Agenda at a Glance
Monday, April 10
- 6:00pm: Hosted Networking Dinner
Sponsored by WTS
Tuesday, April 11
- 8:00am: Arrivals
- 8:15am: Introductions & Safety Update
- 9:00am - 3:30pm: Workshop Sessions
- 3:45pm: Milliken Facility Tour
- 4:15pm: Departures
Detailed Agenda
Monday, April 10
6pm: Hosted Networking Dinner Sponsored by WTS
For over 40 years, WTS Inc., headquartered in Lewiston NY, has been working with manufacturing sites in the specialty chemical, specialty material, ultrapure chemical, life science and pharmaceutical sectors across North America. WTS chemists and environmental experts mine wastes for value. Their logistics experts manage over 14,000 unique waste and by-product streams generated or produced at over 280 customers sites to a robust network of over 460 reclaimers, recyclers, processors, disposal facilities and end users without incident. WTS has been named Responsible Care® Partner company of the year within the American Chemistry Council 8 times in the last 10 years.
Tuesday, April 11
8am – Arrivals & Introductions
9am – Session 1: Materiality Assessment
As you begin preparing for your ESG journey, how do you identify and prioritize ESG issues that are the most critical to your organization? Join us to learn about materiality assessments, how to conduct an assessment, how to obtain stakeholder input and how these assessments can help guide your ESG strategy.
10:45am – Session 2: Sustainable Supply Chains
What makes a sustainable supply chain? Join us for this session to learn about and discuss the different components of a sustainable supply chain, hear from other attendees about their experiences, see benchmarking data and learn about resources available to help build your program.
12pm – Lunch
1:15pm – Session 3: Watch Outs for Upcoming Changes at EPA, Updates on Scope 1-3 Emissions & Impacts to both Public & Private Companies
Join us and our very own Genevieve Strand as she presents on the "watch outs" for upcoming changes at EPA, updates to the SEC climate risk disclosure regulation (scope 1-3 emissions) and the impacts these will have to both public and private companies. Following the presentation, we will have a session to discuss how this impacts your business, hurdles that are created from these changes and resources that are needed in the industry to overcome these hurdles.
2:30pm – Session 4: Scope 3 Emissions: Defining, Measuring & Itemizing Emissions
Are you trying to define your Scope 3 emissions and determine how to measure these emissions? Are your customers requesting itemized emissions for their processes? If you are unsure of what resources and technology are needed to bring these request to life, join us as we discuss how to begin preparing for scope 3 emissions, the different resources available and hear about best-practices from those who have started on this journey.