Scope 3 Strategy Summit 2024
26-27 June 2024
311 West Monroe Street, Chicago
Why join us:
This meeting will help you better tackle supply chain emissions by understanding THE best practice across a range of challenges
Get advice, tools & templates directly from peers that have made the most progress. Work in teams with those facing the same issues
Walk away with your own template strategy for making faster and more confident progress in 2024-2025 – whether you’re more advanced or at the start of your journey - using the templates and advice of those that we have actively benchmarked
You can download a template business case for your participation
Agenda
June 26 2024
8:15am – 9:00am
Coffee, breakfast and Meet your Peers. Discover the seating plan that puts you working with those peers we believe you can benefit from collaborating with most. Understand who is the room & how you compare.
Output: New peer contacts of those in a similar stage of the journey
9:00am – 9:15am
Welcome and Plan for the Day
9:00am – 9:15am – Welcome & Meet your Peers:
How to make the most of the agenda & workshops, plus a review of the level of maturity and challenges in the room using Benchmark data. Who are you in the room with; who is on your team/table; and how do you compare? Led by Proxima
Output: A benchmark on how your challenges and approach compares to others
9:15am – 9:45am
How to build the case; secure more resources; put carbon into decision-making; best organize internally; and crucially get points on the board.
A panel of those who have made the most progress on scope 3 in their business will share their key principles for engaging leadership; internal teams; taking decisive action; organising team structure; and winning resources & budget.
Andrew Mayock, the Federal Chief Sustainability Officer, who leads President Biden's efforts to improve the sustainability of the US Government
Sherrie O’Doyle, Director, Sustainable Procurement & Value Growth, Bank of Montreal
Sonal Dalal, Director - Enterprise Climate, Target
Output: Tactics for getting more buy-in internally; more resources; and confidence in your plans and ambitions for the organisation
9:45am - 10:30am
How multi-tier, peer collaboration drives supply chain decarbonisation - lessons from the US Automotive sector
Hear how leading companies work together to share the challenge, engagement, data and cost of driving emissions reduction and encouraging innovation - including collaboration with peers, customers and suppliers. Learn while sat with your peers in your sector and explore how you may do the same.
Fred Gersdorff, Senior Manager, Socially Responsible & Sustainable Supply Chains, General Motors
Aurora Fernandez, Business Development Lead, RENEW Energy Partners
Steve Hellem & Kellen Mahoney, Executive Director & Director, Suppliers Partnership for the Environment
Suppliers Partnership of the Environment are the leading value chain collaboration in the US automotive sector
Output: Introductions & discussions with your peers - in the same industry and/or with similar suppliers - to explore how to best collaborate
10:30am – 11:00am
Networking Break
11:00am – 11:45am
Navigating the regulatory landscape and policy & guidance uncertainty
How they have developed their strategy and tactics for preparing the business for the uncertainty and range of regulatory, policy and guidance challenges and changes that are here now and imminent.
Autumn Fox, Climate Sustainability Senior Manager, Mars
Sonal Dalal, Director - Enterprise Climate, Target
11:45am – 12:15pm
Hear how Eaton are getting organised and prepared for managing the reporting requirements - for now & next year
Rebbecca Bergkamp, Value Chain Sustainability Director, Eaton
Output: A Template for developing your own scope 3 compliance & reporting strategy for 2024-2025
12:15pm – 1:00pm
Lunch
Designated networking areas to informally discuss specific scope 3 challenges shared in advance by members - including logistics emissions; PCFs; supplier engagement; selecting tools; and getting leadership buy-in. Each member will have a suggested area to network in based on their specific needs discussed in advance.
1:00pm – 3:00pm
Supplier Engagement and Data & Methodology - which suppliers; with what tools; and how they intend to drive real reductions
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 each 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.
You’ll get a chance to submit your questions in advance of the meeting, so they focus on what you really want to know.
We’ll discuss in our teams and you’ll find the best insight in the room for you from the other participants.
Especially for those with suppliers of products and goods:
Catherine Rueppel, Senior Manager - Procurement, The Coca-Cola Company
Emelissa Baluyot, Global Leader, Supply Chain Decarbonisation, Amazon
For those with service-based supply chains:
Jessica Halvorsen, ESG Sourcing Lead, JLL
Melissa Warneke, VP - Head of Sustainable Procurement, Aon
Including Q&A, discussion in teams and comment from others in the room
Output: A co-created Tookit of advice from your peers for how to build/evolve your supplier engagement & data strategy
15:00 – 15:30
Networking Break
15:30 – 16:00
Presentation and Q&A on the best-practice template for selecting scope 3 tools – including insight from the Scope 3 Peer Group Tools Landscape Survey, Miguel Cossio, Procurement Research Director - Supply Chain, Gartner
Outputs: A Template for developing your own data & methodology strategy and Scope 3 Tool RFP for 2024
16:00 – 16:30
How to engage and capability-build procurement on scope 3?
A panel of the procurement leaders in scope 3 will share their template strategies for segmenting, engaging and capability-building suppliers at scale; as well as their own procurement teams – including setting KPIs; training; tools; data & content
Nancy Gillis, Senior Director, Industrial Pathways Transformation (Decarbonization, Equity, Nature), WBCSD - in conversation with:
Martha Buffington, Chief Procurement Officer, SC Johnson
Janelle Orozco, Chief Procurement Officer NA, Kraft Heinz
Output: Templates, toolkits & direct advice for engaging and capability-building both suppliers and procurement teams on scope 3
16:30 – 16:45
You think Scope 3 is tricky for you…?
