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Sustainability Strategies

Tips for developing environmental, social and governance initiatives

Today’s business and IT leaders must prioritize environmental sustainability and other ESG issues. This series will offer helpful conversations about these
topics, including ways to foster green IT, advice on making supply chains more sustainable, and tips for developing environmental, social and governa
  • 2,881 Subscribers
  • 5 talks

Tips for developing environmental, social and governance initiatives

Today’s business and IT leaders must prioritize environmental sustainability and other ESG issues. This series will offer helpful conversations about these
topics, including ways to foster green IT, advice on making supply chains more sustainable, and tips for developing environmental, social and governa
  • 2,881 Subscribers
  • 5 talks

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The environmental cost of generative AI

The environmental cost of generative AI

In recent months, excitement about -- and use of -- generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, BERT, LaMDA, GPT-3, DALL-E-2, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion has
grown exponentially. On the other hand, very little attention has been given to the environmental costs of these tools. But with pressure on to monitor carbon
emissions and report ESG issues, companies cannot afford to ignore this important issue. Learn why training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as …

Sustainability communication: Secrets to engaging stakeholders and employees

Sustainability communication: Secrets to engaging stakeholders and employees

Corporate sustainability efforts require buy-in and support across all levels of employees -- from top leadership to assembly line workers. But too often,
sustainability efforts are met with confusion and resistance. ESG distrust, eco-anxiety overwhelm, belief that sustainability is someone else's job or belief that
just one person can't make a difference are common. That's why effective sustainability communication is so important. This webinar examines current ob…

ESG: Where we’ve been and where we’re headed

ESG: Where we’ve been and where we’re headed

Organizations, citizens and legislative entities are continuously learning more about how exactly businesses – and technology in particular – affect climate and
social issues. As that understanding evolves, so do corporate approaches to ESG. This discussion explores how businesses have changed their thinking around
ESG, what’s motivating ESG programs today, and how IT’s role in ESG will continue to develop.

AI and emerging tech: The growing impact, challenges and responsibilities

AI and emerging tech: The growing impact, challenges and responsibilities

The concept of sustainability includes many issues, including those that relate to the impact that tech has on humans. To that point, business and IT leaders
should understand how AI and other emerging technologies will affect society and businesses. This discussion examines AI as well as tech disruptions such as
Web 3.0. Diann Daniel, Executive Editor, TechTarget Editorial interviews longtime tech thinker Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a Fellow at the MIT Initiative on the …

The Critical Role of Enterprise Technology in Sustainability

The Critical Role of Enterprise Technology in Sustainability

Bruno Sarda, EY TMT Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader, shares tips that CIOs and IT leaders can use to improve the environmental
sustainability of IT, as well as ways IT and technology can support ESG and sustainability across the organization. This video's topics include: - 0:27 - Why IT is
critical to organizational sustainability - 1:35 - How IT can improve its own environmental sustainability and lower carbon emissions - 6:20 - How technolog…