Greening AI: What every business leader needs to know

Julia Binder is Professor of Sustainable Innovation and Business Transformation, and Program Director of IMD’s Creating Value in the Circular Economy program. She is a renowned thought leader, recognized on the 2022 Thinkers50 Radar list for her work at the intersection of sustainability and innovation. Her research and teaching delve into the intr…

Michael Wade is the TONOMUS Professor of Strategy and Digital, and the Director of the TONOMUS Global Center for Digital and AI Transformation. An expert in digital transformation, he has published 10 books and more than 100 case studies as well as articles on topics such as digital business transformation, innovation, strategy, and digital leaders…

James Gomme is the Education Senior Director. He works to provide business leaders and practitioners with relevant, meaningful and actionable learning to raise ambition, drive action and sharpen accountability around their sustainability goals. At the same time, James also leads WBCSD’s internal knowledge management function, ensuring that the organization is maximizing the intellectual capital at its disposal to support the delivery of systems transformation at scale.

James has been part of the team at WBCSD since 2016. Previously, he led the organization’s work on the social side of the sustainable development agenda, mobilizing private sector efforts in this space through the conception and creation of the Business Commission to Tackle Inequality. James also co-led the development of WBCSD’s Vision 2050: Time to Transform – a framework to guide business action towards a shared vision of a world in which more than 9 billion people are able to live well, within planetary boundaries, by 2050.

James draws on over 15 years of experience in the field of corporate sustainability, ranging across diverse industries and sectors. Prior to joining WBCSD, James spent a decade working for Mitsubishi Corporation, Japan’s largest trading and investment company. At Mitsubishi James led teams across a variety of corporate sustainability, public affairs and investor relations roles in both Europe and Japan contributing to the development of the company’s net-zero strategy and the roll out of its human rights due diligence process.