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.
Green digital skills for sustainable value chains: Bridging the sustainability skills gap
GeSI is happy to invite you to the EU Green Week Partner Event titled Green Digital Skills for Sustainable Value Chains: Bridging the Sustainability Skills Gap holding debates around green upskilling, policy innovations and accompanying industry solutions in the digital industry.
Agenda
June 8, 2023
MEP Salon at the European Parliament
8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Accreditation
8:45 AM - 8:50 AM
Welcome Remarks
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
Industry Policy Keynote Speech by MEP Dino Giarrusso
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM
Industry Keynote Speech by Huawei Europe
9:10 AM - 10:10 AM
Green Policies fit for Industrial Success: Ready to Race the Net-Zero?
10:10 AM - 10:20 AM
European Year of Skills Keynote Speech by MEP João ALBUQUERQUE
10:20 AM - 10:30 AM
Closing Remarks
Palais De Charles De Lorraine
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM
Arrival and Registration
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM
Welcome Remarks
11:30 AM - 11:40 AM
Opening Keynote
11:40 AM - 12:40 PM
Global Industrial Collaboration for Sustainable Value Chains
12:40 PM - 2:00 PM
Networking lunch
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Are Industrial Value Chains ready for Climate Action?
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM
ICT4Green Talk: Green Business before Green Skill
3:20 PM - 3:40 PM
Coffee Break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
TEDx-style Talk: Green Digital Skills for Green Business
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Industry action for the European Year of Skills: Guess the skills and talent that will fast-track the European digital and green economy
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Networking Apero
Speakers
Dino Giarrusso
Member of the European Parliament (NI, Italy)
Joao Albuquerque
Member of the European Parliament (S&D, Portugal)
Luis Neves
CEO of GeSI
Selina Wen
Vice President Public Affairs and Communications for Europe at Huawei Europe
Ilias Iakovidis
Adviser, Digital aspects of green transition; Societal Challenges at Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Henning Ehrenstein
Head of Unit, Skills, Services, Professions at Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs, European Commission
Gilda Amorosi
Senior Program Manager, Energy & Sustainability at Microsoft
David Keating
Independent Journalist
Alessandro Gropelli
Deputy Director General of ETNO - European Telecom Association
Michael Kuhndt
Executive Director of Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)
Cao Hui
Head of Policy and Strategy at Huawei Europe
Bertrand Deprez
Vice President EU Government Affairs at Schneider Electric
Diane Mievis
Head of EU Telecoms and Sustainability at Cisco
Frank Siebern-Thomas
Head of Unit of the “Fair Green and Digital Transitions, Research” unit in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion
Antoine Larpin
Director of EU Policy at VMware
Helene Chraye
Head of Clean Energy Transition Unit, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Saifur Rahman
President & CEO of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Phoebe Koundouri
Co-Chair UN SDSN Europe
Christophe Yvetot
Representative to the European Union at United Nations Industrial Development Organization
Bobbie Mellor
Vodafone
Giorgia Epicoco
Senior EU Public Affairs Manager at Huawei
Paolo Gemma
Chairman of Working Party 2 “Environment, Energy Efficiency and the Circular Economy", International Telecommunication Union (ITU)
Sevim Aktas
Policy Officer, Carbon Removal Technologies, Carbon Farming, Carbon Removal Certification at Directorate-General for Climate Action, European Commission
Marianna De luca
Industrial Relations at ENEL Italia
Event Venue
Morning Session at the MEP Salon at European Parliament
Afternoon session at Palace of Charles de Lorraine