit down and catch your breath, as well as satisfy your appetite with our complimentary lunch meal which will offer tasteful for all dietary demands. Refreshments will be available, as will time for networking and enjoying our sponsor displays.

A key industry figure will offer a highly insightful keynote speech. Get your pads at the ready to jot down some unmissable insights.

This session will focus in on the more granular aspects of a modern business and show you how you can make significant cost and green savings in your day-to-day operations. By utilising the lessons learned from several in-field insights, you will learn what works now rather than theories that need to be tested over weeks and months.

Key areas covered:

• Optimal (green) business practices
• Handling wastage and overspill
• Maximising performance in peaks and troughs
• Building a green corporate ethos & brand message
• Engaging staff and customers alike in your shared business values

Use this final break to take advantage of networking, as well as to survey our conference area, our sponsors displays and to enjoy the complimentary refreshments and snacks on offer.

The final session of the day will be a bit of extra fun for our audience members, and a challenge for our esteemed experts (let’s hope they don’t get too hot under the collar!) The aim here is for our audience of business professionals and thought leaders to question leading figures in business, sustainability and supply chains about whatever they see fit – the beauty of this session is that we don’t know what’s coming!

Key areas covered:

• TBC (but we can imagine most of the aforementioned and more)

A closing message in which we’ll reaffirm the action plan from the day, as well as outline the plan for Day 2. Time will be available for extra networking.