Name: ESG: Where we’ve been and where we’re headed
Start: 2023-06-14T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-06-14T16:00:20.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.3

Today’s business and IT leaders must prioritize environmental sustainability and other ESG issues. This series will offer helpful conversations about these topics, including ways to foster green IT, advice on making supply chains more sustainable, and tips for developing environmental, social and governance initiatives.

In recent months, excitement about -- and use of -- generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, BERT, LaMDA, GPT-3, DALL-E-2, MidJourney, and Stable Diffusion has grown exponentially. On the other hand, very little attention has been given to the environmental costs of these tools. But with pressure on to monitor carbon emissions and report ESG issues, companies cannot afford to ignore this important issue.
Learn why training a single AI model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetimes and what companies should do to create greener AI systems. Join TechTarget's Diann Daniel as she discusses these important issues with Sajjad Moazeni, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington, and Shaolei Ren, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside.

For more on sustainability and ESG visit https://www.techtarget.com/sustainability/ and for more on AI, visit https://www.techtarget.com/searchenterpriseai/

Moderator: Diann Daniel - TechTarget Editorial
Panelists:
• Sajjad Moazeni - Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Emerging Integrated Technologies & Systems Lab (EMIT Lab) at the University of Washington, Seattle
• Shaolei Ren - Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cooperating Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside

The environmental cost of generative AI

Corporate sustainability efforts require buy-in and support across all levels of employees -- from top leadership to assembly line workers. But too often, sustainability efforts are met with confusion and resistance.

ESG distrust, eco-anxiety overwhelm, belief that sustainability is someone else's job or belief that just one person can't make a difference are common.

That's why effective sustainability communication is so important. This webinar examines current obstacles to getting buy-in and offers strategies for tackling common sustainability communication problems.

Sustainability communication: Secrets to engaging stakeholders and employees

The concept of sustainability includes many issues, including those that relate to the impact that tech has on humans. 
To that point, business and IT leaders should understand how AI and other emerging technologies will affect society and businesses. This discussion examines AI as well as tech disruptions such as Web 3.0. 
Diann Daniel, Executive Editor, TechTarget Editorial interviews longtime tech thinker Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a Fellow at the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, who helped shape IBM's innovation strategy, along with newer influencers, Madhav Kumar, PhD Student in Management, MIT School of Management and Robert Mahari, PhD Student in the Human Dynamics, MIT, who is also a JD candidate at Harvard Law School.
Hear these tech researchers discuss the negative and positive potential of AI and chatGPT, and what leaders should do to stay on top of developments.
The MIT guests will also speak on an emerging panel tech at the MIT CIO Sloan Symposium. Details:
MIT Sloan CIO Symposium
May 15-16, 2023
Royal Sonesta Hotel 
40 Edwin H. Land Blvd. 
Cambridge, MA 02142
Register: https://mitcio.info/register
(Livestream option also available.)

AI and emerging tech: The growing impact, challenges and responsibilities

Bruno Sarda, EY TMT Climate Change and Sustainability Services Leader, shares tips that CIOs and IT leaders can use to improve the environmental sustainability of IT, as well as ways IT and technology can support ESG and sustainability across the organization. This video's topics include:

- 0:27 - Why IT is critical to organizational sustainability

- 1:35 - How IT can improve its own environmental sustainability and lower carbon emissions

- 6:20 - How technology can support organizational sustainability

- 11:34 - Advice on dealing with complexity

- 14:35 - Advice on avoiding greenwashing

- 16:52 - How to align sustainability to business strategy for a competitive edge

The Critical Role of Enterprise Technology in Sustainability

Organizations, citizens and legislative entities are continuously learning more about how exactly businesses – and technology in particular – affect climate and social issues. As that understanding evolves, so do corporate approaches to ESG. This discussion explores how businesses have changed their thinking around ESG, what’s motivating ESG programs today, and how IT’s role in ESG will continue to develop.

ESG: Where we’ve been and where we’re headed

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