Drive Collective Action
Join forces with sustainability leaders, policymakers, and environmental and sustainability consultants to share expertise and advice to re-evaluate, find the right language, and continue to drive forward the sustainability industry.
Unlocking Investment and Financing Opportunities
Explore evolving funding mechanisms and financial strategies that can power sustainable infrastructure development.
Strategic Insights for Business Leaders
Learn from expert-led sessions, interactive workshops, and closed Business Leaders Forums (BLFs) that provide targeted strategies and open discussion for decision-makers across infrastructure delivery.
Growth and Market Trends
Discover how evolving trends will impact the market and create investment opportunities, with Environment Analyst’s trusted independent research and analysis on the environmental and sustainability sector.
The 2025 agenda was 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.
Adapt to Rapid Change: Gain critical insights into evolving political and economic conditions and their impact on infrastructure investment, permitting, and delivery.
Drive Collective Action: Join forces with policymakers, sustainability leaders, and environmental consultants to share expertise and support sustainable transportation.
Make the Business Case for Sustainability: Build compelling KPIs and metrics to secure executive buy-in for sustainability initiatives.
Explore Financing Opportunities: Discover innovative funding solutions to unlock sustainable infrastructure investments.
Network with Industry Leaders: Build critical partnerships with asset managers, delivery bodies, and solution providers to accelerate progress.
Hands-On Learning: Participate in workshops covering developing metrics, reporting & disclosure, and community-led planning for transportation and infrastructure projects.
Learn from Real-World Success Stories: Explore best practices and lessons learned from sustainable transportation and infrastructure projects showcased by industry leaders.
Innovate with Emerging Technologies: Discover how AI, digital tools, and automation are transforming and enabling climate-resilient infrastructure projects.
Strengthen Community Value: Understand how to enhance the social and economic impact of transportation projects through equitable development and community connections.
Adapt to Rapid Change: Gain critical insights into evolving political and economic conditions and their impact on infrastructure investment, permitting, and delivery.
Drive Collective Action: Join forces with policymakers, sustainability leaders, and environmental consultants to share expertise and support a sustainable energy transition.
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.
Plan and Execute Decarbonization Strategies: Gain insights into transitioning to renewable energy sources while maintaining cost-effective energy supply.
Meet Finance and Investment Demands: Learn how to develop ESG-aligned projects that safeguard the future investability of assets and navigate shifting market dynamics.
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.
Leverage Nature-Based Solutions: Learn how biodiversity and habitat creation can offset carbon emissions, enhance environmental compliance, and add social value to energy projects.
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.
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.
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.
Adapt to Rapid Change: Gain critical insights into evolving political and economic conditions and their impact on infrastructure investment, permitting, and delivery.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leverage Nature-Based Solutions: Discover how to use nature as a functional tool in project design to improve water security and provide public services.
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.
Adapt to Rapid Change: Stay ahead of evolving political, regulatory, and economic conditions that impact infrastructure investment, permitting, and delivery. Learn how shifting federal priorities, funding mechanisms, and environmental regulations will shape the sustainability landscape.
Drive Collective Action: Collaborate with industry leaders, policymakers, and fellow E&S consultants to share expertise and best practices. Engage in open, solution-driven discussions to refine messaging, navigate challenges, and drive meaningful progress in the sustainability industry.
Harness Disruption for Growth: Discover how leading consultancies are leveraging innovation, financing strategies, and digital transformation to secure funding, streamline project approvals, and deliver sustainable infrastructure at scale.
Unlock Investment and Financing Opportunities: Gain exclusive insights into emerging funding mechanisms, public-private partnerships, and sustainability-linked financial strategies that support infrastructure resilience and decarbonization goals.
Strategic Insights for Business Leaders: Participate in expert-led sessions, hands-on workshops, and Business Leaders Forums (BLFs) designed to provide targeted strategies for decision-makers navigating sustainability challenges in the AEC industry.
Growth & Market Trends: Access Environment Analyst’s trusted independent research and analysis to understand how evolving trends in sustainability, infrastructure investment, and policy will shape market opportunities in North America and globally.
The Sustainability Delivery Summit 2025 took place at Convene, Willis Tower, taking over an entire floor, allowing you space to network as well as work remotely.
With light-filled networking areas, exhibition zones, breakout spaces, and terraces, the venue is designed to keep you inspired and energised throughout the day.
Attendees made the most of designated call booths, boardrooms and quiet areas so their work didn't have to stop while attending the Summit.
Who does the Sustainability Delivery Summit bring together?
2025 Speakers
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:
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.
Your guide to the Sustainability Delivery Summit 2025 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.
Our speakers, panelists and workshops delved into critical insights into evolving political and economic conditions and how they impact infrastructure investment, permitting, and delivery.
Meet the Speakers
Sustainability leaders, policymakers, and environmental and sustainability consultants joined forces in Chicago to share expertise and advice to re-evaluate, find the right language, and continue to drive forward sustainability.
Our exclusive welcome drinks took place on the 99th floor of the Willis Tower on the evening of the 9th June, giving attendees the opportunity to connect with sustainability leaders, engineers and environmental consultants overlooking the Chicago skyline.
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 are now closed and the winners were revealed at the Awards Ceremony, which took place alongside the 2025 Summit.
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