Ask The Experts
Explore the future with our experts – unlock AI’s potential, enhance diversity, and drive sustainable practices in your organisation today
Welcome to our 'Ask The Experts' Series.
In a rapidly evolving landscape of sustainability and energy management, the triad of People, Profit, and Planet is central to our mission. Our ‘Ask The Experts’ series is designed to empower you with critical insights and strategies directly from industry leaders, ensuring that the pursuit of effective ESG management supports organisational success and enhances community well-being.
Our 30-minute sessions focus on pressing topics and offers a unique opportunity to engage directly with seasoned experts. More than just a learning experience, it’s a chance to ask meaningful questions, exchange innovative ideas, and explore solutions that prioritise sustainability’s environmental and social aspects alongside profitability.
Our 'Ask The Experts' sessions:
Can AI Replace Everyone?
with Jean-Sebastien Lemay, Software/AI Solutions Architect
Wednesday, 2 October at 4pm SGT / 9am UK time
Join Jean-Sebastien Lemay, a seasoned software/AI solution architect, as he delves into the fascinating world of artificial intelligence. Gain a deeper understanding of how AI language models have evolved and their roles in our daily activities. Whether you’re new to AI or looking to expand your knowledge, this session offers valuable insights into the current landscape and future implications of AI technologies.
Key Learnings:
- Understanding AI-Language Models: Learn about the origins of models like ChatGPT, how they function, and their capabilities.
- Opportunities and Limitations: Explore the potential advantages AI brings to various roles while understanding the realistic constraints that accompany these advancements.
- Real-World Applications: Discover genuine examples of AI in action today, helping to demystify the technology beyond marketing jargon.
- Successful AI Integration: Gain essential knowledge regarding the key factors for effectively deploying AI systems within your organisation.
- Role of Software Architects: Understand the critical importance of software architects in successfully implementing AI-driven solutions.
About Jean-Sebastien Lemay
Jean-Sébastien Lemay is a seasoned software solution architect who creates substantial competitive advantages for clients through technology. With 15 years of experience spanning corporate and entrepreneurial ventures, he resonates with established leaders and start-up pioneers alike. His approach unlocks new revenue streams, automates processes and builds new ways to interact with customers.
His integration of established system design methods with highly effective communication has proven to be critical for the success of software projects. This battle-tested approach has successfully deployed tailor-made products, business intelligence platforms and state-of-the-art AI systems.
He has engineered and launched client products in various sectors, such as tax advisory, automated medical insurance, and digital headhunting. By integrating advanced AI technologies, he has enhanced technical writing firms and accounting practices. His business intelligence efforts have been centred on creating data analytics platforms for managed service providers.
Jean-Sébastien holds a B. Ing. in I.T. engineering from l’École de Technologie Supérieure in Montreal and is fluent in English and French.
“What is social impact, and why is it important to the people in your business?”
with Pia Wong, Social Impact Leader
Wednesday, 16 October at 4pm SGT / 9am UK time
By learning about and prioritising social impact, businesses can create positive change in the world and enhance their human resource practices, employee engagement, and overall organisational effectiveness. Investing in social impact can be a strategic advantage in today’s competitive business landscape.
Join industry expert Pia Wong and discover how to elevate your business while making a difference.
Key Learnings:
- Strengthen employer branding while attracting and retaining talent through your commitment to social impact.
- Enhance organisational culture and values through fostering a sense of purpose, unity and shared responsibility among employees.
- Gain a competitive edge over competitors by understanding and improving your company’s impact on the communities it operates, hires from, and sources from.
- Increase productivity and innovation by empowering your team to help address key social challenges and learn the latest trends in civic engagement and NGO partnerships.
- Create a more diverse and representative workforce by understanding how promoting social impact can support an organisation’s DEI efforts.
About Pia Wong
Pia Wong is a social impact leader with 20+ years of experience in stakeholder engagement and expertise in measuring, improving, and communicating organisational impact. With a background in communications, nonprofit management, and impact measurement, Pia has served as the Executive Director of an award-winning literacy NGO and co-founded Voice for Social Good to foster impactful partnerships between nonprofits and funders. Pia’s professional journey includes leadership roles in corporate PR and marketing. She has been recognised for her influence in addressing global issues and has received education and certifications from prestigious institutions like Harvard Business School and Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership. Pia’s commitment to social impact is demonstrated through her diverse skill set and dedication to driving positive change
Mastering Scope 3 Emissions: Expert Insights for Effective Management
with Robert Allender, C-Suite and Board-level Decarbonisation Expert
Tuesday, 29 October at 5pm SGT / 9am UK time
This is your opportunity to delve deep into the complexities of Scope 3 emissions, understand their significance, and learn how to manage them effectively with your people and within your organisation.
