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SDS Chicago 2025

SDS Chicago 2025

2025 Key Themes

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Driving value through sustainable infrastructure

The Sustainability Delivery Summit connects the entire infrastructure ecosystem to deliver resilient, future-proofed projects and positive environmental outcomes.

This is the only event that takes a pragmatic approach to sustainability, helping industry leaders adapt to shifting economic and political landscapes while unlocking financial, social, and environmental benefits.

Through closed-group discussions, expert intelligence, and shared experience, the Summit supports attendees in turning challenges into opportunities.

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Helping to Deliver on Sustainability Pledges

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Key Themes for 2025:

The Summit’s dynamic agenda is designed to tackle the pressing challenges and opportunities in sustainable infrastructure, featuring thought-provoking sessions, actionable workshops, and expert-led discussions including:

  • Adapting to the new policy priorities of the Federal administration to find growth

  • Understanding the latest environment & sustainability market developments in North America and globally

  • Using infrastructure development to enhance community value 

  • Quantifying nature and developing the internal, client and project business case for integrating nature and ecosystem restoration

  • Embedding sustainability as “business as usual”

  • Harnessing digital technologies to improve data management, aid emissions reporting & add value

  • Effectively integrating sustainability metrics into into the whole infrastructure project life-cycle

  • Financing the transition: effectively using risk mitigation and sustainability-linked financial mechanisms

  • Addressing Scope 3 emissions across the supply chain to achieve net zero goals

  • Decarbonizing transportation  

  • Enabling a clean and accessible energy transition

  • And much more...

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​​​​​​Your Guide to the Sustainability Delivery Summit

Your guide to joining the Sustainability Delivery Summit this June in Chicago, featuring program highlights, feature lineup, speakers, sponsors, association partners, and more!

From hands-on workshops to peer-to-peer roundtables, the Summit is designed to deliver practical tools and valuable connections to embed sustainability across infrastructure projects.

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Adapting to the new policy priorities of the Federal administration to find growth

Adapting to the new policy priorities of the Federal administration to find growth

Sessions include:
  • Business Leaders’ Forum: Navigating Change - Reshaping Sustainability to Align with New Economic Realities.
  • Exploring how Economic Transformation can be Achieved through Effectively Supporting Energy-Dependent Communities.

  • Opening Keynote: Full Steam Ahead - Climate Action at the Local Level.

Leveraging Innovation and Digital Tools for Sustainability

Leveraging Innovation and Digital Tools for Sustainability

Sessions include:
  • INNOVATOR HUB: Meet the teams behind emerging technologies.
  • Leveraging AI & Digital Tools to Enable & Accelerate a Sustainable Transition.
  • Grid Modernization: Developing a Resilient, Flexible Transmission Network to Manage Future Demand Profiles.
Embedding Equity, Nature, and Sustainability Into Every Stage

Embedding Equity, Nature, and Sustainability Into Every Stage

Sessions include:

  • NATURE: Using Nature as a Functional Tool in Infrastructure Project Design.

  • Embedding Long-Term Resiliency into Critical Infrastructure to Mitigate Extreme Weather Impacts.
  • Making the Business Case for Sustainability in 2025.
Unlocking Financing and Policy Solutions to Enable Transformation

Unlocking Financing and Policy Solutions to Enable Transformation

Sessions include:
  • Financing Infrastructure Development to Support a Sustainable Transition.
  • The Investors’ Perspective: Defining & Delivering a Credible Sustainability Plan.
  • Roundtable: Improving Societal Resilience through Innovative Financing & Alternative Risk Transfer (ART) Solutions.
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