How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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The Climate 4.0 Economy

Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

The Carbon Zero, Circular and Regenerative Economy, is easily the most profoundly important possibility resulting from Digital Transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both from emissions and that embodied in materials, building, and products) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

In this session, you will take away a better understanding of these questions:

How does this happen?
How fast and at what scale can the Linear Economy curve be bent toward the Circular?
What will be needed from governments at all levels globally in terms of carrots and sticks?
What will be needed on the corporate policy and governance side to drive this?

This is a panel discussion you won't want to miss!

March 31, 2021 at 9:30 am PDT, 12:30 pm EDT, 5:30 pm GMT

Brought to you by:

Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

Bruce Armstrong Taylor

Career-long writer, editor, publisher, and conference chair and speaker on digital technology and infrastructure, now focused on global Digital Transformation, Industry 4.0 and Smart Cities technologies and the Digital Infrastructure that enable and support them to help speed the conversion of the global economy toward carbon zero and climate positive, with particular interest in helping to fund and develop projects that further the achievement of UN SDGs in frontier and emerging economies.

Jimmy Jia

Jimmy helps investors assess climate impacts on performance, valuation, and pricing in their portfolio. He is the author of the Corporate Energy Strategist’s Handbook, a toolkit for corporations to turn random acts of greenness into a metrics-driven strategy. He also hosts the Levers for Change Podcast interviewing energy leaders on how to make lasting change.

Fabienne Durand

Fabienne is a political scientist consultant in communication on sustainability. She is also an expert in the communication of influence. She serves as the Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation.

Roger Strukhoff

Roger is user stories manager for the Cloud Foundry Foundation. He is also conference chair of Cloud Expo (New York and Santa Clara). Previously he served as director of research for Altoros and director of global publications for TIBCO Software. He once earned a meager living as an orchestral trumpet player.

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