Navigating the gray space of imperfect solutions in a polarized world
Erica Ocampo, Chief Sustainability Officer, The Metals Company
Output: Understanding what it takes for your suppliers to get their scope 3…
16:45 – 17:30
Sharing the headline outputs, ideas and recommendations from each table and break-out
Closing with a panel of those from each table and breakout room, highlighting the very best from the day to ensure it’s captured for everyone
Output: A 5-slide Summary of the key points, examples and tools shared on the day
18:30
Scope 3 Peer Group Networking Evening
An opportunity for all participants to connect, relax and meet other Scope 3 Peer Group members, partners and advisory board and build the relationships for a big second day and significant H2 of effort ahead.
“What Next Workshops”
June 27 2024
Putting what we’ve discussed into action through smaller, focused workshops with partners that can help implement
Attendance prioritised for Strategy Day participants.
Open to specially-invited others at no cost.
Attendees to the 26th June prioritised
To be held in the workshop rooms at Proxima, 311 South Wacker Drive, Chicago
Breakfast Workshops (8:00 - 10:00)
Automotive Collaboration - in partnership with Suppliers Partnership
An opportunity for key automotive industry sector members to meet and continue to work together on how to implement best practice and better collaboration across their value chain. Facilitated by Proxima - with use of the Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark data.
Output: A blueprint and benchmark for even more effective industry collaboration
Healthcare & Life Science Scope 3 Collaboration
An opportunity for key pharma, healthcare & life science sector members to meet and continue to work together on how to implement best practice and better value chain collaboration across healthcare organisations; pharma companies; medical device/tech; packaging; ingredient & chemicals and more. Including insight from Accenture and Proxima - with use of the Scope 3 Maturity Benchmark data.
Output: A blueprint and benchmark for even more effective industry collaboration
Retailer, FMCG & Packaging Scope 3 Collaboration
An opportunity for key Scope 3 Peer Group members from across FMCG, retail and more to meet and continue to work together on how to implement best practice and better value chain collaboration across the packaging supply chain.
Output: A blueprint and benchmark for even more effective industry collaboration
Roundtable Workshops - (10:00 - 12:00)
Product Carbon Footprint Collaboration
An opportunity for those focused on product carbon footprinting to meet and continue to work together on how to implement best practice and understand how best to approach the standardisation of emissions data; and the engagement of suppliers at scale to embed PCFs for a competitive advantage.
Output: Your key questions answered on the complexity and urgency of product carbon footprint progress
Renewable Energy Supplier Collaboration - in partnership with Schneider Electric
An opportunity for those wanting to engage suppliers at scale on renewable energy investment and procurement to meet and continue to work together on how to implement best practice.
Output: Your key questions answered on getting started; learning the lessons of others; and engaging suppliers on renewable energy
Roundtable Workshops - (13:00 - 15:00)
Transform to Net Zero: Engaging suppliers in scope 3 reductions using the Supplier Transformation Framework
Transform to Net Zero created the Supplier Transformation Framework to help companies set common decarbonization expectations with their suppliers across industries and in turn accelerate their own Scope 3 reduction efforts. The framework contains a set of transformative, net zero-aligned climate expectations that suppliers can work towards to meet their customers’ diverse expectations. This interactive workshop for Procurement, Supply Chain, and Sustainability professionals will give practical guidance on engaging with suppliers to reduce Scope 3 emissions.
Output: Participants will create takeaway supplier engagement plans to use in their organizations
Net Zero Procurement Strategy Development and Capability-Building
An opportunity for those wanting to embed net zero into procurement strategies and deliver procurement engagement and capability-building programs in 2024-2025 to meet and continue to work together on how to implement best practice and explore how collaboration between Scope 3 Peer Group members on these activities can reduce the cost, risk and effort; and improve the quality, consistency and impact.
Output: A collective plan for sharing the effort, time & cost of engaging procurement; embedding net zero strategy; and improving the consistency & clarity of support
Procurement Leadership of Scope 3 Workshop - (16:00 - 18:00)
Taking Leading Action on Supply Chain Decarbonisation
Tackling some key priorities and reviewing real projects & opportunities - currently being led by CPOs - that can be further backed and scaled to drive real impact within shared value chains. Including insights from procurement leaders and more on:
Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) - what to do!
Carbon pricing & the factoring into tenders to drive supplier selection
Value Chain Collaboration between Procurement Leaders
Output: Understanding how to navigate through the legislation landscape; embed cost of carbon into decisions; and work with peers
Evening Dinners & Drinks
Procurement Leadership of Scope 3 Dinner
An opportunity for the procurement leaders in the Scope 3 Peer Group to meet, network and collaborate on the future of leadership on scope 3 - including how to embed the cost of carbon into procurement decisions; get ahead of and own scope 3 targets; capability-build their teams; better collaborate across function internally; and evolve the impact of the profession globally
Please contact Oliver Hurrey – ohurrey@getgalvanised.com – with any questions at all.
Join us and focus your efforts on the day by taking the Scope 3 Benchmark at www.scope3benchmark.com or by clicking on the banner below.
