Navigating transformation: from complexity to opportunity
The GSPN community is driven by a shared commitment to accelerating sustainability transformation—one where business, society, and the environment thrive together. As we move into 2025, sustainability leaders are tasked with turning ambition into action, embedding sustainable practices into core business functions, and ensuring that regulation, resilience, and responsibility go hand in hand.
That’s why GSPN 2025 places systems change, leadership, and innovation at the heart of the agenda. This is a space for sustainability executives to engage in open, solutions-focused discussions, sharing how they are integrating sustainability across operations, supply chains, and governance structures.
With regulatory landscapes evolving at pace, we explore how businesses can leverage new frameworks to embed sustainability into corporate strategy—not as a compliance challenge, but as an opportunity for value creation, competitive advantage, and long-term resilience. We examine the critical intersections between sustainability, finance, risk, communications, and legal teams, bridging the gap between ambition and execution.
At GSPN 2025, we bring together the voices shaping the future—creating a collaborative space where sustainability leaders don’t just discuss change, but define and drive it.
- Aligning business, policy, and conservation goals to drive a nature-positive economy
- Exploring financial mechanisms, such as biodiversity credits, to support conservation initiatives
- Reducing Scope 3 emissions through supplier engagement and value chain alignment
- Leveraging data and reporting tools to accelerate net zero progress
- Driving cross-sector collaboration to achieve 2030 and 2050 sustainability targets
- Promoting creative problem-solving through interactive roundtable discussions
- Empowering stakeholders to drive systems change for sustainability goals
- Harnessing technology, including AI and IoT, to advance sustainable business practices
- Embedding social impact into business operations and aligning it with commercial objectives
- Transitioning from net zero strategies to net positive business impact
- Navigating complex sustainability regulations, including CSRD, CSDDD, and ISSB standards
- Using effective communication tools to inspire sustainability leadership across teams
- Overcoming organisational and cultural barriers to sustainability transformation
- Developing actionable roadmaps to bridge gaps between current achievements and future targets
- Gain insights into the latest sustainability strategies from global business leaders, equipping you with the knowledge to drive meaningful transformation within your organisation.
- Connect with peers and industry experts to exchange best practices, explore collaborative opportunities, and address shared sustainability challenges through dynamic discussions.
- Develop practical strategies to navigate evolving regulations, from CSRD and CSDDD to the EU Taxonomy and ISSB standards, ensuring compliance while maximising business value.
- Learn how to integrate sustainability into core business functions, from finance and risk to procurement and supply chain, fostering a culture of accountability and long-term resilience.
- Future-proof your organisation’s sustainability commitments as 2025 marks the five-year countdown to 2030, with companies reassessing targets and accelerating action to stay on track.
- Get guaranteed face time with key decision makers: a minimum of 9 one-on-one meetings with senior leaders that are looking to invest in new solutions
- Connect with the sustainability sector C-suite: take part in a range of formal and informal networking opportunities across the event
- Put your solution in the spotlight: present your solution on the main stage, in breakout areas, and during our popular Dragons’ Den speed presentation
- Maximise your ROI: event sponsorship includes branding, meals, and refreshments. No stand costs, no surprises – just a guaranteed return on investment
Speakers
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Benet Northcote
Trustee
The Green Alliance -
Laura Gelder-Robertson
Chief Executive Officer
Vet Sustain -
Peter Bragg
EMEA Sustainability & Government Affairs Director
Canon -
Robert Godwin
Chief Executive Officer
Lamington Group -
Dr Marie Le Pellec
Space Sustainability Engineer
European Space Agency -
Kevin Dunckley
Chief Sustainability Officer
HH Global -
Marcia Balisciano
Chief Sustainability Officer and Global Head of Corporate Responsibility
RELX -
Sean Worral
Chief Engineer Product Sustainability
GSK Automotive -
Liz Brown
Chief Strategy and Sustainability Office
Inchcape -
Lisa Hawkes
Global Sustainability Senior Manager
Unilever -
James Richardson
Director of Analysis
Climate Change Committee -
Liz Wilks
Head of Sustainability & Public Affairs
Asia Pulp and Paper -
Linden Coppell
Vice President Sustainability & ESG
MSC Cruises -
Matt Shaughnessy
Executive Director Global Operations – Sustainability
AstraZeneca -
Rachel Solomon-Williams
Executive Director
Aldersgate Group -
Will Ennett
Head of Sustainability & ESG
PXC -
James Robey
Global Head of Environmental Sustainability
Capgemini -
Greg Ritt
Group Head of Sustainability
Stagecoach Group -
Laura Sandys
Chair
Green Alliance -
Gemma Bridgman
Principal Sustainability Strategist
Forum for the Future -
Katie Leach
Head of Nature
Lloyds Banking Group