Format: Keynote

Pathway: See What Works

Manufacturers continue to navigate geopolitical uncertainty, rising costs, climate pressures, and evolving customer expectations while making long-term investment decisions.

Attendees will gain:

• A manufacturer’s perspective on leading through disruption and uncertainty
• Insights into the investments that continue to deliver long-term business value
• Practical lessons on balancing resilience, growth, and operational performance
• Ideas for strengthening partnerships that enable long-term transformation

Pathway: Shared Action

Manufacturers are being asked to invest in sustainability, transparency, and resilience while often operating under commercial conditions that make those investments difficult. This session explores what must change in sourcing relationships to unlock long-term progress.

Attendees will gain:

• A better understanding of manufacturer realities
• Practical examples of stronger sourcing partnerships
• Ideas for creating more investable supply chains

Pathway: See What Works

What changes when sustainability moves beyond a specialist function and becomes part of sourcing, procurement, and business operations? This session explores how organizations are redesigning internal structures, aligning incentives, and embedding sustainability into decision-making. The operational bridge. How leading brands are restructuring internally—re-aligning traditional procurement KPIs (margin, speed) with sustainability metrics so that buying teams and sustainability teams stop working at cross-purposes.

Bringing business alignment to life. A real-world blueprint showing exactly how they co-designed internal incentive structures so procurement teams, buying metrics (lead times, margin), and factory floors stay perfectly aligned on long-term climate and social goals.

Attendees will gain:

• Examples of organizational transformation in practice
• Strategies for aligning procurement and sustainability teams
• Insights into embedding sustainability into core business functions

Pathway: See What Works

When margins tighten and priorities compete, how do companies decide what still gets funded? This conversation explores how organizations are evaluating sustainability investments during periods of uncertainty, and what arguments are proving most effective internally.

Attendees will gain:

• Insights into investment decision-making processes
• Examples of successful business cases
• Practical approaches to securing internal support

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: See What Works

Use live Insights Hub data to diagnose visibility gaps and social and environmental risk across every supplier.

Pathway: Building Capability

Most supply chain risks don’t live with the suppliers you manage. They live with the ones you’ve never heard of. Trace your supply chain and surface suppliers you didn’t know you had, without requiring a single survey.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: See What Works

Move from Scope 3 target-setting to supplier-level emissions engagement — with real data, real customers, and a clear path forward.

A session to showcase the member activation pathways and engagement opportunities across Q3 and Q4, while making it clear what the specific calls to action are for members. One of the questions we hear most often is, “How do I get more involved?” This session will showcase the upcoming engagement opportunities within Cascale’s Decent Work & Climate Action pillars through Q3 and Q4. We’ll help members identify the most relevant opportunities for themselves and their teams to engage through the end of the year.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: Building Capability

This session will share the journey in developing the Foundational Environmental Performance (FEP) Criteria, and the outcomes that led to the development and future release of the FEP module in the Higg FEM Ecosystem, It will highlight the Importance of the FEP for Cascale as well as the Industry.

Basic statistics from the FEP questions in FEM 2025 will also be shared for verified FEMs, to understand the status of the industry in meeting Foundational Environmental Performance to date.

Attendees will gain:

• Understanding on the governance process and criteria followed to define the FEP question set
• Data insights related to FEP
• They will also be able to provide input on the future FEP module

Human Library: The Business Case Lab

Format: Human Library

Pathway: See What Works

Transformation challenges rarely have one-size-fits-all solutions.In this interactive Human Library, attendees will select the implementation challenges most relevant to their organization—from securing investment and building supplier engagement to gaining executive buy-in, aligning commercial incentives, and demonstrating ROI.

Participants will then “check out” industry experts and practitioners who have successfully navigated those same challenges. Through small-group conversations, attendees will hear real-world stories, explore lessons learned, and ask questions directly to the people who have turned ambition into action.

Designed to move beyond theory, this session focuses on practical experiences, honest reflections, and proven approaches that attendees can adapt within their own organizations.

Attendees will gain:

• Direct access to practitioners who have overcome similar challenges
• Real-world examples of implementation in actionPractical ideas and lessons learned from across the value chain
• Opportunities to discuss their own challenges with peers and experts
• New approaches for accelerating progress within their organizations

Format: Open Seat Debate

Pathway: Shared Action

The industry broadly agrees that decarbonization must accelerate. The challenge is determining how costs, risks, and benefits should be shared across the value chain.

This highly interactive debate moves beyond traditional panel discussions by inviting attendees directly into the conversation. Rather than observing from the audience, participants will have the opportunity to take the stage, challenge assumptions, share perspectives, and contribute their own experiences.

Throughout the session leaders will debate the realities of financing decarbonization, from supplier investments and commercial incentives to shared accountability and return on investment. Audience participants will be invited to join the discussion, make their case, and introduce new perspectives that shape the direction of the conversation.

