2025 Social Impact, CSR and Sustainability Conferences Guide

On Sustainability Research Network is brought together by a common concern for sustainability from a holistic perspective, where environmental, cultural, economic, and social interests intersect. We seek to build an epistemic community where we can make linkages across disciplinary, geographic, and cultural boundaries. As a Research Network we are defined by our scope and concerns and motivated to build strategies for action framed by our shared themes and tensions.

You’re leading change in an unpredictable political, social and economic environment. At GreenBiz 25, you’ll connect with peers and trailblazers and master the skills essential to face your company’s unique challenges. Join your community, including the most influential voices in sustainability, and learn what’s next in decarbonization, disclosure, nature, supply chains, strategic communications, change management and more at GreenBiz 25.

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance hosts this conference experience for social sector leaders. Elevate 2025 will offer opportunities to learn, connect with your peers from across the country, and explore of what it means to be a leader in the nonprofit sector. Join us!

Sustainability Week, including the Energy Transition Summit, returns for its tenth anniversary focusing on sustaining planet and profit. In 2025, we are introducing new features, including the Sustainable Supply Chain and Procurement Summit and 250 one-to-one meetings, while building on our successful CSO Leaders Club to enhance the event. We bring a high-quality business audience of CSOs, CPOs, CFOs, and CEOs together to drive action on sustainability. Our mission is to help businesses become sustainable faster.

Internationally-renowned speakers will bring their unique experiences integrating various diversity and inclusion topics that you can apply to your personal and professional life. This year’s conference kicks off with our National DEI Training Week from March 11-13. The second week of the conference, April 7-10, includes panel discussion and workshops.

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For nearly 40 years, the International Corporate Citizenship Conference (#BCConf), hosted by the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship (BCCCC), has brought together hundreds of global CSR professionals looking to learn, share, and network among peers. Unlike other CSR events, the Conference does not admit vendors or nonprofits, as our goal is to focus solely on corporate social responsibility—with all its unique challenges, emerging best practices, and opportunities. You won’t find more relevant, topical, actionable insights anywhere else.

NTEN’s conference — often referred to as the NTC — is the annual gathering of people who want to make the world a better place through the skillful and equitable use of technology. At the NTC, you’ll learn essential nonprofit technology best practices while connecting with a community that shares your commitment to social change.

For over 20 years, the Engage for Good Conference has been the premier Corporate Social Impact Event, bringing together business leaders, non-profit and corporate practitioners, and technical experts to learn how to build partnerships that benefit the cause and the business.

At the midway point of the 2020-2030 decade for decisive climate action, and echoing the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement, ChangeNOW 2025 gathers 1,000 groundbreaking solutions and visionary leaders in a spectacular showcase to accelerate the transition towards a sustainable world.

1,000+ social changemakers from across sectors will come together to learn, share, and inspire about how to engage in community collaborations that center equity and belonging in collective impact work.

Where else can you connect with 1600+ purpose-driven changemakers just like you? Experience four days of learning, growing and celebrating. You’ll leave inspired, equipped with the insights, tools and strategies to make an impact — on your people, communities and your company.

A unique virtual experience that includes 45+ industry experts sharing their exclusive case studies, live Q&A panels and interviews from those who are shaping the future of employee engagement in the ‘new norm’.

The Partnership Conference brings together over 400 leaders and practitioners from across the “partnership industry” on both sides of the table: cause and brand. The conference explores though leadership and best practices in community investment, cause sponsorship, employee engagement, business partnerships, cause marketing, and case studies of current corporate-charitable partnerships.

The Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability (ARCS) is a partnership among academic institutions created to provide data and networking opportunities to facilitate research on corporate sustainability.

The Consumer Goods Forum flagship event is the place where business leaders come to build the future.

The ACCP Annual Conference is the pinnacle event for corporate social impact professionals to connect and learn from field leaders and experts, as well as one another.

The Concordia Annual Summit, takes place each September in New York City and brings together thousands of attendees from across sectors, industries, backgrounds, and geographies to explore public-private sector, market-led solutions to today’s biggest global challenges.

bbcon welcomes thousands of social impact professionals for three days of unmatched networking, the latest in industry trends, and inspiring keynotes.

The SB annual conference brings together and enables sustainability, brand, and innovation/R&D leaders to drive successful brand transformation that wins in the market by delivering meaningful value in today’s context and ensures readiness for tomorrow.

Join us for the largest boundary-spanning gathering of the global nonprofit, humanitarian, and technology sectors to collectively harness the power of technology for good.