Sustainable IT Playbook

André Christ is the CEO and Co-Founder of LeanIX, a Software-as-a-Service trusted by 800+ companies globally. LeanIX, sometimes referred to as the “Google Maps for Software”, is used for Enterprise Architecture Management, SaaS Management, and Value Stream Management. André has the goal to build a global technology company, that’s why he raised USD 120M funding from investors such as Goldman Sachs and Insight Partners.

Ann Molin is the founder and Secretary General of the Hack for Earth Foundation. By bringing citizens and organizations all over the world together in hackathons, we create real solutions to the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s), and bring them to life through the Dream- Hack – Build method.
Ann has introduced her work on citizendriven innovation in the United Nations General Assembly, and also at an exclusive TEDx event. She is a published author on citizendriven innovation and is a frequently employed international speaker on sustainable innovation.

Asim is a developer, trainer, author and speaker with over 20 years of experience working for organizations such as the European Space Agency, Google, Microsoft, and now Intel where he is the Director of Green Software and Ecosystems.

Camilla Cederquist works at the Nordic IT-company Atea where she specializes in circular economy and runs the initiative Atea Sustainability Focus. The initiative aims to accelerate the sustainable transformation of the global IT industry by using the insights and collective voice of the Nordic market. Camilla is also on the board of Cradlenet, a Swedish platform for knowledge and networking in circular economy.

From the UK, now living in Sweden, worked for Electrolux for 21 years in internal audit, finance and IT. Worked in the IT Sustainability team since  2016 working on Sustainability issues within IT and Sustainability reporting.

Elsa wants to save the world! Her biggest passion in life is to combat the climate crisis and to do everything in her power to leave a better legacy behind. Working in one of the fastest-growing industries in the world, the IT industry, she want to help the industry reach net zero as soon as possible.

Helena Babelon is responsible for the Sustainability agenda globally at Electrolux IT.  She has for many years been working with the digitalization of Electrolux Sustainability framework. Since 2017 she has been responsible for defining and driving the sustainability agenda within the IT organization.

Hélène is a leader with 27 years of experience in the IT business, holding various C-level roles. an extensive worldwide career working with organizations including Microsoft, Telia, Sony Ericsson, EMC, and Ericsson. lived, studied, and worked abroad in several nations. Hélène is passionate about digitalization, leadership, culture, innovation, and how the pursuit of the customer drives business. Her published book, “Re:start,” which she wrote about, is on truly value-based leadership, which is her specialization (2019).

Jedidiah Yueh is the Co-founder of SustainableIT.org, whose mission is to advance sustainability through technology leadership. He is the Founding CEO of Delphix, which provides a DevOps data platform to accelerate application innovation while protecting consumer data privacy. He was also the Founding CEO of Avamar, which was acquired by EMC and shipped a multi-billion dollar data protection product, and the bestselling author of a book on innovation called Disrupt or Die.

With over 25 years experience advising organizations on their use of various technologies, Marta helped found IDC´s Technology for Sustainability and Social Impact Practice in Europe in 2019. A dedicated team of analysts and consultants advising technology vendors and users on the ability of IT to help drive corporate sustainability goals and strategies beyond the IT function. As part of her work in this team, Marta was instrumental in driving the creation of IDC´s Technology and Sustainability Index, evaluating the sustainability capabilities and portfolios of various IT providers and identifying best practices to replicate in the industry. Since September 2022, Marta works as a Sustainability Business Advisor in AWS Global Sustainability team. In her role, Marta helps deliver the cloud service provider´s sustainability strategy directly supporting AWS strategic customers by leveraging its sustainability ecosystem of solutions and services.

Michael is Principal Director of Subscription Strategy at Zuora and the Chair of the Subscribed Institute think tank for the EMEA Region.

He has been working closely with the senior leadership of 300+ companies globally and across industries, in their shift towards customer-centric subscription business models.

Michael is also a guest lecturer at INSEAD, where he co-invented the Subscription Business Bootcamp elective, as well as an active investor and advisor to 12 start-ups/scale-ups.

Nicole is responsible for the overall creation, development and continued evolution of an effective Corporate Sustainability and ESG program for CGI, its organization and its business. With 15+ years’ experience and certification as an expert in Corporate Sustainability and Innovation from Harvard University, she has extensive knowledge in leading sustainable innovation development of products, concepts and business models. In addition, she has contributed as a senior advisor for the UNECE, IPCC, and Ashoka foundation on using technology for real-time, validated data on Scope 3 Sustainability Impacts.

Rainer has over 25 years of IT experience at various companies including IBM, TeleCash/ FirstData and Arvato Systems.  Most recently, he was Global Director IT Sustainability at Siemens AG. The IT specialist gained know-how in various areas such as support, infrastructure, data centers and service operations. The „climate activist in a suit“ has been campaigning for the issue of sustainability full-time for two and a half years.

He just started in October at Allianz Technology as Global Head of IT Sustainability.

Sanjay is the Global lead for Technology Sustainability Innovation at Accenture and drives thought leadership and innovation in this area. He is also responsible for establishing and managing our ecosystem strategy for Sustainability, developing our Technology Capabilities offerings and capabilities, and for embedding sustainability best practices in technology delivery. Sanjay is also a founding Board Member of the Green Software Foundation.

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Stephen Fuller leads the development of supply chain and chemical management criteria for TCO Certified, the global sustainability certification for IT products. He is the creator of the groundbreaking public accepted substance list for safer chemicals that forces the industry to replace highly toxic substances with independently assessed safer alternatives. Stephen also developed the first social criteria included in an IT product certification, which transformed the scope of TCO Certified from being strictly environmental to also covering supply chain social sustainability. As a qualified lead social auditor and chemical expert, he has often traveled in Asia and South America to visit factories and talk with workers and management, which has helped him develop a deep understanding of what the challenges are and what drives the industry to make responsible choices.

Executive leader with over 25 years of experience within telecom and IT industries. Currently leading an international cybersecurity services company, listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. Teemu was awarded “CIO of the year”, in 2020 in Finland for his achievements in transforming a traditional forestry company into leading digital innovation in its industry.

Tony Tiyou  is the Founder and CEO of Renewables in Africa, a Clean Energy engineering company and media platform which mission is to Bring (Back) Power to Africa.

Tony is a regular technical expert making appearances in various Renewables Energy programmes in BBC, Sky News, Forbes afrique and has also featured in US broadcasting Stations VOA and EmeraldPlanet TV.