Net Zero Innovation (Keynote) Theatre
Leadership in Sustainability: Innovation
12 Sep (Fri) Day 2 : 13:20 – 14:05
Speakers
Moderator
Matt Sexton
Group Strategy Director
Futerra
Matt Sexton
Futerra
Group Strategy Director
Matt Sexton is Group Strategy Director at Futerra, the international sustainability strategy and communications consultancy devoted to Making The Anthropocene Awesome.
At Futerra he has developed bold and innovative sustainability strategies for some of the worlds biggest businesses including Swire Pacific, Kao Corporation, Formula 1, Tommy Hilfiger and The North Face. he also started Futerra Academy which has created training for over 60,000 employees at the likes of Aegon, British Airways, Kimberly-Clark and Booking.Com. Prior to Futerra he was sustainability Director at B&Q/Kingfisher where he found his way into sustainability as a buyer when every category seemed to have a sustainability challenges that needed to be solved.
My Sustainability Goals for 2025:
Become a blueprint for city scale sustainability that can be replicated across the world – 80% of us, I think, live in cities!
Jessica Chan
Head of Sustainability
MTR Corporation Limited
Jessica Chan
MTR Corporation Limited
Head of Sustainability
Jessica is the Head of Sustainability of MTR Corporation. She leads the development of sustainability strategies, driving sustainability initiatives, and overseeing the preparation of sustainability reports and disclosures. She has developed a corporate Climate Change Strategy for the company and leads regular review of climate risks and controls across various business units. She has also crafted a long-term decarbonisation roadmap and set science-based carbon reduction targets for MTR. Furthermore, Jessica provides her technical expertise to support the issuance of green bonds by the company.
With an extensive background spanning over 25 years in environmental and corporate sustainability, Jessica is a seasoned sustainability professional with a diverse skill set encompassing sustainability strategies and policies, sustainability communications and disclosure, regulatory compliance, and emerging sustainability issues. Actively engaged in the sustainability arena, Jessica is a member of various international and local sustainability-related committees, including the Sustainable Development Committee of The International Association of Public Transport, the Community of ESG Practitioners of the World Economic Forum, and the Environment & Sustainability Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce.
Jessica also contributes to academia as a member of the Programme Advisory Committee for an MSc sustainability programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and serves as an Advisory Board member for an MSc ESG Management programme at Lingnan University. Since 2021, she has been a member of the Board of Examiners for the Hong Kong Sustainability Award organised by The Hong Kong Management Association.
Olivier Klein
Chief Technologist, Asia Pacific
Amazon Web Services
Olivier Klein
Amazon Web Services
Chief Technologist, Asia Pacific
Olivier’s expertise in internet technologies and software engineering paved the two decades for him helping businesses make the most of most out of technologies such as cloud computing to solve business struggles and adapt to a data-driven business model. Olivier has been working for AWS across Asia-Pacific and Europe to help customers implement architectural best practices and be successful in their digital transformation journey. In addition he advises how emerging technologies in the AI/ML, robotics and IoT space can help create new products, make existing processes more efficient and leverage new engagement channels for end-consumers. Prior to his AWS time, Olivier ran the digital product strategy for an American multinational publishing and education company across Asia-Pacific and led engineering and R&D efforts to build a virtualized web service platform for a Luxembourgish Internet Service Provider pre-cloud era. Olivier has a bachelor of science degree in Computer Science from the University of Applied Sciences Trier, and a masters degree from the National University of Singapore majoring in Software Engineering.
Wallace Lin
General Manager, Facilities Management & Sustainable Development
Swire Properties Limited
Wallace Lin
Swire Properties Limited
General Manager, Facilities Management & Sustainable Development
Ir Wallace LIN is the General Manager, Facilities Management & Sustainable Development of Swire Properties Limited. He currently oversees the overall development of the Company’s Sustainable Development, formulates and executes plans including the Company’s SD2030 strategy, digitalisation in energy management, stakeholder engagement in ESG impacts, Science-based Targets and climate risk assessments, etc.
Wallace is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers and Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and Member of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, and currently Director of Hong Kong Green Building Council. He is also a member of the WELL Social Sustainability Working Group and Steering Committee Member of the Sustainable Living Environment Advisory Group of Business Environment Council.
With thanks to
Amazon Web Services
Since 2006, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any workload, and it now has more than 240 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 117 Availability Zones within 37 geographic regions, with announced plans for 13 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Chile, New Zealand, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com.
