Webinar - Cloud, Sustainability & Growth: The Need-to-Know for Early-Stage Firms

Wednesday, February 15, 2023,
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM

Webinar - Cloud, Sustainability & Growth: The Need-to-Know for Early-Stage Firms

Wednesday, February 15, 2023,
11:00 AM - 11:45 AM
Speakers

Sammy Fry, Co-Creator and Co-Lead,Tech Nation Net Zero

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Sammy Fry is the lead of Tech Nation’s Net Zero and Net Zero X Programme designed to accelerate the growth of the UK’s most impactful scaling climate tech companies.
Along with this, Sammy co-created Tech Zero; a collaborative initiative to support tech companies achieve net zero.
Since its inception, Tech Zero has grown to 350 members, including GoCardless, Starling Bank and Bloom & Wild. Sammy also leads Tech Nation's net zero strategy. Previously, Sammy has worked on initiatives to support multinationals in making net zero commitments, previously with the Climate Group and has a Masters in Sustainable Business and Innovation from Utrecht University.




Swellen Arnaud, Sustainability Director at OVHCloud

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Swellen has degrees in Chemical and Oil & Gas engineering complemented by a, executive-MBA from HEC Paris.
In addition, she has a strong background in climate and sustainability topics having worked over the last 15 years for Engie and  Total Energies in France and abroad on these subjects.





Clara Wat, Wi Venture

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Clara is an associate at Wi Venture, an early stage Climate tech VC. Impact is at the core of her work as she is currently developing an impact methodology for her fund’s investment thesis. Her expertise and interest lie in sustainable finance, cleantech, and impact startups. She gained a deep understanding of the early-stage investment space while working at MAOR in Tel Aviv and at White Start Capital in Paris, and has additional experience in asset management at Lombard Odier. 




Chris Frogner, CFO & Co-founder at Arma Karma

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Chris Frogner is co-founder and CFO of Arma Karma, a BCorp Certified Insurtech start-up focused on disrupting the Next-Gen insurance market with its innovative & socially responsible approach. He is ultimately responsible for overseeing the day-to-day running of the business, with particular focus on tech, risk management solutions and process automation. He has a background from Barclays Wealth, where he managed a portfolio of HNW & UHNW clients, and Bloomberg.



Discussion moderated by Shân Millie

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I'm an Accidental Teccie: I deploy my experience from a first career in business building and senior corporate leadership, with my subject matter expertise in Insurance/FinTech, AI/ML & Digital Governance, and Proposition & Market Development, to support the humans in the business work out the right questions, and some of the right answers  for Tech/Data-enabled Value Generation.