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Our Shaping the Future Global Conference (SFGC2024) serves as a global forum for specialists from universities and institutes, corporates, impact investors, and communities. A unique feature of the SFGC conference series is its integration of our Future Leaders Programme, Sustainability Awards, certified Masterclass Training and Roadmapping Workshops for advancing the transformation of sustainable supply chains. Twenty years ago, the word Sustainability was almost completely synonymous with green and eco-friendliness. Today, it is a significantly more holistic term with coordinated actions driving decentralised food, energy, and water systems. Corporates and Investors cannot truly understand their own environmental, social and governance (ESG) position, without including the impact of their emerging supply chains. Food systems are responsible for a significant amount of greenhouse gas emissions. The transition to net zero demands that we embrace the complexity inherent in food systems that are interconnected with water, energy, biodiversity and social inclusion.

Sustainable supply chains develop with collaboration, leveraging the best available technologies, setting consistent standards and communicating success stories from our Innovation Platform. It fully integrates ethical and environmentally responsible practices into a competitive and successful economic model. This conference aims to adventure into social innovation potential areas when bridging the gap between understanding sustainability challenges and means to systematically develop shared value with insights from our Sustainability-as-a-Service (SaaS) case studies. Corporates don’t win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. Corporates need to integrate ESG into strategy and operations and embed it into their value creation.

Corporates and Impact Investors now have a much greater ability (and obligation) to demonstrate ESG responsibility and to share best practice stories to access climate funds. Circular, transparent and green are all components to achieve the Net Zero targets and United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals. Digital transformation and the growing sophistication of digital technologies are playing a major part in the evolution of Sustainability. Big Data management, advanced analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), Digital Twins, Blockchain and Internet of Things (IoT), have brought unprecedented visibility and accountability to traditional supply chains. Other technology components include Machine Learning, Robotics, Additive manufacturing and Modern ERP databases. Removing carbon from supply chains by switching to renewable energy or; with reforestation and soil-based carbon capture projects are the most responsible choices we can make for our planet.