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

Registration and badge pick-up @ Villars Palace Hotel

- (45mins)

Hergé Room

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

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

Welcome Reception with Conservation Leaders & Villars CSO Leadership Roundtable Dinner

A synthesis of insights from the first day: emerging themes, shared challenges, and early signals of how corporate sustainability can accelerate and amplify progress, through action, communication and supply chains. World renown artist and science communicator Thijs Biersteker will combine his years of working with LVMH, Polestar, UNESCO and many CSOs with cases that reflect on the previous day and shape the conversations of the day to come.