Today’s climate crisis urges us all to rethink and reinvent our business practices. Businesses across Asia Pacific are under growing pressure to meet the challenge of climate change and step up to higher expectations of sustainability. Expectations for businesses are changing and leaders need to take a more active role in tackling the sustainability agenda in order to protect their organisations.
In partnership with WOMAG, LEVEL3 is hosting an evening of open conversation to view sustainability and climate change more broadly as an opportunity to identify future opportunities, unlock new innovations and ignite unexpected collaborations. Framed around Deloitte’s new perspective, The Sustainability Transformation: Look Ahead, Look Inside, Look Around, the event will invite participants to converse and exchange ideas with six sustainability experts to discuss how they are turning sustainability from a risk, into an opportunity.
Opening Welcome:
Upma Arora | General Manager, LEVEL3 | WOMAG Community Lead
Erin Sweeney | Lead, Sustainable Investment & Inclusion, Grow Asia | WOMAG Vice President, Operations
About Speakers:
Megan Willis | Sustainability Lead, Cocoa and Chocolate (APAC), Cargill
Megan is a sustainability and social impact professional with verifiable expertise in agriculture supply chains in both emerging markets and in the U.S. Her passion lies in developing sustainability strategies, fostering strategic partnerships, and creating business opportunities for responsible sourcing of agricultural goods in the private sector.
While in the public sector, she designed and managed a large portfolio of donor investments, leading to high economic impact for disadvantaged communities in frontier markets. Megan is a seasoned manager, skilled at leading multi-cultural teams and engaging a variety of stakeholders from farmers and rural communities to CEOs and high-ranking government officials.
Cherie Tan | Vice President, Sustainable and Communications, Asia Pacific Rayon (APR)
Cherie is a seasoned sustainability professional with 20 years of experience in the field, civil society and private sector. She possesses a deep knowledge of the agriculture sector, smallholder market access, environment protection and stakeholder management.
Sue Helen Nieto | Associate Director, Sustainable Supply Chains, South Pole
Sue is a sustainability expert with over 10 years of experience across Asia and Latin America in a variety of sectors. She has worked with corporates in their journey towards sustainability by designing business transformation strategies, setting and achieving sustainability targets and creating positive impact along their supply chains. She has a strong track record building partnerships with suppliers, NGOs and other stakeholders. Sue also works with public and international organisations in climate change mitigation through sustainable land use management.
Yvone Foong | Founder, ChekTec
Yvone Foong is the Founder of Chektec, a mobile-first strategy enterprise solution integrating value chain, traceability and sustainability, tracking both assets and actions, with valuable data insights.
Chektec is a winner of the Shell IdeaRefinery, the winner of Grow Asia’s (multiple stakeholders include the World Economic Forum and ASEAN) Agritech Hackathon and was featured on interviews with MoneyFM98.3 and CNA938.
Yvone is also member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) and is a member of the Energy Institute (EI).
Anita Neville | Senior Vice President, Group Corporate Communications, Golden Agri-Resources (GAR)
Anita's background is in sustainability communications, translating environmental and social issues and challenges into creative communications that have changed laws, engaged the corporate sector and promoted more sustainable individual behaviour.
She has more than 20 years experience as a “sustainability” communicator – working in government and non-government organisations, as partner of my her communications agency, and now for the world's second largest palm oil company.
About Moderator:
Sarah Kerrigan | Senior Manager, Deloitte (Moderator)
Sarah has spent over a decade consulting with global organisations to bring sustainable ideas, innovations and solutions to life.
Sarah’s current role at Deloitte focuses on the intersection of sustainability, strategy and innovation. She manages the go-to-market of Deloitte Asia Pacific’s regional sustainability and climate change strategy, and regularly authors thought leadership. Recent insights include ‘The Sustainability Transformation: Look ahead, look inside, look around’ which examines how businesses can accelerate their sustainability transformation to find new opportunities and avenues for growth.
About WOMAG:
Women in Agribusiness (“WOMAG”) is a professional network of women and men, with a mission to accelerate the development of female leaders in the food and agriculture ecosystem in Southeast Asia by providing opportunities for networking, knowledge-building and professional development. Our aim is to foster a food and agriculture ecosystem whose leadership reflects the gender diversity of an evolving and growing ecosystem in Southeast Asia.
Our Values:
Inclusion, Diversity and Equity – We promote inclusion, diversity and equity, so all people can thrive in our industry.
Integrity – We conduct all our activities transparently and ethically.
Neutrality – We create a safe and neutral platform to explore industry issues and trends.
Collaboration – We seek to connect and collaborate with like-minded organisations.