The session will conclude by identifying practical actions and principles that organizations can begin implementing immediately to create more effective and equitable approaches to financing transformation.

Attendees will gain:

• Perspectives from brands, manufacturers, and other value chain partners
• Examples of emerging financing and cost-sharing approaches
• Opportunities to actively contribute to the discussion
• Shared recommendations for accelerating decarbonization through stronger engagement models

Pathway: See What Works

Organizations across the value chain are beginning to see measurable returns from investments in sustainability, operational efficiency, supplier engagement, and workforce initiatives. This session explores where investments are delivering value and what conditions made success possible.

Attendees will gain:

• Examples of investments that generated measurable results
• Insights into ROI evaluation
• Lessons learned from implementation and scaling

Format: Panel
Pathway: Lead What Changes Next

Dismantle the myth that supply chain data isn’t good enough for disclosure — with evidence from CSRD submitters and assurance teams.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: Shared Action

A passing social audit isn’t the same as a safe supply chain, and the gap between the two is where your real social risk lives.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: See What Works

Unpack the most significant patterns from this year’s Higg FEM cycle and benchmark your own facilities against sector performance. We’ll also offer guidance to help you get started with the 2026 Higg FEM cycle.

Format: Workshop

Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

This participatory workshop will introduce Cascale’s systems mapping and strategy refresh and invite members to contribute their experience, perspectives, and knowledge of the industry system.

Ying McGuire, Cascale leadership representatives, and the project facilitators will set the context by explaining the purpose of the refreshed system map, the relationship between the map and Cascale’s future strategy, and how input gathered during the Annual Meeting will be used.Participants will then work in facilitated groups, with each table examining a specific part of the system. Topics may include key actors, structural barriers, incentives, mindsets, gaps, opportunities, and potential levers for change. Each group will identify its most important insights and share a concise readout with the room.

Attendees will gain:

• An introduction to Cascale’s refreshed industry system map.
• An opportunity to influence how the industry ecosystem is understood.
• Greater insight into the incentives, relationships, and mindsets sustaining current outcomes.
• Visibility into the strategy process and opportunities for continued engagement.

Format: Workshop
Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

This participatory workshop will introduce Cascale’s systems mapping and strategy refresh and invite members to contribute their experience, perspectives, and knowledge of the industry system.

Ying McGuire, Cascale leadership representatives, and the project facilitators will set the context by explaining the purpose of the refreshed system map, the relationship between the map and Cascale’s future strategy, and how input gathered during the Annual Meeting will be used.Participants will then work in facilitated groups, with each table examining a specific part of the system. Topics may include key actors, structural barriers, incentives, mindsets, gaps, opportunities, and potential levers for change. Each group will identify its most important insights and share a concise readout with the room.

Attendees will gain:

• An introduction to Cascale’s refreshed industry system map.
• An opportunity to influence how the industry ecosystem is understood.
• Greater insight into the incentives, relationships, and mindsets sustaining current outcomes.
• Visibility into the strategy process and opportunities for continued engagement.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: Capabilities Building

In the world of sourcing, senior executives have to juggle and balance a multitude of criteria: cost, quality, lead time, resilience, … and sustainability. This session offers insights into the life of a sourcing executive. Through an audience participative workshop and a panel discussion, we hope to engage the audience in appreciating the competing criteria of a business, how sustainability has traditionally been embedded, and debate on alternative models of brand-manufacturer collaboration in the decarbonization journey.

Sponsored by: TAL Apparel

Format: Workshop
Pathway: Capacility Building

When margins tighten, what decisions actually change?

Through practical scenarios and facilitated discussion, sourcing, procurement, and sustainability leaders explore how organizations can maintain responsible purchasing practices during periods of commercial pressure — without sacrificing supplier trust, resilience, or long-term performance.

Format: Keynote

Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

Many of the decisions shaping today’s supply chains are built on assumptions about growth, resource availability, cost structures, consumer demand, and economic success.

But what happens if those assumptions no longer hold?

In this thought-provoking keynote, circular economist Vojtech Vosecky challenges leaders to examine the mental models that continue to shape business decisions and explores what organizations must do to remain resilient in a future defined by resource constraints, climate pressures, and growing uncertainty.

Attendees will gain:

• A fresh perspective on the assumptions driving business decisionsInsights into circular economy and resilience thinking
• New ways to evaluate risk, growth, and long-term value creation
• Practical questions leaders should be asking as they prepare for the future

Format: Panel
Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

For decades, the consumer goods industry optimized for efficiency, scale, speed, and cost. Those principles delivered growth, but they also shaped a system that now faces mounting pressure from climate change, resource constraints, geopolitical uncertainty, evolving regulation, and changing customer expectations.

