SIT.org September Newsletter- Final
September 2023
NEWSLETTER
The Pillars of Sustainability: Volume 4
INSIDE THE ISSUE
01 | New Members
02 | Event Recap
03 | Upcoming Virtual Events 04 | Latest Resources
Hello!
We hope you have had a safe and enjoyable summer. Thank you for being part of the SustainableIT.org community helping to drive our mission to advance global sustainability through technology leadership. As you can see by this issue’s announcements, we continue to make great progress against our mandates, growing membership and resources.
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01 | NEW MEMBERS
September 2023
As we announced in our June Newsletter, SustainableIT.org is now accepting corporate and individual annual memberships from IT and sustainability business leaders. Below are organizations whose executives have recently joined to jumpstart or accelerate their sustainability journeys by leveraging our IT-centric sustainability insights, best practices, and standards.
We welcome the following companies and institutions:
Corporate members gain team access to the SustainableIT.org community platform, which provides the latest tools and resources, research, event registration, and community access. Contact us about membership at: Memberships@SustainableIT.org
View our latest YouTube Video to see what our IT leaders are saying about our mission and momentum.
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Christian Lindmark is a 20-year veteran of IT in the healthcare industry, leading strategy, operations, and day-to-day management. For the past eight years at Stanford Health Care and School of Medicine, he’s overseen IT infrastructure, customer experience and support services, biomedical engineering, identity and access management, and IT facilities design and construction. The IT organization has had a coordinated focus on IT sustainability for the past two years. Some of the sustainability accomplishments within the IT department have been a major data center migration that resulted in a more sustainable data center operation and four Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) awards. They also achieved a nearly 50% reduction in paper printed on site, as well as a reduction in the number of physical printers by 25%. Additionally, the IT department has created a Sustainability Group that meets monthly, working on metrics for benchmarking and identifying new initiatives.
Christian and team members work closely with Stanford Health Care’s Sustainability Program Office, an organization focused on enterprise-wide sustainability efforts, many of which are underpinned by technology. Their five key areas of focus are: 1) Design and construction, 2) Energy, emissions, and water, 3) Transportation, 4) Supply chain, and 5) Waste management. Christian wants to elevate the focus on sustainability within healthcare across the country by helping develop general best practices, ESG data strategy, and demonstrations of tangible ROI. He looks forward to engaging with SustainableIT’s healthcare community. Christian is based in the Seattle, Puget Sound area and is married with four amazing children. When Christian isn’t working or spending time with his family, he enjoys golfing and serves on the board of South Puget Sound’s First Tee, a youth development organization that enables kids to build the strength of character by seamlessly integrating the game of golf with a life skills curriculum.
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02 | EVENT RECAP
September 2023
Highlights of the SustainableIT Board Meeting and CIO100 Symposium and Awards, August 14-16, 2023, Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA
Open Board Session:
Presentation 1: Energizing Sustainability at National Grid
CTO Shannon Soland and Jody Elliot, Head of IT Sustainability & Governance, shared their experience over the last year launching a Green IT program to reduce their energy and emissions footprint. They summarized the steps and timeline for launching the program and how they assessed energy efficiency of their end-user laptops, adjusted the laptop build for improved efficiency, and as a result reduced their emissions by 21%. In the first year of modernizing IT operations and data centers, they improved energy efficiency by 35% and reduced emissions by 14%. This information and more will be included in a written case history to be published to the membership later this year.
Presentation 2: ServiceNow’s IT ESG Management Platform
Mauri Paz, ServiceNow’s Director of Product for ESG Solutions, demonstrated ServiceNow’s new IT- specific module for the company’s ESG Service Management platform. The product began shipping in early August, and a soon-to-be-available module incorporates SustainableIT’s environmental standards taxonomy. The Command Center tool centralizes management of ESG data collection, reporting, and overall program management. The IT module incorporates ITSM and ITOM. The next iteration of the platform will incorporate procurement.
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In the closed board session, the board voted to approve the appointment of two new SustainableIT board directors:
JP Saini Shannon Soland
At Foundry’s CIO100 Symposium and Awards, the following SustainableIT board and member organizations received honors for their IT accomplishments:
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Deloitte
Mastercard
PepsiCo, Inc. Stanford Health Care Sunbelt Rentals, Inc. Mattel, Inc.
CIO100 Hall of Fame Induction
Ralph Loura
Srini Koushik
Two members of the SustainableIT board were inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame, which honors individuals with 10 or more years in C-level technology positions who have significantly advanced the CIO role while demonstrating sustained business success. Board Chairman Ralph Loura was inducted in recognition of his decades of accomplishments as an IT leader at Cisco, Clorox, Hewlett-Packard, Rodan & Fields, Lumentum, and other organizations, his influence through such professional groups as the TBM Council, and his contribution to numerous boards and non-profit organizations. We congratulate Ralph for this well-deserved honor.
Board member Srini Koushik, executive VP and CTO of Rackspace Technology, was inducted in recognition of his more than 20 years of achievement as IT, business leader, and board member at such organizations as IBM, HP, Nationwide, Magellan Health, and the Open Group, as well as his current role, which includes the founding of Foundry for AI at Rackspace (FAiR), a practice to encourage responsible adoption of AI solutions across industries.
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03 | UPCOMING VIRTUAL EVENTS
September 19, 2023 | 1:00 pm EDT
How to Find and Track the Right Sustainability Data
Few companies have complete or trustworthy data at the start of their sustainability transformation journey. What is the best approach to obtain and leverage data that’s “good enough,” to start with, and what should be the plan to mature that data making it more reliable and easy to work with for assessing, reporting and making sustainability decisions. Featuring digital sustainability and GreenOps expert Mark Butcher. Bring your questions and challenges.
Private Event for Members Only: Register here October 4, 2023 | 1:00 pm EDT
Technology Accessibility and Inclusion by Design
Accessibility and inclusiveness of information technology are the most direct impacts that IT teams can have on social sustainability.The goal is to embed accessibility and inclusiveness as criteria in sourcing and systems design. Frances West, renowned technology inclusiveness advisor and IBM’s first chief accessibility officer, will discuss the best ways to incorporate these social goals into IT leadership and operations, including how to strategize, document, measure, and report accessibility approaches and impacts. Register here
October 17, 2023 | 2:00 pm EDT
Building the Business Case for IT Energy Sustainability
One of the most common early challenges for sustainable IT is determining the ROI and presenting a compelling business case for IT energy sustainability. This webinar will provide insights on documenting infrastructure energy efficiency, carbon avoidance, resiliency, and fulfilling the requirements of pending climate-sustainability regulations. Our SME is Andy Anderson, EVP of Energy & Sustainability Solutions of WatchWire by Tango, a New York-based energy, water, and waste management SaaS solutions provider. Register here
October 26, 2023 | 11:00 am EDT
IT Sustainability Leadership Lessons Learned
On National Sustainability Day (US), we will be treated to a candid discussion of lessons learned by accomplished leaders of IT and enterprise sustainability. What worked and did not work to motivate people, engage executives, collaborate with peers, partner with vendors, and drive positive change? Bring your questions and challenges. Register here
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Christian Lindmark 