Session 3.7e: Update - Climate Reporting Compliance:Security Pros can be Sustainability Heroes
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| Thursday, November 20, 2025 |
| 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM |
| Sutherland Theatre |
Details
The climate compliance landscape is rapidly changing on a global scale requiring organisations to include climate reporting in their annual reports. In Australia from January 2025 large entities will be required to prepare annual sustainability reports. This is a C-Level Issue that will be eventually pushed down to the IT professional to gather data for inclusion in the climate report. You will be involved because a significant contributor to these climate reports will be IT, and specifically EOL IT assets going to landfill as e-waste, a growing issue in Australasia and around the world. In 2022 it was 580,000 metric tonnes for Australia alone.
You can spend days trying to untangle the morass of legislation and regulations, or you can come and learn what is required from an IT perspective and how you can use best practice techniques to provide the necessary data for your organisation.
We will discuss:
• The new legislation as it relates to climate reporting and how it affects you as an IT Manager
• What are the Scope I, 2 & 3 emissions?
• Why are they so important?
• Greenwashing, what is it, and how to avoid it?
• What exactly am I measuring, and how?
• What are the best practices?
• How can I start preparing for this now?
Speaker
Mr Christopher Hilton
Senior Support Engineer
Blancco Australasia
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Biography
Chris Hilton is a Senior Support Engineer for Blancco in Australasia. He has a Master's Degree in Biochemistry that he doesn't use at all.
Self-employed, Chris has provided cyber security consultancy and solutions since 2005. He worked on solutions involving encryption, biometrics, authentication, secure erasure, secure storage, firewalls, secure proxies. With his vast experience and knowledge selling Blancco data erasure solutions since 2005, Chris was recruited to join Blancco in 2014 providing pre and post-sales support.
He has been working with and for Blancco for over 20 years, enabling organisations to securely sanitise IT Assets. He can remember what a 3 1/2 inch floppy disk looks like.
He trains IT Professionals, technicians and operators in Australasia on the best practice for securely erasing data and is known for his communication skills with a great capacity for breaking down complex concepts and procedures into easily understood chunks. In addition to training in Australasia, he also regularly travels to India to train the 24/7 support centre there.
He is known for his passion about data security and more recently, sustainability, not something that many people are known for.
He is keen to enable organisations to reduce unnecessary e-waste in Australasia.
