NVP Academy Kalender

Workshop Inside Today’s Supply Chains

About this Workshop
This annual NVP workshop brings together investment professionals, operating and value creation teams, and sustainability specialists. Each year, we focus on a highly relevant theme where investment, operations, and sustainability intersect. This year's edition focuses on Supply Chain Resilience and Transparency. We will explore how greater visibility across supply chains can support better investment decisions, strengthen resilience, and drive portfolio performance. In addition, we will look at emerging technologies that are reshaping value chains by turning feedstocks into strategic assets, unlocking new opportunities for innovation, growth, and long-term value creation.

About the theme: Supply Chain Resilience and Transparency
In today's increasingly complex global economy, supply chains have become a critical driver of business performance, competitive advantage, and investment outcomes. From geopolitical disruption and tariffs to supplier concentration, traceability requirements, waste management, and operational resilience, supply chain decisions directly influence growth, margins, risk exposure, and exit value.

What to expect
Together, we will:

•   Explore how resilient and transparent supply chains can create competitive advantage and drive long-term value creation.
•   Translate sustainability insights into stronger investment decisions and value creation strategies, enhancing portfolio performance.
•   Learn from practical experiences, challenges, and success stories shared by both PE and VC practitioners. 
•   Practice exchanging investment and sustainability perspectives in a multi-disciplinary setting, looking at cases before and after closing the transaction.
•   Examine how emerging technologies are increasing supply chain resilience and transforming feedstocks into strategic sources of value.

Target Group
By bringing together different disciplines, the workshop encourages cross-functional discussions and provides practical insights that can be applied throughout the investment lifecycle. Anyone with a profile in:

•   Investment professionals (VC & PE)
•   Portfolio Value Creation and Operating teams
•   Legal counsels with ESG responsibilities
•   ESG / Sustainability professionals
•   Portfolio support teams

Why attend?
•   Gain practical tools for value creation: Learn how leading PE and VC firms assess supply chain risks and opportunities and translate them into investment theses, value creation plans, and portfolio support initiatives.
•   Turn supply chain transparency into business value: Discover how greater visibility across supply chains can strengthen resilience, improve operational performance, unlock efficiencies, and create competitive advantage.
•   Explore emerging technologies and business models: Examine how innovations in traceability, data, and feedstock utilization are creating new sources of value and reshaping supply chains.
•   Learn from peers across the investment ecosystem: Exchange experiences, challenges, and lessons learned with investors, operating partners, value creation professionals, and sustainability specialists from both PE and VC.
•   Strengthen cross-functional collaboration: Practice bringing together investment, value creation, and sustainability perspectives to identify material risks and opportunities throughout the deal lifecycle.

Content
The workshop combines expert insights, practical examples, and interactive discussions. Throughout the afternoon, you'll explore how supply chain resilience and transparency can be translated into better investment decisions and stronger portfolio performance. The set up is:

•   Introduction and objectives
•   The impact of supply chain resilience and transparency on value creation and financial performance
•   How technological innovation is reshaping feedstocks, supply chains, and business models
•   Translating due diligence insights into DD reports, value creation plans (PE) and engagement plans (VC)
•   Solving operational challenges through cross-functional collaboration: lessons from PE and VC
•   Wrap up + Q&A

Speakers

        
Leonie Schreve (Partner at PWC), Monica Puccetti (Head of ESG at Infinity Recycling) and Erik Thijs Wedershoven (Director and Head of ESG at NPM Capital)