The 2026 Business Post ESG & Sustainable Business Summit is set to take place on 15 April at Croke Park in Dublin, featuring the theme ‘Future-proofing business through sustainable innovation’.
The summit will explore how businesses can navigate accelerating climate impacts, shifting regulations, and rising expectations around biodiversity, resource use, and long‑term resilience, and will bring together business leaders, policymakers and sustainability professionals.
Speaker lineup
Hosted by Philip Boucher Hayes. broadcaster and presenter of RTÉ Radio 1’s Countrywide, speakers set to address the summit include John Sweeney, emeritus professor of geography at Maynooth University and climatologist; Marie C. Donnelly, chairperson of the Climate Change Advisory Council; Niall Conroy, chief economist at the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council; Eimear O’Sullivan, corporate affairs director at Lidl Ireland and Northern Ireland; Gordon Naughton, chief executive of Tactive and a member of the Sustainability Working Group at Chartered Accountants Ireland; Fabiola Schneider of University College Dublin and the ESMA Standing Sustainability Committee; and Caroline Cawley, business programme lead for the Nature Strategy Accelerator at Business for Biodiversity.
More speakers are set to be announced in due course, along with details about panel discussions, workshops and roundtable sessions. The agenda can be found here https://esgandsustainablebusinesssummit.ie/event-agenda/spring26/
Key topics
Topics set for discussion at the event include decarbonisation, supply-chain transformation, climate adaptation planning and aligning profit with environmental and social objectives, as well as how ESG considerations are impacting competitiveness, particularly for small-to-medium sized enterprises.
For those wishing to attend, the standard delegate rate is €275 plus VAT. Group offers include a three-for-two package at €550 plus VAT and a five-for-three package at €825 plus VAT. The delegate rate includes access to all conference sessions, lunch and refreshments, networking opportunities with hundreds of attendees, a post-event list of participants (without contact details and subject to permission), copies of all presentations, and a three-month complimentary subscription to BusinessPost.ie.
To secure your place, log on to https://events.businesspost.ie/event/esg-spring-summit-2026/
