Industry Insights: Digital for Impact - How Technology Choices Shape Our Climate Future
Dr Sandeep Mathur is the Head of Data & Digital Platforms at Greenpeace Australia Pacific
About this event
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As digital platforms, data volumes, and AI adoption accelerate, the environmental cost of technology is becoming impossible to ignore. Every decision - from cloud architecture and data retention to AI usage and vendor selection - has a measurable climate impact.
Drawing on real-world experience leading digital transformation at Greenpeace Australia Pacific, this session explores how technology leaders and teams can make climate-aware choices without compromising performance, security, or innovation. Moving beyond greenwashing and offsets, the talk focuses on practical strategies for designing low-carbon digital systems, embedding sustainability into governance, and aligning technology decisions with organisational purpose.
Attendees will leave with actionable insights they can apply immediately in their own roles:
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Understand how everyday technology decisions directly impact carbon emissions and how to reduce them without compromising performance or security.
- Learn practical ways to embed sustainability into technology governance, architecture, and delivery—not as an add-on, but as a core decision factor.
- Gain real-world insight into aligning technology strategy with organisational purpose while avoiding greenwashing and relying on credible, measurable action.
Speaker
Dr Sandeep Mathur is the Head of Data & Digital Platforms at Greenpeace Australia Pacific
Speakers
Virginia is an expert in analytics, data mining and developing business strategies for data and analytics functions. She has over thirty years’ experience across many industry sectors, including aviation, transport, mining, manufacturing, medicine, trading and now insurance.
Virginia helps businesses solve their problems through the use of analytics and data mining. She is skilled at converting business problems into solvable frameworks, and has the ability then to translate complex concepts into relevant business language and communicate this clearly. She has particular depth of experience in data visualisation, text data mining and developing new data analysis methodologies that can adapt to each organisation’s unique data. Virginia is currently the Head of Data Science at HCF where she leads the development of models into societal health trends and member behaviour. In the past 15 years she has set up the data and analytics functions in many organisations; from large companies such as BHP, to startups. She also spent thirteen years of her career with The Boeing Company, where she held the roles of research statistician, Chief Mathematician (Australia), and Director (Boeing Australia Holdings). Virginia also previously led the NSW government’s Bureau of Transport Statistics, where she had responsibility for leading a team of over 50 analysts and initiating projects such as visualizing public transaction data, measuring fare evasion and establishing an organisation-wide analytics strategy.
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