2026 Fourth Annual NYSE Sustainability Leaders Summit
Please save the date for the NYSE’s annual Sustainability Leaders Summit, focusing on best practices, successes, and challenges within the corporate sustainability world.
This half-day session will be conducted entirely under Chatham House Rules. This event is exclusively for NYSE-listed company sustainability leaders. No media, vendors, or advisors will be in attendance, and the session will not be recorded. It will offer opportunities for networking with peers as well as a program focused on the key issues sustainability teams are tackling today.
Highlights from our 2026 event are below
Highlights from our 2025 event are below
Thursday, April 9
11:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. ET
11 Wall Street, New York, NY 10005
Registration is closed.
Invitation is non-transferable. Please RSVP to confirm your attendance.
Agenda
11:30 a.m. - Arrival, working lunch
12 - 12:10 p.m. - Welcome and overview
- Brian Matt, CFA, Head of Sustainability Advisory, NYSE
- Larry Lawrence, Vice President, ICE Climate
12:10 - 12:50 p.m. - Panel: Telling your story in a rapidly-changing environment
Public companies should want to speak with one voice to a range of stakeholders. At the same time, it’s incumbent on the sustainability team to meet the audience where they are using the right medium and while limiting risk. Here we’ll learn from storytellers that have helped their companies refine and bulletproof their messaging.
Speakers:
- Kate Olsen, EVP Advisory, Thought Leadership, Social Impact & Sustainability, Weber Shandwick
- Faith Taylor, Chief Sustainability Officer, Kyndryl
- Brian Matt, CFA, Head of Sustainability Advisory, NYSE (moderator)
12:50 - 1:10 p.m. - Panel: Future of the CSO and sustainability roles
“Every hour I spend reporting, I don’t spend doing” is a common refrain from sustainability leads. This necessitates setting up the right structures that match the needs and capabilities of their business. This may require entirely new roles, new reporting lines and budgets, but also creates opportunities to reset how the sustainability organization operates. We’ll hear from the front lines how org charts are changing in 2026 and what the next sustainability roles will look like.
Speakers:
- Kate Shattuck, Managing Partner, Korn Ferry
- Brookly McLaughlin, VP, Corporate Affairs & Sustainability, ICE (moderator)
1:10 - 1:40 p.m. - Break
1:40 - 2:20 p.m. - Panel: Regulation - Steps Forward, Steps Back
To understand what the regulatory environment will look like for companies in 2027, 2028, and beyond, we’ll need to know what legislators, regulators, standard-setters, and other groups are talking about today, then handicap the likelihood of each change reaching fruition (or, being rolled back later). We’ll bring in the best crystal balls in the business to help us here, both domestically and internationally.
Speakers:
- Michael Littenberg, Partner, Ropes & Gray
- Emily Pierce, Director, Regulatory Implementation, ISSB
- Rob McKeehan, Assistant Corporate Secretary, Johnson & Johnson (moderator)
2:20 - 3 p.m. - Panel: Evaluating Physical Climate Risk
Companies and investors are taking independent approaches to measuring acute and chronic physical climate risks, but for different reasons and using different methodologies. We’ll walk through the tools the investor community is using to evaluate companies from an arms’ length perspective, as well as some of the ways those companies are investing in adaptation and resilience and how they are talking about their approach.
Speakers:
- Dan Egan, MD, Head of Americas Real Estate Sustainability, Blackstone
- Larry Lawrence, VP, ICE Climate
- Marnie Rosenberg, Managing Director, Climate, Nature and Social Risk, JP Morgan Chase
- Molly Betournay, Global Head of Sustainable Investing Services, Invesco
3 - 3:30 p.m.- Keynote
Aniket Shah, MD, Global Head of Washington, Sustainability, and Transition Strategy, Jefferies
3:30 - 4 p.m. - Break
4 - 4:40 p.m. - Panel: Evolution of Carbon Accounting
The tools we have today to measure carbon were first developed in a different era, and arguably for a different purpose than they’re used today. Hence, it’s up to us as practitioners to help progress the standards that help us (and our entire value chains) make decisions and allocate capital. We’ll hear perspectives on what carbon accounting harmonization might look like five years from now under both existing and new structures.
Speakers:
- Amy Brachio, CEO, Carbon Measures
- Pete Sheffield, Chief Sustainability Officer, Enbridge
- Philip Schauer, Member of the PCAF Secretariat & PCAF Subject Matter Expert
4:40 - 5:20 p.m. - Interactive session - Setting goals and targets that meet stakeholder needs
5:20 - 5:30 p.m. - Wrap and learnings
Speakers:
- Brian Matt, CFA, Head of Sustainability Advisory, NYSE
- Larry Lawrence, Vice President, ICE Climate