Business View Magazine | July 2022

8 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 9, ISSUE 7 “With so many challenges now facing the planet – both environmental and social – we all have to help create a positive impact,” said Charise Le, Schneider Electric’s Chief Human Resources Officer. “Change doesn’t always have to be big- bang and top-down. In fact, innovations like these – targeted, grassroots and small-scale, but also bold and impactful – are an important part of the overall solution. It’s our responsibility to help them become a reality.” First launched in 2011 by Schneider Electric, and now run in collaboration with the industrial software company AVEVA, Schneider Go Green has expanded rapidly over the past decade. In 2022 alone, more than 22,200 students from 200 countries registered for the event, and more than 3,700 submitted innovative ideas that fitted into the competition’s five categories: Access to Energy, Homes of the Future, Global Supply Chain of the Future, Grids of the Future, Decoding the Future. The full list of finalists can be found here. For more details about the competition, including how to pre-register for the 2023 event, go to gogreen.se.com. *Schneider Electric’s purpose is to empower all to make the most of our energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability for all. We call this Life Is On. We drive digital transformation by integrating world-leading process and energy technologies, endpoint to cloud connecting products, controls, software and services, across the entire lifecycle, enabling integrated company management, for homes, buildings, data centers, infrastructure and industries. Innovations like these – targeted, grassroots and small- scale, but also bold and impactful – are an important part of the overall solution their outstanding work, insightful presentations and the immense energy they showed. They commented that “Team GreenOverMorrow’s winning solution combines optimized energy management with a subscription service business model and can potentially unlock more sustainable food production, not just in Morocco, but in other parts of the world.” The winning team, who are students at ENSAM University of Casablanca and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University in Ben Guerir, will receive a 10,000 euro cash prize. Seven other teams – each representing a different region – made it through to the final round of the competition. All participants received mentorship to help them fine-tune their ideas and pitch to the judges. Innovative energy-saving solar greenhouse idea wins Schneider Go Green student competition (Photo: Business Wire)