As these pressures converge, many of the assumptions that defined business success are being challenged. Questions around overproduction, inventory, purchasing practices, supplier relationships, and long-term value creation are no longer sustainability issues alone—they are strategic business considerations.

This executive discussion brings together leaders from across the value chain to examine how organizations are rethinking the way they create value. Rather than focusing on distant future scenarios, the conversation will explore practical examples of how brands, manufacturers, investors, and industry leaders are redesigning sourcing strategies, commercial models, financing approaches, and partnerships to build businesses that are more resilient, competitive, and fit for the future.

This is not a conversation about assigning blame for the system we have today. It is a conversation about whether the industry is prepared to redesign it.

Attendees will gain:

• Insights into how traditional business assumptions are evolving in response to new market realities
• Examples of organizations redesigning sourcing, purchasing, and partnership models to strengthen resilience
• Perspectives on how commercial success, competitiveness, and sustainability can be better aligned
• Practical ideas for building business models that create long-term value in an increasingly uncertain operating environment

Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

As sustainability efforts face growing political scrutiny, economic pressure, regulatory uncertainty, and increasing questions around cost and competitiveness, many organizations are asking what comes next. In this featured conversation, John Morrison will explore the themes behind his new book, Remaking Sustainability: Why Pushback Will Make It Stronger, and why today’s tensions may ultimately create stronger, more resilient approaches to industry transformation.

Together, we will explore what leaders can learn from the current backlash, where sustainability efforts have fallen short, and how organizations can move beyond ambition toward approaches that are more commercially grounded, collaborative, and built to endure.

Attendees will gain:

• Insights into why sustainability is facing increased scrutiny
• Perspectives on how organizations can respond to growing pushback
• Ideas for building more durable and commercially grounded approaches to transformation
• A clearer view of what the next chapter of sustainability leadership may require

Format: Panel
Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

For years, supply chains have struggled with a fundamental challenge: how do we reward good performance at scale?

As artificial intelligence transforms how organizations collect, analyze, and act on information, entirely new approaches to transparency, verification, supplier engagement, and decision-making are emerging.

This discussion explores how AI could help organizations move beyond compliance and reporting toward systems that actively incentivize better environmental and social outcomes.

Attendees will gain:

• Practical examples of AI applications across supply chains
• Insights into how AI could reshape incentives and accountability
• Perspectives on emerging opportunities and risksConsiderations for responsible implementation

Format: Open Seat Debate
Pathway: Shared Action

Everyone agrees partnership and collaboration matter. Yet these terms have become some of the industry’s most frequently used buzzwords.

So let’s move beyond the rhetoric and define what partnership actually looks like in practice.

What behaviors build trust? What creates the conditions for investment? What makes organizations willing to share risk, solve problems together, and commit for the long term? And just as importantly, what behaviors continue to undermine progress?

This interactive debate invites brands, manufacturers, and industry stakeholders to move beyond theory and examine the commercial practices that strengthen—or weaken—relationships across the value chain.

Participants will have the opportunity to join the discussion directly from the stage, challenge assumptions, and share their own experiences. Together, the group will identify the behaviors that create stronger partnerships and the actions that continue to stand in the way of meaningful collaboration.

The session will conclude by developing a set of audience-generated principles—and practical commitments—for building stronger buyer-supplier relationships.

Attendees will gain:

• A clearer definition of what partnership looks like in practice
• Honest perspectives from brands, manufacturers, and industry stakeholders
• Practical ideas for building trust, alignment, and long-term collaboration
• A set of audience-generated commitments that can be applied immediately

Format: Workshop
Pathway: Shared Action

Translate supply chain performance data into a prioritized supplier engagement plan using Worldly’s full engagement stack.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: See What Works

The case for an integrated view of environmental, social, and chemistry data — and what it means for compliance and your supply chain’s future.

Format: Workshop

Pathway: Capabilities Building

Sponsored by: TAL Apparel

In the world of sourcing, senior executives have to juggle and balance a multitude of criteria: cost, quality, lead time, resilience, … and sustainability. This session offers insights into the life of a sourcing executive. Through an audience participative workshop and a panel discussion, we hope to engage the audience in appreciating the competing criteria of a business, how sustainability has traditionally been embedded, and debate on alternative models of brand-manufacturer collaboration in the decarbonization journey.

Higg FEM data doesn’t stop at the assessment; brands rely on it to calculate their own environmental impacts. This session shares how Cascale is shifting from a reactive approach to data quality toward a proactive one: what’s already been done, where the gaps still are, and what we’re working to achieve next. Rather than a status update, this is a working conversation: starting with context and concrete progress, followed by a moderated discussion with brand and retail members on what would make this most useful to them, and an open floor for questions.

