Facilitator:
LEARNING LABS
The Next Age of Sustainability: What Businesses Need to Stay Competitive, Resilient and Future-Ready
from 14.00 to 15.00
and from 15.00 to 16.00
13 October 2026
Context
Over the past decades, sustainability has evolved from a voluntary corporate responsibility agenda into a strategic business priority shaped by regulation, stakeholder expectations, and market developments. Today, however, businesses face a new reality marked by geopolitical uncertainty, economic pressures, supply chain disruptions, social polarisation, and growing scrutiny of sustainability initiatives.
In this context, companies are increasingly challenged to demonstrate how sustainability contributes not only to compliance, but also to competitiveness, resilience, innovation, and long-term value creation.
This Learning Lab explores what businesses need to succeed in this next age of sustainability and how collaboration across the wider sustainability ecosystem can support this transition.
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE
Included with your Summit pass.
Join the practitioners turning sustainability into business value.
13 to 14 October · Brussels
ABOUt the learning labs
As sustainability enters a new phase, companies need to move beyond viewing sustainability primarily as a reporting or compliance exercise. This Learning Lab will bring together business representatives, sustainability practitioners, and stakeholders to explore how sustainability can remain a driver of long-term business success in an increasingly complex operating environment. Through expert inputs, business case examples, and a facilitated interactive discussion, participants will identify the conditions and capabilities required for companies to remain competitive, resilient, and future-ready.
The session includes a collaborative workshop format in which participants work in small groups to explore different dimensions of sustainable business transformation, including business capabilities, enabling market conditions, partnerships and ecosystems, and people and social acceptance. Insights from the discussions will be consolidated so that priorities for businesses, policymakers, and sustainability networks will be more feasible.
Key learning points:
Understand how sustainability is evolving from a compliance topic into a driver of competitiveness, resilience, and long-term business value.
Learn from practical company experiences on embedding sustainability into business strategy and transformation.
Identify the internal capabilities, external conditions, partnerships, and societal enablers needed to support sustainable business success.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Sustainability Directors and Sustainability Managers
Corporate Affairs and Public Policy Professionals
Strategy, Innovation and Business Transformation Leaders
CSR Practitioners, Business Network Representatives and Sustainability Stakeholder
LIMITED SPOTS AVAILABLE
Included with your Summit pass.
Join the practitioners turning sustainability into business value.
13 to 14 October · Brussels