

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.
Connect with 70+ senior HSE leaders for a curated agenda focused on tackling your current business critical challenges and driving industry forward.
Our summits are designed to help you:
Build new connections with likeminded senior leaders
Stay current with emerging business trends
Understand the impact new technology can make
De-risk new projects by gaining a broad range of insights
Accelerate key projects through meaningful new partnerships
Downloadable and actionable takeaways
09:00 - 09:20
09:20 - 09:50
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.
09:55 - 10:35
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
10:45 - 11:45
Track 1: ESG Criteria and increasingly high standards
Track 2: Safety Culture Implementation
Track 3: Injury prevention & digital transformation
11:50 - 12:20
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
09:10 - 09:40
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."
09:45 - 10:25
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.
10:35 - 11:35
Track 1: ESG Criteria and increasingly high standards
Track 2: Safety Culture Implementation
Track 3: Injury prevention & digital transformation
11:40 - 12:20
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
09:10 - 09:40
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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.
09:45 - 10:25
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.
10:35 - 11:35
Roundtable Panel Review
11:35 - 12:05
EverSafe: How One Cross-Industry Pandemic Partnership Delivered New Levels of Safety Excellence
Engage with a virtual live audience just as you would at a physical event and create meaningful conversations.
The ultimate live polling and gamification tools, keeping your audience engaged.
Enabling our team to help you control your session experience.
Interactive quizzes to gamify your session.
Content and insight from industry experts when it matters most.
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.
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You will leave the summit with best practices to immediately apply back to your organisation and new connections from meaningful conversations.
If you haven’t been to a GDS Digital Summit, you will be incredibly impressed. It’s far more engaging than most digital event experiences. It’s a very interactive environment.
I connected with peers that I know I’ll stay in touch with, including suppliers which have presented a fantastic opportunity for 7-Eleven Global in the future. It may well be the most valuable summit I’ve attended in many years
Thank you so much! Great Summit - an outstanding 3 days that culminated in this Award ... I am humbled and honored. Congratulations to you all for pulling off a Hybrid Summit with Augmented Reality features that are truly unparalleled in the Industry! Collaborative, Interactive & showcasing leading edge technology ... GDS Summits really set the bar so high that a return to physical conferences might be re-evaluated in the Industry. You are an amazing Team of Professionals & I am truly honoured to have been a part of this Summit.