In 2022, ESG & Technology have been the norm across all sectors and businesses. Technology advancement has made it easier for companies to identify, assess and mitigate environmental and social risks. The confluence of ESG with tech space has created new opportunities for investments and created social impact in core industries like agriculture, energy and utilities(power, telecom etc..), healthcare and transportation. Companies across the spectrum are leveraging technology to track their supply chains, source sustainable materials and understand how to improve their overall impact on the planet and community. These changes have paved the way for more responsible practices by companies across industries and promoted greater transparency in the corporate sector.

Enterprise data cloud company Cloudera's new study, "Limitless: The Positive Power of AI," released in March, is based on two online surveys conducted by Sapio Research in August 2021. For the first, 10,880 knowledge workers working in companies with 1,000 employees were surveyed in 16 countries including France (1,000 respondents), and for the second 2,213 business decision-makers, in the same countries and organization profile (150 French respondents). The study examines their changing attitudes towards AI, machine learning (ML) and data analytics. The research results show that workers are not afraid of AI replacing them. An explosion in the amount of data now available to companies has made AI/ML a common thread in many jobs and a powerful ally.

Your startup is building a business plan designed to deliver outstanding results. However, there is one factor that you may miss as you develop your plan: sustainability. Adopting sustainable business practices can put your startup on the path to long-lasting success. Your company can use these practices to reduce its operating costs. Plus, your sustainable business practices can set the tone for your industry. The result: they can help your company distinguish itself from the competition.

Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) may not often be associated with climate change mitigation, but its use of technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), big data, artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing can actually play a pivotal role. Smart factories equipped with IR 4.0 capabilities can be more efficient and effective than ever before, ensuring that no energy or materials are wasted, observes Datuk Mohd Abdul Karim Abdullah, CEO of Serba Dinamik Holdings Bhd. Clean energy can also be integrated with IR 4.0 to power various processes and the transport of goods to the final consumer. "Investing in research and development to bring more awareness of how technology can encourage reuse, reduce, recycle and replace principles so that there is effective use of raw materials and energy is important," he says. IR 4.0 creates more efficiency and improves the way businesses are run.