This month, Adam Green speaks to Casey Wells, a senior managing director leading Accenture’s business in the Northeast US, and Michael Hughes, a sustainability strategy and technology director at Accenture, about the latest United Nations Global Compact-Accenture CEO Study on Sustainability, and how business leaders are thinking about sustainability at a time of rising global instability. A dramatic set of challenges — from inflation to labor shortages, trade regulation and geopolitical...

This month, Adam Green speaks to Denise Zheng, lead for Responsible Metaverse at Accenture, and Mark Carell-Billiard, global lead of Technology Innovation at Accenture labs, about the booming interest in the metaverse and the key challenges now faced to ensure it is developed responsibly. There is significant pressure on companies to stake out their place in the metaverse, as they explore use cases and principles to guide responsible development. From energy use to privacy, this podcast looks...

This month, Adam Green speaks to two green software experts about the environmental implications of code, how businesses should think about software in their ESG strategy and the best practices to building and running green software. Navveen Balani is Chief Technologist at the Technology Sustainability Innovation Group at Accenture, and Ziliang Zong is a Professor at the Computer Science department at Texas State University. Together, they discuss how software can have deleterious impacts on...

This month, Adam Green speaks to a couple of Accenture’s most experienced leaders when it comes to measuring sustainability. Series regular, Sanjay Podder, Global Lead of Technology Sustainability Innovation, is back, and he's joined by Ambrose Shannon, Accenture's Global ESG Measurement and Analytics Lead. Together, they discuss why measuring ESG matters, what tools and technologies are available to companies to measure the reams of sustainability-related data available to them, and ask,...

In this episode, Adam Green is joined by two of Accenture's foremost experts in sustainability, Sanjay Podder, Global Lead of Technology Sustainability Innovation and Wytse Kaastre, Senior Managing Director, Sustainability Services Europe Lead & Utilities Europe Industry Lead, to discuss the climate emergency, the response by business leaders, and the role that technology can play in the private sector in mitigating and even reducing the creeping rise of global temperatures. We discuss...