In response to a growing demand from our customers and partners, Aggreko has continued to invest in our Greener Upgrades line and other sustainability initiatives. Our solutions are specifically designed for customers that need the reliability offered by traditional generators but are still interested in cutting emissions. We meet our customers wherever they are in the energy transition, whether it be through highly efficient diesel generators, units that can run off biofuels like HVO, or through a battery energy-storage solution that’s completely bereft of fossil fuels. For sporting events, we recently installed our Tier 4F generators for the second year in a row at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. This continues our Formula 1 partnership, helping the organization achieve environmental targets with reliable power.

Appear’s sustainability commitments are driven by external regulatory environments alongside the internal company passion. In regions like the EU, where strong legislative drivers are pushing for sustainable practices, we’ve helped our customers significantly reduce their energy use and carbon emissions. In the U.S., where regulatory initiatives are lighter, our sustainability initiatives align more closely with the considerable cost savings that our sustainable solutions provide and which our customers desire. For example, our energy-efficient equipment is often adopted because it reduces power consumption and operating costs, rather than for its eco-friendly advantages. Although this has led to widespread adoption of greener technologies, financial incentives are often the critical motivator.

arkona technologies and manifold technologies recognize that the responsibility to address sustainability lies with each person and each company. Both companies’ product roadmap and business strategy lead to a significantly smaller footprint, less hardware, and drastically reduced power consumption. manifold’s software platform is the first that uses commercially available programmable acceleration cards (PACs) from various manufacturers, including technology partner arkona. manifold CLOUD combines the benefits of a shared-resource pool with the low power requirements of FPGA while providing uncompressed, high-quality, low-latency video processing for Tier 1 productions. A 1RU server can process 512 uncompressed 3G videos for multiviewing at less than 1 kW, and power utilization is reduced 90% compared with “generic” public-cloud COTS CPU/GPU processing while retaining performance of legacy on-premises compute.

As a cloud storage platform, Backblaze is uniquely striving to play its part driving greater sustainability. With more than 275,000 spinning disks in operation globally, Backblaze first and foremost leads by sharing drive performance and failure data and insights — every quarter for more than 10 years now — to help inform organizations' immediate storage-infrastructure decisions while also encouraging drive makers to produce higher-quality goods that will serve significantly longer. Additionally, we’ve moved one of our primary western-U.S. data centers to river cooling for the benefits of no water consumption or pollution, no chemical use, and projected carbon footprint ~30% below average and will continue to explore more such opportunities.

Black Box has a corporate initiative focus on ESG, which emphasizes sustainability and green programs. These involve product and business operational aspects. The product initiatives include such programs as reducing waste packaging, maximizing use of recycled material, power-saving mechanisms, and designing for cycling/recovery. The business operational programs include elimination of paper, carbon reduction, sustainable sourcing, and supply-chain management, as well as a strong focus on corporate culture to educate employees on sustainability and green practices.

Sustainability in broadcast and film is becoming a must, and one of the technologies that can benefit that is virtual production, which reduces the carbon footprint by minimizing the need for travel and on-location shoots and reduces the need for physical sets, which require resources to build and dispose of. Also, by creating digital environments, content creators can reduce waste and promote more sustainable practices. Sustainability also means less energy consumption during shoots compared with large physical sets and location. Virtual sets can be reused and modified for different projects, reducing the need for new materials and waste, aligning with the industry's trend toward greener practices and responsible filmmaking. Brainstorm has been pushing virtual production for decades, providing an unmatched expertise in virtual-content creation.

Sustainability is a key pillar of Calrec’s current and future strategy. Key aspects include staff engagement, reduction in carbon emissions from our business activities, and development of products that minimize the impact on the environment. Everyone at Calrec is actively encouraged to identify ways to improve sustainability within their activities as well as across the business. The carbon footprint of research, design, and development and production facilities are monitored, and new technologies are reviewed as part of a continual drive to reduce energy consumption and waste. Design concepts to reduce product power consumption, working with our supply chain on recyclable materials for manufacture and packaging, and deploying virtualized technologies are intended to provide our customers with the flexibility to minimize their operational carbon footprint.

With geographically dispersed engineers across North America, CineSys has the ability to support customers in all time zones without the need for long-distance travel. Most of the team works remotely, shares content online, and communicates via online apps, reducing the negative environmental footprint and emissions and promoting equal access. In the event that an onsite engineer needs to be in a car, train, or plane, we will deploy the engineer who is geographically closest to the customer.

Being sustainable is a major pillar for Clear-Com, not only because we’re located in California but also because our customers expect some level of environmental friendliness from their vendors because of either their missions or local regulations. We’ve done a lot to ensure that our build process, shipping, and engineering prioritize environmental factors. As an example, our manufacturing facility in Carlsbad, CA, (outside San Diego) is a “Green” facility, with solar power, energy-efficient manufacturing appliances, water recycling, and other sustainability elements. Because we are located in the U.S., we also are able to make sure that our packaging and shipping are efficient to our end-customers, something that’s difficult for a lot of other vendors, who manufacture in China.

Deloitte is advancing its WorldClimate initiative by embedding sustainability into procurement, measuring performance against goals, and leveraging our Sustainability Reporting Catalyst tool to help organizations meet international regulations. We offer climate strategy and decarbonization, training, awareness, and carbon assessments. Deloitte works with sports organizations, leagues, and teams to make their engagements greener by helping develop more sustainable and financially resilient options, such as leveraging existing infrastructure for major sporting events, and developing long-term solutions for more cost-effective, positive impact on the client, community, and consumer.

