Sustainability as a business reality: not just a CSR tick-box exercise

Published on:
Thursday, 3rd December, 2020
Featuring:
Helen Lamprell, General Counsel and Director of External Affairs, Vodafone
Mansoor Hanif, Executive Director, Technology and Digital Infrastructure, NEOM
Gema Esteban Garrido, ESG Investors & Non Financial Reporting Director, Telefónica
Gabrielle Ginér, Head of Environmental Sustainability, BT Group
George Power, Senior Vice President, Macquarie Group Ltd
Graham Wilde, CEO and co-Founder, BWCS
Chris Lewis, Managing Director, Lewis Insight
Moderated by Guy Daniels, Director of Content, TelecomTV

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Great Telco Debate: Panel and Motion

The Motion: The sustainability journey will have a major impact on the telecoms industry

The motion was narrowly DEFEATED at the event  - watch the live Q&A session discussing the motion (now available on-demand)

Sustainability is a complex set of topics which have tended to sit in the CSR department and not surface in mainstream market matters and strategy. Green energy is a great start point given the need for denser networks and compute, storage and connect at the edge of the network. Green investment is also gaining traction. How are telcos filtering the green agenda into their supply chain? Finally, what about the long-term sustainability of the industry itself as it faces competition from outside telecoms, margin pressure on services and a relatively lower-order role in the digital hierarchy?

Speakers

Expert Witnesses:

Helen Lamprell

General Counsel and Director of External Affairs, Vodafone

Mansoor Hanif

Executive Director, Technology and Digital Infrastructure, NEOM

Gema Esteban Garrido

ESG Investors & Non Financial Reporting Director, Telefónica

Gabrielle Ginér

Head of Environmental Sustainability, BT Group

George Power

Senior Vice President, Macquarie Group Ltd

Arguing For the Motion:

Graham Wilde

CEO and Co-Founder, BWCS

Arguing Against the Motion:

Chris Lewis

Managing Director, Lewis Insight

Moderator:

Guy Daniels

Director of Content, TelecomTV

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