Working Session: Driving Sustainability in 2025: Integrating Smarter and Bolder Strategies
About the event
This interactive working session will explore the most significant trends in sustainable innovation and discuss how to integrate sustainability into business strategies for a bolder, more impactful future. We will briefly examine the current state of sustainability across industries, the challenges and opportunities businesses face, and the role of governance and consumer demand in accelerating momentum. Participants will then gain insights into best practices, emerging technologies, and practical tactics to drive sustainability initiatives within their organizations.
Learning Objectives
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Understand the current state of sustainability across industries and the key trends driving innovation.
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Learn how to integrate sustainability into business strategies for smarter and bolder decision-making.
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Identify the challenges and opportunities in implementing sustainability initiatives and develop practical solutions.
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Gain insights into best practices, emerging technologies, and successful case studies to guide sustainability efforts.
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Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among participants to collectively advance sustainability goals.
Meet your panelists
Aeton Lim brings extensive consulting and forecasting experience on innovation and go-to-market strategies, particularly for leading, world-class clients in the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) industry, both in Asia-Pacific region as well as other markets within Europe, the United States, Middle East and Latin America.
In addition to his innovation consulting work, Aeton is an NIQ award-winning Thought Leadership contributor that regularly provides his perspective to Asia C-suite thought leadership pieces to help advance and shape perspectives. He is also an Honoree in the prestigious Global GreenBook Future List in 2025 and finalist in 2023 and 2024, a recognition to his leadership, professional growth and helping to trailblaze the future of the industry. He is also a Judge at ESOMAR, the global association for market research and insights. He also has the chance to glean learnings from LVMH around luxury topics. Aeton is currently undergoing INSEAD Executive Education on Business Strategy & Financial Performance.
Alongside that, Aeton was also the Next-Gen Asia-Pacific Leader whom drives the annual global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) agenda and input to key business DEI priorities at the corporate level. Aeton have also helped NielsenIQ Singapore obtain Company of Good National Award from the nation’s President through advocating and promoting partnerships with commercial and non-profit partnership as a force to do good. In 2024, he worked together with London’s deputy major of Business; Howard Dawber’s agency, London & Partners to enable organizational global capability enhancement.
Outside of work, Aeton is an accredited board director at the Singapore Institute of Directors that advocates for effective corporate governance, sustainability and transformation for meaningful change. He has also mentored non-profit leadership alongside board-level executives, providing guidance on growth direction.
Aeton is also a speaker on growth and innovation strategy, having presented at forums within NTU, NUS, SMU, SUSS, Singapore Polytechnic Business School, International Society of Sustainability Professionals, Global Supply Chain Council, Temasek Foundation.
This event addresses the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Continuing education requirements
ISSP credential holders will earn 0.5 CEU's for attending this working session.
Recording
This is an interactive working session and will not be recorded.
Please note that your link to join will only be emailed to you after registration.