The UK tech sector is just beginning to quantify their impact on the environment, now responsible for more emissions per year than commercial aviation. The hyperscalers are offering seemingly limitless storage with their cloud hosting offerings, effectively encouraging organisations to ‘lift and shift’/migrate entire system workloads to the cloud. Once there, it is rarely used or its purpose questioned.
- Should we question practices of transferring all of this data to the cloud? Might there be a more efficient way for the environment, which would also reduce cost?
- Just like the built environment is now in a retrofitting phase, improving heat efficiency through insulation and greener AC, might we do the same for our websites and apps?
- How can we measure the impact?
- How can we design interventions that work?
- Could we embed a better approach to enterprise policy defaults?
The session will dig into how we can best measure the impact of digital services, the barriers, challenges and opportunities of measurement, how best to create a programme of interventions and improvements, and how we can continuously improve over time.
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Craig Melson
Craig Melson
Craig is Associate Director for Climate, Environment and Sustainability and leads on our work in these areas ranging from climate change, ESG disclosures and due diligence, through to circular economy, business and human rights, conflict minerals and post-Brexit regulation.
Prior to joining techUK he worked in public affairs and policy has an avid interest in new and emerging technologies. Craig has a degree in Ancient History from King’s College London and spends his time watching Watford FC and holding out hope for Half Life 3.
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Margot Stumm
Margot Stumm
Margot joined techUK in September 2022 as the Head of Events and Sponsorship, running the event programme for our flagship events, such as the techUK Annual Dinner, Defence Ethics Summit, Building the Smarter State etc
Prior to this role, Margot managed events and external affairs for the Centre for Policy Studies, a political think tank in Westminster and also worked at the D Group, a London-based business membership organisation, where she was responsible for the events programme, account management and business strategy.
She holds a BA in Technical Translation in English, French and Spanish from Paris 7 - Denis Diderot and a MA in International Relations from the London Metropolitan University.
Outside of work, she enjoys travelling, going to concerts and snowboarding.
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