Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative

GeSI is about creating a sustainable world through responsible, ICT-enabled transformation.

In collaboration with members from major ICT companies and organisations around the globe, the Global Enabling Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) is a leading source of impartial information, resources and best practices for achieving integrated social and environmental sustainability through ICT-enabled transformation.

In a rapidly growing information society, technology presents both challenges and opportunities. GeSI facilitates real world solutions to real world issues both within the ICT industry and the greater sustainability community. We contribute to a sustainable future, communicate the industry’s corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts, and increasingly drive the sustainability agenda from an environmental and social perspective.

GeSI is committed to sustainability actions and outcomes. Our members and partners use their collective knowledge and experience to identify opportunities and develop solutions for improving energy and resource efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and footprints, ensuring sustainable practices in the ICT supply chain through the promotion of social and environmental standards, encouraging access to sustainable ICT technologies, and supporting ICT-enabled transformation across all industries and sectors around the globe.

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Event Details

The Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change clearly shows that the time to act is now.

This event will focus on the ways of scaling up the EU's Twin Transition in order to put digital at the heart of the EU's Green transformation, and ultimately meet the Green Deal's ambitious objectives during the EU's Digital Decade.


Digital solutions are crucial in advancing the EU's agenda on sustainability. This is why European ICT companies have a duty to enable digital innovation with a purpose of greening ICT infrastructure, and addressing the potential trade-offs of fast-forward digitalization.


The action-oriented policy dialogue will focus on the framework conditions, policy innovations, and industrial solutions that can accelerate the greening of ICT infrastructure and ultimately guarantee the future of our planet.


This one-day event will take place in two parts, at the European Parliament during the first half, and in the Solvay Library for the second half.


We welcome policymakers, business leaders, environment experts, academics, civil society, and government officials to participate in this debate focusing on how can technology truly enable the EU in addressing climate change's impact.


The event questions we aim to answer:

· What are the necessary framework conditions to enable greening of ICT?

· How can policy innovations facilitate speed and scale for greening ICT?

· What are the industrial solutions/innovations that can have a big impact?

· What other innovations could help in making greening of ICT future-proof?

Agenda

May 31, 2022

Morning Sessions - European Parliament

9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Registration
10:00 AM - 10:05 AM
Welcome Remarks
10:05 AM - 10:15 AM
Opening Keynote - MEP Cyrus Engerer
ENVI Rapporteur on the revision of the Market Stability Reserve (MSR) for the EU Emissions Trading System (ETS)
Cyrus Engerer (Member at European Parliament)
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
Panel Discussion 1 - Fit for 55: how to go faster with technology
Moderated by Alessandro Gropelli, Deputy-Director General, ETNO
David Jensen (Coordinator Digital Transformation at united Nations Environment Programme (UNEP))
Veerle Vandeweerd (Managing Partner at platform for Transformative Technologies (P4TT))
Marco Loprieno (Principal Administrator, Digital for Climate at European Comission, DG CLIMA)
Dennis Pamlin (Head of Strategy - Digital with Purpose at GeSI)
Toni Jin Yong (Chief Representative European Institutions at Huawei)
11:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Message from MEP Iban Garcia del Blanco Rapporteur of the European Parliament on the “Ethical Aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Related Technologies"
“The role of Artificial Intelligence in the European Green Deal”
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
Panel Discussion 2 - The Green and Digital Transition
Moderated by Alessandro Gropelli, Deputy-Director General, ETNO
Amaryllis Verhoeven (Head of Unit for Digital, DG GROW at European Commission)
Florence Verzelen (Executive Vice President, Industry, Marketing and Sustainability at Dassault Systèmes)
Peter Andersen (Director, Head of Sustainability at TDC NET)
Annika Linck (Policy Director of European Digital SME Alliance)
Carla Montesi (Director of DG INTPA, European Commission)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Walking Lunch at Solvay Library

Afternoon Sessions - Solvay Library

1:30 PM - 1:40 PM
Welcome and Introduction
1:40 PM - 1:45 PM
Opening Keynote - Teresa Ribera, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Ecological Transition, Spain
Teresa Ribera (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Ecological Transition, Spain)
1:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Keynote Speech - Katharina Beck, Green Party, German Parliament
Katharina Beck (Green Party, Member at German Parliament)
2:00 PM - 2:45 PM
Panel Discussion 3 – How the ICT sector can accelerate the implementation of the EU Green Deal
Melanie Kubin-Hardewig (VP Group Sustainability Management at Deutsche Telekom)
Massamba Thioye (PhD, Executive, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC))
Ilias Iakovidis (PhD, Adviser, Green Digital Transformation at European Commission, DG CONNECT)
Phoebe Koundouri (Professor and President at Athens University and European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists)
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM
Break
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Keynote Speech - Malcolm Johnson, ITU
Malcolm Johnson (Deputy Secretary-General at International Telecommunication Union (ITU))
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM
Panel Discussion 4 - The ICT sector in action for Circular Economy
Prof. Assunção Cristas (Head of ESG and Environment at VdA, Nova University of Lisbon)
Michael Kuhndt (Executive Director of Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production(CSCP))
Ke Wang (Program Lead at Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy  (PACE))
Hui Cao (Head of Strategy & Policy, EU Public Affairs at Huawei)
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Closing Keynote - Timothy Fleming, AT&T
Timothy Fleming (Director of Global Enterprise Sustainability at ATT)
4:15 PM - 5:00 PM
Networking Cocktails

