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DIO #6 Enabling sustainability - the case of commitment, planning and tech

DIO #6 Enabling sustainability - the case of commitment, planning and tech

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Sustainability is on everyone´s agenda - but how do you plan for it? How do you enable sustainability and why is technology important to achieve our goals?

We welcome the world-known author Tom Gilb and the Sustainability Lead in Accenture Norway, Jan Thomas Hagen to our 6th Digital Innovators Oslo event, and we are honoured to have them as our speakers, providing us with important and useful insight.

The event will be held in English and we hope to see many participants who are engaged in the topic. Food and soft drinks will be served thanks to our sponsor Accenture Interactive.

The agenda is:

[17:00 - 17:30] Doors open. Food and soft drinks will be served.

[17:30 - 17:35] Welcome message - Camilla Rødsrud (Accenture)

[17:35 - 18:00] Talk given on disruption and sustainability by Jan Thomas Hagen, Sustainability lead in Accenture

About Jan Thomas Hagen:
Jan Thomas Hagen is the new sustainability lead in Accenture Norway. His responsibilities include positioning the business on sustainability in a Norwegian political and market context. Jan Thomas has worked in Accenture since 2017, consulting clients in health and public services on change management and digitization processes. He has a degree in public policy and management from London School of Economics, and worked as a regional manager in Save the Children prior to joining Accenture. He has experience with political work on sustainability in the UN, and attended the general conference which drafted the sustainable development goal for education as part of the Norwegian National Commission for UNESCO.

[18:00 - 18:50] Tom Gilb with “DOOMSDAY: Is the world doomed because we cannot express our Sustainability and AI Goals?". This talk relates to clear thinking about any level of planning. Participants will get links to his free-forever digital book ’Sustainability Planning’, so that this quick presentation can turn into lifelong better planning habits. Gilb promises to have some professional superpowers for you!

About Tom Gilb:
Tom immigrated to Norway in 1958 and joined IBM. By 1960 he was consulting. He is semiretired, but still quite active internationally. He has published about 11 books, and written several more recently (like Sustainability Planning 2019). He has, for over 50 years, developed, and spread to corporations, on request, like Intel, JP Morgan, Philips, HP, Boeing and many more, a planning language, Planguage, which uniquely encompasses and quantifies all values, qualities and costs. More info at www.Gilb.com

[18:50- 19:05] Short panel discussion - Moderated by Accenture

[19:05 - 19:30] Networking

Please note: The event will be alcohol free. We do not accept any attendees after 17:30. Please also respect that this is an event with limited seats - we kindly ask you to change your RSVP if you cannot attend.

Agenda subject to small changes.

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