NOW Ecosystem invites to reflect on the impact of digitalisation on the sustainable transition of your company. Listen to and question our speakers on the subject!
We are delighted to welcome:
Mr. Mathieu Michel, Secretary of State for Digitalisation, Secretary of State for Digitalisation, in charge of Administrative Simplification, Protection of Privacy and Public Building Management, assistant to the Prime Minister, since 1 October 2020.
Mathieu Michel will expose the main digital priorities during his mandate. He will talk with us about how the ICT industry can be an ally in the sustainable transition of the economy and how to avoid the pitfalls of negative externalities linked to digital development.
Frédéric Pivetta, Founder and CEO at Dalberg Data Insights and member of the ExecutiveCommittee of Dalberg Group. Frederic has been active over the last 10 years in the context of data, technology and social impact where he collaborated with major funders (e.g. Gates Foundation, United Nations) and local stakeholders.
Frédéric is on the Board of Accountable (fintech) and the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (Big Data for SDGs, as part of the UN). He is a New Champion of the World Economic Forum, as well as a Digital Minds for Belgium (group of 22 people appointed by the Minister of Digital to help design the digital agenda for the Belgium). He is a founding member of AI4Belgium and has been talking at multiple conferences (e.g. TEDx). He plays the role of fund manager at Miles Ahead (Deep Tech Fund and start-up studio).
Before that, Frédéric was a co-founder of Real Impact Analytics (now Riaktr), which develops Big Data tools for telecom operators. He has also been working 8 years at McKinsey & Company. Frederic holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University and has graduated in Business Economics and in Econometrics from ULB and Solvay Business School.
Clarisse Ramakers, Managing Director of Agoria Wallonie. A lawyer by training, Clarisse Ramakers has always been attracted to public affairs and the leverage that politics can have on the economy. She holds a Master degree in Business Management and worked for 4 years in a ministerial cabinet. She then turned to business lobbying. She has represented the self-employed and small and medium-sized enterprises in a sector that is key to the competitiveness of our companies and our country: technology companies.
Clarisse Ramakers will talk, amongst other, about the "Digital4Climate" study Agoria carried out in collaboration with Accenture. This Belgian study provides scientific figures, concrete examples and recommendations on the potential of digital technologies to reduce CO2 emissions in our country, especially in carbon-intensive sectors.
Olivier Vergeynst, Director of the Belgian Institute for Digital Responsibility. With more than 20 years of experience in international companies as an IT manager, Olivier Vergeynst has previously led technical teams in Europe, the United States and Asia in financial and payment systems, telecommunications, application development, and IT infrastructure and operations.
ISIT-BE asbl is growing international community of more than 200 members bringing together economic actors in favor of a more responsible, ethical, human and environmentally friendly digital transformation. Olivier will explain how understanding, controlling and reducing the environmental and social impacts of an organization's digital services is an essential part of its CSR strategy.
The climate, health and energy crises have shown that digital transformation is a key issue for Belgian companies. However, its negative environmental impacts can negate other efforts to reduce the carbon footprint and also become a source of exclusion. Adopting Responsible Digital can save money and give you a significant competitive advantage! But how do you actually go about it? → This debate on Digital Sustainability will summarise the issues, provide practical answers and present the actions to be implemented in companies.
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