Robert Metzke
Keynote speaker
Robert Metzke works at the intersection of sustainability, digital infrastructure, and responsible innovation. His focus is on translating sustainability from ambition into execution: into impact and customer value through strategy, governance, steering, investment logic, and core business decisions.
As Chief Sustainability Officer at Deutsche Telekom, Robert is responsible for the company’s sustainability agenda and its group-wide integration into strategy, steering, and execution. Previously, he spent 17 years at Philips in innovation, strategy, and sustainability roles, most recently as Global Head of Sustainability.
His background in physics and economics and his interest in complex adaptive systems shape his perspective on transformation: long-term business success emerges where economic performance, societal value, and planetary boundaries are managed together.
Organization
Deutsche Telekom
Country
The Netherlands
Keynote: Learning from an innovation & sustainability giant
Previously the Global Head of Sustainability at Philips, and currently the first Chief Sustainability Officer at Deutsche Telekom — Robert Metzke knows how to pave the way towards a future that is renewable, realizable and healthy.
How do you translate a large-scale ambition — like planetary health — into execution? How do you implement these changes on an organizational level? How do you change people's behavior?