Mastering your IROs to maximise ROI: a focus on Double Materiality Assessments

About the event

Join us in Berlin for our upcoming event, Mastering IROs to maximise ROI, on Thursday, 10th October!

This exclusive event is designed specifically for C-suite executives, Legal, HR, and Risk professionals to discuss how Impacts, Risks, and Opportunities (IROs) can be turned into strategic ROI.

Our unmissable agenda includes expert insights from leading experts in ESG and risk management on the strategic importance of Double Materiality Assessments - the most underrated strategy tool in existence. We’ll explore how understanding the impact of your organisation on the environment—and how external risks impact your business—will drive growth and resilience. Stick around for an indulgent networking lunch to chat with peers and speakers!

PLUS, as a special perk for attending, every participant will receive a FREE analytical climate risk report, provided by Weather Trade Net. This detailed report will assess the physical climate risks facing your business and help you better understand their potential impact.

Why attend?

This event will give you the tools and insights you need to turn climate risks into strategic opportunities and position your business for sustainable growth. Whether you’re responsible for driving ESG initiatives or overseeing risk management, this is your chance to gain actionable insights from leading experts and build resilience into your business.

Exclusive benefits for attendees:

• FREE Climate Risk Report: A thorough and complete physical climate risk assessment for your company’s facilities and manufacturing sites.
• 20% discount on Weather Trade Net Services: Includes tailored impact modelling, API data access, and a subscription to their online tools.
• Free 1-hour training session: Learn best practices for integrating risk management workflows and sustainability reporting with a Weather Trade Net expert.

Meet the experts:

Sebastian Dürr – Founder & CEO, Nord ESG, Dipl.-Ing. (FH)

Sebastian Dürr is a sustainability professional with more than 20 years of work experience. His work at NordESG focuses on ESG helping corporations to navigate their sustainability landscape. He has worked with private and public sector entities, including working with banks in financing renewable energy projects by conducting environmental impact assessment studies and resource assessments. Sebastian is well-versed in regulatory frameworks like CSRD, SFDR and EU Taxonomy as well as in other sustainability reporting frameworks like IFRS/ISSB and GRI. Climate risks and climate change are additional topics he worked on.

Elena Maksimovich – Founder & CEO, Weather Trade Net

Before founding her own technology company, Elena completed a PhD in Geophysics and Climatology, followed by two PostDocs, and gained experience at global insurance companies and hedge funds. As a scientist and entrepreneur, she leads innovation in climate risk management, numerical and mathematical modeling, and satellite monitoring. 

With a decade of academic experience, she joined the 6th Assessment Report group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as an Expert Reviewer in 2019. A dedicated team player, Elena actively contributes to various initiatives, focusing on delivering high-quality scientific information to decision-makers in a structured and user-friendly manner. 

She integrates satellite imagery of floods, wildfires, and droughts into agricultural commodity trading, risk hedging, and insurance pricing models, developing analytical tools and predictive models for diverse climate risk management applications.

About NordESG

NordESG is an ESG advisory firm helping corporates develop, articulate and execute their sustainability strategies, including sustainability performance reporting support under various ESG frameworks.

By doing so, we help businesses meet their disclosure compliance requirements like CSRD but also help them proactively communicate their strategy to other stakeholders like investors, customers, and local communities in which they operate. In addition, we help investors navigate increasingly complex regulations like the SFDR and EU Taxonomy so they can make well-informed capital allocation decisions based on the sustainability performance of their potential investee companies. We offer our services in Europe, Asia, and North America.

About Weather Trade Net

Weather Trade Net helps companies and communities identify, measure, anticipate, and mitigate weather-induced loss & damage. Founded in 2022 by Elena Maksimovich, PhD in Climatology & Geophysics, an alumna of Pierre et Marie Curie University (Paris),  the company is driven by the big mission to democratize climate risk knowledge and integrate it into sustainability reporting, credit risk modeling, and insurance practices.  At Weather Trade Net, we believe that climate risk information should be more than just data, it should be a decision-making tool for change. That’s why we are committed to creating meaningful, user-friendly analytical solutions that adhere to high-quality data standards.

About Drova

Drova is a SaaS software platform that delivers solutions for GRC, resilience and sustainability management. Our vision is to enable every company to thrive by putting sustainability and resilience at the heart of their success.  We're on a mission to create technology that helps companies drive impact through innovation, bring their people along for the journey, and ultimately create long-lasting value.  We are here to ignite the potential within every organisation by embedding sustainability and resilience into their strategy and operations, making these the cornerstones of every success story.