Scope 3 Strategy Days 2026 – Chicago
16-18 June 2026
The Wade, Chicago
What to expect:
The aim is to ensure each Scope 3 Peer Group member walks away with their own template strategy for making faster and more confident progress in 2026 – whether you're more advanced or right at the start of your journey.
The agenda has been built collaboratively by the group. We’ll cover the key challenges but will also focus around your specific needs.
The purpose is to help all those tasked with tackling supply chain emissions to understand what best practice action looks like across a range of Scope 3 challenges – and get the advice, tools and templates direct from your peers that have made the most progress, so far.
The agenda
TUESDAY 16 JUNE
The Initiative and Industry Day
@ Proxima, 311 South Wacker Drive, Mezzanine Level
9 - 10.30am
Food & Beverages Scope 3
Boardroom 1 or Main Room
This Workshop will bring together sustainability and procurement leaders from the food & beverage sector to discuss the practical challenges of Scope 3 decarbonization. With increasing focus on product-level transparency and frameworks such as LSRS, the workshop will explore how companies are moving from generic emission factors toward supplier-specific data and PCFs, while navigating cost, availability, and credibility of lower-carbon ingredients and materials. Including insights from: Valeria Garza Montemayor, Sigma; Rachael Stolberg, McCain; and 3Degrees & Low Carbon Fertilizer Alliance.
9 - 10.30am
Healthcare Value Chain Scope 3
Boardroom 2 or Main Room
This Workshop will bring together sustainability and procurement leaders from across the pharma, medtech, and life sciences sectors to explore the practical challenges of Scope 3 decarbonization in healthcare value chains. Drawing on insights from Peers, the workshop will examine topics such as supplier engagement across complex clinical supply chains, improving data quality and product-level emissions insights, and navigating regulatory and reporting expectations. Including participants from the medtech collaboration CHARME & PSCI members, plus insights from Lindsay Tyson, Cardinal Health.
11 - 12.30pm
Supply Chain Heat Decarbonization
Main Room
A Supply Chain Heat Decarbonization Working Group has launched to help collaborating cross-industry on supplier capability-building and to map data globally on processes, demand, tech and policy - in order to identify collaborative investments and action. Featuring Secaro/ERM & Supplier LOCT (plus supplier participants in Clean Heat Community)
1 - 5pm
Scope 3 Procurement Leadership Program
An opportunity for procurement leaders to meet and collaborate on the role of procurement in Scope 3.
3:30 - 5pm
Automotive & Industrial Manufacturing Scope 3 Collaboration
An opportunity for key automotive, aerospace and other high-value manufacturing value chain Peers to explore opportunities to share best practice and collaborate Including insights from: Kellen Mahoney, Executive Director, Suppliers Partnership for the Environment & Trio.
6pm onwards
Scope 3 Peer Group & Watershed Networking Drinks
Chicago Architecture Boat Tour, 465 N McClurg Ct, Chicago
WEDNESDAY 17 JUNE
The Scope 3 Strategy Day
@ The Wade, 644 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago
We get everyone working on Scope 3 together, cross industry, to challenge and build our strategies for 2026-2027.
We will be provocatively questioning how Scope 3 currently is tackled; ensuring the voice of suppliers is heard; and making sure that everyone can get the templates of the best practice - not just the inspiration.
We’ll organise over 150 Peers into Teams of 6, based on industry, maturity, challenge and progress. You will spend most of the day with Peers that you need to collaborate with, copy from, or support. All the insight comes from Peers and we make sure we take the chance out of meeting the right ones. No sponsors, pitches, show-off presentations or hoping that you connect with the right peers.
8.15 - 9.00am
Networking Breakfast
Get coffee and pastries with your Peers. Reflect on your industry/initiative meetings the previous day and discuss what’s coming next.
9 - 9.30am
Welcome and Meet your Peers
How to make the most of the Strategy Days agenda & workshops; a review of the level of maturity and challenges in the room using the Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark; and also AI-driven data of the current Scope 3 progress of the participants in the room.
Who are you in the room with; who is on your team/table; and how do your challenges compare?
9.30 - 10.30am
What did we do well in 2025 – and what we must do in 2026
A panel of those who have made good progress on Scope 3 in their organisations will share what they achieved in 2025 and what we believe we need to do more, less, better and differently to tackle Scope 3 in the pivotal year of 2026-2027. Including perspectives from 2 tiers of a value chain; a Peer in the supply chain; and the leading Scope 3 programs.
Should we change our philosophy on Scope 3?
How do we not be busy fools? Are we measuring ourselves to death?
What can we do differently and more dynamically?
What will really move the dial on actual decarbonization?
Peer Speakers to include:
Krista McGuire, Environmental Sustainability Strategy Manager, Pfizer followed by Q&A and discussion in teams about how fresh thinking could be applied in your own Scope 3 plan and comment from others in the room.
Outputs: Case-study templates for fresh approaches to Scope 3 and an agreed set of best practice principles for Scope 3 strategies in 2026.
10.30 - 11.00am
Networking Break
11.00 - 12:15pm
How do we accelerate actual decarbonization of supply chains?
Let’s cut to the chase; this is what we should be actually doing.
A panel of Peer Group leaders will share how they are accelerating and scaling action & evidence of decarbonization in their supply chains. And especially how they are organising to continually resource efforts on supply chain decarbonization, not just data-collecting and crunching.
