Transforming Life Sciences Supply Chain Sustainability
Join this dedicated pre-conference session to uncover how to advance your life sciences supply chain from a sustainability perspective. This session will give you the tools you need to advance your sustainable procurement, supplier diversity, supplier engagement practices and, crucially, tackle how to capture your scope 3 emissions for life sciences organizations of all stages and sizes.
Leave with immediately actionable insights on how life sciences organizations are engaging with their supply chain and utilizing the most efficient and effective methodologies to calculate to better collect emissions data from suppliers when there can be hundreds or thousands of them along the supply chain.
11:30 am
Registration & Networking Lunch
12:15 pm Pre-Conference Day Chair’s Opening Remarks
Tackling Supply Chain Trends for Life Sciences Organizations in 2024
12:25 pm Panel Discussion: How Can We Address Sustainability Expectations Across the Full Value Chain & Support Our Supplier’s Sustainability Agendas?
Synopsis
Questions will include:
- How do life sciences organizations cascade their own sustainability requirements within their own company?
- How can we address sustainability expectations across the full value chain from supply to supplier and how mature is the life sciences industry in making this happen?
- What are the best practices to engage suppliers and create a playbook to bring them on your ESG / sustainability journey with you?
- How do you begin to tackle scope 3 and effectively collect data? What barriers can you expect to come across? How can we get around these?
- Discussing the considerations challenges finding reputable sourcing for packaging that can meet more sustainable packing requirements without it becoming a supply and demand issue?
- What is the cost of operating as a net zero business going forward? To what extent are we limited by technology and electrification on delivering on these goals?
1:00 pm Action: Will you now do to tackle supply chain trends for life sciences organizations in 2024?
1:20 pm
Networking Break
Developing Industry-Wide Collaboration Strategies to Adgvance Life Sciences Towards Net Zero
1:40 pm Discover: Rethinking How to Efficiently Quantifying Carbon Emissions in Biopharma Organizations and Translating Sustainability Metrics to Enhance Business Strategy
Synopsis
- How to quantify your upstream carbon emissions in a biotech organization
- Leveraging ESG to support an organization’s sustainability and business objectives
- How Twist Bioscience are repositioning their organization and leveraging ESG as an advantage for feeding into customers’ supply chain
2:00 pm Discover: How to Advance a Sustainable Lab Operations Agenda and Leveraging Engagement to Align Lab Sustainability Objectives to Your Organizational Sustainability Objectives
Synopsis
- Discussing how to make lab operations more sustainable such as energy usage and freezer temperatures
- Working with supply chain vendors to utilize more sustainable products and uncovering bio-based materials to drive lab sustainability
- How Sanofi are leveraging engagement to align the lab sustainable objectives to organizational sustainable objective
2:20 pm Discover: Enabling Decarbonization in Life Sciences Through Tier-n Supplier Engagement
Synopsis
- The case for decarbonization in Life Sciences and the challenge the industry faces
- Lessons from other industries on how to address the fragmentation in the supply chain emissions using digital solutions e.g. value chain twins
- What could this journey look like for the Life Sciences industry – how do we maximize ROI on time and investments?
2:50 pm Develop: What more can we uncover from forward thinking supply chain and sustainability leaders on how to advance the life sciences industry towards net zero?
3:10 pm Action: What action will you now take to play your part in advancing the life sciences industry towards net zero?
3:30 pm
Networking Break
Streamlining How to Tackle Scope 3 and Stay One Step Ahead of an Evolving Regulatory Landscape
3:50 pm Discover: Advancing Supplier Engagement and Successfully Tackling Scope 3 for Life Sciences Organizations in 2024
Synopsis
- Moving from theory to practice: building out a strategic plan execute to science-based targets
- How to bring your suppliers on your ESG journey with you including designing a supplier playbook to make this successful
- How Thermo Fisher Scientific is tackling scope 3 emissions and doing the work required to successfully engage their suppliers and bring them on their ESG journey
4:10 pm Discover: The Journey toward Scope 3 Net Zero: Pharmaceutical Company Internal and Collaborative Actions toward the Scope 3 Challenge
Synopsis
- Diving into Scope 3: a pharmaceutical company’s approach to the scope 3 journey
- Initial actions pharmaceutical companies can take towards net zero
- How Takeda is leveraging external collaborations to drive scope 3 progress