Agenda Highlights & the Five Pillar Framework
Our conference activities are designed to provide university level intellectual content and pragmatic guidance for business professionals.
First, this is about connecting with peers that have similar goals, objectives and challenges around embedding ESG into traditional finance, accounting, decisioning and reporting practices. The changing 21st century business and investment landscape and new SEC disclosure mandates will require companies to evolve traditional business practices if they are to remain competitive, meet investor expectations and attract top talent.
Second, the main-stage keynotes and fire-side chats will highlight thought-leaders who are using cutting edge ESG strategies, tools and technology solutions to mitigate risk, drive performance, and measure impacts. Keynotes will feature real world case studies about how business leaders can make progress in transforming the traditional finance function into one that promotes growth, mitigates risk and lays the foundation for a sustainable economy.
Third, workshops are designed as working sessions using case-studies for real life scenarios, presented by subject matter experts that will help you operationalize and execute what you have learned. During the conference, you will pick the level that is best for you. First timer’s at entry level. Experienced at mid-level. Advanced, deep-dive workshop on ESG Integrated Reporting and Assurance.
Governance & Risk Mitigation
It all starts with you, the C-Suite and the Board. The Board sets the tone and direction for the business and it is a primary Board responsibility to Integrate ESG practices into Board governance. Our 1st Pillar will cover how to set up the best strategies and processes that Boards can adopt to ensure system-wide execution of ESG innovation at scale.
Context for Science-Based Goals
Once the Board establishes the why for ESG, the next step is what. Given that every industry is different, there isn’t a simple one size fits all. This is a whole systems problem that must include the context of the environment a business operates within. Our 2nd Pillar will focus on using a comprehensive systems-thinking approach to establish the right, industry specific goals.
Corporate Decision Systems & ESG Innovation
Once your internal planning is complete and specific goals are adopted, then comes operationalizing and executing on mission. In other words, begin building ESG capacity at scale. Our 3rd Pillar sets the overall approach for effective corporate systems design, operations and investment decisioning. We use the term “investment” in a broadest context, wherein we say investments made by the business and why.
Sustainability Finance
Our 4 Pillar, Sustainability finance, uses a multi-capitals “systems” approach and ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) data to inform all decision making around the operations and outputs of a business. Sustainability finance takes into consideration all stakeholders, externalities and impacts that are created in running the business and puts mechanisms and investments in place to restore the systems upon which it relies to create its products and services. Sustainability Finance creates protocols to deploy capital into ESG innovation at scale.
External Reporting and Assurance
Our 5th Pillar focuses on Comprehensive Integrated Reporting, including an overview of the ISSB disclosure standards and a deep dive workshop on how to begin to prepare for the new SEC Climate Rule disclosures, best practices on assurance and technology solutions for integrated external reporting.
Who is at the event?
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