Peer Speakers to include:
Madyson Partenheimer, Global Sustainability Manager, Magnera – adopting mature practices from the outset
Alissa Matthies Tamasi, Senior Manager, Supplier Decarbonization, Medtronic
Autumn Fox, Global Sustainability Director, Mars – RACC updates
Including Q&A, discussion in teams and comment from others in the room
Output: A Template for developing your own Scope 3 strategy for managing mature suppliers and action with reporting/data in 2026-2027.
12.15 - 1.15pm
Lunch
You’ll have the opportunity to relax and network – both in your designated ‘team’ of Peers with similar challenges, maturity, suppliers and goals - and a wider group
1.15 - 3.00pm
Supplier Engagement and Data & Methodology: How we’re segmenting; who we’re engaging, with what, and how to track actual decarbonization
A panel of practitioners who are actively segmenting and engaging suppliers; collecting and using data to make decisions; and deep in the mix of working through the same challenges as you.
They will share their template strategies for how they’re doing it; who they’re using; what lessons have been learned; which mistakes have been made; and what really has proved to be key to success.
With a balance of stories that cover how to do the basics, better; and what more radical and innovative approaches look like to move the needle faster
Peer Speakers to include (including those from both services, tech and manufacturing:
Edmond Chan, Senior Sustainability Manager, Microsoft – service-level accounting methodology
Sarah Levesque, Corporate Responsibility Environmental Manager, WTW – building a supplier engagement programme
Megan Krause, Director Environmental Sustainability, Mastercard – activity based emissions
Madeleine Prince, Senior ESG Manager, Refresco – supplier voice
Nicole Anderson Brodin, Manager, Sustainable Procurement & Climate Strategy, Essity – emissions forecasting
Output: A co-created toolkit of advice from your peers for how to build/evolve your supplier engagement and data strategy.
3.00 - 3.30pm
Networking Break
3.30 - 4.00pm
Technology, AI, Tools & Platforms for Scope 3
What actually works and what is critical to getting the value from them. This presentation will include insight fresh from the 2025-2026 Scope 3 Tools Review & Clinics, which is what Peers really think of the market of solutions – what’s missing, what’s working, and what they really need next.
Sharing led by:
Miguel Cossio, Procurement Research Director - Supply Chain, Gartner
Outputs: The full results of the 2025-2026 Scope 3 Tools Review, and a Template for improving your own data strategy and Scope 3 Tool decision making
4.00 - 4.30pm
How to collaborate with procurement, product teams and internal clients to transform efforts on Scope 3
Peer Speakers to include (including Peers that are collaborating best internally):
Bridget Ferrari, Director, Supplier Sustainability, Takeda
Manish Patel, Global Director, and Maggie Hume, Sustainability Manager, Interface – procurement and sustainability collaboration
James Lee, Sustainable Procurement Director, Regeneron – Building a sustainable procurement programme from zero.
Including Q&A, discussion in teams and comment from others in the room.
Output: A Toolkit for capability-building procurement and product managers on Scope 3
4.30 - 5.00pm
Scope 3 as a proven commercial and innovation opportunity
Peer Speakers, including Peers that have embedded Scope 3 into commercials:
Wesley Herche, Director, Enterprise Sustainability, Prologis
Output: A summary of how Peers are making Scope 3 commercial; embedded; and “not just about sustainability”.
6.00pm
Scope 3 Peer Group Networking Drinks & Dinners
An opportunity for Scope 3 Peer Group members, partners and advisory boards to relax, network and build the relationships for a significant year of effort ahead. Networking drinks for all and a range of hosted dinner invites.
THURSDAY 18 JUNE
‘So, What Next?’ Workshop Day
@ Proxima, 311 South Wacker Drive, Mezzanine Level
Putting what we’ve discussed on Scope 3 into action through smaller, focused workshops with partners that can help implement. Attendance prioritised for Strategy Day participants. Open to applications to attend for others at no cost.
The final range of deep-dive Workshops will be determined by the challenges submitted by the Peers in registering for the Strategy Days. Each Workshop is held in partnership with an organisation that has the content, tools and solutions to help you take specific action next.
The aim is to direct you to action where it is happening right now, fuelled by the previous day’s inspiration. The ‘So, What Next?’ sessions will leave you with actions and decisions to take. Timings may change based on popularity/room size.
9 - 10.30am
Low Maturity Supplier Engagement & Capability-Building Workshop – best practice engagement of low maturity/SME/service suppliers, led by BSR and EDF
9 - 10.30am
Supplier Renewables & Decarbonization Collaboration Workshop – launching the Scope 3 Peer Group Supplier Decarb Program – working together to engage suppliers on power, heat, energy efficiency and financing
11 - 12.30pm
The PCF Clinic – in partnership with PACT and others, we will openly discuss the challenges of getting and using actionable PCF data to manage Scope 3, and explore those that are getting it right.
11 - 12.30pm
Capability Building Procurement & Category Decarbonization Workshop – embedding net zero into procurement and category strategy with practical training, levers, data and action.
1.30 - 3pm
Scope 3 Governance Workshop – led by Impact Pathways, exploring how to collaborate or organise internally to ensure supply chain decarbonization is lead properly.
1.30 - 3pm
Services & Tech Suppliers Workshop – with Green Project Tech.
3.30 - 5pm
Unlocking Clean Energy in the Value Chain Workshop – with 3Degrees.
Collaborate with peers navigating complex value chains to explore a proven blueprint for action. You’ll learn how to credibly procure clean electricity attributes on behalf of suppliers and customers, enabling your organization to address scope 3 emissions effectively, transparently, and at scale.
Please contact Oliver Hurrey – ohurrey@getgalvanised.com – with any questions at all.
About the venue
The Wade can be found at 644 N Lake Shore Dr, Chicago, IL 60611, United States.
Find out more on the website.