Speakers

Cyrus Engerer (Member at European Parliament)

Cyrus Engerer

Member at European Parliament

Katharina Beck (Green Party, Member at German Parliament)

Katharina Beck

Green Party, Member at German Parliament

Alessandro Gropelli (Deputy Director-General of European Telecommunications Network Operator's Association (ETNO))

Alessandro Gropelli

Deputy Director-General of European Telecommunications Network Operator's Association (ETNO)

Amaryllis Verhoeven (Head of Unit for Digital, DG GROW at European Commission)

Amaryllis Verhoeven

Head of Unit for Digital, DG GROW at European Commission

Prof. Assunção Cristas (Head of ESG and Environment at VdA, Nova University of Lisbon)

Prof. Assunção Cristas

Head of ESG and Environment at VdA, Nova University of Lisbon

Hui Cao (Head of Strategy & Policy, EU Public Affairs at Huawei)

Hui Cao

Head of Strategy & Policy, EU Public Affairs at Huawei

Timothy Fleming (Director of Global Enterprise Sustainability at ATT)

Timothy Fleming

Director of Global Enterprise Sustainability at ATT

David Jensen (Coordinator Digital Transformation at united Nations Environment Programme (UNEP))

David Jensen

Coordinator Digital Transformation at united Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

Florence Verzelen (Executive Vice President, Industry, Marketing and Sustainability at Dassault Systèmes)

Florence Verzelen

Executive Vice President, Industry, Marketing and Sustainability at Dassault Systèmes

Peter Andersen (Director, Head of Sustainability at TDC NET)

Peter Andersen

Director, Head of Sustainability at TDC NET

Veerle Vandeweerd (Managing Partner at platform for Transformative Technologies (P4TT))

Veerle Vandeweerd

Managing Partner at platform for Transformative Technologies (P4TT)

Massamba Thioye (PhD, Executive, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC))

Massamba Thioye

PhD, Executive, UN Climate Change Global Innovation Hub at United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC)

Annika Linck (Policy Director of European Digital SME Alliance)

Annika Linck

Policy Director of European Digital SME Alliance

Ilias Iakovidis (PhD, Adviser, Green Digital Transformation at European Commission, DG CONNECT)

Ilias Iakovidis

PhD, Adviser, Green Digital Transformation at European Commission, DG CONNECT

Melanie Kubin-Hardewig (VP Group Sustainability Management at Deutsche Telekom)

Melanie Kubin-Hardewig

VP Group Sustainability Management at Deutsche Telekom

Marco Loprieno (Principal Administrator, Digital for Climate at European Comission, DG CLIMA)

Marco Loprieno

Principal Administrator, Digital for Climate at European Comission, DG CLIMA

Malcolm Johnson (Deputy Secretary-General at International Telecommunication Union (ITU))

Malcolm Johnson

Deputy Secretary-General at International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

Teresa Ribera (Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Ecological Transition, Spain)

Teresa Ribera

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Ecological Transition, Spain

Phoebe Koundouri (Professor and President at Athens University and European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists)

Phoebe Koundouri

Professor and President at Athens University and European Association of Environmental and Natural Resource Economists

Michael Kuhndt (Executive Director of Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production(CSCP))

Michael Kuhndt

Executive Director of Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production(CSCP)

Carla Montesi (Director of DG INTPA, European Commission)

Carla Montesi

Director of DG INTPA, European Commission

Luis Neves (CEO of GeSI)

Luis Neves

CEO of GeSI

Dennis Pamlin (Head of Strategy - Digital with Purpose at GeSI)

Dennis Pamlin

Head of Strategy - Digital with Purpose at GeSI

Ke Wang (Program Lead at Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy  (PACE))

Ke Wang

Program Lead at Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)

Toni Jin Yong (Chief Representative European Institutions at Huawei)

Toni Jin Yong

Chief Representative European Institutions at Huawei

Iban García del Blanco (Member at European Parliament)

Iban García del Blanco

Member at European Parliament

Partners

Event Venue

European Parliament - Solvay Library

European Parliament

Rue D'Arlon 62

1040 Brussels


Solvay Library

Rue Belliard 137A

1000 Bruxelles

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