Format: Human Library

Pathway: Shared Action

Policy expectations are evolving rapidly, but many organizations are still trying to determine what matters most, what actions to prioritize, and how different regulations connect.

Rather than sitting through a traditional panel discussion, attendees will have the opportunity to “check out” policy experts as living books. Each expert will host a small-group conversation focused on a specific policy area, allowing participants to engage directly with legal advisors, manufacturers, policymakers, and implementation leaders.

Throughout the session, attendees can move between expert-led tables, selecting the conversations most relevant to their business. Topics will span key regulatory themes such as product requirements, reporting obligations, due diligence, chemicals management, waste and circularity, climate-related regulation, emerging regional developments, and manufacturer implementation realities.

Designed to be highly interactive and practical, the Human Library allows participants to ask questions, compare perspectives, and explore the real-world implications of evolving policy requirements in a more personalized setting than a traditional conference session.

Attendees will gain:

• Direct access to policy experts and implementation leaders
• Practical guidance on navigating an increasingly complex regulatory landscape
• A clearer understanding of how different policy requirements connect and overlap
• Insights into what organizations should prioritize now versus monitor for the future
• Greater confidence translating policy developments into business decisions

Book 1: Which policies should leaders pay attention to first? (Due Diligence, CSDDD, CSRD, ESPR, Forced Labor, Green Claims)

Book 2: Building a policy roadmap (How organizations are prioritizing action)

Book 3: Understanding global policy trends (What is happening across regions?)

Book 4: What are manufacturers being asked to do? (Practical implications for suppliers)

Book 5: Building the foundations for compliance (CSRD, Digital Product Passports, reporting)

Book 6: Product-level traceability (DPP, ESPR, forced labor requirements)

Book 7: Due diligence and risk management (CSDDD, forced labor, human rights) – Book Expert – Fair Wear

Book 8: Aligning the Higg Index Tools with Legislation – Book Expert – Maravi Rodriguez Zarco, Cascale

Book 9: The European Climate & Circularity Policy Maze (ESPR, DPP, Waste Framework Directive, Green Claims, Circularity Requirements, Product Requirements)

Book 10: The European Social & Due Diligence Policy Maze (CSDDD, CSRD, Forced Labor, HRDD, RPP expectations, Supply Chain Accountability) – Book Expert – Tom Mason

Book 11: The U.S. Landscape (UFLPA, state legislation, federal uncertainty)

Book 12: APAC Policy, Green Finance & Heat Stress – Book Expert – Rakesh BV

Session information coming soon.

Pathway: Shared Action

Extreme heat is no longer a future risk — it is already disrupting worker wellbeing, productivity, and factory operations across global supply chains.

This session explores why heat stress is emerging as one of the industry’s most urgent workforce and business continuity challenges, and what organizations can do now to better protect workers while strengthening operational resilience.

Together, we will examine practical mitigation strategies, evolving expectations, and examples of how organizations are approaching heat adaptation in ways that support both decent work and business performance.

Format: Fireside Chat
Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

Navigate the regulatory landscape with a clear view of what CSRD, CSDDD, DPP, and PEF require from your supply chain data and how Worldly can help.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: Lead What Changes Next

The climate crisis is already here. Make the case for supply chain intelligence as a strategic sourcing + financial input, and use it to build internal business cases across procurement, sourcing, and finance.

Format: Panel
Pathway: See What Works

Explore what a genuinely comprehensive supply chain picture looks like across carbon, water, chemicals, waste, and social dimensions.

Format: Interactive Session
Pathway: Lead What Comes Next

As environmental expectations continue to evolve, so too must the tools used to measure performance.

This interactive session explores the future of the Higg FEM and how environmental performance measurement is adapting to meet the needs of facilities, brands, regulators, and other stakeholders. Participants will gain insight into emerging priorities, provide feedback, and help shape the next generation of environmental measurement.

Attendees will gain:

• Visibility into the future direction of Higg FEM
• Insights into emerging industry expectations
• Opportunities to influence future development
• A better understanding of where environmental measurement is headed

Format: Workshop

Pathway: Capabilities Building

Through a series of scenario-based discussions, this interactive workshop will help participants translate risk-based due diligence into practical action. In breakout groups, participants will analyse real-world examples and discuss response options. The workshop is designed to foster peer learning, encourage reflection on good practices and strengthen participants’ ability to apply risk-based due diligence across diverse contexts and situations. Participants will reconvene in plenary to review key takeaways and questions with OECD experts.

The discussion will explore how shared data infrastructure, interoperability, and open collaboration can help reduce duplication across the industry, improve supply chain transparency, and support more effective due diligence and traceability. Rather than focusing on a single solution, the conversation will examine why connected data ecosystems are becoming increasingly important as organizations respond to growing business and regulatory demands.

Session description coming soon.

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