Session: Scaling & Magnifying Sustainability Business Impacts via Technology
Business has a responsibility to our society & planet; and is able to move faster and arguably drive bigger sustainability impacts than government or NGOs. Up to 90% of a company’s ecological & social footprint is in its supply chain : comprised of a deep web of suppliers all over the world. Driving sustainability transformation requires scalability, agility, … and technology. Les get inspired! Because tech has the potential to unlock magnified impacts and transformational change of company’s, industries and the world.
Bio
Nicole Sherwin isChief Impact Officer - Customer Advisory & Strategy at EcoVadis - a SaaS Business Sustainability Ratings company and first French unicorn in Sustainability tech. Over the past 13 years she has been consulting on strategy and implementation of sustainable supply chain solutions for Global 500 companies. She sees the combination of technology & supply chains as having extraordinary potential to amplify sustainability impacts. With a previous career in film making, she shifted her professional focus after producing documentaries on social & environmental impacts of multinational practices in Central America. She holds an MBA in Sustainable Business from Presidio Graduate School.