Data is shaping almost every area of our lives. Agriculture has been slow to embrace new technology but even here it's beginning to have a big impact. There are now hundreds of companies offering everything from farm management and precision tools to bots and drones. Some tractors have computing power that would have turned Nasa's moon-landing mission green with envy. What started in farm equipment is moving into the field – at least in the developed world.

Niall Dunne is the Chief Sustainability Officer for BT, working with BT's Chief Executive, Chairman and executive management team to bring the company's purpose, to use the power of communications to make a better world, to life. Before joining BT in 2011, Niall was Managing Director in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at Saatchi & Saatchi. Prior to that, Dunne was an executive at Accenture, where he helped establish the company's climate change and sustainability practice. Dunne has written and spoken about the power of communications to tackle major social, environmental and economic problems. Niall was vice chair of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Sustainable Consumption 2012-14 and joined the WEF Global Agenda Council on Climate Change in 2014.