Sustainable Brands CEO Mike Dupee will share why convening as a community is critical to unlocking breakthrough solutions, highlighting the opportunity for businesses to embrace resilience, lean into creativity, act boldly, and accelerate progress.

To realize its bold dreams of zero impact on the environment and zero traffic fatalities by 2050, Honda North America is reimagining how it activates its greatest engine for change: its people. Learn how Honda launched a dynamic new internal engagement initiative that brings a spirit of friendly competition to its offices and manufacturing plants—sparking creativity, accountability, and turning workplace culture into a catalyst for taking action. This cross-functional, team-based approach is shifting mindsets, scaling behavior change, and embedding sustainability and safety into the rhythm of daily work. Join Honda leaders as they share insights from this journey, including how they designed the program to resonate across diverse teams, what’s driving measurable change, and how this new model of engagement is shaping Honda’s next chapter.

Today’s consumers expect not only superior performance and quality, but also a superior usage experience and a proposition that is more sustainable – without trade-offs. How can we raise the bar on our brands’ superiority to better serve our consumers’ evolving needs? This insight-packed keynote will focus on how P&G is leveraging sustainability and inclusive design as amplifiers of superiority, striving to make all peoples’ lives better in small but meaningful ways, at the same time enabling them to reduce their environmental impact. Get inspired on how sustainability and inclusive design can accelerate innovation – transforming the user experience and creating value.

Consumers today are more engaged than ever before. They expect more from the companies and brands they choose to support, holding them accountable not only for greener practices but also for building a more meaningful future. At the same time, people are overwhelmed by choices, unsure of which actions matter most, and yet increasingly informed about what’s at stake for our planet and society. This session will explore the power of why—the driving force that connects individual actions to shared purpose. By grounding sustainability strategies in authentic meaning, brands can move beyond transactional gestures and inspire trust, loyalty, and advocacy. Attendees will gain insights into why purpose-driven leadership matters now more than ever, how to translate corporate commitments into clear signals for consumers, and how to help people move from confusion to confidence in their sustainable choices for a meaningful future.

Reuse is at a critical turning point, given the regulatory, climate, and economic pressures to reduce single-use packaging waste. Over the past decade, brands, retailers, and communities have tested many versions of reuse, from premium packaging to high-tech solutions. What have these past chapters taught us, and how can those lessons learned help us make reuse successful at scale now? Carolina Lobel, Senior Director of the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners, will share practical insights for designing reuse systems that balance cost, carbon, and consumer experience, and preview what’s next in California with the implementation of SB-54.

In this powerful and thought-provoking keynote, Leonard Robinson, Sustainability Consultant for the Archdiocese of Atlanta and award-winning host of the Faith & Sustainability Podcast will explore how faith traditions have long championed environmental stewardship as a sacred duty. With 50+ years in environmental management, Leonard’s journey bridges science, policy, and advocacy—now focused on empowering faith communities as climate leaders. From greening Archdiocesan operations to building community coalitions, he shares how spiritual values translate into measurable impact. Leonard will illuminate how faith-based teachings—from the Bible to the Qur’an to the Tanakh and more—offer a shared moral compass for protecting our planet. Attendees will discover how faith-rooted principles like care for creation, reverence for life, and responsibility to future generations can complement business leadership, inspire collective action, and build bridges across sectors and beliefs. Whether you're a brand leader, changemaker, or spiritual seeker, this session will challenge assumptions, spark new alliances, and offer a fresh lens on sustainability—one rooted in purpose, community, and enduring values.