Our sustainability goals for 2025:
Transition to carbon-free energy: The Climate Pledge: Amazon’s commitment to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040
- Amazon is investing in carbon-free energy to help power our operations and bring new sources of energy to the grid.
- In 2024, Amazon signed 4 nuclear energy projects that will help power our data centers.
- In Spain, we grew our renewable energy portfolio to a total of more than 90 projects.
- In Europe, we added 46 new projects, including our first investment in Portugal to build the country’s largest wind farm, which is also the largest hydroelectric complex in the country.
- In India, we grew our total investments to 53 projects, which can generate enough energy to power the equivalent of over 1.3 million Indian homes annually.
- AWS works with energy regulators and policymakers to support Grid Enhancing Technologies (GETs), advocating for hardware and software solutions to make existing power grids smarter and more resilient.
Legal Name: Amazon Web Services Hong Kong Limited
General Enquiry Email Address: aws-hk@amazon.com
Meet our speakers:
MTR Corporation Limited
Booth H40
As a recognised world-class operator of sustainable rail transport services, MTR is a leader in safety, reliability, customer service and efficiency.
MTR has extensive end-to-end railway expertise with over 45 years of railway projects experience from design to planning and construction through to commissioning, maintenance and operations. Going beyond railway delivery and operation, MTR also creates and manages dynamic communities around its network through seamless integration of rail, commercial and property development.
Our sustainability goals for 2025:
- Social inclusion;
- Advancement & Opportunities; and
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction
Solutions Showcase:
- Technology & Innovation
- Transport/Mobility
Legal Name: MTR Corporation Limited
General Enquiry Phone Number: 2881 8888
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Swire Properties Limited
Swire Properties develops and manages commercial, retail, hotel and residential properties, typically mixed-use developments in prime areas. Established in Hong Kong in 1972, we have investments across Hong Kong, the Chinese Mainland, Singapore and the US. Adhering to our core values of integrity, originality, long-term focus and quality, we aim to create sustained value by developing and managing large-scale mixed-use projects that serve as focal points of the surrounding urban areas.
Our sustainability goals for 2025:
Sustainable development is central to Swire Properties’ business philosophy and company culture. We have established our SD 2030 vision – to be the leading sustainable development performer in the real estate industry globally by 2030. The SD 2030 Strategy was developed to manage the full spectrum of our ESG impacts. Sustainable placemaking and long-term placekeeping form the core of our Strategy.
1. Long-term Decarbonisation
1st real estate developer in Hong Kong to have an approved 1.5°C-aligned Science-based targets, which set the Company on the pathway to reach net zero emissions by 2050 via:
Reduce absolute scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions by 25% by 2025 and 46% by 2030 (from a 2019 base year)
- Reduce GHG emissions from capital goods (embodied carbon emissions of new development projects) by 25% per square metre in 2030 (from a 2016 – 2018 base year)
- Reduce GHG emissions from downstream leased assets (tenant carbon emissions) by 28% per square metre in 2030 (from a 2018 base year)
2. Deepen sustainability partnerships via:
- Our Green Performance Pledge (“GPP”) to achieve 50% of office tenants signing GPP by 2025, which is equivalent to nearly 5 million square feet of leased office space
- Our Business Partner Sustainability Programme to build long-term, mutually beneficial relationships with our business partners and enhance the overall resilience of our value chain
3. Green Financing – to achieve a minimum of 50% of bond and loan facilities from green financing by 2025 and 80% by 2030
4. Diversity & Inclusion – Maintain a gender balance in senior management and a gender pay ratio at 1:1
5. Commitment to Zero Harm – no fatalities, no serious incidents, no injuries and no harm to health as a result of our business activities
Legal Name: Swire Properties Limited
General Enquiry Email Address: sustainabaledevelopment@swireproperties.com
General Enquiry Phone Number: 2844 3888
General Business Address: 64/F, One Island East, Taikoo Place, 18 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay, Hong Kong
Meet our speakers:
May Lam-Kobayashi
Deputy Director, Public Affairs
Swire Properties Limited
Wallace Lin
General Manager, Facilities Management & Sustainable Development
Swire Properties Limited
Phoebe Leung
Senior Sustainable Development Manager
Swire Properties Limited
Patrick Ho
Head of Sustainable Development / Member of TNFD
Swire Properties Limited