Nature Tech Alliance Roundtable: The Nature Tech Revolution

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Around the world, leading companies are grappling with the sheer breadth of nature topics, seemingly infinite data sets and deeply nuanced location specificity of their suppliers, operations and customers.

Join this roundtable with the Nature Tech Alliance (ERM, Salesforce, Planet Labs and NatureMetrics) to learn how 18 companies are starting to see this challenge more clearly and harnessing new technologies to meet increasingly urgent commitments. These leading companies straddle diverse sectors, from finance, energy, food & agriculture and mining, with headquarters and footprints worldwide.

Come and learn about the potential for enterprise-wide transformation from 'do no harm' to 'nature-positive' with integrated solutions and novel technologies.

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Matt Haddon

Global Leader, Biodiversity, Water and Nature, ERM

Matt Haddon spearheads ERM’s global biodiversity, nature and water consulting team. His work blends business, digital and technical consulting at senior levels for major clients – bridging between operational performance and executive leadership. He is passionate about helping leaders make their organizations more successful – and the world safer, cleaner and more equitable in the transition to a lower carbon economy. Based in the US for the last 14 years, Matt started his ERM career in the UK in 1998 and has worked worldwide, from the boardroom to the front line across O&G, Mining, Finance and Chem/Pharma.

Andrew Zolli

Chief Impact Officer, Planet

As Chief Impact Officer, Andrew oversees the sustainable development, humanitarian, ethics and human rights portfolio at Planet, a breakthrough geospatial imaging organization that has deployed the largest constellation of Earth-observing satellites in history. Together, these satellites image the entire surface of the Earth, every day, in high resolution. When analyzed with advanced AI techniques, this imagery has transformational value for addressing a host of global challenges, including monitoring peace and conflict, improving agriculture, delivering sustainable development, ensuring human rights, predicting food insecurity, assessing climate change, delivering disaster response, and improving conservation, among many others. Andrew is also the author of Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back, which has been published in more than a dozen countries worldwide.

Pippa Howard

Chief Nature Strategist, NatureMetrics

Pippa Howard leads NatureMetrics’ consulting team and has over 30 years’ experience in environmental leadership. A key architect of corporate and national level Nature-positive frameworks, working on all continents as a Director at Fauna & Flora International for over 15 years. She holds multiple advisory roles through initiatives such as University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, World Bank and IFC. Pippa has an in-depth understanding of the corporate sector, sustainability and the role of nature in an integrated approach to delivering sustainable development.