The Great Energy Rethink with Expert David Carlin

In this episode of FOBtv, we tackle one of the most urgent questions of our time: Can the world grow richer without cooking the planet? Our guest, David Carlin, argues that we’re framing the climate challenge all wrong. The real goal isn’t to use less energy—it’s to use cleaner energy, and that shift in mindset radically reshapes how we think about growth, development, and the future of global prosperity.

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Investing in Sustainability with Banking Americas' Marie Clara Buelligen

In this podcast episode, Marie Clara Buelligen, Head of Sustainable Investment Banking Americas at Societe Generale, shares a candid and strategic perspective on the future of sustainability in business. With deep insights into the intersection of finance, technology, and environmental responsibility, Buelligen explores how emerging tools like AI, digital twins, simulations, and modeling are reshaping long-term sustainability planning and climate risk management. 

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Investors and Investing in Authentic Sustainability with Expert Eric Weitzman

Investors today are demanding more than promises—they want data. In this episode of FOBtv, I speak with Eric Weitzman of FactSet about how investors are scrutinizing companies’ authentic sustainability commitments, and how technologies like AI, digital twins, and advanced analytics are reshaping the way businesses prove their impact.

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Profitable and Sustainable Futures with TCS Expert Jayasree Kottapalli

In this episode, our guest is Jayasree Kottapalli, Head of Sustainable Solutions, Communications, Media and Information Services at TCS. In this conversation we learn how businesses can thrive at the intersection of profitability and sustainability. Jayasree shares her personal journey into sustainability, unpacks the forces motivating organizations to act now, and explores how breakthrough technologies—AI, digital twins, sensors, simulation, and modeling—are transforming sustainability strategy. 

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gies—AI, digital twins, sensors, simulation, and modeling—are transforming sustainability strategy. 

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The Responsible Revolution with TCS Expert Kiran Gupta

This episode of FOBtv, features podcast host Kevin Benedict, and guest Kiran Gupta, Global Head of Sustainability Services for TCS.  In this forward-thinking discussion we dive into the critical intersection of technology and ecological responsibility. We explore how cutting-edge technologies like AI, digital twins, and sensors can revolutionize ecological system management and enhance long-term sustainability planning.

TCS Digital Twindex Sustainability Report: https://tinyurl.com/3tha7p58 

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The Future of Sustainability with TCS Futurist David Kish

 In this episode of FOBtv, our guest is TCS futurist and thought leader David Kish.  We dig deep into the "Future of Sustainability", and the concepts of regeneration, circular economies, coexistence, interdependencies and more. This episode introduces listeners to a new era where both the problems and solutions can be found in the convergence of domains such as science, technology, societal, geopolitical, economic, philosophical, and environmental.  This is the future of life on earth folks!  I learned a great deal.

Fixing the World and the World's Oceans with Data

My guest today is Steve Adler, CEO, and Founder of Ocean Data Alliance. Steve has served in many leadership roles over his career including being IBM's Chief Data Scientist. Today, he is focused on using his expertise, his connections, and data to make the world and the world's oceans cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable through the capture, collection, and analysis of data.  This is not easy.  You have audiences that don't believe in science. You have politicians that don't believe in open data or appreciate facts. You have humans that are notoriously bad at understanding risk, especially future risk. You have countries without the leadership or infrastructure to effectively capture and use data. 

Even with all of these challenges, Steve Adler is championing global efforts to better understand our world and our world's ocean environments for the purpose of improving our future and that of our children's.

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Leadership and Social Responsibility

In this interview, we take a deep dive into the role of the Chief Social Responsibility Officer with TCS's CSRO, Balaji Ganapathy.  We then explore how large multinational companies discover and define their purpose, and how they communicate it to their dispersed workforce.  We also discuss how large and global companies respond to controversial topics, politics, and global disasters.  We then dig deep into the strategies, tactics, and methodologies for implementing purpose, creating the right culture, and being a socially responsible organization.

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Business Isn't Always about Business

We live and die in a transparent and networked world.  A world that is one invasion and/or viral video away from completely changing the market and business climate for a company.  In 2020 I wrote an article titled, Swarming and the Need for a Chief Values Officer, where I stated,  "The key to winning in a network of swarming consumers is to strategically be swarmed for good reasons.  It’s about being recognized for the societal good your organization is doing as demonstrated by purpose-driven advocacy and practiced values."  Today, under the dark clouds of war and senseless violence, it is all the more important to be recognized for your "practiced values."

In just the first two weeks of Russia's unconscionable invasion and continuing attack on Ukraine, over 300 large multinational companies announced they were restricting business and pulling out of Russia.  The companies that are still doing business with Russia will increasingly be shamed by their customers, employees, shareholders and history.