Corporate Working Group
January 26-27, 2027 | Washington DC
Logistics
Where: Edison Electric Institute, 701 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20004
Lodging: The Kimpton Hotel Monaco, 700 F St NW in Washington, D.C.'s Penn Quarter neighborhood
When: January 26-27, 2027
We begin with an optional casual dinner on the 25th for those arriving early. The formal meeting begins with breakfast on the 26th, and concludes by 1pm on the 27th.
Registration: Register here. Complimentary for Future 500 members.
Who: Executives from Future 500’s Corporate Affinity Network (CAN) and other select corporate sustainability leaders and advocates.
What: Future 500 has conducted this intimate working group for over ten years. Our discussions are confidential, facilitated under the Chatham House Rule, and designed to foster constructive engagement between companies and advocates to illuminate important issue trends and best practices that inform business strategy and competitiveness on sustainability.
Our working group seeks to empower our delegates to speak up, teach others, respectfully disagree, and ask tough questions. Please bring your ideas and challenges, and come prepared to participate actively.
Dress code: Business casual–emphasis on the casual!
AGENDA
Future 500 launches the 2027 Force for Good Forecast I Future 500 Team
From the data center explosion to climate retrenchment, business leaders are navigating a constellation of ever-evolving and inter-related issues. In this session, the Future 500 team will share our 2027 Force For Good Forecast, highlighting the key stakeholder trends that we believe will affect companies in the coming year, equipping companies to “see around the corner” into the emerging environmental and social interventions that civil society may expect from corporate leaders in 2027 and beyond.
Emerging Legal and Social Movements and What They Mean for Business
Grant Wilson, Executive Director of the Earth Law Center
Environmental law is changing from the ground up, and much of the next decade’s legal changes will come from movements many boardrooms are only starting to track. This session will open with a global survey of ecological law trends, from China’s ecological civilization agenda and Latin America’s rights-based protections for nature to Wales giving future generations a formal voice in governance. It will then focus on North America, where federal rollbacks are fueling a counter-movement: state and municipal governments expanding environmental law and policy, environmental rights litigation, Indigenous-led campaigns to protect sacred lands and waters, and even corporate law innovations that bring nature into governance. Drawing on what law schools are teaching and what the brightest students want from their careers, Grant Wilson of Earth Law Center will offer his perspective on where the legal field is heading and how this shift will impact companies in the coming years.