The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) – an industry sustainability leadership forum representing global automakers and their tiered suppliers – is inviting content proposals for workshop, panel, and innovation pitch sessions for the 2025 SP Innovation Summit scheduled for July 29-30, 2025 in Detroit, Michigan.

Organized by SP’s Technology & Innovation Advisory Committee, the SP Innovation Summit is designed as a leadership event focused on building understanding of critical barriers impacting the sustainability of the automotive industry and its supply chain and working towards practical solutions to accelerate innovation. Attendees include senior-level representatives from across the automotive industry and supply chain.

SP is inviting proposals to support key aspects of the 2025 Summit agenda, including, but not limited to:

· facilitators / speakers for deep-dive workshops / training sessions;
· executive-level speakers for plenary session panels;
· sustainability-focused innovation / technology pitch presentations

The Committee is seeking speaker proposals touching on emerging trends, leading practices, or new innovations relevant to automotive sustainability goals. Key themes of interest to our attendees include:
  • Decarbonizing Operations & Supply Chains: Exploring challenges and opportunities in effectively advancing industry decarbonization efforts within manufacturing operations and through the value chain on the path toward carbon neutrality.
  • Sustainable & Circular Materials: Exploring challenges and opportunities in accelerating industry efforts towards a low-carbon circular materials economy via deep dives on specific product / material categories.
  • Nature & Water Stewardship: Exploring new initiatives and stakeholder expectations aimed at a wide range of nature-related risks and dependencies within the value chain, and new opportunities to drive positive impacts through nature-based solutions and water stewardship practices.
  • Sustainability Leadership Strategies & Emerging Issues: Exploring challenges and opportunities in integrating sustainability within the business and building capacity to adapt and innovate in face of rapid change.
Consultants / software vendors submitting a speaker proposal should propose at least one corporate partner as a co-presenter within their proposals. No sales pitches are permitted by Summit presenters. Interactive workshops and session formats designed to engage attendees in conversation are generally preferred within breakout sessions.

To submit a content proposal for consideration by the Council, please complete the following nomination form. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis and are requested to be submitted before January 31, 2025.

The Council will review submitted proposals and notified those selected for inclusion in the Summit in late February / early March 2025. Please note the Council is only able to select a very limited number of proposals for inclusion in this event.

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* 1. Your Contact Information

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* 2. FORMAT. Which of the following formats do you feel best fits your proposal? 

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* 3. TOPIC. What key sustainability topic or automotive industry priority would this proposal address? (one sentence)

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* 4. ABSTRACT. Please briefly describe your content proposal for the Summit including proposed objectives, presentation content and names / organizations of any expected speakers / contributors. (2-4 paragraphs)

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* 5. AUDIENCE. Who would the target audience be for this content / activity? (e.g. EHS, Sustainability, Manufacturing, Engineering, Purchasing, etc.)

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