Gain invaluable insights from Robert Allender, a subject matter expert with over two decades of experience advising C-Suite leaders on Scope 3 emissions and get the answers to your burning energy management questions.
Key Learnings:
- Expert Insights: Gain firsthand knowledge from a leading authority in Scope 3 emissions management, with insights tailored to your organisation’s specific hurdles.
- Actionable Strategies: Uncover practical approaches for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and making informed strategic choices in energy management that prioritise people and community well-being.
- Engagement and Clarity: Participate in an interactive discussion to address your unique challenges and the human aspects of emission reduction, ensuring you leave with a clear understanding and actionable direction that considers the needs of all stakeholders.
- Community Connections: Build relationships with industry peers, exchanging experiences and solutions related to Scope 3 emissions management.
About Robert Allender
A pioneering corporate energy affairs advocate and strategist, Robert brings to company boards and C-suites across Asia and the Middle East his 30+ years of uninterrupted practice in this field and his deep understanding of how different companies can best leverage their strengths to create value. The outcome is that companies whose leaders can make better decisions and provide better guidance as they traverse the challenges of decarbonisation, the energy transition, Scope 3, and the energy half of ESG.
Because intentional energy use underlies each of these challenges, Robert developed a set of unique ‘energy affairs frameworks’ that have enabled company directors and corporate executives to reach fresh and company-specific levels of understanding about what their company’s energy-use ecosystem really looks like, and to envision what they want it to look like in the milestone years ahead. He also created a corporate energy affairs maturity model that allows companies to track their progress over time.
Although not an engineer, Robert is a Life Member of the Association of Energy Engineers(headquartered in the USA) and a Fellow of the Hong Kong Association of Energy Engineers for his pioneering work. He holds a business degree (BSc) from Cornell University.
“Enhancing Workplace Inclusion: Addressing Microaggressions and Promoting Diversity”
with Gary Loke, Diversity, Inclusion and Education Consultant
Wednesday, 18 September at 4pm SGT / 9am UK time
Are you ready to take meaningful steps towards fostering a more inclusive and diverse workplace?
Join the conversation with Gary Loke on the critical role of microaggressions in enhancing team dynamics.
Increase awareness of subtle behaviours undermining your workplace culture and equip youself with valuable strategies to address these issues head-on. Get your questions answered so you can enhance your intercultural competence, learn to navigate diverse perspectives, and ultimately contribute to creating a respectful environment where everyone can thrive.
Key Learnings:
- Increased awareness of microaggressions: understand their impact negatively on your team and workplace dynamics.
- Improved intercultural competence: recognise how societal and cultural norms can lead to unintended microaggressions and learn to better understand and appreciate the experiences and perspectives of people from diverse backgrounds.
- Learn how to enhance workplace dynamics: address microaggressions effectively to reduce conflict and promote positive relationships using intercultural skills.
- Unlock strategies to build a more inclusive workplace: identify and address microaggressions to foster a more inclusive, respectful and productive environment at work that allows diversity to thrive.
- Improved understanding of how to promote psychological safety: Learn how to support your team to understand microaggressions and their impact on others and how to mitigate stress caused by microaggressions
About Gary Loke
Gary Loke is renowned for his expertise in advancing equality and creating inclusive environments within international organisations. With over 20 years of experience, he leverages his deep understanding of the subject to help LLM’s clients embed diversity and inclusion into their operations. Gary offers visionary strategies that exceed compliance and genuinely celebrate diversity, enabling individuals to thrive. His international experience ensures clients receive innovative, custom solutions for their diversity challenges.
Alternating his base between London and Singapore, Gary has extensive expertise in gender equality and social inclusion, providing technical advice for the UK’s Skills for Prosperity program in 9 countries and leading both an equality review and strategy development for the British Council East Asia partnerships across 12 countries. His consultancy work includes contributions to Skills for Health and Eurydice.
Employing his prior experience as the Director at Advance HE and Deputy Chief Executive at Equality Challenge Unit, he has supported education and research bodies, such as the Gender Equality Commission of the Swiss National Science Foundation and Coventry University’s Centre for Global Learning. Additionally, Gary’s academic tenure includes a stint as a visiting researcher at the University of Chester’s law school.
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