Practice and Research Seminar: Are digital technologies the solutions to reduce our environmental footprint?
Don't miss our seminars focusing on Grand Challenges! This time we will explore the potential of digital technologies to reduce our environmental footprint. Lunch is provided. Places are limited, so please don't wait to register.
Digitalisation and, more specifically, the use of emerging technologies (Al, big data analytics, the Internet of Things, etc.) are often presented as innovative solutions for solving - or at least mitigating - the world's increasingly pressing environmental problems. Digital technologies are seen as possible key factors in improving energy efficiency, reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resource consumption, or developing renewable energy sources in various economic sectors. However, a growing body of evidence is also casting a critical light on the attributes of digitalisation on the environment that are usually perceived as entirely positive. This presentation aims to shed light on both these aspects and propose an alternative vision.
Stéphanie Missonier
Stéphanie Missonier is professor of Digital strategy and Project management at HEC Lausanne, University of Lausanne and of Creativity and Participatory Design at EPFL and HEC Lausanne. Her research interests focus on digital, sustainable, and agile transformations, project management, and especially the design of Visual Tools to tackle wicked management problems (related to Transformations).
Gabriela Haenel
Following her degree in Microengineering at EPFL, Gabriela Haenel followed the entrepreneurial path to co-found Resilio in 2022. She now can combine her interest in engineering with her ecological convictions by being Product Owner of Resilio Tech and ResilioDatabase, a web platform facilitating the environmental assessment (LCA) of IT products and services. She also supports international groups in their GreenIT strategy.
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