At Eutelsat, sustainability is in everything, from how we operate in space to how we manage our environmental footprint on Earth. We are committed to responsible business practices, not just for the planet but also for our colleagues, partners, and customers. A cornerstone of our sustainability efforts is our environmental roadmap, which includes our carbon-reduction targets for 2030. We’ve set a goal to reduce emissions by 50% and to cut carbon intensity by 52% per satellite Mbit by 2030. Additionally, we’ve integrated environmental, social, and governance (ESG) from OneWeb, further ensuring that our efforts encompass all areas of our business. Our Corporate Social Responsibility strategy and mission are built around reducing environmental impact, enhancing value for our customers, and fostering a positive social contribution.

Forecast Consoles has always been a huge proponent of sustainability. We create consoles that stand the test of time, lasting decades and looking as good as the day they were installed. We will also refinish and build on existing consoles to save them from landfills as well as to save our clients’ money. Forecast’s consoles are also built in our very own warehouse, so we can be very mindful of how much material is needed in order to complete a job, while ensuring that little to no material goes to waste.

We created an ESG department years ago, with initiatives to improve best practices, including coordination with other members of the industry to homogenize criteria.

Ikegami, as a telecommunications and professional-imaging company, faces the challenges the world faces, and we are committed to the realization of a sustainable environment, society, and economy. We are focusing on the Sustainable Development Goals as outlined in 2015 by the UN. As an example of internal efforts, we are working to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. In particular, the head office has upgraded to new high-efficiency air-conditioning. For employees, we are promoting companywide compliance training and actively utilizing the whistleblower system. Ikegami is also striving to develop new products to aid our customers in meeting these goals. Our onboard helicopter camera contributes to society, providing imaging for rescue from the air, firefighting, law enforcement, and news coverage.

InSync continues our impact in three key ways: (1) Product: One key tenant of our product design is reducing resources: physical components, compute resource, energy consumption. Our aim is a for a further 10% reduction in energy and carbon impact over the next 12-24 months. Our hardware products already offer up to 90% reduction in power on legacy hardware. (2) Operational: Our premises electricity is powered from renewable sources up to 100%, with our own rooftop solar power in the next 12-18 months. Our supply chain, wherever possible, is within a 30-mile radius of our office. (3) Personnel: Cycle-to-work scheme — 20% cycle. EV scheme and charging points with competitive energy rates — 20% drive EVs. Flexi-hours and remote working reduce journeys.

From our perspective, new technology and sustainability need to go hand in hand. Our HELIOS processing platform has special low-power modes that put tiles into much lower standby power than video black. This is the first step to pushing all the manufacturers that we work with to have lower total consumption. Additionally, our Ventana LED-tile platform is so thin that it's a gigantic step forward not only for power consumption of the display itself but also in the shipping dimensions: in some cases, it has 75% less shipping volume than other displays.

From our very first wireless microphone transmitter more than 20 years ago, Q5X has focused on sustainability through the exclusive use of rechargeable lithium batteries. Our designs have also focused on efficient power utilization so that our packs remain small with amazing battery life of four to 32 hours, depending on the use-case requirements. Q5X transmitters will more than pay for themselves in single-use–battery cost savings. Q5X also uses an innovative modular radio design that allows us to create multiple made-for-purpose transmitter form factors that can be easily refurbished to extend their life at optimal performance or repurposed into entirely different transmitter packages for new applications.

Riedel’s application-based SmartPanels can address multiple workflows in a single user station without requiring additional hardware. As we are getting deeper into IP connectivity, every additional dedicated device we add to a solution requires a port on the network switch, more power, space, and increased ambient noise. Clever devices like SmartPanels reduce those issues. Riedel is always looking at ways to make operators more efficient, and cutting down on hardware at each position brings a lot of sustainability. Our software-based live-video-production solution, Simplylive Production Suite, amplifies those savings, as it offers full blown live production, slo-mo replay, and video review with minimal equipment — basically a touchscreen and a server — either on premises or in the cloud.

Ross Video is committed to sustainability, with a goal of achieving net-zero carbon emissions by Q1 2025. Its factory expansion in Iroquois, ON, prioritizes green initiatives, such as rooftop solar power and local sourcing to reduce emissions from shipping. Early compliance with the RoHS Directive laid the groundwork for environmental consciousness, eliminating hazardous substances. The company conducted an ASHRAE audit to optimize energy use in the facility, furthering its emissions goals. Sustainability also drives product innovation, like the Ultrix Hyperconverged Production Platform, which combines functions to reduce power, weight, and cabling — key for greener OB-truck operations. Backed by CEO David Ross’s leadership, Ross Video is proving that sustainability benefits customers, communities, and business success alike.

Spectra Logic is actively addressing sustainability and reducing environmental impact as energy costs continue to rise. Spectra Logic’s tape storage is central to any data center's sustainability approach. Significantly lowering energy consumption and enhancing data security makes it ideal for archiving and protecting data at scale. Spectra Logic also implements power management within its second-tier storage subsystems, reducing energy usage and extending the lifespan of the storage platform. A balanced, tiered storage strategy empowered by Spectra Logic lifecycle management and storage tiering software, supports environmentally conscious data centers by reducing overall power usage to lessen environmental impact, while also aligning with corporate and data center priorities on energy efficiency and sustainable operations.