Villars CSO Leadership Roundtable

Villars CSO Leadership Roundtable

Welcome

The Villars CSO Leadership Roundtable convenes a select group of global Chief Sustainability Officers, scientists, and practitioners to navigate the growing risks and opportunities at the intersection of nature, business, and geopolitics. Designed as an action-oriented forum, the Roundtable fosters peer learning and strategic dialogue to integrate nature into corporate decision-making, accelerate cross-sector collaboration, and strengthen CSOs’ role in driving systems change toward resilient, nature-positive economic pathways.

Afternoon

- (90mins)

Hotel

Hotel Check-In & Event Registration

  • Hotel Check-In
  • Registration and badge pick-up @ Villars Palace

- (45mins)

Hergé Room

01 CSO Insights: Leading at the Frontier of Systems Transformation

What systems transformation are you leading today — and where is real momentum building? Which systemic links would be the most powerful to drive practical action in your efforts? Where do you see the biggest shifts, the most promising innovation and acceleration, and the systems-level changes that matter most for your business — globally, regionally, locally, industry-wide or within your own organization? And amid this momentum, what challenges or uncertainties continue to weigh most heavily on your leadership?

- (75mins)

Hergé Room

02 Science Outlook for Planetary Stability

What does Earth system and ocean science tell us about the stability of the systems that sustain life on Earth—and the pathways that remain? What does this mean for business strategy, risk, and innovation?
Sylvia Earle
Johan Rockström

Evening

- (150mins)

Ballroom

03 Welcome Reception with Conservation Leaders & Villars CSO Leadership Roundtable Dinner

Chief Sustainability Officers are joined by the principals of the world’s leading conservation organizations for the welcome reception: BirdLife International, Conservation International, Fauna & Flora, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Wetlands International, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature.

Dinner will take place in the Villars Palace Ballroom. This meal is prepared based on the recommendations of the EAT-Lancet Commission’s Planetary Health Diet, which provides scientific guidelines to ranges of different food groups that together constitute an optimal diet for human health and environmental sustainability.