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Workplaces are transforming rapidly as industries continue to harness emerging technology to enhance people and processes.
Connect with leading industry experts on business-critical challenges and the new wave of EHS opportunity and drive industry forward collaboratively.
Why Attend
New connections
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Business trends
Stay current with emerging business trends
Key takeaways
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
New partnerships
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Insights
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
New technologies
Understand the impact new technology can make



















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Past Programme
09:00 - 09:15
Opening Remarks
Intro & Diamond Commentary
09:15 - 09:45
Keynote
Sustainability & Innovation in Food Manufacturing
Stewart Leeth, chief sustainability officer for Smithfield Foods, discusses how the food manufacturing industry is working to solve some of the biggest environmental health and safety challenges of our time.
09:45 - 10:25
Panel Discussion
Critical risk management
This session will discuss the potential of an incident rather than the outcome exploring how we engage investigate, learn and measure HiPos
•Risk from environmental impact and regulation changes
•High potential incidents and life altering injury
•Environmental risk
10:25 - 10:35
Insight Break
10:35 - 11:25
Roundtables
Track 1: ESG Criteria and increasingly high standards
Track 2: Safety Culture Implementation
Track 3: Injury prevention & digital transformation
11:25 - 11:30
Short Break
11:30 - 12:10
Masterclass Breakouts
12:11 - 12:41
Headline Keynote
Modern Solutions for the Modern Workforce: Wellness in the Era of Hybrid Work
By 2028, 73% of all departments are expected to employ remote workers. As the last 18 months have shown, work is evolving—work-from-home and hybrid schedules are fast becoming the norm across industries, and major enterprises like Google, Twitter, and Apple have all made plans for permanent remote work. For leaders, this means reframing the discussion of workplace health, safety, and wellness around solutions that can adapt to employees' needs wherever they are, using flexible wellness programming that addresses each employee from a whole-person perspective. With holistic, multi-faceted programs to support ergonomic standards and overall wellness, employers can help ensure the safety and well-being of their workers, whether they do their jobs on-site or elsewhere.
09:00 - 09:10
Opening Remarks
09:10 - 09:40
Keynote
The dynamic role of an EH&S Leader in today’s world: ESG, Safety Culture, Sustainability, Technology & Data Insights
The ESG landscape continues to expand to include material impacts, risks, and opportunities to companies, society, and all stakeholders. Understanding materiality and the alignment between social and environmental is critical to a solid ESG strategy. Safety & Health being part of the woven fabric of your company culture is critical to sustaining low injury rates, ensuring employees remain healthy and well. Establishing goals, competencies, investment in talent, and cross functional engagement are key to creating a world-class program. The “H” is no longer silent.
Technology as an enabler of EHS and ESG is more important now than ever and this will only increase in the future. Understanding strategically your “technology stack”, your tools, and overall strategy will be critical to ensure investments are made that improve safety performance, environmental compliance, and overall ESG.
09:42 - 10:22
Panel Discussion
Aligning EHS with Wider Initiatives to Drive Business Value
HSE management through a sustainability lens systemically helps companies identify, manage, assess and continually improve environmental risks and opportunities, developing KPIs and creating value for the company and its corporate stakeholders. Over the last decade tehnology innovation, new business models, products that challenge established industry practices and now a pandemic have put a focus on EHS sustainability among corporate stakeholders.
10:22 - 10:32
Insight Break
10:35 - 11:25
Roundtables
Track 1: ESG Criteria and increasingly high standards
Track 2: Safety Culture Implementation
Track 3: Injury prevention & digital transformation
11:26 - 11:56
Innovation Exchange Keynote
11:58 - 12:30
Closing Prime Keynote
Tactical Safety
How can risk, especially critical fatal risk, be quickly driven out of a diverse global organization? Many businesses are very good at conducting investigations and analysis, but many struggle to standardize best-in-class controls.
•Targeting the Risk
•Proactive Data
•Prioritizing Action & Standardization
•Driving Improvement Results
09:00 - 09:10
Opening Remarks
09:10 - 09:40
Keynote
Retrieving data. Wait a few seconds and try to cut or copy again
The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the awareness of respiratory protection in the general public, public health and industrial workplaces. This is leading to an unprecedented level of innovation to create respiratory protection equipment that is more built-for-purpose to enhance safety and productivity, and backed up by a much more robust supply chain than ever before. New developments at all levels of the supply chain will be discussed, from basic materials and air filters to disposable masks, reusable respirators and advanced powered respirators.
09:41 - 10:21
Panel Discussion
Don’t Walk By, Take Action Now
How do you get over 85,000 observations in a year from your workforce? Dexterra Group will share some of their story on their Don’t Walk By, Take Action Now approach. This approach empowers participation from all levels within the organization and can reduce loss, save cost and supports continuous improvement. It originally started as a health and safety hazard reporting program but has evolved into much more and supports their current journey to include H,S,E & Q in everything they do.
10:22 - 10:32
Insight Break
10:30 - 11:20
Roundtable Leaders Panel
11:30 - 12:00
Innovation Exchange Keynote
12:01 - 12:31
Closing Keynote
EverSafe: How One Cross-Industry Pandemic Partnership Delivered New Levels of Safety Excellence
12:31 - 12:41
Insight Break -Closing Comments
An immersive
event experience
interactive features including:
Audience Interaction
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
Interactive Live Polling
Keep engaged through interactive live polling and gamification tools.
Direct connections
Ask your questions face-to-face with the speakers via our leading stage technology.
Relationship building
Build stronger connections with leading executives that you will take with you through your career
Thought Leadership
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most
Intelligent interaction
Interactive quizzes gamify your experience
FAQs
There is no cost associated with attending a GDS Summit. In return, we ask that all senior executives in participation attend for the full duration to ensure that all attendees get maximum value and insight from the interactive roundtables, live Q&As and breakout networking sessions.
Our digital summit portfolio is designed to bring together senior decision makers from large global businesses and innovative disruptor brands to drive industry forward through addressing business critical challenges collaboratively.
If you’re keen to build new connections with likeminded leaders, de-risk your projects through new insight and establish new partnerships that can accelerate your projects then apply to attend today.
Complete our ‘apply to attend’ form on the event page if you’re interested in attending the summit and you meet our application criteria. A member of the GDS team will then reach out to run you through the programme and event format and discuss your participation.
On stage: co-host a panel discussion with a group of likeminded senior executives or host a solo keynote presentation. Both slots include elements of interactive audience Q&A
Off stage: become a roundtable moderator, leading the discussion with the same cohort of executives for the duration of the summit around a specific topic you’ve agreed to focus on during the roundtable session.
We can tailor a partnership package to help meet your business objectives. This might include brand awareness, driving traffic to your site or quality editorial content via exclusive interviews and Q&As with our executive audience. Enquire today for more information.