Build powerful partnerships
Connect with sustainability leaders, engineers, and consultants to fast-track your environmental goals
Go beyond carbon
Explore vital goals such as habitat creation, environmental justice, and nature-based solutions
Transform your goals into actionable strategies
Engage in interactive workshops and roundtables to translate sustainability goals into business results
Stay ahead of your competition
Access Environment Analyst's trusted research for insights on market shifts and emerging investment opportunities
An agenda crafted by leading experts:
The 2025 agenda has been carefully crafted with input from our Advisory Board, comprising leading experts from across different industry sectors within infrastructure, ensuring all of the Summit sessions address the most pressing issues facing sustainability leaders today.
Why you should attend as a sustainability leader in the...
transportation industry
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Stay Ahead of Regulatory Changes: Gain insights into evolving policies and regulations to navigate compliance and funding opportunities in the US through a global context.
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Develop Actionable Strategies: Learn how to embed sustainability into business operations.
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Make the Business Case for Sustainability: Build compelling KPIs and metrics to secure executive buy-in for sustainability initiatives.
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Explore Financing Opportunities: Discover innovative funding solutions to unlock sustainable infrastructure investments.
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Network with Industry Leaders: Build critical partnerships with asset managers, delivery bodies, and solution providers to accelerate progress.
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Hands-On Learning: Participate in workshops covering developing metrics, reporting & disclosure, and community-led planning for transportation and infrastructure projects.
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Learn from Real-World Success Stories: Explore best practices and lessons learned from sustainable transportation and infrastructure projects showcased by industry leaders.
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Innovate with Emerging Technologies: Discover how AI, digital tools, and automation are transforming and enabling climate-resilient infrastructure projects.
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Strengthen Community Value: Understand how to enhance the social and economic impact of transportation projects through equitable development and community connections.
energy industry
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Discover Best Practices from Global Projects: Learn from practical case studies showcasing innovative approaches to decarbonization, grid modernization, and clean energy transitions globally and in North America.
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Plan and Execute Decarbonization Strategies: Gain insights into transitioning to renewable energy sources while maintaining cost-effective energy supply.
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Meet Finance and Investment Demands: Learn how to develop ESG-aligned projects that safeguard the future investability of assets and navigate shifting market dynamics.
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Prepare the Grid for the Energy Transition: Explore solutions to modernize aging transmission infrastructure to handle the demands of renewable energy and growing energy needs, such as data centers and the use of AI.
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Leverage Nature-Based Solutions: Learn how biodiversity and habitat creation can offset carbon emissions, enhance environmental compliance, and add social value to energy projects.
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Build Strategic Delivery Partnerships: Form relationships with consulting firms, engineers, technical specialists, and other service providers to enrich procurement networks and assemble infrastructure deliver teams.
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Navigate the Digital Energy Future: Explore how digital tools and data solutions can support decarbonization, optimize project delivery, and address the demands of a data-driven economy.
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Expand Your Network and Collaborate: Meet like-minded sustainability leaders, policymakers, and experts to share knowledge, find trusted partners, and collectively address challenges in the energy sector.
water industry
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Access Best Practices and Global Innovations: Break out of operational silos and discover proven approaches from global sustainability projects to modernize aging infrastructure and advance sustainable water management.
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Secure Funding and Investment: Learn how to integrate ESG metrics and sustainability targets to unlock alternative funding sources and navigate potential changes in federal funding under a new administration.
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Address Emerging Challenges like PFAS: Explore solutions for compliance with stricter contamination regulations, managing PFAS risks, and implementing cost-effective mitigation solutions to ensure safe drinking water.
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Build Strategic Delivery Partnerships: Develop relationships with trusted contractors, consultants, and technical specialists to make the case for sustainable water infrastructure and deliver sustainable infrastructure.
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Leverage Nature-Based Solutions: Discover how to use nature as a functional tool in project design to improve water security and provide public services.
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Future-Proof Infrastructure Investments: Equip yourself with knowledge on balancing long-term resiliency investments with affordability for taxpayers, ensuring sustainable water systems for future generations.
Who does the Sustainability Delivery Summit bring together?
2025 Speakers
Network with the entire infrastructure ecosystem
The Sustainability Delivery Summit provides multiple dedicated networking opportunities, specifically designed to help you foster meaningful connections and facilitate action.
Connect with sustainability leaders, infrastructure delivery bodies, and environmental consultants over:
- Welcome coffee & networking every day
- Dedicated networking breaks throughout the Summit
- Our popular networking lunches
- Welcome drinks reception: Networking on the 99th
- Our dedicated event app allows you to book meetings throughout the Summit
These focused networking events offer prime opportunities to forge powerful cross-sector relationships, sparking collaborative innovation and driving the future of sustainable infrastructure.
Collaboration is a fundamental theme of the Summit and is a key driver of change.
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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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Overall, a wonderful event! My highlight was hearing from a diversity of viewpoints in the industry.
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It was great to be with leaders from around the globe working on the vanguard of climate action. I reconnected with old colleagues and we're already starting a new initiative together. Inspiring!
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"I truly enjoyed the Summit and got tremendous value from attending. Great minds came together, ideas were shared and curiosity encouraged. The key takeaway is the importance of collaboration, it's a continuous journey, and by fostering collaboration within our industry, we can enhance our collective effectiveness.
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The Summit had a wide-ranging series of sessions on the future of sustainability. It was great to reconnect with colleagues there. Thanks to all participants, and our hosts Environment Analyst for putting together a great event!
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Environment Analyst curated an inspiring line-up bringing government, private sector and NGO’s deep into conversation on how to better collaborate for a sustainable future.
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Sustainability is in everyone's speeches right now. So when you go to an event and you find people that are deep experts on ecological and sustainability issues you can have a more productive discussion and go to a different level. And that's what I feel at this event!
Our Agenda and Speakers
Discover best-in-class examples of sustainable infrastructure projects from around the globe and get insights from leading organizations that are advancing sustainable, climate-resilient initiatives.
Workshops and Interactive Discussions
Engage in in-depth discussions with industry peers and learn practical skills for embedding sustainability in your projects, from building a financially robust business case, to the softer skills needed to effectively communicate and lead sustainability initiatives internally and across the value chain.
Networking on the 99th
Our exclusive welcome drinks will take place on the 99th floor of the Willis Tower on the evening of the 9th June, connect with sustainability leaders, engineers and environmental consultants overlooking the Chicago skyline.
Sustainability Delivery Awards
Environment Analyst's Sustainability Delivery Awards celebrate organisations and individuals who have made significant advances in progressing towards a sustainable transformation, and achieving climate and net zero goals. Entries open very soon and the winners will be revealed at the Awards Ceremony, which is taking place alongside the Summit.