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SDS Chicago 2025

SDS Chicago 2025

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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 through focused networking events offering prime opportunities to forge cross-sector relationships, spark collaborative innovation and drive the future of sustainable infrastructure.

Collaboration is a fundamental theme of the Summit as a key driver of change.

Networking at the Sustainability Delivery Summit

Welcome drinks reception: Networking on the 99th

For the fifth annual summit, our attendees, speakers, and sponsors were invited to a unique opportunity to enjoy canapes, drinks, and networking on the 99th floor of one of America’s most iconic buildings: The Willis Tower.

The reception kicked-off the Summit on the evening of the 9th June.

An agenda with connection at its core

Throughout the 2025 Summit there were scheduled sessions to encourage discussion and collaboration:

  • Welcome coffee & networking
  • Dedicated networking breaks throughout the agenda
  • Our popular networking lunches
  • Roundtables & workshop sessions
  • Open Business Leaders Forum 

1-to-1 meeting opportunities and more

The Sustainability Delivery Summit event app gives attendees access to:

  • 1-to-1 meeting invitations 
  • Learn more about our speakers, sponsors and your fellow attendees
  • Build your own agenda and plan which sessions you will attend
  • Find useful content to support your discussions at the Summit

Space to Connect

The fifth annual Sustainability Delivery Summit took place in June 2025 at Convene, Willis Tower, taking over an entire floor to ensure attendees had optimal space for connection.

With light-filled networking areas, exhibition zones, breakout spaces, and terraces, the venue is designed to keep you inspired and energised throughout the day.

The 2025 VIP area included a dedicated Members’ Lounge and private boardroom space for Environment Analyst members and their guests.

Download the 2025 Summit Floorplan

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Who Attended in 2025?

The Sustainability Delivery Summit is the event where leaders gather to collaborate, share strategies, and find the tools and solutions needed to move forward.

Explore the 2025 attendee list, to see who you could connect with in 2026, with attendees from:

  • Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning
  • Climate Mayors
  • Alliant Energy
  • Ramboll, JLL
  • National Grid Ventures
  • WSP
  • BDO
  • Aether Fuels
  • International Sustainable Resilience Center

and many more

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2025 Speakers

 

Meet the Speakers

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

Your guide to joining 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.

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  • Overall, a wonderful event! My highlight was hearing from a diversity of viewpoints in the industry.
    Eileen Miller
    Senior Project Risk Advisor, Aon
  • 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!
    Joyce Coffee
    Founder and President, Climate Resilience Consulting
  • "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.
    Alicia Darrow
    Client & Market Strategist, GHD
  • 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!
    Brett Ogilvie
    Executive Leader, Tonkin & Taylor Ltd
  • 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.
    Michelle Carr
    Illinois Director, The Nature Conservancy
  • 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!
    Rodrigo Fernandes
    Director, ES(D)G, Bentley Systems

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