October 17th at the GEC, Dublin
10:00am to 5:20pm
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Its Time
To Act!
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It’s Time To Act! Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn from leading Irish, UK and US sustainability experts.
Over the day, we will bring you on a journey, from getting started with a proper plan, to setting goals, investigating opportunities, and showcasing sustainability technologies. Learn from real-world case studies.
Get Started With A Proper Plan
The day starts off by launching the Techies Go Green Climate Action Roadmap. A step by step guide for better climate action outcomes
Test Real-World Scenarios
Wrap up the days learning with a team challenge with real-world scenarios and problems to solve in the pursuit of greener solutions.
Introducing A Sustainability Culture
We show you how to introduce an effective sustainability culture in your organisation through education & encouraging greater staff participation
Identify Sources & Set Goals
Through two great case studies, we show you how to identify & measure emissions sources, set actionable goals, and avoid greenwashing
Greening Your ICT
With practical tips and guidance, learn how to make your ICT infrastructure and applications more efficient, sustainable with lower emissions
Embracing The Circular Economy
Explaining the value of the circular economy and the quick wins for your business and the environment
Find Solutions At Our Lightning Talk Sessions
Follow up with a one-to-one meeting with our attending industry experts to discuss your needs
Dr. Shane McGuinness will explain how Nature & Biodiversity Solutions enables companies to meet their ESG reporting requirements and offers collaboration opportunities between the corporate sector and nature restoration efforts.
Taylor Wessing’s expertise extends to domains where technology intersects with ESG, including health-tech, clean-tech, climate-tech, artificial intelligence, and life sciences.
UrbanVolt, the leading provider of affordable clean solar energy will introduce their Solar as a Service model and how they offer companies access to reap the benefits of solar energy for no upfront cost.
Ethico will explain its sustainable investment solutions that promote positive social and environmental outcomes, while also working hard to deliver returns.
10:30am – 11:10am
Get Started With A Proper Plan
Hosted By
Shane McDonnell
Strategy & Communications Consultant, MCI Consulting
Introducing The Techies Go Green Climate Action Roadmap
In this session Michael O’Hara and our panel will launch our Techies Go Green Climate Action Roadmap and introduce our great member support services that will help with its implementation.
This presentation and panel discussion will explain how a climate action plan can provide competitive advantages for your businesses including enhanced brand reputation, cost savings, regulatory compliance, access to new markets, and enhanced investor confidence.
The session will introduce key climate action steps including stakeholder engagement, education, auditing, goal setting, planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting, disclosure and transparency.
Announcing Our Community Portal: We will launch our online Techies Go Green members area where businesses can access our Climate Action Roadmap, the supporting Action Guide, presentations by industry experts, community forums and a directory sustainability solutions providers.
B-Corp Certification: Donal Quinn from ENSO and Sustainability Consultant, Sarah Blake will provide an introduction to the application process for B-Corp certification and provide information on other valuable sustainability accreditations. Our panel will explain how our Roadmap can help you with these applications.
Donal Quinn
Founder of ENSO, Sustainability support services for businesses
Sarah Blake
Sustainability Consultant | B Corps | Carbon Literacy | Climate Education
Michael O’Hara
Co-Founder & Membership Ambassador,
Techies Go Green
Gerard Clutterbuck
Operations & Strategy,
Techies Go Green
11:40am – 12:15am
Introducing A Sustainability Culture
With Case Studies From
Host
Francis O’ Haire
CTO, Climb Channel Solutions
Educating Staff And Fostering A Sustainability Culture Is The Best Investment For Change - Where To Start And How To Roll It Out Companywide
Raquel Noboa
Founder & CEO Fifty Shades Greener
Introducing education and training courses is one of the most effective ways to quickly build a climate aware culture in your organisation and to equip all employees with the technical knowledge they need to successfully implement effective measures at company and role-specific levels.
This session will cover the key steps to introduce an organisation-wide education programme and will look at a case study as an example of its implementation.
Andy Miller
CEO
Activemind
Former Folens CEO, Andy Miller shares his first hand experiences and perspectives on his remarkable sustainability initiative, Folens Goes Green and its goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2025. Andy discusses how Folens sustainability journey began with recognising the importance of empowering our employees where they provided comprehensive Green Skills training to enhance their sustainability awareness and encourage eco-conscious practices in their employees personal and professional lives. As a result, Folens have taken positive and meaningful changes taking steps such as recycling, paperless processes, and encouraging the use of personal drinking bottles and mugs. Andy will show how, through lighting and equipment audits, insulation upgrades, and staff training, they achieved a remarkable 30% reduction in electricity consumption since early 2022. Folens is phasing out their diesel car fleet and opting for electric vehicles (EVs). Andy discusses Folens choice to use UrbanVolt to install solar panels, a move that can significantly reduce their environmental impact.
