Connect, Collaborate, Create Change: 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Miss the Cascale Forum in Ho Chi Minh City

Connect, Collaborate, Create Change: 5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Miss the Cascale Forum in Ho Chi Minh City

Article key points:

• The Cascale Forum in Ho Chi Minh City focuses on actionable strategies for decarbonization, including sessions on the Industry Decarbonization Roadmap, Science-Based Target Training, and Vietnam’s Direct Power Purchase Agreement.
• The forum offers expert guidance on navigating complex global regulations, with sessions on emerging policies in the EU, US, and Asia, and their implications for manufacturers and brands.
• It provides a platform for strengthening relationships between suppliers and brands through sessions on responsible contracting, decent work, and deepening supply chain visibility.
• Attendees will gain early access to new programs and developments, such as the evolution of the Higg Index tools and their application across consumer goods industries.
• The forum highlights Vietnam’s position as an emerging leader in sustainable manufacturing, with sessions featuring insights from leading Vietnamese manufacturers and their ESG strategies.

For brands, suppliers, and retailers, business priorities like reducing supply chain risk, sourcing responsibly, and improving social and environmental impact are becoming increasingly vital. The practice of supply chain management and assessment has largely moved from aspirational to imperative as businesses navigate increasingly complex and evolving global operations. 

Consumer goods companies need greater visibility into their supply chains to better understand financial performance, manage risks, meet regulatory requirements and track social and environmental impacts. 

Even as the global trade and economic climate fluctuate, there are significant benefits to staying the course when it comes to your supply chain management and sustainability priorities. 

With this in mind, the Cascale Forum: Ho Chi Minh City will serve as a standout event for manufacturers, brands, NGOs, business leaders, and policymakers to gather to tackle the industry’s most critical challenges and drive actionable solutions that propel the consumer goods industry toward its shared goals. 

This year’s theme is Co-Creating Tomorrow: Unified Action for People & Planet. The two-day event will bring together approximately800 global leaders, manufacturers, brands, and supply chain partners to forge solutions that work for all stakeholders.

We understand that now, more than ever, events throughout the year are competing for your valuable time and resources. As you consider the benefits of attending each potential event this year, here are five compelling reasons the Cascale Forum should get a spot on your calendar. 

1. Gain actionable decarbonization strategies

Climate commitments are commonplace, but practical implementation remains challenging. The Cascale Forum addresses this head-on with sessions centered on tangible decarbonization pathways, including:

• The Industry Decarbonization Roadmap (IDR): Driving Collective Commitments Towards a Low-Carbon Future: Dive into a coordinated, scalable approach developed by Cascale and Apparel Impact Institute that empowers brands and manufacturers to take collective action toward a low-carbon future.
• Science-Based Target Training: Move beyond aspirational goals with certified training on science-based targets (SBTs). Leave with practical experience in developing greenhouse gas inventories and setting emissions reduction targets using the SBTi tool.
• Heat Pumps: The Next Frontier of Decarbonization: Explore a pioneering heat pump project in Vietnam that demonstrates how industrial electrification can deliver both environmental benefits and cost savings, along with real-world proof points.
• Vietnam’s DPPA: Powering Decarbonization Opportunities: Discover how Vietnam’s Direct Power Purchase Agreement is unlocking renewable energy opportunities for manufacturers across the country.

These sessions provide not just theory, but actionable strategies you can implement immediately to reduce emissions and operational costs while meeting growing brand demands for low-carbon production.

2. Learn to navigate complex regulations with expert guidance

As global regulations evolve rapidly, staying informed is crucial but increasingly difficult. The Cascale Forum brings together policy experts who will decode emerging regulations and their business implications in session like:

• Navigating Global Policy: Impact on Sourcing Countries & Strategies: Understand how regulations in the EU, US, and Asia are reshaping global supply chains and what this means for sourcing countries.
• HRDD & CSDDD: What Manufacturers Need to Know: Learn what the EU’s Human Rights Due Diligence and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive means for manufacturers and how to leverage existing best practices for future compliance.
• Deeper Insights Within the Higg Index Ecosystem: Cascale and Worldly will share their approach and new solutions to providing deeper data insights and enhancing data usability, highlighting actionable steps brands and facilities can take with better data. 

3. Strengthen relationships with your business partners

Relationships between supply chain partners are central to shared success and value. The Cascale Forum provides a unique space where manufacturers, brands, and retailers can align on approaches that benefit the entire value chain, with specific sessions including:

• Cascale & Better Buying in Unified Action to Deliver Decent Work for All: Learn more about Cascale’s acquisition of Better Buying’s surveys, and what this means for manufacturers, brands, and retailers.
• Responsible Contracting: Building Stronger Partnerships in the Supply Chain: Learn more about legal frameworks and core elements of responsible contracting, and engage in open discussions about challenges such as power imbalances in negotiations between suppliers and buyers.
• Sourcing with Integrity: The Business Case for Trust: Industry experts will showcase how embedding trust, fairness, and long-term commitment into business relationships strengthens partnerships, enhances supply chain resilience, and delivers measurable financial and social benefits.

These sessions move beyond superficial networking to create meaningful dialogue between supply chain partners to foster strategic business partnerships. 

4. Get exclusive access to new programs and developments

Be among the first to see and experience what’s coming next, in sessions including:

• Worldly Product Roadmapping: Get a first look at how the Higg Index suite of tools is evolving based on user feedback to better support your needs.
• Bringing Proven Tools to New Industries: Explore how the Higg Index is already being used beyond the fashion, apparel, and footwear industries. Hear from companies that have successfully integrated the Higg tools into other merchandise categories and the benefits they’ve achieved from doing so. 

Attending these sessions will give you early access to, and greater understanding of, innovations you can put into practice to gain a competitive advantage. 

5. Learn why Vietnam is an emerging leader in sustainable manufacturing

Vietnam stands at a pivotal moment as it becomes a global leader in more sustainable manufacturing. Learn more in session such as:

• From Factory Floor to Global Impact: How Manufacturers Are Leading the Way: Hear directly from leading Vietnamese manufacturers who have successfully implemented ESG strategies across multiple countries.
• Voices of Manufacturer Experts: To Walk the Talk on Environmental Sustainability: This session focuses on manufacturers with environmental expertise who will showcase their experiences leading the way with the Higg Facility Environmental Module (FEM) from implementation, benefits, and challenges to brand collaboration and achieving meaningful impact.

For businesses operating in or sourcing from Vietnam, these insights are invaluable in understanding how the country’s manufacturing landscape is evolving and how to position for competitive advantage.

Get real ROI on your attendance

Beyond these five reasons, the Cascale Forum delivers concrete value by providing a combination of practical training, certification opportunities, real-world tactics for reducing assessment fatigue, networking and relationship building, and so much more. 

Additionally, there will be live audio translation in Vietnamese to ensure the entire forum is accessible for local teams. 

In an industry facing mounting pressure to deliver on sustainability commitments while maintaining business growth, the connections you can make and the knowledge you’ll gain at the Cascale Forum will provide a significant return on your investment of time and resources.

Ready to be part of this exceptional lineup? 

Register today and claim your $20 Worldly discount by using code VIETNAM25. 

Brands and retailers: Extend the invitation to your supply chain partners for maximum impact. 

Manufacturers: This is your opportunity to engage with brands, retailers, and industry leaders to ensure sustainability efforts are practical, efficient, and beneficial to your business.