10.00 - 15.30 PDT
This year's Sustainable Brands conference will focus on breakthrough innovation opportunities in service of smarter, healthier, and faster transitions to sustainable and regenerative business models. For business and society to thrive in harmony with nature, virtually all industries will need innovative solutions that are adequately and ethically deployed at scale. We will dive into a number of promising directions through a variety of session formats.
Hear from purpose-driven, action-oriented visionaries from the world’s leading brands who are focused on delivering positive results for businesses, consumers, the planet, and society. Mainstage speakers will present the latest leadership skills and capabilities, case studies of reinventing business models at scale, and inspiration to transform your relationship with customers, suppliers, investors, employees, and communities.
Alfred DuPuy, Director of Valuation & Strategy, Brand Finance will join two engaging panel discussions:
Research insights series: Consumer preferences and behaviors - 10:00-12:00 PDT
In this data-rich session, expert researchers will share new insights into customer preferences, behaviors, and reactions to sustainability-centric value propositions. Gain a wealth of valuable data from The SB Socio-Cultural Trends Research™, as well as leading researchers such as Ipsos, Globescan, and Shelton Group (an ERM Group company), among other contributors. Attendees will hear the latest in consumer intelligence, plus get an opportunity for follow-up conversations with globally recognized researchers and business peers.
Leadership in sustainability-centric governance: Guidance on achieving and maintaining sustained excellence - 13:30-15:30 PDT
This insight-packed session will provide a compilation of best practices and advice on several key dimensions of sustainability-minded governance. The range of governance issues covered will include: putting purpose into practice in effective and lasting ways, meeting the urgency and necessity of science-based climate targets, embedding climate justice across the value chain, engaging CFOs in co-ownership of sustainability priorities, creating financial vehicles that can help achieve sustainability targets, getting smarter about tactical updates to insurance planning, and putting nature on the Board, among others.
Alfred is a brand specialist with 15+ years’ experience working in and leading client engagements encompassing research (qualitative and quantitative), analytics, insights, strategy, architecture, valuation, modeling, and ROI across a wide variety of sectors, markets, and geographies. He has developed innovative techniques for clients’ most interesting brand challenges and has led diverse teams of researchers, strategists, designers, architects, and namers.
As Valuation & Strategy Director for North America, Alfred leads project teams, liaises with and develops key client and senior leadership relationships, supports new business development, and drives the team to extend Brand Finance’s extensive analytical abilities to deeper, more strategic insights that can help our clients accomplish their most pressing business goals.
In his career, Alfred has worked with clients across a variety of sectors including financial services, industrial, manufacturing, logistics, automotive, retail, hospitality, higher education, and not-for profit. One of his very first projects (leading a ground-breaking segmentation technique to support strategic development and an identity refresh) was for one of his very favorite boyhood brands, John Deere. He has appeared on media channels and news programs (especially during his time in Toronto) commenting on Brand Valuation and the importance of brand as an asset.