ASF Forum 2022 - The venue for sustainable IT

Customer view: what helps or hurts lifecycle management?

Customers play a critical role in the circular use of assets. Education, policies, and other factors play an important role in determining how long assets are used and what is done after use. This dialogue will seek to share practices, opportunities, and challenges.

Speaker: Katie Schindall - Director Circular Economy, Cisco

The Road to Net Zero – setting science based goals and driving progress

The race to a Carbon Net Zero future is on, and both public and corporate organizations are expected to define their own Net Zero target and roadmap for decarbonization.

In this inspiring breakfast session Dell Technologies and Ernst & Young will give you guidance and inspiration for your journey towards Net-Zero climate targets.

Join us to hear about the new Net-Zero Standard from Science Based Targets and be inspired by leading best-practice in setting goals and driving progress across the entire value chain.

Speakers: 

• Ingrid Cornander - Associate Partner, Head of Climate Change and Sustainability Services, Ernst & Young AB
• Louise Koch – Director, Global Social Impact Customer Engagement, Dell Technologies
• Katarina Kenne – Account Executive & Sustainability Lead, Sweden, Dell Technologies

HP - our way to the world’s most just tech company 

HP aspires to be the most sustainable and just tech company in the world. In this session we’ll focus on what just means and how we plan to tackle the challenges together with internal and external stakeholders. 

Speakers:

• Angelica Malmstedt - HR Manager, HP
• Daniel Antonsson - Diversity Manager, HP
• Didier Cayrac - EMEA Sustainable Impact Lead, HP

Tools for Developing a Sustainable IT Strategy 

A comprehensive sustainable IT strategy can shrink IT equipment required, reduce carbon footprint and energy usage, and increase the sustainability of IT operations. Discover free tools from HPE to help your company develop or update your strategy.

Speaker: Dr. John Frey - Chief Technologist, Sustainable Transformation, HPE

Unique customized environmental solutions with customer focus from Lenovo 

During the seminar, Lenovo will talk about reduced emissions, recycled materials, packaging and logistics. We will also talk about what we can do locally here in Sweden/the Nordics and how we can tailor unique environmental solutions for your particular organization. 

Speakers:

• Thomas Hedin - Environmental and Sustainability Affairs Manager, Nordics and Benelux, Lenovo
• Stefan Brechling Larsen - Global Head of Environmental Services, Lenovo

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Five years of communicating Nordic organizations' sustainability priorities to the global IT industry. Five reports that all point to areas where we need to take urgent steps. Five years of valuable and fruitful dialogue on how IT can (should!) become more sustainable. This is the story of what we have accomplished together so far – and how we will keep moving forward.

Speaker: Chiara Selvetti - Director Sustainable Business, Atea Sweden

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The Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) is the IT industry's coalition for sustainability. More than 150 companies from the IT and electronics industry are members, from leading global brands to subcontractors. Deborah Albers will describe how the industry collaborates to improve working conditions, reduce climate impact and increase resource efficiency – and how this work is impacted by Nordic organizations.

Speaker: Deborah Albers - Vice President, Responsible Business Alliance

We launch the fifth report from Atea Sustainability Focus, which is based on the IT sustainability issue that Nordic organizations consider most important. There will be discussions with both the members of the ASF Advisory Board and representatives from the IT industry about the report's recommendations and how they can become a reality.

PS. This year, the report contains a new, exciting and important feature that you do not want to miss.

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In this keynote, Didier Cayrac aims to give fresh perspective on how an industry player like HP handles manufacturing and EOL of IT products, and how they support their customers on their own sustainability journeys.

Speaker: Didier Cayrac - EMEA Sustainable Impact Lead, HP

IT sustainability has made progress, but opportunities to improve sustainability exist. Innovations in IT optimization, cooling, storage technologies, reuse, and data management can significantly reduce power consumption and carbon footprints.

Speaker: Dr John Frey - Chief Technologist, Sustainable Transformation, HPE

At Södertörn University in southern Stockholm, thousands of students are trained in sustainability, and the university is truly an example of walking the talk. For several years, Södertörn has successfully challenged the classic three-year contracts, reduced resource consumption with workplaces and found smart solutions to give products a longer life. Welcome to be inspired by the driving force behind it all, Johan Reynols.

Speaker: Johan Reynols - Procurement manager and member of Leadership for Change, Södertörns Högskola

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They want to use their purchasing power to the full extent to contribute to more sustainable IT. They want to create new and better ways to purchase and use IT. The ASF Leadership for Change network brings together Nordic organizations that have decided to take greater responsibility, lead the transformation to more sustainable consumption models and thereby show the way for others, grow in and changing an entire industry. Now they are here to inspire you.

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The acceleration of digital transformation is enabling us to connect, collaborate, and create value in ways we wouldn’t have imagined a few years ago. It has also created new opportunities to drive sustainability and decarbonization at every step of the way. Hear how Dell Technologies is pushing sustainable innovation forward - from product designs that reduce waste and emissions, including future-gazing prototypes like Concept Luna, to digital hybrid and green datacenter solutions that are helping customers and partners accelerate their journey towards net zero.

Speaker: Louise Koch - Director Global Social Impact Sales Strategy & Customer Engagement, Dell Technologies

To realize a circular economy, it’s critical that we evolve how manage for asset lifecycles, overcoming embedded momentum for single product life. This talk will focus on approaches to change this dynamic, from product design through consumption.

Speaker: Katie Schindall - Director Circular Economy, Cisco

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The ambitious sustainability targets of Boliden are not just visible in the core business of mining. They have also found their way to the IT department where Emelie Lundberg works to create smart processes for take back, extending the product lifecycle through repairs and maintenance and engaging in dialogues with suppliers. It is about mining the opportunities of your ecosystem and doing what's in your own power. At ASF Forum she will tell you more! 

Speaker: Emelie Lundberg, Manager End User Experience, Boliden

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Economist and futurist Märtha Rehnberg ends the day with a mind-boggling energy boost. In the pursuit of a sustainable world, technology can be our worst enemy or our best friend. This is what it takes to steer tech in the right direction – towards a better future.

Speaker: Märtha Rehnberg

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