Sustainability Transformation & ESG Reporting

Leverage sustainability to boost your competitive edge and meet the demands for enhanced corporate reporting

March 28 - 29, 2023 | Van der Valk Airporthotel, Düsseldorf

Agenda Day 1

9:10 am - 9:35 am Walking the Talk: Combine data and strategic thinking to implement changes at speed

Marissa Célette - Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer, Selecta
  • Move quickly and effectively from ideation to a fully-fledged company strategy so you can improve sustainability of your business and drive real value
  • Go beyond the silos as Chief Sustainability Officer to embed execution and reporting in different functions such as procurement, sales, marketing, and operations
  • Establish processes and targets to embed ESG execution and reporting in your operating model
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Marissa Célette

Chief Strategy & Sustainability Officer
Selecta

9:35 am - 10:00 am Winning Hearts and Minds: Communicate sustainability as an integral part of your business strategy and boost your competitive edge

  • Engage your employees around sustainability initiatives and make them your best ambassadors 
  • The war for talent: Harvest the value of a clear sustainability strategy as a competitive factor in recruitment 
  • Communicate your sustainability strategy effectively to your customers and sharpen your competitive edge, especially in a global marketplace 
  • Build and maintain strong governance with quality management information and data to steer your company along the path to sustainability 


10:00 am - 10:25 am Keynote Sponsored Presentation

If you’d like to speak here, please get in touch with Nia Stuber at Nia.Stuber@iqpc.de

10:25 am - 11:05 am Panel: Make the Business Case: Create value in the ESG transformation process

Bettina Paschke - VP ESG Accounting, Reporting and Controlling, DHL Express
  • How do you balance the prioritisation of environmental and social initiatives with the current economic climate, and demonstrate real, long-term value?
  • Be agile in the face of changing regulations: Get an overview of global ESG disclosure regulations and harness data, analytics and technology to drive efficiencies
  • Recognise the impact of ESG on financial reporting and operations, and inject ESG data back into the business for a strategic advantage
  • Become an ESG data custodian: control, validate and report accurate ESG data and continually monitor and measure ESG KPIs
  • Get critical advice on increasing your ESG ratings and scores to deliver real business value
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Bettina Paschke

VP ESG Accounting, Reporting and Controlling
DHL Express

11:05 am - 11:35 am Networking Coffee Break

11:35 am - 12:00 pm Strategic ESG Reporting: Go beyond a tick box exercise and use it strategically

Claudia Huegel - Senior Director Corporate Responsibility, Head of ESG Rating & Reporting, Lufthansa

Get advice on implementing ESG Reporting, making it tangible, measurable and feasible, define KPIs, and address the risks and the management of it

Inject insights from ESG reporting into your overall sustainability strategy and use it to steer your organisation and governance, meeting the needs of both the C-Suite and capital markets

Making ESG reporting comparable across different industries: Contrast structured, quantitative financial data with unstructured nature of ESG data, and consider how different industries are approaching ESG reporting

Distinguish the frequency that ESG data needs to be collected (once a year, quarterly, monthly?) and discuss the potential of continuous ESG reporting to transform your organisation

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Claudia Huegel

Senior Director Corporate Responsibility, Head of ESG Rating & Reporting
Lufthansa

  • Discuss where ESG should sit within your organisation: Understand why finance is the logical home for measuring ESG efforts, translating reporting and auditing expertise to decision-making
  • Address the challenges of collating the data across the business, and foster cross-collaboration with operations, human resources, and finance
  • How do you measure governance and compliance most effectively, what are the KPIs and what are the standards?
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Bettina Paschke

VP ESG Accounting, Reporting and Controlling
DHL Express

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Cora Olsen

Vice President, Head of Sustainability & Regeneration 
Better Energy

12:15 pm - 12:35 pm Truly sustainable or just less bad? Hear best practice vs. necessary practice and ensure your business is fit for the future

Cora Olsen - Vice President, Head of Sustainability & Regeneration , Better Energy
  • Discuss how to reconcile business growth with sustainability performance; mitigate negative impact and clearly define the break-even point, where you aren’t doing harm
  • Move beyond sustainability and create a restorative, regenerative way of thinking, identifying the business opportunities for investors and customers
  • Define what sustainability is and what it is not: Do the current standards measure up?  How do we know when something is sustainable? And how can you compare performance? 
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Cora Olsen

