The SSAVE Project convenes in five formats. Each one does a different job, and each one puts a different combination of people in the room.

What holds them together is a single principle. Sustainability cannot be worked out by one sector alone, so no SSAVE format is ever built for one sector alone. Government, industry, expertise and community are in the room together, or the format has failed before it starts.

Conferences. The core of the platform and the format most people will meet first. A SSAVE Conference is a state-level convening, named for the state it serves and themed around the resource priority that state is actually facing. Two days: an opening evening and a full working day. Leadership sessions set direction. Technical sessions go into the detail. A closing Declaration puts the day's commitments on record. No two chapters carry the same theme, because no two states are under the same pressure. Each one is decided by evidence rather than by template.

Summit. Where the state conversations meet. The Summit is the national gathering that draws the threads of the state chapters together: what has been learned, what has been committed, and what needs to move at a national level rather than a state one. It is the one format where the room is not defined by geography.

Awards. Recognition for work that has already happened. SSAVE Awards honour organisations, institutions and individuals whose sustainability work has produced a measurable result, not an announcement. Categories follow the platform's focus areas, from water stewardship and circular systems to climate finance and green infrastructure. The Awards are presented within the Conference programme, so recognition happens in front of the same room that sets the agenda.

Masterclasses. Depth for people who have to implement. A SSAVE Masterclass is led by a practitioner rather than a speaker, and runs long enough to get past the introduction: two to three hours on a single subject, with a room capped small enough for questions. Subjects follow what the sector asks for, from watershed management to ESG disclosure to circular procurement.

Workshops. Where a group works on a specific problem together. Workshops are closed, structured and outcome-led. A state department, an industry cluster or a group of institutions brings a live challenge, and the session is built to produce something usable by the end of it: a framework, a set of priorities, a draft approach. These are the least public of the formats and often the most consequential.

Every format The SSAVE Project runs leaves something behind. A Declaration, a set of recognised practices, a framework, a room of people who now know each other. Convening is only worth doing if it produces something that outlasts the day.