A total of six company representatives presented their expertise and their approach to the topic of digital sustainability in keynote speeches. Exciting practical examples gave the participants an insight into the important topic of pursuing sustainability goals with the help of digital technologies: Sustainability initiatives rely on digitalization to achieve their goals. Another subject of the presentations was that it is already important when developing software to create it in a way that conserves resources as much as possible. This can mean, for example, that computationally intensive processes are relocated to regions where there is currently plenty of green energy available. In addition, digitization can help bring sustainable energy to developing countries. The speakers agreed that the joint consideration of digitization and sustainability is still new, but is continuously gaining in importance.
Keynote presentations at IDT Open Lab #8:
Release the digitalization brake on your sustainability transformation
Matthias Rausch, Owner, Yellow Birds Consulting GmbH & Co KG.
More than the chore: realizing opportunities and shaping the future together with digitalization and sustainability
Bastian Brinkmann, Head of Corporate Future Lab, Uhlmann Group Holding GmbH & Co. KG
Decarbonization and digitalization? It's a match! - How decarbonization roadmaps paired with digital technologies enable companies to efficiently reduce their CO2 footprint
Dr. Lennard Hermann, Senior Manager Innovation Enablement, Wieland-Werke AG
Green Coding
Sandip Sar Dessai, Senior Architect, GFT Technologies SE
Impact-as-a-Service: Transparently investing in sustainability
Rebecca Bregant, Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer, PineBerry
How digitalization promotes sustainability at Liebherr
Lukas Döring, Customer Service Applications, Liebherr-Hausgeräte Ochsenhausen GmbH
Information about the next IDT Open Lab
The ninth IDT Open Lab will take place in spring 2023. The topic as well as the type of event are yet to be announced.
About the IDT
The Institute for Digital Transformation (IDT) is a research unit at Neu-Ulm University of Applied Sciences (HNU) that focuses on the digital transformation of medium-sized companies. Within the scope of the practice-oriented research projects and studies, findings are generated that are made available to science and practice. Companies and, in particular, the cooperation partners gain access to current knowledge, applicable methods and benchmarks relating to the topic of digital transformation.
