Hello from Estelle Monod, SVP, Building Segments President for Schneider Electric. It has been a delight to participate in the Global Leadership Forum's annual Summit in my home city, Geneva

If you attended the GLF Summit, I hope you enjoyed our session on driving climate action through collaboration. I covered three important areas in which Schneider Electric is collaborating with the design firms’ sector to promote early engagement and deliver data-driven outcomes for our end-user clients. This involved:

1. Co-developed thought leadership - solving common problems together for our clients
2. Workshops with clients and design firms in the early stages of the project lifecycle to select the best technologies
3. Training the engineering workforce on the existing and evolving technologies, across multiple end-user sectors

Schneider Electric is just one participant in a broad and complex ecosystem; we need to collaborate across the construction industry to deliver decarbonized and resilient buildings, together.

I’d like to share the thought leadership papers I referenced, as well as Schneider Electric’s Intencity project. Thank you to FIDIC for their great efforts to bring us together at this Summit!

1. Transforming Existing Hotels to Net-Zero Carbon
2. Planning Commercial Real Estate Portfolio Decarbonization