Donal Minihane
Managing Director
Hotel Doolin
Donal will discuss how he managed the process of achieving Ireland's first certified carbon-neutral hotel status for Hotel Doolin and their efforts to reduce water and energy usage, minimise waste, and support local businesses by sourcing our food locally.
Donal will discuss how, under his leadership, Hotel Doolin won Ireland's Greenest Hotel at the Gold Medal Awards, and the Sustainability Team of the Year 2021 at the Green Awards. He will discuss how Hotel Doolin is now embarking on a higher commitment to become a NetZero Hotel by 2029, recognising that carbon neutrality or carbon negative is not enough as it does not take into account the majority of their Scope 3 emissions.
12:15am – 12:50am
Identify Sources And Set Goals
With Case Studies From
Host
Michael O’Hara
Co-Founder & Membership Ambassador,
Techies Go Green
Best Practice For Identifying and Measuring Emissions and Setting Actionable Goals
For the third morning presentation, Jenny Latimer and John Gladstone will look at how two IT companies approach their process of identifying and measuring greenhouse gas emissions and setting clear actionable goals.
John Gladstone
Sustainability Lead, Softcat PLC
John Gladstone from Softcat PLC will discusses the challenges of identifying, measuring and addressing the wide range of emissions sources in a large multisite organisation like Softcat PLC, not only the direct sources, (Scopes 1 and 2) but the often much larger indirect emissions sources (Scope 3) and its effect on their supply chain choices. John will discusses how Softcat became the first IT company in Europe to have its Net Zero targets approved by SBTi (Science Based Targets Initiative) . In 2022 Softcat was one of only 35 companies in the world to have their net-zero targets approved by SBTi and only six companies across all sectors in the UK had their targets approved.
Jenny Latimer
Head of Alliances & Operations at Highgate IT Solutions
Jenny Latimer at Highgate Solutions will discusses the importance of setting actionable and measurable goals. Jenny will talk about her experience as Sustainability Lead and the task of setting realistic and actionable goals, communicating them to stakeholders (customers, suppliers, staff) while avoiding greenwashing claims and how to track and transparently communicate progress and achieve Carbon Neutral Plus. As a fully remote working organisation, Highgate is a great example to illustrate how a company has a considerably smaller carbon footprint than it would have if Highgate were to have a premises (as Highgate produces no emissions in Scope 1 or 2). Jenny will discuss the steps taken to measure two important Scope 3 categories – Homeworking and Business Travel, and also the development of a process which tracks all travel emissions through an expenses policy.
1:00pm – 1:30pm
Greening Your ICT
Making Your ICT Infrastructure & Applications More Efficient & Sustainable - Eliminating waste and reducing your digital carbon emissions
Host
Francis O’ Haire
CTO, Climb Channel Solutions
Mark Butcher
Managing Director, Posetiv Cloud Ltd.
Mark Butcher will examine the options to decrease an organisations' carbon footprint impact and increase their costs efficiency. He will discuss the the methodologies to adopt in order to calculate the actual carbon production made by ICT related goods and services manufacturing or organisational processes.
By examining technologies such as AI and cloud, Mark will show methods to transform and modernise enterprise infrastructure, applications, and services, making IT more sustainable, cost effective and automated.
2:50pm - 3:30pm
Embracing The Circular Economy
Host
Francis O’ Haire
CTO, Climb Channel Solutions
The Circular Economy - Quick Wins For Your Business And The Environment
This will be a lively panel discussion on the growing importance of the circular economy for businesses and their actions to tackle their emissions.
Paul McSweeney
Founder & CEO ZeroNet
Mike Townsend
CEO, Earthshine Group
Agnese Metitieri
Circular Economy Ventures Lead at Irish Manufacturing Research (IMR)
Our panel will discuss how adopting circular economy practices can help your business become more sustainable and efficient. They will look at steps to get started such as:
Evaluating your current practices by assessing your current business operations to identify areas where you can reduce waste and improve resource efficiency.
Designing for reuse and recycling and creating products with their entire lifecycle in mind including designing for durability, easy disassembly, and recyclability.
