Program highlights
Breakthrough Innovation
We’re thrilled to announce that the SB’24 San Diego program is now available. This year’s program will focus on breakthrough innovation opportunities in service of smarter, healthier, and faster transitions to sustainable and regenerative business models. For business and society to thrive in harmony with nature, virtually all industries will need innovative solutions that are adequately and ethically deployed at scale. We will dive into a number of promising directions through a variety of session formats.
Find Inspiration on the Plenary Stage
Hear from purpose-driven, action-oriented visionaries from the world’s leading brands who are focused on delivering positive results for businesses, consumers, the planet, and society.
Multidisciplinary experts will present the latest leadership skills and capacities, case studies of reinventing business models at scale, and inspiration to transform your relationship with customers, suppliers, investors, employees, and communities.
Plenary speakers include
Hear from purpose-driven, action-oriented visionaries from the world’s leading brands who are focused on delivering positive results for businesses, consumers, the planet, and society.
Multidisciplinary experts will present the latest leadership skills and capacities, case studies of reinventing business models at scale, and inspiration to transform your relationship with customers, suppliers, investors, employees, and communities.
- Building shared understanding, in practical business terms, of the value of bioregional regeneration and prosocial governance
- Designing and advancing partnership-centric solutions with local impact at the core
- Fueling neighborhood and regional economies while equipping communities for a just and restorative future
- Combining radical new relationships and revolutionary technologies to create regenerative supply chains
- Applying key lessons from 3D printing, microgrids, vertical farming and other location-based new business models in a variety of contexts and industries
- Making productive use of the unique energy and stakeholder engagement talents of Gen Z, including in innovation labs and boardrooms
Shelton Mercer
Dr. Neil Theise
Professor of Pathology; Author, Notes on Complexity: The Scientific Theory of Connection, Consciousness, and Being
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Monique Oxender
Chief Sustainability Officer
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc.
Victor Casale
Co-Founder, Pact Collective, Co-Founder and CEO, MOB Beauty
Dr. Katherine Hoffman
PhD, Sustainability Strategic Initiatives
Eastman
Take Aways from Breakout Sessions
Turn theory into practice with breakout sessions led by subject-matter experts who help you to understand regeneration on a deep level and walk away prepared to drive regenerative innovation at your organization.
Materials & Packaging
Examining the most promising categories of next-gen materials and packaging that could, and likely will, play big roles in navigating and addressing the polycrisis we are currently in.
- Uniting for innovation: Transforming cosmetics packaging through collaboration
- New frontiers in seaweed-based bioplastics innovation
- An exploration of direct air capture, integrated C02 conversion, and low-carbon materials
- Technological advancements in recycling and upcycling, mechanical recycling, dissolution, and recovery
AI & Sustainability
Analyzing how to leverage the power of artificial intelligence for good through employing AI safely in all aspects related to advancing sustainability and regeneration agendas as well as addressing and mitigating challenging climate impacts of AI.
- Assessing energy and water requirements to power AI at scale
- Transforming product development through innovative AI applications
- AI tools that make sustainability professionals more efficient and effective
- Inside ‘Water, United’: The brand-led water positive movement using AI to save the Colorado River Basin
Supply Chain Management & Monitoring
Finding paths to transforming and monitoring supply chains to ensure they support the health, resilience and flourishing of both society and the environment.
- Regenerative forestry through a multi-industry collaboration at the nexus of climate, nature, and nature-based commodities
- Next-horizon supply chain partnerships with indigenous groups and other under-served and under-represented stakeholders
- Alternative supply channels and the rise of fashion re-commerce, recycling, upcycling and buy-back models
- Supply chain data and best practices in supply chain engagement
Nature-Friendly Design Paradigms in Practice
Exploring the most promising product and service design principles gaining momentum at the intersection of positive impact and business value, including circularity, regeneration, biomimicry and more.
