Built with purpose: Sustainability and community impact at Dayforce Discover
What does it take to build an event people can feel good about attending? Eric Glass, Dayforce Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, shares how Dayforce is making sustainability and community impact a bigger part of Dayforce Discover.
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Sustainability and community impact play a critical role in how we operate at Dayforce. It’s an essential part of how we make work life better.
That focus shapes the way we think about Dayforce Discover, our flagship annual event. But there’s no denying that events of this size – when thousands of people come together in one place – can have an environmental impact.
There’s the travel to and from the venue, the materials that get printed, the food that doesn’t get eaten, and so much more. Our commitment to sustainability and community impact inspires and pushes us to do better.
Not just for our customers. Not just for our business. But for the communities we touch and the people who make this event what it is – an event that brings people together, creates momentum, and gives attendees actionable insights they can take back to their business.
We want this to be an event you can feel good about attending. And we continue to look for ways to shape our practices for maximum impact.
Sustainability is more than one moment
Over the past few years, Dayforce Discover attendees have packed thousands of kits for in-need members of the local community through our community service event. We have also focused on attendee accessibility, inclusion, and connection while minimizing our environmental impact.
But for Dayforce Discover 2025, our Events and Sustainability teams made a conscious decision to take that work further. We wanted sustainability fully embedded into the planning, operations, and production of the event. That meant looking across the full experience and asking key questions earlier.
Where can we reduce unnecessary waste?
Where can we reuse materials?
How can we make the attendee experience more inclusive and accessible?
How can we support the local community?
How do we measure what we’re doing so we can keep improving?
Looking holistically at the event is important because sustainability is not just about recycling bins or fewer plastic bottles, although those things matter greatly. It’s also about accessibility, social impact, responsible sourcing, communications, wellness, and how people experience the event.
Being more intentional in how we gather helped us earn a Silver-level Sustainable Events Standards certification from the Events Industry Council for Dayforce Discover 2025. It’s a meaningful recognition for our teams and partners, and it’s an effort we intend to build on.
What this looks like onsite
For Dayforce Discover 2025, we partnered closely with the Wynn and Encore Resorts to focus on waste diversion and materials management. Together, we prioritized reducing single-use plastics, conducted a waste audit, and donated unserved food to a local charity.
The result: over 11,000 pounds of waste diverted from landfills and 550 pounds of food donated locally.
We also partnered with Opportunity Village, a Las Vegas organization that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Throughout Discover, attendees completed more than 400 cards with supportive messages, and together we raised nearly $20,000 to help serve more than 3,000 individuals.
We also looked closely at the attendee experience. Discover 2025 included wellness programming, healthy food options, a wellness room for breaks, and a dedicated, private lactation space. We gathered attendee feedback on sustainability, accessibility, inclusion, and the overall experience so we can keep learning and improving.
That’s one of the reasons the EIC Sustainable Events Standard is so important. It provides a framework to look at sustainability holistically, across areas like policies and planning, climate action, water, materials and circularity, supply chain management, inclusion, accessibility, and social impact.
What comes next
We’re already looking ahead to Dayforce Discover 2026, October 26-29 at the Wynn Las Vegas, and building on what we’ve learned.
We want Dayforce Discover to be an event you can feel good about attending – in every way possible.
You’re leading through complexity every day, balancing business needs with people needs, and making decisions that create lasting value. When you come to Discover, you should see those same values reflected in an event that is useful, energizing, thoughtful about its footprint, intentional about inclusion, and connected to the community around it.
Because when we say Dayforce makes work life better, we mean better experiences, better systems, better ways of working, and better ways of showing up for people, customers, and communities.
Dayforce Discover is one of the most important ways we bring that promise to life. I couldn't be more excited to keep creating an event that doesn’t just bring people together, but helps move us all forward. And to keep pushing that bar higher each year.
This blog contains forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. Because such statements are based on expectations as to the future and are not statements of fact, actual results may differ.
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