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Join François Burra, author of Sustainable by Design: A Playbook for Product Managers, and Pascal Joly, Sustainability Tech expert, for a practical session on building products that prioritize the planet.

Drawing from the Digital Product Decarbonization course and Sustainable AI curriculum, they’ll share how smarter choices like model design, data strategy, and feature scope can reduce emissions without slowing innovation.

Whether you're shaping AI roadmaps or deploying digital services at scale, this is your chance to get ahead of the sustainability curve.

If you’re in product, design, or development, this is your roadmap for leading the next wave of digital products, one built on responsibility, sufficiency, and sustainable growth.

Meet the Speaker(s):

Pascal Joly is an experienced product leader with 25 years of experience in IT services and digital product development for large companies. He is the founder and owner of IT Climate Ed, providing consulting and education services in digital sustainability. He holds a certifications in Machine Learning and LLMs, is a graduate of the INRIA Environmental Impacts of Digital Technologies program, a Terra.do fellow and is certified in GHG Scope 3 measuring.

François Burra is a sustainable digital and low-carbon product consultant, mentor, and speaker with several successful turns as a Product Lead and UX Designer and 13 years of experience working with startups and agencies in Canada and the US. He helps digital companies reduce their digital emissions by delivering training, measuring digital emissions, and creating low-carbon experiences. He has trained individuals and teams in a variety of organizations such as Huge, ServiceNow, Planes, fruggr, Accenture Song, Cossette, etc. He recently wrote the climate product playbook “How to Become a Climate-Conscious Product Manager”. François is also a Terra.do fellow, completing Climate Change: Learning for Action in 2022.

Join us for a conversation with Emmet Murphy, a seasoned founder, food security and climate leader with over 25 years of experience driving sustainable agriculture across Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. 

Emmet will share lessons from his work leading large-scale, agricultural development and tech-enabled adaptation projects from deploying AI-powered tools and drones in rural farming systems to managing complex USAID programs in frontier markets.

Drawing on his experience with smallholder farming communities, he'll explore how climate change is disrupting agriculture and what practical, scalable solutions are emerging to build resilience. This session will unpack:

• The evolving climate risks facing smallholder farmers across Africa
• How inclusive innovation and local insight can drive adaptation and systemic change
• The role of digital tools in transforming last-mile agricultural systems
• Real-world stories from Haiti, Rwanda, Nigeria, and beyond

Join Silvan Aeschlimann for a discussion on the potential and pitfalls of Direct Air Capture (DAC) in addressing climate change. We will delve into the science behind DAC, its feasibility, and its ethical implications, offering insights into how this technology fits within broader climate action strategies.

Meet the speaker

Silvan Aeschlimann, former Direct Air Capture and Storage lead at RMI

Silvan Aeschlimann is an independent climate advisor specializing in CDR solutions. He previously advised the RMI’s start-up accelerator, Third Derivative, on its CDR portfolio. He has also led RMI’s direct air capture work as part of its CDR initiative, helped build up a small CDR-focused non-profit organization from scratch, and worked as an investigative journalist in both television and print media. He is a co-author of several roadmaps on CDR.