Sustainability Week 2026: Choose Your Free Sessions on business innovation and entrepreneurship
On May 25, the Sustainability Week 2026 Knowledge Hub will host 14 free virtual sessions on sustainability, finance, and business innovation. Topics range from how to select reporting technology solutions aligned with your company’s needs, the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in executive board decision-making, to practical strategies to strengthen the participation of micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in supply chains through access to finance.
These interactive workshops, led by experts, will offer insights into global trends, real-world implementation experiences, and business cases that can help you make better decisions for your company. The first step is simple: choose the sessions you want to explore and register.
Thanks to technology, Sustainability Week has evolved since its first edition in 1999 – from in-person training sessions for our clients to a global hybrid platform that each year brings together thousands of business leaders, creators, and innovators who turn knowledge into concrete business action.
Sustainability Week 2026 Knowledge Hub
*All sessions will offer simultaneous interpretation in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Corporate Governance
Making Family Business Governance Work: Structures, Alignment, and BoundariesHow to structure a Family Council: composition, role, and connection with the company, according to the stage of business development. Register.
SMEs and Integrity
Building Resilience for SMEs Through Integrity
How to design compliance and integrity programs tailored to the size and operational reality of SMEs. Register.
Technology
AmazoniaForever360+: Unlocking Territorial Intelligence Across the Amazonia
Explore AmazoniaForever360+, a platform that analyzes Amazonia's territorial data to support better decision-making. Join a live demonstration of the IDB Group platform, which features more than 140 indicators and artificial intelligence tools accessible to any user. Register.
Environmental and Social Management
Applying Performance Standard 1 "Assessment and Management of Environmental and Social Risks and Impacts" in a Practical Way
Through seven modules, learn how to design and implement an Environmental and Social Management System in line with Performance Standard 1 – from risk management in project execution to minimum requirements for engaging with communities. Register.
Artificial Intelligence
Managing Innovation and AI: Mistakes Boards Cannot Afford to Make
Effective oversight of artificial intelligence (AI): aligning innovation with corporate strategy and managing risk. Register.
Compliance and the Financial Sector
Strengthening the Effectiveness of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism in Latin America and the Caribbean
This seminar explores how to strengthen systems to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing in Latin America and the Caribbean through public-private partnerships and information sharing. It aims to reduce risk, build market confidence, and support capital mobilization. Register.
Transparency and Investment
From Data to Dollars: What Role Does Transparency Play in Investment Choices?
Better and more robust private-sector disclosure practices – and how data transparency shapes sustainable investment decisions. Register.
MSMEs and Markets
Sustainable Supply Chains and MSMEs: What Works and What Doesn’t. Offered by Columbia University, SIRI
Practical strategies to strengthen MSMEs' participation in supply chains, including the critical role of local intermediaries, the use of guarantees, and capacity building to scale access to finance and markets. Register.
Investment in the Caribbean
The CARIBEquity Toolkit: Training and Networking for Early-Stage Investment in the Caribbean
Discover tools for early-stage investors in the Caribbean and a model that combines knowledge, networking, and capacity building to mobilize capital toward regional innovators. Register.
Local Financing
Data for Impact: How Has Data Changed Sustainable Investment Reporting
A seminar on IDB Invest’s AI-powered cash forecasting tool, which replaces fragmented spreadsheets with a unified platform and enables more precise scaling of local-currency financing. Register.
State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
Beyond the Electoral Cycle: How SOEs Sustain Good Governance Through Political Transitions
A practical session on internal governance mechanisms that allow state-owned enterprises to maintain strategic continuity amid changes in government. Register.
Reporting
Future-Ready Reporting: Using Technology to Build Trust, Efficiency, and Control
Offered by Flag Communication
Beyond Excel: How to integrate AI and foster cross-team collaboration to improve performance analysis and reporting. Register.
Impact Financing
IDB Invest’s Experience in Structuring Bonds in Latin America and the Caribbean
A seminar on innovative financial solutions linked to oceans and the expansion of basic sanitation services in the region. Register.
Other Contents on Sustainability Week 2026
• Turning Sustainability Commitments into Bankable Investments
• Corporate Governance: Practical Sessions from Family Business to AI Oversight
• Impact Talks: The Region’s Appeal for Global Investors
More than two decades after our first gathering, the goal of Sustainability Week remains the same: to drive regional growth through private-sector leadership by co-creating solutions and sharing lessons that other businesses can scale.
Along the way, we have evolved into a platform where knowledge becomes real investment opportunities – connecting with global capital and generating impact across Latin America and the Caribbean.
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