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ESG From A Data Engineer's POV

The EU CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) reporting are very much happening, and though you may not realize it, Data Engineers have an important role to play in them. The second episode of SCDW Talk Show explores what exactly.

Mika Heino

Written by — Mika Heino, Data Architect

A State of Cloud Data Warehouses Talk Show is a video series in which our Partner and Data Architect Mika Heino interviews different data and AI/ML experts about topics close to their hearts.

 

What is ESG from a Data Engineer’s perspective? 

In this episode, Mika dives into the role of Data Engineers in cumbersome acronym-heavy reports like ESG and CSRD. His guest is Lars Vilen, a Data Engineer seasoned in ESG reports. One might think that reporting is pretty much just PowerPoint slides from Big Four consulting firms. Right? But who actually brings the data to the reports?

Let's explore how data engineers can help companies achieve ESG goals and meet CSRD requirements.

00:00 Intro
00:21 Who is Lars Vilen?
05:39 What do CSRD and ESG mean?
08:30 Why and who should be interested?
12:46 Why are we, Data Engineers, talking about this?

The video is in Finnish but equipped with English subtitles 🇫🇮🇬🇧

 


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