Net Zero Innovation (Keynote) Theatre

Leadership in Sustainability: Innovation

12 Sep (Fri) Day 2 : 13:20 – 14:05

Full Programme
Net Zero Innovation Theatre (Keynote)

Speakers

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

MTR Corporation

Head of Sustainability

Jessica is the Head of Sustainability at MTR Corporation, where she leads the development of the Corporation’s sustainability strategies, drives key initiatives, oversees sustainability reporting and disclosures, and supports sustainable finance initiatives. With over 25 years of experience in environmental and corporate sustainability, Jessica is a seasoned professional who actively participates in several international and local sustainability-related committees. She serves as Vice Chair of the Sustainable Development Committee of The International Association of Public Transport and is a member of the Environment & Sustainability Committee of The Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. She is also appointed as a Co-opt Member of the Sub-committee on Low-carbon Transition under the Council for Carbon Neutrality and Sustainable Development of the HKSAR Government. In addition, Jessica 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 Board of Examiners member for the HKMA Sustainability Award.

Speaking at 2026 sessions:

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Future-Proofing Operations: Corporate Adaptation and Resilience

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

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.

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