The UN-Climate Change Conference in Glasgow (COP26) has firmly put environmental consciousness as a leading global priority. The last two years has given many organisations the opportunity to do a hard reset, in terms of doing something more meaningful with their sustainability objectives. A focus on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) parameters is becoming increasingly mainstream, and Net Zero commitments have taken centre stage across all industries. However, to achieve our climate goals by 2050, a lot more needs to be done. With the ‘Net Zero Intent’ gaining traction, many organisations are struggling with challenges around the practicability, regulatory support, and holistic decarbonisation programs across the value chain. This holds true for all industries but specifically felt in the ‘real economies’.

Technology in the form of networking, data centres and computing devices consume an estimated 10% of the world’s electricity.

At the same time, technology drives modern businesses and also enables organisations to measure, store, and understand the data around sustainability and create meaningful objectives and measurements for success.

When it comes to sustainability and decarbonisation, the CIO, is the perfect ally to the CSO as they partner to identify areas for improvement and execute on an organisations sustainability initiatives.

I would like to personally invite you to become a founding member of Ecosystm’s Sustainable Leaders ThinkTank to drive the direction towards sustainable innovation and to establish a decarbonisation pathway for the ‘real economy’ sectors. We look forward to you welcoming you as an advisor and participant of a quarterly invitation-only ThinkTank Forum where we will hear how organisations in Singapore are executing on their sustainability initiatives, and the role technology is playing.

Whether you are a CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CCO, or CHENG (Chief Engineer), or you lead large corporations, campuses, factories, supply chains, cities, or precincts; a digital infrastructure framework is central to the kind of accelerated transformation agenda needed today.

The pandemic furthered the pace of change and resulted in a re-acceleration of the global economy. It powered a compression of innovation lifecycles from seven years into one and has driven organizations in industry to re-examine what transformation means for them.

We invite you to join us for a discussion about how:

• Infrastructure digitization and integration is helping to shape a new wave of smarter experience transformations.
• Digital infrastructure innovation can improve overall economic, environmental, social sustainability and performance improvements.
• The adoption of contemporary application platforms, network and edge computing, IoT, data and AI solutions is enabling the transformation of entire organizations

It is an important discussion about how leadership culture will unite multiple disciplines and deliver economic and social value for an organization and its stakeholders.

Whether you are a CEO, COO, CFO, CIO, CCO, or CHENG (Chief Engineer), or you lead large corporations, campuses, factories, supply chains, cities, or precincts; a digital infrastructure framework is central to the kind of accelerated transformation agenda needed today.

The pandemic furthered the pace of change and resulted in a re-acceleration of the global economy. It powered a compression of innovation lifecycles from seven years into one and has driven organizations in industry to re-examine what transformation means for them.

We invite you to join us for a discussion about how:

• Infrastructure digitization and integration is helping to shape a new wave of smarter experience transformations.
• Digital infrastructure innovation can improve overall economic, environmental, social sustainability and performance improvements.
• The adoption of contemporary application platforms, network and edge computing, IoT, data and AI solutions is enabling the transformation of entire organizations

It is an important discussion about how leadership culture will unite multiple disciplines and deliver economic and social value for an organization and its stakeholders.

The last couple of years have demonstrated the resilience across people and businesses to rapidly evolve in order to meet the headwinds.

It has changed the face of talent and we have seen remote work can actually improve productivity, create a better work-life balance, and bring a host of other benefits. However, there are also significant challenges. This has created a paradox for employers: employees want more flexible remote work options with full access to corporate resources, but they also want more in-person collaboration and interaction.

The ongoing Ecosystm Voice of the Employee study finds that:

• Today, 68% work either entirely from home or in a hybrid set-up
• 47% consider spending time with family a key benefit of remote work; and yet the same proportion of employees is challenged by distractions when working from home
• Nearly 40% of employees want to conduct in-person brainstorming and planning sessions; while 43% are comfortable with audio and videoconferencing sessions.

As more companies start to return to the office, the need for a hybrid approach is the logical solution. It offers flexibility, but also a competitive advantage in attracting and retaining talent.

Senior Leaders from Kyndryl and Microsoft will discuss how to create a seamless hybrid workplace. Topics will include:

• How can organisations measure and improve employee experience across hybrid work environments?
• Putting user experience at the core of your business by simplifying and integrating platforms and applications
• Using a data-driven approach to simplify business processes and workflows
• Preventing issues before they occur by using AI and self-healing technology