How the IT industry can Shape a More Sustainable Future with Citrix & IGEL
DataSolutions, in association with Techies Go Green, is delighted to be launching its next sustainability webinar “How the IT industry can Shape a More Sustainable Future” as part of our Summer Sustainability Series.
This is the 3rd webinar series that Datasolutions and Techies Go Green have ran, after previously running Autumn and Spring educational webinars. We’ve already seen leading experts from Logitech, PlanetMark and Prime Computer talk about topcs from the circular economy to how to become a net zero company.
Some of these webinars have included:
“Designing for Sustainability: A Journey from Desire to Capability” with Robert O’Mahony - Head of Sustainability, Global Operations, Logitech
“An introduction to the Biodiversity Crisis and Why it Matters” with Catherine Bryan, Partner, Kingsdale Head Farm LLP
“What Zero Carbon Means For Business” with Jonathan Withey, Head of Business Development, PlanetMark
“Net Zero Carbon and Scope 3” with Dr. Stephen Finnegan, Managing Director, Arete Zero Carbon and Katrina Quinn, Global Partner Manager, Vyta.
“How to Align with the UNs Sustainable Development Goals & The Vital Role Businesses Play” with Colin Curtis, Founder of Support The Goals
“What is the Circular Economy and How can the IT Industry Adopt it?” with Wolfgang Lehmacher, Technology Evangelist and Sacha Ghilione, CEO of Prime Computer
How the IT industry can Shape a More Sustainable Future
Friday, 24th June @ 10:30am
We're going to be joined by two of the world's leading IT vendors, IGEL and Citrix, discussing how they are fostering sustainable behaviour among their distributors and reseller partners.
No layer of the channel can solve the sustainability conundrum by itself. Channel partners need their vendor allies to increase the pace of innovation, but vendors must also foster sustainable behaviour among their distributors and resellers as channel partners and end users look to their vendors to set the pace on sustainability. In 2021 we did a survey in conjunction with CRN and asked both the reseller channel & End users the question “are your vendor partners doing enough to make their technology more sustainable? 27% of partners and 29% of end users agreed with this statement meaning the rest either disagreed or were sitting on the fence which is not very positive. Furthermore 60% of channel partners surveyed would be fully supportive of vendors introducing rebates and financial incentives for partners that have firm plans to become more sustainable.
About the Speakers:
Gerry Lavin - Senior Sustainability Strategist, Citrix
Gerry Lavin is a Senior Sustainability Strategist in the Citrix Product Management and Marketing Organisation. Prior to joining Citrix 3 years ago, he was a customer where he led an engineering team at a large professional services firm. Gerry is keenly interested in understanding how our customers are using technology to transform their business.
Ben Ward - Principal Presales Engineer UK & I, IGEL
Ben Ward is an EUC veteran, having spent half his career in IT working for Citrix, VMware and now IGEL. He has a passion for exploring new ways of working and evangelising the benefits that a properly thought out EUC strategy can bring to businesses, individuals and wider society.