How industries can recover towards a sustainable ecosystem while leveraging new standards due to COVID-19

This post is dedicated to the launch of the inclusive series of webinars “The road to sustainability” every Monday from October 19 to December 7, 2020

Originally published on Medium.

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Article summary: The tendency for organizations to make short, ad-hoc or one-sided decisions during crises demonstrated the slowdown in productivity and constrained many businesses to evolve in an unreasoned environment — and prevent long-term decision processes. As individuals, we have to acknowledge that our activities need to evolve and that our future will be shaped by all kinds of influences and environmental pressures.

Now is the time to come together and ignite global conversations about how we can address some of society’s biggest challenges using a bottom-up approach and realign technology with the best interest of people.

We invite you to join us along with experts to an inclusive series of immersive digital events to collaborate, develop, and launch new tech-powered social initiatives.

We will host a series of 8 online meetings every Monday from October 19 to December 7, 2020.

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An inclusive series dedicated to initiate collaboration and build sustainable solutions

The ability to harness information technology to really solve global issues while, as a consequence, encouraging diversity and inclusion in traditional sectors, saving the environment by creating awareness, and supporting local economic recovery are a lot of reasons for optimism.

It is also the occasion to highlight the tremendous efforts made by many enterprises that positioned themselves on the front lines to support social initiatives and organizations in their efforts through their capacity to deploy fast solutions and favor value-based solutions.

Moreover, one specific and timely way technology can help organizations facing unexpected supply chain or logistical challenges, is by allowing them to optimize their data to reach only a certain subset of customers or engage with only a certain category of stakeholders.

For instance, the use of predictive analytics proved just one of many solutions helping to create more sustainable and resilient communities.

On another level, it was widely demonstrated that by creating new blended models focused on human-centered services, organizations can literally embrace the advantages in understanding and adapting when paradigm shifts as the COVID-19 pandemic occur.

8 exclusive meetings, every Monday - October 19 - December 7, 2020

An online and interactive program with global experts, researchers, and academics to launch and support social enterprises

We invite you to join us along with experts, researchers, and academics to an exclusive series of immersive digital events to collaborate, develop, and launch new social initiatives.

Each meeting will cover a core chapter of the sustainability and resilience imperatives designed to provide a unique, comprehensive experience to equip entrepreneurs, innovators but also governmental agencies and institutions with cutting-edge tools, specific knowledge suggestions and help both organizations and leading businesses thrive and prioritize purpose-driven activities.

The sessions will be broadcasted live and will be interactive to initiate new diverse and inclusive collaborations, and unleash the community culture, create awareness, and ultimately build trust.

Register here to participate (free - registration required) in the “The road to sustainability” series.

Action agenda

Sessions: 45-minute panels and interviews

The agenda is subject to change, we will regularly update you — sign up here to get our weekly updates and reviews

?Session 1 — October 19, 2020

Exploring ways and opportunities to embed sustainability into innovation processes.

With Dr. Dana Heller CxO, tech for impact, risk & financial markets expert, Ruth Moatti Israel's Youth Delegate to the United Nations, Irwin Boutboul from Google, and Yael Rozencwajg CEO at Nevelab.

Session 2 — October 26, 2020

What is needed for responsible production and supply chains of the future? How can adaptability and resilience drive efficiency and maintain growth?

With Marc Buckley sustainability advisor, advocate for the SDGs, expert WEF speaker, Anthony Day, digital strategist blockchain partner at IBM.

A session moderated by Yael Rozencwajg CEO at Nevelab Technologies and Dr. Dana Heller CxO, tech for impact, risk & financial markets expert

You can follow the recap of the session, here. Or register for participation for our upcoming sessions, here.

Session 3 — November 2, 2020

Open source is taking over the software development industry, how should we plan to create value and impact in emerging markets?

With  Jeremy Atia from Data for Good.

Session 4 — November 9, 2020

How regulations and policies can support market recovery and encourage smarter investments.

With Yifat Reuveni Senior Lecturer at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Session 5 — November 16, 2020

Sustainable living in motion, leading forward innovation models for more responsible urban logistics, serving a better quality of life.

With Gil Blumenfeld CEO at Otarki, Dr.-Ing. Katarina Adam from HTW Berlin, and founder at SIMMST.

Session 6 — November 23, 2020

Circular economy and the rise of recycling marketplaces. What frameworks do we need to accelerate our efforts towards recovery?

Session 7 — November 30, 2020

Diversity and Inclusion in the workspace: where are we now?

With Dr. Dana Heller CxO, tech for impact, risk & financial markets expert, Viva Press journalist, speaker, and media researcher.

Session 8 — December 7, 2020

How can technical expertise and economic empowerment support underserved communities and provide solutions to diversity, equity, and inclusion?

Tech startups and social enterprise founders: join us

We are inviting tech startups and social enterprise founders to make progress in tackling local problems and scale to apply their efforts broadly, by accelerating sustainable and equitable growth, opportunities, and driving positive change.

Opportunities

This series of exclusive events is dedicated to set up a collaboration line with corporate, institutional, and governmental agencies partners and explore new paths to mutualize forces and reinforce social initiatives and organizations.

The challenge: powerful solutions to pressing global challenges

This series will be followed up by a special challenge to create more insights and turn them into actions for the challenge “The road to sustainability” that will take place on December 21, 2020.

We are partnering with businesses, governments, and social sector organizations to deliver frame-breaking solutions to some of the most complex problems in contemporary society.

We will explore with executives from large corporations about their experience and emphasis on how to magnify the impact of social initiatives, the in-depth analytics, the strategic insights, and key takeaways, and try to better understand how innovative applications of digital technologies can expand aspirations and help think beyond traditional corporate social responsibility initiatives.

The value of a connected data-driven approach

The most pressing issues for organizations is to figure out how to stay ahead of this new reality, provide their communities what they need, and be well prepared for eventual recovery.

By taking bold decisions and deliberately contributing to invest in sustainable communities and resilient environments, the financial crisis could give social enterprises an unprecedented opportunity to innovate.

Join us

Register now to “The road to sustainability”.

Let’s move forward together #socialenterprises #theroadtosustainability ??

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This article is a preview of session 1 of The road to sustainability webinar series. You are invited to participate in our upcoming sessions, every Monday, join us: impact.nevelab.com

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We've just launched a new space for founders, innovators, and social entrepreneurs to help them with their social enterprise: Nevelab's Vault on Substack.

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Disclosure

The road to sustainability is an initiative by Nevelab Technologies.

Nevelab is a purpose-driven platform that leverages artificial intelligence to provide organizations with the tools to integrate sustainable imperatives while generating actionable insights.

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