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In this special panel discussion, senior technology and sustainability leaders come together to debate one of the most urgent questions of our time:

Can technology truly enable environmental sustainability — or are we still stuck in hype, dashboards, and green PR?

Hosted by Abhishek Kumar, this conversation explores the practical realities of achieving climate and sustainability goals such as the UN SDGs, moving beyond buzzwords into execution-level insights — including the real role of AI, renewable energy, governance, ethics, policy, and corporate accountability.

✅ What You’ll Learn in This Episode

🔹 Can technology genuinely help achieve UN SDGs?
🔹 What’s stopping sustainability progress: policy, capital, or culture?
🔹 Why renewable energy still struggles with grid readiness and storage gaps
🔹 Why Scope 3 emissions will become the biggest ESG challenge
🔹 Why ESG compliance could create a two-tier supply chain (giants vs SMEs)
🔹 AI’s sustainability paradox: enabling optimization but consuming energy
🔹 Why “technology is not a silver bullet” — but still the sharpest tool
🔹 Why sustainability requires public-private partnerships (PPP) to scale

🎙️ Speakers

Abhishek Kumar
Senior Director Engineering with 21+ years in IT leadership. Has worked across large-scale engineering ecosystems including global enterprises and captive organizations.
LinkedIn:   / abhishekkumar55  

Dharmesh Khara
Technology leader with 25+ years of experience building large-scale engineering solutions and cloud-native transformations. TEDx speaker, IEEE published author, and strong advocate of sustainable engineering practices.

Venkatesh Devarajan
Senior delivery leader with 23+ years of experience across top-tier IT conglomerates. Deep expertise in data systems, integration, and enterprise technology transformation with a strong sustainability lens.
LinkedIn:   / venkatesh-devarajan-1b376710  

Atul Pandey
Leader at the intersection of technology governance, sustainability, and risk management. Works on ESG operationalization, enterprise GRC, CSRD readiness, and regulatory-aligned frameworks like DPDP and AI governance.
LinkedIn:   / atul-pandey-grc  

Sekar Ramajeyam
Veteran leader with 30+ years of cross-sector experience spanning industry, government, technical audits, QR-based state deployments, and national-scale operations. Certified Independent Director with strong governance expertise.
LinkedIn:   / r-sekar-ramajeyam-0b4ba63a  

⏱️ Chapters / Timestamps

00:00 – Introductions & context
06:30 – Why sustainability needs urgency + depth
08:40 – Can tech accelerate UN SDGs?
10:00 – What blocks adoption: policy, capital, culture
12:00 – AI-native employees & workforce trends
14:50 – Carbon calculators & measurement-first thinking
18:45 – Decoupling growth from environmental damage: realistic or not?
20:10 – India’s sustainability progress + real numbers
22:00 – Scope 1 / 2 vs Scope 3: the hidden ESG challenge
25:00 – Why dashboards don’t solve Scope 3
32:40 – Renewable limitations: storage + grid modernization gap
41:30 – Which tech is overhyped? AI sustainability paradox
49:30 – Security-by-design, DPDP, governance readiness
54:30 – Should sustainability be policy-driven or market-driven?
58:40 – Public-private partnerships: the only scalable model
01:02:15 – Key takeaway & closing remarks

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