Net Zero Innovation (Keynote) Theatre
Advancing Sustainability Through Technology Leadership
12 Sep (Fri) Day 2 : 13:00 – 13:20
Join Oliver Klein, our Chief Technologist for APJ in AWS, as he reveals how businesses are accelerating their sustainability transformation through cloud technology. Klein will showcase how organizations are leveraging AI to enhance ESG reporting, optimize resource consumption, and drive environmental innovation. Discover how cloud-native solutions are helping companies measure, track, and reduce their carbon footprint while creating business value. Learn practical approaches to implementing sustainable technology that supports both environmental goals and operational efficiency, drawing from real-world success stories across various industries.
Learnings
- Learn how leading organizations are using cloud-powered AI to automate ESG reporting, improve environmental monitoring, and achieve measurable sustainability outcomes
- Discover practical strategies for implementing sustainable technology solutions that drive both environmental impact and business value
- Explore how to build a technology-enabled sustainability roadmap that aligns with corporate ESG goals while enhancing operational efficiency and innovation
Post-Event Actions
- Take the first step in their sustainability transformation by assessing their organization’s current ESG reporting processes and identifying opportunities where AI and cloud technology can automate and enhance these workflows
- Connect with their technology teams to evaluate their existing infrastructure’s energy efficiency and explore how cloud migration could reduce their environmental impact while improving performance
- Begin developing a practical roadmap for implementing AI-driven sustainability initiatives, prioritizing quick wins in areas such as resource optimization, environmental monitoring, and automated ESG data collection
Speakers
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!
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.
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.
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