Vice President, Head of Sustainability & Regeneration 
Better Energy

12:35 pm - 1:30 pm Networking Lunch Break

1:30 pm - 1:50 pm Measuring the financial and societal impact of your sustainability strategy

  • Eradicate social inequality or dangerous workplace practices: exploit technology that enables tracking, measuring and maintaining ethically rising standards
  • Discover how to effectively measure the social impact of your business in a better way for long-term impact
  • Understand how diversity, equality and inclusions necessitates new business models, better data and insights

1:50 pm - 2:30 pm Panel: Implement and harmonise efficient ESG reporting in your organisation

Anustup Roy - Senior Manager for Sustainability Data, ABN Amro
  • Implement ESG Reporting, making it tangible, measurable and feasible, determine exclusion criteria, define KPIs and tackle climate risks
  • Debate how data warehouses meet the need for standardised, effective ESG reporting and play a role in achieving good ESG scores
  • Find out how other businesses in your industry incorporating ESG into investment approaches and risk management: What disclosures are mandatory? How can you be efficient in the face of increased reporting requirements?
  • Move beyond static stock-taking and discuss how real-time continuous ESG reporting future-proofs your business
  • How can regulators and enforcement agencies take more aggressive action against alleged greenwashing? How will mandatory standards reduce the problem of selective reporting and greenwashing?
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Anustup Roy

Senior Manager for Sustainability Data
ABN Amro

2:30 pm - 2:55 pm Sponsored Presentation

If you’d like to speak here, please get in touch with Nia Stuber at nia.stuber@iqpc.de

2:55 pm - 3:25 pm Networking Coffee Break

3:25 pm - 3:50 pm Address conceptual disconnects in ESG Transformation and Reporting

  • With over 30 years of reporting experience, discover how Henkel’s reporting strategy has evolved and what is expected for the future
  • Learn what this means for metrics and get a perspective on risks and different stakeholders
  • Get an expert overview on SFDR, CSRD and Taxonomy

3:50 pm - 4:30 pm Panel: Enterprise Architecture: Align ESG goals, tactics and strategy to guarantee success

Harald Kirsch - Head of Automation and Industrial IT, ALD Vacuucm Technologies GmbH
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Harald Kirsch

Head of Automation and Industrial IT
ALD Vacuucm Technologies GmbH

4:30 pm - 4:55 pm Ensure ESG & Future Viability: Explore the potential of Industry 4.0 and IoT architectures to enable a self-optimized sustainability management system

Harald Kirsch - Head of Automation and Industrial IT, ALD Vacuucm Technologies GmbH
  • Understand the contribution of digitalization in manufacturing to enable and assessing the sustainable orientation (ESG)
  • Discover structural measures that allows production to optimize the planning and utilization of production environments, resources, and human capital
  • Deploy smart management of knowledge and experience in a “playful” way to significantly expand capacity or competence for sustainable management
  • Discuss the continuous transition to a circular economy, will sustainable business succeed?
  • View agility and change management as the new imperative
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Harald Kirsch

Head of Automation and Industrial IT
ALD Vacuucm Technologies GmbH

Interactive Roundtables

4:55 pm - 5:40 pm Interactive Roundtable: ESG Reporting

Interactive Roundtables

4:55 pm - 5:40 pm Interactive Roundtable: ESG Data

Interactive Roundtables

5:40 pm - 6:25 pm Interactive Roundtable: ESG Communications

5:40 pm - 6:30 pm WORKSHOP A: Rationalise multiple ESG reporting frameworks and align with operations

Anustup Roy - Senior Manager for Sustainability Data, ABN Amro
  • Debate data management tactics and bring more structure and coherence to your sustainability data  
  • Tackle your data management struggles head on, especially around collecting data, and get an operational point of view for both fresh and seasoned sustainability professionals 
  • Get an expert guide to sustainability reporting and find out how to build reporting frameworks based on your global operations 
  • Integrate ESG targets into your sustainability strategy with defined, measured and reported KPIs to boost your ESG performance 
  • Walking the talk: Ensure that you follow through with your ESG plans and succeed with strong employee culture, clear policies and integrated software and systems


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Anustup Roy

Senior Manager for Sustainability Data
ABN Amro

6:30 pm - 7:25 pm End of day 1 drinks reception