Environmental compliance has become a critical business risk, not just a reporting obligation. As regulatory frameworks evolve and investor and stakeholder scrutiny intensifies, many organizations still rely on fragmented data, disconnected systems and manual processes that leave them exposed to permit violations, audit findings and reputational damage.

These challenges are especially evident in complex reporting programs such as the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), where organizations must evaluate reportability, validate large volumes of chemical data and defend how reported values were calculated.

In this session, Sphera experts will walk through five warning signs that indicate an environmental compliance process is putting your organization at risk — from scattered data and inconsistent or opaque calculations and thinning expert capacity. You’ll learn how leading industrial organizations are transforming these vulnerabilities into a resilient, transparent and audit-ready environmental data foundation and what kind of return on investment that transformation can deliver.

Key takeaways:

  • Recognize the warning signs of a failing environmental accounting process
  • Identify risks created by fragmented data, manual workflows and inconsistent calculations
  • Establish a trusted source of truth for environmental data across sites and programs
  • Strengthen TRI reporting through standardized reportability logic, traceable calculations and governed environmental data
  • Define the return on investment of modernization through efficiency gains, risk reduction and greater operational resilience

Why you should attend:

If you’re an environmental compliance or EHS leader accountable for permit limits, environmental reporting and enterprise risk, this session speaks directly to you. You’ll see how to catch compliance issues before they become violations, defend your numbers without a last-minute scramble and make the case for a governed environmental data foundation backed by real ROI benchmarks.

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Archana Shah

Archana Shah

Senior Director, Client Services Delivery

Sphera

Archana Shah is a business and technology leader with more than 25 years of experience delivering scalable environmental accounting and ESG solutions. She helps organizations navigate evolving regulations while aligning people, strategy and technology.

Mark Templeton

Mark Templeton

Clinical Professor of Law

University of Chicago Law School

Professor Mark Templeton is Clinical Professor of Law at the University of Chicago, where he teaches classes on Toxics and Toxic Torts and Environmental Law, among others. He served as a Trustee of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Trust and cabinet-level Director of Missouri’s Natural Resources Department.

Neal Rosen

Neal Rosen

VP, Value Engineering Advisor

Sphera

Neal Rosen has a chemical engineering background and more than 30 years of experience in EHS and ESG enterprise software. He has spent more than 20 years at Sphera in consulting, solution engineering and account management roles, working closely with customers across oil and gas, chemicals and manufacturing.