At this Keynote/Fireside Chat session — now available on demand with a premium subscription to Acceleration Economy — Microsoft senior director of sustainability Rosie Mastrandrea and Cloud Wars Founder Bob Evans discuss the importance of approaching sustainability from an innovation perspective, and how Microsoft sustainability software spans industries and business functions.
Highlights From Rosie Mastrandrea, and What You Will Learn:
- Why sustainability gains do not have to come at the expense of corporate profitability or technology innovation. “We’ve had a ton of innovation happening,” she said, referencing Microsoft.
- The big goal isn’t to reduce carbon, but to remove it. And sustainability represents “an enormous economic opportunity.”
- Microsoft Cloud for Sustainability is “horizontal” in that it spans all industries and is integrated into all business processes.
- Sustainability priorities that Microsoft cloud software addresses include:
- Delivering data intelligence that provides data and transparency across value chains
- Building sustainable IT infrastructure; for instance, moving to the cloud can reduce the environment footprint of workloads by over 90%
- Reducing the environmental impact of operating buildings, energy, and transportation