How Business and Cities Use Digital Technologies to Meet Climate Commitments

The second webinar in the ASU LightWorks four-part series on “How Smart Systems Can Power Our Decarbonized Future” explores how to bring systems thinking into the design of programs to decarbonize industrial processes and municipal systems. Top Siemens and Novartis sustainability officials will demonstrate how to assess a company or municipality from end to end and go beyond incrementalism to scale decarbonization solutions that can make a climate difference. Several case examples will demonstrate their approaches including London’s use of open public data sources to drive innovation in city decarbonization and squeezing carbon out of manufacturing ecosystems. Meet the Panel Martin Powell As Chief Sustainability Officer for Siemens USA, Martin is responsible for driving corporate programs that will lead to company’s achievement of global carbon neutrality by 2030. He is the former Deputy Major of London and will discuss open public data sources to drive innovation in city decarbonization. Jim Goudreau Jim serves as the Head of Climate for Novartis Business Services. He crafts strategy and policy for Novartis to increase climate resilience, reduce GHG emissions and increase energy resilience across their global operations. He will discuss reverse engineering to squeeze carbon out of manufacturing and the power of legacy research data in discovering solutions to new health threats. Noorie Rajvanshi Noorie serves as chief data and strategy analyst working across the Siemens’ ecosystem of business and corporate units to deliver environmental and business objectives. She will discuss smart systems applications modeled at the Princeton Island Microgrid Living Laboratory. Moderator: Gary Dirks Dr. Dirks is senior director of the Global Futures Laboratory and LightWorks®, an Arizona State University initiative that capitalizes on ASU’s strengths in solar energy and other light-inspired research. Before joining ASU, Gary was the president of BP Asia-Pacific and the president of BP China. .