Our world on a knife edge: COP28 must deliver

Your monthly roundup of the key technology and leadership trends from HCLTech Trends and Insights

Welcome to the November monthly update from HCLTech Trends and Insights. With the pivotal climate change conference, COP28, underway, we focused on creating stories around sustainability and how industries can unshackle themselves from unsustainable practices. We discussed the importance of biodiversity and explored the outcomes that COP28 must deliver to ensure the world gets back on track to meet the sustainability targets set during the Paris Agreement in 2015.?

In addition to the focus on sustainability, the HCLTech Trends and Insights team facilitated a conversation between Alan Flower , Executive Vice President – CTO and Global Head, Cloud Native & AI Labs at HCLTech, and Siki Giunta , Executive Vice President, CloudSMART, Offerings Strategy, Industry Cloud Consulting at HCLTech, who discussed the recently released global cloud research ?from HCLTech.?

Key themes highlighted across these topics in the past month are summarized for you below:???

Getting back on the sustainability track?

COP28 is the first time since the 2015 Paris Agreement at COP21 that countries and organizations will take a “global stocktake” of their progress toward the long-term goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.??

Ahead of COP28, the United Nations released its synthesis report on this progress , which found that global action on climate change is not on track to meet those net-zero goals.?

Santhosh Jayaram — Global Head of Sustainability at HCLTech — highlights the importance of this COP. He also discusses two positive outcomes that should be progressed from COP27, while identifying areas that need greater focus at this climate conference to consider it a success:?

In a compelling interview with Dr. Nidhi Pundhir , Vice President of Global Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) at HCLFoundation, the HCLTech Trends and Insights team got the opportunity to delve into the concept of biodiversity and its relevance to organizations. Dr. Pundhir shared valuable insights into the impact of large enterprises on global biodiversity, strategies for measuring and mitigating negative activities and the role played by HCLTech in preserving and protecting biodiversity in India and beyond:?

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With emerging tech and sustainability transforming the maritime industry, Chakib Abi Saab , CTIO of Lloyd’s Register, discusses how the maritime sector is charting a course toward a resilient future:?

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It’s time to innovate with cloud?

HCLTech’s latest cloud research, Cloud Evolution: Make innovation a habit , presented several key findings that suggested cloud is essential in helping organizations drive innovation and continuous modernization. However, it was also made clear that not all businesses, whether due to business-IT misalignment, security concerns or a lack of culture, are taking advantage of cloud.?

Looking to explore this topic further, Alan Flower , Executive Vice President – CTO and Global Head, Cloud Native & AI Labs at HCLTech, and Siki Giunta , Executive Vice President, CloudSMART, Offerings Strategy, Industry Cloud Consulting at HCLTech, sat down to discuss a variety of themes that emerged from the cloud research.?

This included cloud’s bigger purpose of transforming business, the importance of IT and business getting on the same page with cloud, the business case for cloud in FinOps and what the future holds:?

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