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SUSTx Technology - 2022 Agenda

12th October 2022

8:30 am
Registration & Breakfast
9:05 am
Chair's Opening Remarks

In a recent survey of 400 executives from various industries and regions conducted by Bain & Company and the World Economic Forum, 40% of respondents said they believe digital technologies are already having a positive impact on their sustainability goals. Technology and innovation are some of the key enablers to a faster and safe journey towards net-zero and sustainability goals; bringing game-changing digital and tech ideas should be at the core of any management decision-making process. As reported by Forbes, the effects of climate change will cost companies up to $1.6 trillion per year by 2025. What are we waiting for and how tech can help?

Matt Pumfrey
Matt Pumfrey
CEO & Chair of SUSTx Tech
Innovation Gateway
Confirmed
9:10 am
Opening Panel | Integrating Digital Services and Tech to Accelerate Sustainability Goals in a More Connected World
  • Balancing the systemic benefits against the sustainability needs. Is the good outcome always outweighing the sustainable challenges?
  • How Sustainability tech pays off. Investing, transforming, and making better organisations
  • Are we understanding (and fixing) our Tech environmental impact?
  • How to apply sustainability principles to our digital lives and have bigger and better growth
Matt Pumfrey
Matt Pumfrey
CEO & Chair of SUSTx Tech
Innovation Gateway
Confirmed
Pernilla Bergmark
Pernilla Bergmark
Principal Researcher ICT Sustainability Impacts
Ericsson
Confirmed
Amanda Brock
Amanda Brock
CEO
OpenUK
Confirmed
Nicola Stopps
Nicola Stopps
CEO
Simply Sustainable
Confirmed
Mattie Yeta
Mattie Yeta
Chief Sustainability Officer, CGI
former Head of Sustainability, Defra
Confirmed
10:10 am
A Human Centred Approach Simplifying Data Management for Creating a Sustainable Future Across Infrastructure
  • Understand how Costain and SAP have partnered to unlock infrastructure data to generate targeted actionable insights to unlock great value through UK infrastructure projects
  • Connect with the technology that is driving better, more sustainable outcomes
  • Unpick how digital solutions are accelerating UN SDGs

SAP UK logo

Charlie Davies
Charlie Davies
Strategic Growth Manager, Central Government
Costain Group PLC
Confirmed
Lindsey Rowe
Lindsey Rowe
Head of Strategic Programmes & Sustainability GTM
SAP
Confirmed
10:30 am
Morning Break, Exhibition & Networking
11:00 am
The Impact of AI in Achieving your Organisation's Sustainability Goals

A Nature study in 2020 assessed the potential impact of AI on the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals, encompassing societal, economic and environmental outcomes. The researchers found that AI could positively enable 93% of the environmental targets, and the application of AI levers could reduce worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 4% in 2030, an amount equivalent to 2.4 Gt CO2e – equivalent to the 2030 annual emissions of Australia, Canada and Japan combined.

  • Effective carbon accounting for artificial intelligence systems
  • The next-generation AI technologies: addressing current limitations of AI, focusing on low power and sustainable AI and moving forward
  • Opportunities and pitfalls of AI: how collaboration and partnerships can drive your sustainability efforts
Sarah Burnett
Sarah Burnett
Industry Analyst, Author of "The Autonomous Enterprise"/ Founder
AI Accelerator
Confirmed
James Chamberlayne
James Chamberlayne
Senior Manager, Supply Chains, UK & WW
CDP
Confirmed
Dr Maria Perez Ortiz
Dr Maria Perez Ortiz
Assistant Professor
UCL
Confirmed
Kriti Sharma
Kriti Sharma
Founder
AI for Good UK
Confirmed
11:55 am
Business in the Community Session
Splunk
Simply Sustainable
11:55am-12:25pm | Responsible Innovation and Employee's Engagement. "How to Engage Colleagues to Create Responsible Innovation"

ROOM: Main Plenary

Business in the Community (BITC) and its network of business members are leading a movement to create a fair and sustainable world in which to live and work. 

Formed in 1982, and with HRH The Prince of Wales as their Royal Founding Patron, they are the largest and longest-established membership organisation dedicated to responsible business. 

They work and campaign with more than 600 members to continually grow their responsible business practices, uniting their efforts for greater social and environmental impact in our communities. 

Alastair Loasby
Alastair Loasby
Responsible Business and Strategy Campaign Director
Business in the Community (BITC)
Confirmed
11:55am-12:40pm | Data as a Green Accelerator

ROOM: Abbey

Join experts from Splunk and AWS as they discuss why you need to take business sustainability seriously and how you can utilise the building blocks you already have in place to drive sustainability now.

Learn more about:

  • Why data will drive decisions and gap analysis in sustainability planning and execution
  • Why you need to take sustainability seriously and the significant risks to taking a standard approach
  • How to utilise the building blocks you already have in place to immediately accelerate your understanding to drive sustainability now
  • Evolving your data-enabled approach to drive decision-making towards true transformation
Neil Harris
Neil Harris
Principle Sustainability Strategy and Partnership
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Confirmed
Mark Woods
Mark Woods
Chief Technical Advisor, EMEA
Splunk
Confirmed
11:55am-12:25pm | How a Robust Strategy Can Use Technology as Vital Enabler of Sustainability

ROOM: Wordsworth

Technology is a vital enabler of sustainability – from accelerating Net zero transitions to building more sustainable value chains.

However

We do not need to overcomplicate and redesign the wheel, especially as budgets get tighter.

A good holistic Sustainability/ESG Strategy is key, and good Tech can support this.

