Go back to all blogs

Techies Go Green, together with DataSolutions, is delighted to be launching its next sustainability webinar “How the IT industry can Shape a More Sustainable Future” as part of our Summer Sustainability Series.

We're delighted to announce the launch of our next set of Sustainability Webinars - the Summer Series. This new series will be designed to support the IT community to develop and deepen their knowledge and understanding of the practical actions they can take to start their sustainability journey. The sessions will include guest presentations by sector and climate experts, ‘peer-to-peer’ case studies from leading companies, and Q&A. 

This is the 3rd webinar series that Datasolutions and Techies Go Green have ran, after previously running Autumn and Spring educational webinars. We’ve already seen leading experts from Logitech, PlanetMark and Prime Computer talk about topics from the circular economy to how to become a net zero company.

Some of these webinars have included:

• “Designing for Sustainability: A Journey from Desire to Capability” with Robert O’Mahony - Head of Sustainability, Global Operations, Logitech

• “An introduction to the Biodiversity Crisis and Why it Matters” with Catherine Bryan, Partner, Kingsdale Head Farm LLP

• “What Zero Carbon Means For Business” with Jonathan Withey, Head of Business Development, PlanetMark

• “Net Zero Carbon and Scope 3” with Dr. Stephen Finnegan, Managing Director, Arete Zero Carbon and Katrina Quinn, Global Partner Manager, Vyta.

• “How to Align with the UNs Sustainable Development Goals & The Vital Role Businesses Play” with Colin Curtis, Founder of Support The Goals

• “What is the Circular Economy and How can the IT Industry Adopt it?” with Wolfgang Lehmacher, Technology Evangelist and Sacha Ghilione, CEO of Prime Computer

Our first episode is taking place on Friday, 24th June @ 10:30am: How the IT Industry can Shape a More Sustainable Future, where we'll be joined by leading IT vendors IGEL and Citrix.  

How the IT industry can Shape a More Sustainable Future

Friday, 24th June @ 10:30am

We're going to be joined by two of the world's leading IT vendors, IGEL and Citrix, discussing how they are fostering sustainable behaviour among their distributors and reseller partners.

No layer of the channel can solve the sustainability conundrum by itself. Channel partners need their vendor allies to increase the pace of innovation, but vendors must also foster sustainable behaviour among their distributors and resellers as channel partners and end users look to their vendors to set the pace on sustainability.

Ben Ward - Principal Presales Engineer UK & I, IGEL

Ben Ward is an EUC veteran, having spent half his career in IT working for Citrix, VMware and now IGEL. He has a passion for exploring new ways of working and evangelising the benefits that a properly thought out EUC strategy can bring to businesses, individuals and wider society.

Gerry Lavin - Senior Sustainability Strategist, Citrix

Gerry Lavin is a Senior Sustainability Strategist in the Citrix Product Management and Marketing Organisation. Prior to joining Citrix 3 years ago, he was a customer where he led an engineering team at a large professional services firm. Gerry is keenly interested in understanding how our customers are using technology to transform their business.

Ben Ward from IGEL and Gerry Lavin from Citrix will be debating the role vendors need to play to increase the pace of sustainability innovation and enable sustainable business practices for the future. There will also be a discussion on how they are tackling the sustainability issue both internally and for their partners and customers, and will look at what organisations can do to reduce their environment impact. 

The next step? Join Techies Go Green. 

If you want to learn more about sustainability and what your company can do to become more sustainable, consider joining Techies Go Green. Techies Go Green is a movement dedicated to decarbonising IT and tech-oriented companies through collaborating and sharing knowledge. Membership is open to both companies and individuals within the UK and Ireland. We would love to have you join and to help you in your journey towards sustainability and decarbonisation.