- Alternative protein game-changers: The exciting potential of cell-cultivated, fermentation, and plant-based food innovation
- The 50 Liter Home: Lessons from a multi-industry global collaboration
- A new approach to value management–a critical capacity essential for breakthroughs in business model design
- Rethinking funding strategies, investment, R&D and more to cale breakthrough design paradigms
Organizational Transformation & Governance
Evolving governance and organizational behavior to deliver forward-looking leadership, strong employee engagement and cross-functional cooperation, as well as goal-setting, measurement and reporting fit for a regenerative and just economy.
- Beyond compliance: Leveraging new regulation for business value
- Quantifying Scope 3 GHG emissions to enable action
- How sustainability professionals can do 4x as much with the same resources
- Leadership strategies for DEI and belonging
Evolution of Marketing
Unlocking impactful new approaches to customer engagement focused on shifting demand and driving behavior change in favor of sustainability- and regeneration-centric innovation and brand preference.
- Communicating new, complex, and unfamiliar sustainability claims on CPG packaging
- Trashy behavior: Engaging consumers in waste sorting and diversion at scale
- Driving consumer engagement in clean beauty and transitions to refillable, reusable, and circular packaging
- Partnering with content creators and influencers to amplify sustainable product awareness and adoption
Purpose-Led Corporate Communications
Harnessing purpose-driven storytelling, media relations, powerful messaging and the full corporate communications practice in service of sustainability and regeneration strategies.
- Youth engagement and intergenerational collaboration: Where we are, what’s working and what isn’t
- Alleviating consumer hesitation and distrust of AI and other emerging technologies
- Aligning and engaging diverse and geo-distributed teams around sustainability programs, volunteerism and corporate sustainability values
- Engaging with news media to create better, more informed storytelling and combat misinformation
Take a deep-dive and hear about the latest research in Workshops
Be sure to get an All-Access pass! Tailor your experience to the needs of your business through these two-hour deep-dive insight series and workshops.
- Compliance with EPR laws for packaging in the US and Canada: What to know, what to do, how to save
- Quantifying and reducing GHG emissions from marketing and advertising workstreams
- Keep me in the loop: Proven strategies for integrating circular practices and designing products for circularity
- Convergence on quality: High-integrity approaches to carbon markets and credits
- Centering value propositions on the principles of biomimicry and regeneration
Event Add-Ons
Don’t miss the SB’24 San Diego Regen Ag Summit–where brand and product leaders, technology innovators, finance experts, and the farmers and ranchers at the forefront of the regenerative agriculture movement come together to envision a sustainable and resilient future. Through engaging panels, case studies, insights into powerful partnerships and collaborations, and networking opportunities, you’ll learn strategies to combat the impacts of climate and decreasing land productivity. Additionally, you will discover solutions that are driving positive change and business value in the agricultural sector.
The inaugural SB’24 San Diego Resilience Summit will assemble business leaders looking to prepare their organizations for adaptation and resilience amid ongoing climate volatility, insurance industry instability and bluelining, threats to markets around the world, supply chain disruptions, and social unease. This summit will feature data-informed strategic discussions to provide insights to the business community and their stakeholders. The program will surface proactive measures organizations can take now to navigate uncertainty, mitigate risk, ensure continuity, and focus on evolving sustainably in a chaotic world.
The SB'24 San Diego Experience
Connect with your community of change-makers and innovators from dawn til dusk. Whether it is sunrise activities, cocktail receptions, or intimate dinner discussions, you’ll discover a myriad of ways to mix and mingle with the best and brightest in sustainability, virtually or in person.
- Sunrise Yoga
- Opening Night Reception
- Women's Leadership Lunch
- Rainbow Mixer
- Birds of a Feather Dinners
- Campfire Conversations
- Sunrise Meditation Session
If the above isn’t enough to convince you, stay tuned! We have more exciting announcements coming in the next few weeks. But don’t wait—register today to secure the best rate and get a code to book your hotel room. We are expecting a sellout!