  • What makes a robust ESG Strategy
  • Where Technology add value to your sustainability strategy
  • Responsibility in Tech

Simply Sustainable logo

Nicola Stopps
Nicola Stopps
CEO
Simply Sustainable
Confirmed
12:40 pm
Lunch and Networking Break
1:40 pm
Dematerialisation, Circularity, and New Sustainability Opportunities. Re-designing the ICT Industry from Manufacturing to e-waste

The ICT industry today is generating approximately 2% of global CO₂ emissions. Migrations to the public Cloud can reduce CO2 emissions by 59 million tons annually, equating to taking 22 million cars off the road (Accenture). Electronic waste (e-waste) is already the world’s fastest growing and most toxic waste stream, and only 20% is currently recycled. What are the next steps companies need to take to re-rethink and re-design their products and services and how do they migrate, dematerialise, and become more sustainable?

  • Making Cloud cooler. How to help the power consumption and Co2 emissions issues
  • Increasing circularity. From manufacturing to the right to repair. 
  • Dematerialisation: using less and better hardware, machines, and products
John Booth
John Booth
Vice Chair Green IT
BCS The Chartered Institute for IT
Confirmed
Maya de Souza
Maya de Souza
Circular Economy Campaign Director
Business in the Community (BITC)
Confirmed
Ben Tongue
Ben Tongue
Digital Net Zero Lead
NHS England
Confirmed
2:35 pm
Start Up Session
Moonshot Session
Pure Storage
"Food Waste: The Solution is Tech"

ROOM: Main Plenary

Jamie Crummie
Jamie Crummie
Co-Founder
Too Good To Go
Confirmed
Fusion Energy with the UKAEA and the JET Laboratory

ROOM: Wordsworth

Dr Heather Lewtas works at the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and combines her physics knowledge with creativity to come up with solutions to the many challenges in attempting to build the first nuclear fusion power station.

JET is the world’s largest and most advanced tokamak. Plasmas in JET are hotter than anywhere in the Solar System.

Operated by Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, the Joint European Torus (JET) is the focal point of the European fusion research programme.

JET was designed to study fusion in conditions approaching those needed for a power plant. It is the only experiment that can operate with the deuterium-tritium fuel mix that will be used for commercial fusion power.  Fusion energy holds out the potential of virtually unlimited supplies of low-carbon, low-radiation energy.

Since it began operating in 1983, JET has made major advances in the science and engineering of fusion. Its success has led to the construction of the first commercial-scale fusion machine, ITER, and has increased confidence in the tokamak as a design for future fusion power plants.

Last February JET made a major breakthrough in its quest to develop practical nuclear fusion smashing its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen, with a production of 11 megawatts of power over five seconds.

Dr Heather Lewtas
Dr Heather Lewtas
Head of Innovation
United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
Confirmed
Green IT: The Transition to a More Sustainable and Responsible Model

ROOM: Abbey

  • ESG Introduction
  • Environmental emergency
  • The digital business is challenged by its environmental footprint
  • What are Scope 1, 2, 3 emissions
  • Pure’s commitments to lower its carbon footprint

Pure Storage logo

Mike Roan
Mike Roan
EMEA Senior Director of Systems Engineering
Pure Storage
Confirmed
3:05 pm
Afternoon Break, Exhibition & Networking
3:35 pm
Blockchain and Sustainability Strategies

A new update from the International Data Corporation (IDC) forecasts that global blockchain spending will hit just under £13.5bn by 2024. Smart contracts will be a great tool to help achieve our sustainability targets. How is this going to happen and what are the challenges?

  • How blockchain is improving transparency, accountability and traceability in a better, more efficient and sustainable  organisations
  • How to do it: Blockchain implementation  in your sustainability strategies
  • Is Proof of Stake the next logical step for a more sustainable blockchain?
Katherine Foster
Katherine Foster
Executive Director
Green Digital Finance Alliance
Confirmed
Priya Guliani
Priya Guliani
Regional Director, EMEA
Government Blockchain Association (GBA)
Confirmed
Hayden Postle-Floyd
Hayden Postle-Floyd
Senior Research Officer
Blockchain & Climate Institute (BCI)
Confirmed
Alex de Vries
Alex de Vries
Founder, Digiconomist
Data Scientist, DNB
Confirmed
4:20 pm
Harnessing Digital Data and Analytics to Shape Timely ESG Engagements
  • How can digital intelligence provide early warning system on sustainability issues? 
  • What methods and approaches best home in on risk and engagement opportunity? 
  • How can digital monitoring reduce or mitigate ESG risk? 
Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge
Nicolas Peltier-Thiberge
Global Director for Transport
World Bank Group
Confirmed
Megan Yellin
Megan Yellin
Vice President, Risk Analytics Division
Ipsos Public Affairs, LLC
Confirmed
4:40 pm
Closing Panel | What is Next: Sustainability and Technology are the Following Steps to Make Organisations More Sustainable Whilst Helping Tackle Environmental and Social Challenges
Matt Pumfrey
Matt Pumfrey
CEO & Chair of SUSTx Tech
Innovation Gateway
Confirmed
Kay Firth-Butterfield
Kay Firth-Butterfield
Head of AI & Machine Learning and Member of the Executive Committee
World Economic Forum
Confirmed
Craig Melson
Craig Melson
Associate Director Climate, Environment and Sustainability
techUK
Confirmed
Sophie Trueman
Sophie Trueman
Managing Director UK & Ireland
Too Good To Go
Confirmed
5:30 pm
Chair's Closing Remarks, End of the Conference and Drinks Reception
Matt Pumfrey
Matt Pumfrey
CEO & Chair of SUSTx Tech
Innovation Gateway
Confirmed