A 5 minute Lightning Talk - Too Hot for Business as Usual - Climate Change and the next Decade in tech - how climate change is going to affect employee engagement, hiring, tech/cloud choice, emissions accounting, legislation, and how are companies going to deal with it all. 

1. Climate Change

3. “Climate” just got investable... #eyeroll

4. Business

9. Next 10 Years?
● Uninsurable!
● Risks to buildings and people are current
● Safe supply chains
● Finance is going to change
● Emissions accounting to prove “it’s not
us”?

10. Government

12. What is “Net Zero”? (by @StephenWoroniec)
https://twitter.com/StephenWoroniec/status/1192876659407544320
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15. Next 10 Years?
● Policy change and regulation is coming
● Infrastructure will be increasingly
unreliable
● Will trade become a tool (like GDPR)?

16. Social Movements

20. Next 10 Years?
● Grassroots movements are growing
rapidly
● Science and “Tell the Truth”
● Employee activism could impact hiring
and retention

21. What about Tech and Cloud?

22. Data Centre Ethics : bit.ly/2024wp

24. Next 10 Years?
● Increasing pressure for cloud greening
● Increasing shareholder pressure for
climate action
● Possible regulation again?

25. Individuals (in tech/cloud)

28. Next 10 Years?
● Individual actions are less valuable
● “Startup thinking” isn’t going to solve this
● Get involved with existing movements
● What do you think?