Spring Webinar Series! UN Goals, Circular Economy, Carbon Neutrality, and more..
DataSolutions, in association with Techies Go Green, is delighted to be launching its Spring Webinar Series.
At the end of 2021, we began an array of educational webinars focused on supporting businesses in a bid to become more sustainable. The Autumn Webinar Series had plenty of high profile guest speakers, covering topics that are impacting businesses right now, such as:
“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.
Climate change is something that impacts all of us, societies, and economies across the globe. If we are to truly suppress the worst effects of it, action is needed from all of us, governments and enterprises alike. Many businesses large and small now recognise how important the coming years will be in addressing the climate change and biodiversity crisis but are sometimes challenged on where to start.
We’re delighted now to launch our next series of webinars: Spring Webinar Series. The main aim of our four-part Techies Go Green Spring webinar series is to enable our signatories and wider IT community to develop and deepen their knowledge and understanding of the practical actions they can take to start their sustainability journey. The sessions will include guest presentations by sector and climate experts, ‘peer-to-peer’ case studies from leading companies, and Q&A.
Moderated by Francis O’Haire, Group Director of Technology, DataSolutions, hear from a diverse range of speakers who are committed to reversing climate change through innovative thinking.
Check out the upcoming webinars below, and register for them now!
1. How to Align with the UNs Sustainable Development Goals & The Vital Role Businesses Play
Tuesday 8th March 2022 @ 10.30am
In the first webinar of our Spring series, we are delighted to be joined by guest speaker Colin Curtis, Founder and Managing Director of Support the Goals. Colin will look at the steps organisations can take to align with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). He will discuss the vital role of businesses in achieving the goals and the innovative ways that businesses are supporting them
Colin Curtis
About the Speaker:
Colin Curtis – Founder & Managing Director of Support the Goals
A former Group Head of Sustainability for one of the world’s largest technology companies, Colin spent many years consulting with business leaders to help them understand the importance of balancing people, planet, and profit. Colin is passionate about the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the vital role of businesses to help achieve the goals. He’s a straight-talking Lancastrian who prides himself on his ability to keep things simple and honest – this can get him into trouble!
Support the Goals is an initiative that shares the stories and journeys of businesses supporting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Support The Goals raises awareness of the innovative ways that businesses are supporting the Goals, equips businesses with progress-tacking tools, and provides aspiring change-makers with opportunities to learn about corporate sustainability.
2. What is the Circular Economy and How can the IT Industry Adopt it?
Wednesday 6th April 2022 @10.30am
We will be joined by Supply Chain Guru Wolfgang Lehmacher and Sacha Ghiglione, CEO and Board Member of Prime Computer. More and more companies are looking to reduce waste and turn their supply chain operations into a circular economy. How can companies achieve this and what are the top supply chain challenges for adopting the circular economy?
Wolfgang will provide us with his insight into the supply chain issues that are currently impacting every business. He will discuss the role the circular economy has to play in mitigating the impacts of climate change and will provide us with his take on how he sees the move to a circular economy happening and what that means for the supply chain.
Sasha will share his insights into how businesses can be more energy-efficient and how they can grow into more sustainable business models. He will share with us what Prime Computer are doing around circular and the challenges they have faced along the way.
Wolfgang Lehmacher
About the Speakers:
Wolfgang Lehmacher – Thought-leader, Technology Evangelist and Practitioner in the field of Supply Chain, Transport and Logistics.
Wolfgang Lehmacher is board member, business angel and advisor at Topan, a triple bottom line growth consultancy. The former head of supply chain and transport industries at the World Economic Forum and President and CEO Emeritus of GeoPost Intercontinental is advisory board member of The Logistics and Supply Chain Management Society, ambassador of The European Freight and Logistics Leaders' Forum, and founding member of the think tanks Logistikweisen and NEXST.
Sacha Ghiglione
Sacha Ghiglione, CEO of Prime Computer
Sacha Ghiglione, a Harvard alumni and angel investor, is CEO and board member of Prime Computer, a Swiss company that helps companies worldwide achieve their digitalisation and environmental goals while reducing operating costs with intelligently designed mini-PCs and servers. Sacha holds various board and advisory positions and is well known for fostering awareness regarding sustainability and supporting the use of European technology to reach the sustainability goals (SDGs) of the UN around the world.
3. The Role We all Play to Ensure the IT Channel becomes More Sustainable: Vendors, Partners & Distributors
15th June 2022 @ 10am
We're excited to announce that the next episode in our Spring Webinar Series is coming up on Wednesday, the 15th of June @ 10am: The Role We all Play to Ensure the IT Channel becomes More Sustainable: Vendors, Partners & Distributors.
We're going to be joined by three of the world's leading IT vendors Microsoft, 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.
4. To Be Announced!
We have an exciting fourth and final webinar coming up in the series, but we don’t want to give away too much just yet! Stay tuned and we’ll be announcing full details very soon