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The winners of the first TUI Green IT Award have been announced. With the award, the tourism group honours the sustainability commitment of its more than 2000 IT partners and suppliers.
Technology from Amazon for the net zero transformation of a sports arena, a smart recycling process for workwear at Deutsche Telekom and support for underrepresented groups in the IT industry by QA Ltd. were selected by the jury chaired by TUI Group CEO Sebastian Ebel. Technology is an integral part of TUI’s recently published Sustainability Agenda. For example, relocating server capacities to the cloud – as TUI has successfully done in recent years – can save up to 88 per cent in energy and CO2 emissions. In addition to these approaches for more sustainability in IT, the focus is on technologies that support or enable the implementation of the sustainability strategy.
“Technology will make a decisive contribution to the successful achievement of the sustainable transformation. Energy savings by moving data centers to the cloud, planning travel routes with the lowest possible emissions thanks to artificial intelligence – these are examples of how TUI is using technological solutions for more sustainability today. With the TUI Green IT Award, we honour partners who share our holistic approach to sustainability and act accordingly. The projects submitted for the award show creative solutions with which our partners assume societal responsibility,” says Sebastian Ebel, CEO of TUI Group.
The winners prevailed in a multi-stage selection process. The final decision was up to the jury. Along with CEO Sebastian Ebel, the jury also included TUI’s Chief Sustainability Officer Thomas Ellerbeck, Group Procurement Director Paul Walker and members of the global IT Leadership Board led by Group CIO Pieter Jordaan.
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