IBM Sponsor Spotlight: How Data and Intelligent Automation Help Companies Meet Sustainability Goals

The video discusses the role of EY in helping clients achieve sustainability goals, focusing on materiality assessments and net zero commitments. It highlights the importance of leveraging data and automation for sustainability efforts. IBM's integration of TURBONOMIC and NVC is introduced as a solution for optimizing IT and ESG data management. The video emphasizes the need for efficient data management across organizations and concludes with future collaboration plans between EY and IBM to address ESG challenges.

What is the primary focus of EY's role in helping clients with sustainability?

• Reducing EY's own carbon footprint

• Setting individual sustainability goals for EY

• Assisting clients with materiality assessments and commitments

• Investing in new technologies for EY

What is a key challenge in operationalizing sustainability efforts?

• Lack of interest from stakeholders

• High costs of sustainability initiatives

• Insufficient data availability

• Difficulty in leveraging large data sets

How does IBM's TURBONOMIC solution contribute to sustainability?

• By enhancing employee productivity

• By collecting social media data

• By increasing the runtime footprint

• By reducing IT data center consumption

What is a common issue organizations face with data for sustainability?

• Too much data is publicly available

• Data is not relevant to sustainability goals

• Data is often siloed within organizations

• Data is too expensive to collect

What is the benefit of creating a data utility within an organization?

• It reduces the need for data collection

• It increases the cost of data management

• It helps in efficiently using data across the organization

• It limits data access to specific departments

What is the significance of real-time information in sustainability efforts?

• It allows for immediate reporting to stakeholders

• It helps in making informed decisions for a sustainable society

• It simplifies the data collection process

• It reduces the need for data storage

What is the main goal of the collaboration between EY and IBM?

• To reduce operational costs for both companies

• To create a new line of consumer products

• To increase market share in the IT sector

• To develop frameworks for decarbonizing organizations