Implementing a closed-loop supply chain that recovers and reuses materials including setting up systems for product take-back, refurbishment, and recycling.
Engaging with stakeholders by educating and involving employees, customers, and suppliers in your circular economy initiatives.
Innovating continuously and staying open to new ideas and technologies that can enhance your circular economy efforts.
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Test Real-World Scenarios
Test Real-World Scenarios In The Green Champions Challenge!
This interactive session is a dynamic and engaging collaborative team challenge designed to raise awareness and understanding of the critical environmental issues facing tech companies.
Dr. Ciaran O’Carroll
Sustainability Consultant at Change by Degrees, Lecturer in Sustainability Leadership at Technological University Dublin
Participants will be grouped into teams and presented with real-world scenarios and problems that tech companies encounter in their pursuit of green solutions.
The winning team will be awarded the inaugural 'Techies Live' Green Champions trophy.
Dr. Ciarán O’Carroll is a prominent figure in the realm of sustainability and business and a sustainability consultant at Change by Degrees and a lecturer in Sustainability Leadership at Technological University Dublin. Ciarán will contribute his extensive knowledge and experience to this challenge, making this session a not-to-be-missed opportunity to test preconceptions and find opportunities when addressing climate action and sustainability in your business.
4:30pm - 5:10pm
In Conversation With Paul Hawken
Host
Francis O’ Haire
CTO, Climb Channel Solutions
Join us for an insightful and thought provoking conversation with Paul Hawken
Keynote Speaker
Paul Hawken
Environmentalist, Entrepreneur, Author, and Activist
Paul Hawken is a renowned author, environmentalist, entrepreneur, activist and founder of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. Paul is a best-selling author, who has written eight books, as well as dozens of articles, op-eds, and other papers concerning the environment, the ethical responsibility of business, and social justice.
Paul will discuss Project Drawdown and his most recent book, Regeneration, which presents a transformative approach to addressing the climate crisis by integrating justice, biodiversity, and human dignity into actionable solutions. The book emphasises the importance of an inclusive movement that engages all of humanity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reverse environmental degradation. Paul outlines practical strategies, such as regenerative agriculture and renewable energy, to create a sustainable future. The goal is to end the climate crisis within one generation by fostering a global commitment to regeneration, which not only combats climate change but also promotes social equity and economic resilience.
This is a unique opportunity to put your questions to Paul about his work and insights.
Find Solutions At Our Lightning Talk Sessions
10:20am – 10:30am
Dr. Shane McGuinness
NbS
Lightning Talk 1
Featuring Dr. Shane McGuinness from NbS - Nature & Biodiversity Solutions Ltd.
Shane will explain how NbS enables companies to meet their ESG reporting requirements, such as the CSRD in the EU and how they can pave the way for impactful collaboration between the corporate sector and nature restoration efforts.
Arrange a one-to-one meeting with Shane during the day.
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11:10am – 11:20am
Ciaran Hughes
CFP, Ethico
Lightning Talk 2
Featuring Ciaran Hughes, CFP, Ethico
Ciaran will introduce Ethico, the ethical investment company and how they give businesses a better way to manage their company’s finances. Ethico offers sustainable investment solutions and pension options that promote positive social and environmental outcomes, while also working hard to deliver returns.
Arrange a one-to-one meeting with Ciaran during the day.
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12:50am – 1:00pm
Justin Jacober
CEO, Urban Volt
Lightning Talk 3
Featuring Justin Jacober, CEO from Urban Volt
Justin will introduce UrbanVolt, the leading provider of affordable clean solar energy. Using their Solar as a Service model, Justin will explain how they offer companies access to reap the benefits of solar energy for no upfront cost. By turning sustainability into a service, making it easy to rapidly reduce a company's carbon footprint. UrbanVolt also offers an innovative Light as a Service, we upgrade your lighting without the need for costly upfront investment.
Arrange a one-to-one meeting with Justin during the day.
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1:30pm – 1:40pm
Giles Crown
Partner, Taylor Wessing
Lightning Talk 4
Featuring Giles Crown, Partner at Taylor Wessing
ESG has evolved in tandem with technological advancements and Taylor Wessing is at the forefront of this convergence, playing a pivotal role in upholding responsible and sustainable practices while driving innovation and progress. Their advisory expertise extends to domains where technology intersects with ESG, including health-tech, clean-tech, climate-tech, artificial intelligence, and life sciences.
Arrange a one-to-one meeting with Giles during the day.
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