Leading the Way: Business Integrity as a Force for Global Change

The global economy is at a crossroads. As the private sector navigates through uncertainty, it finds itself dodging ethical landmines all along the way.

When businesses put people and the planet first, they can be the strongest force for positive change. This track aims to feature companies championing integrity and the leaders behind them. We will highlight challenges and learn about solutions to the ethical dilemmas, risks, and obstacles currently faced.

• Ethics and Business as a Strategic Marriage - Can it work or are there Risks for a Divorce?

  This session argues that in a world of uncertainty & contested norms, integrity is not an abstract ideal but a practical foundation for market access, investment confidence & growth. The discussion will take stock of key trends shaping the integrity landscape, including geopolitical fragmentation, uneven enforcement, supply chain disruption, digitalization, & shifting ESG expectations.

  Coordinated by Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN)

  Featuring Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN), Deutsche Bank, Getinge, OECD and Transparency International

• AI vs MA Methodology applied: What Really works to Strengthen Integrity in SMEs

  Artificial intelligence is key to due diligence and risk management in value chains, but its use in SMEs poses challenges in terms of access, skills, inclusion, and trust. Does it strengthen integrity or create new gaps? The session analyzes the balance between technology and applied methodology, with practical case studies.

  Coordinated by Alliance for Integrity / GIZ

  Featuring GIZ Mexico, Alliance for Integrity / GIZ, Empresarios por la Integridad, Internal Oversight (OPCW), Ministry of Industry, Trade and MSMEs, Dominican Republic, UN Global Compact, YPF S.A, Grupo UNACEM and Transparencia Mexicana

• Systematic Harm Systemic Response: Defining Corportate Criminal Liability for Damage to the Social Fabric?

  This Interactive Circle explores how corporate criminal liability can address systemic harm to the social fabric. Participants will examine anti-corruption, ESG, and accountability frameworks that move beyond sanctions toward social repair. The aim is to redefine corporate responsibility as a driver of resilience, restoring trust, preventing corruption, and transforming structural damage into shar

  Coordinated by Transparency, Anti-Corruption & Digitlization Initiative

  Featuring GCIX and Special Advisor on Compliance and Legal matter for LATAM - FTSE 100; HRD

• Data-Driven Integrity: How Investors are managing Corruption Risk to support Responsible Business

  Investors play a critical role in promoting anti-corruption and building responsible businesses. To enable this, investors and companies need to collect, report and action meaningful data throughout the investment cycle, and proactively respond to risk trends captured by data across connected areas of corruption, governance, human rights and environmental risk.

  How can investors, standard setters and civil society raise the bar on sustainability reporting to strengthen transparency and build resilient businesses?

  Coordinated by Financial Services at British International Investment

  Featuring Transparency International - UK, Financial Services, British International Investment, Global Reporting Initiative, Apis Capital, Human Rights & Social Issues, Principles for Responsible Investment

• The Business Case for Public Governance Metrics

  This workshop will identify how multinational companies benefit from and use public governance indicators to inform their operations. It will explore how companies consider information about the quality of governance – such as rule of law adherence, control of corruption, and integrity of public officials – in their decisionmaking and opportunities to enhance how the private sector uses this data.

  Coordinated by World Justice Project (WJP)

  Featuring World Justice Project (WJP), Transparency International - Secretariar, Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law, Microsoft

• How the Brussels Effect is reshaping the Fight against Global Anti-Corruption

  The Brussels Effect: EU rules reshaping the global fight against corruption.

  Aims

  • Show how EU anti-corruption rules are shaping corporate behaviour beyond the EU’s borders
  • Compare the reach and compliance expectations of the EU framework, the US FCPA and the UK Bribery Act
  • Spark cross-regional dialogue on the convergence of anti-corruption standards

  Objectives

  • Panellists examine real cases of EU extraterritorial influence on companies and supply chains
  • Engage the audience through a moderated Q&A
  • Identify practical takeaways for policymakers, companies and civil society

  Coordinated by Deloitte

  Featuring Deloitte, myAbility and CSREC

• Who owns it? How corporate ownership information can drive business integrity

  How can beneficial ownership data strengthen business integrity and attract responsible investment? Leaders from high-value sectors from infrastructure to natural resources, will share practical experience embedding ownership transparency. Participants will co-develop approaches to help business, government and civil society use ownership data to detect illicit finance and strengthen competition.

  Coordinated by CoST – Infrastructure Transparency Initiative

  Featuring CoST - Infrastructure Transparency Initiative, Open Ownership, Mayor of San Miguelito (Panama city), Extractives Industry Transparency Initiative, (EITI), African Development Bank and Fundación Ciudadanía y Desarrolllo (TI Ecuador)

• SMEs at the Sharp End: Integrity Risks, Power Asymmetries, and Practical Solutions

  SMEs face some of the highest corruption risks, especially in procurement and contracting, yet have the least power to push back. Evolving EU rules such as CSRD/CSDDD offer relief on paper, but market pressure across supply chains and from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and financiers often continues, extending well beyond the EU. This workshop explores practical ways to ease burden for SMEs while strengthening business integrity.

  Coordinated by Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S)

  Featuring Transparency International - Secretariat (TI-S), Siemens, British International Investment (BII), CADIEM, OECD, Ministry of the Presidency (Spain), Poder Ciudadano (TI Argentina), UN Global Compact (UNGC) and United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)

• From Values to Value: Measuring Integrity and Compliance Culture in Practice

  Companies invest heavily in anti-corruption ethics and compliance programmes, yet many struggle to assess whether they are embedded in daily decisions and culture. This workshop explores practical ways to measure integrity and compliance culture, drawing on business, public sector and international experience to generate actionable insights.

  Coordinated by UN Global Compact

  Featuring UNGC, Transparency International, Transparency International Germany, Genneia, Deutsche Bank, and FCC Construction

• Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technology: Friends, Foes, or the Future of Business Integrity?

  AI is rewriting the rules of ethics and compliance. This workshop dives into how it can supercharge risk detection, third-party due diligence, monitoring and reporting — while tackling the real challenge: keeping humans in control so integrity isn’t outsourced to algorithms.

  Coordinated by UN Global Compact

  Featuring United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), Vodacom, Microsoft, Steptoe LLP, Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC)