Aug 25, 2026 · 44 min · 12 segments
Ravi Soin, Chief Information Security Officer at Smartsheet, explains why 7 out of 10 workers use AI tools their company can’t see, why governance is now part of the profit rather than just the loss…
Ravi SoinGuestChirag KhanejoHostI want to know one thing, which is like the byproduct of doing AI very, very fast.
And my one of my favorite part of research was finding out why you won the Seattle CI of the year.
The consumption, the data center, the power consumption is going to go through the roof, right? And sustainable IT becomes even more important.
Because now you need to have these sort of smart thought processes that you put at edifex together, which were recognized as a part of that.
But that is always right now is almost has become like an afterthought that let's do first progress.
But, but, but then this is for us, we are the mankind and we need to think about the right thing first.
My, my question to you sort of is that how should C-suite executives think about their technology footprint with sustainability in mind?
We started, okay, we're going to start tracking our data center span, then we went to cloud, the SaaS migration, what does that look like? Then we started looking at our procurement processes and what does that look like? But then we started looking at, okay, what is our offboarding process and how can we become efficient in repurposing some of these machines and so forth? And then, you know, by the end of sort of, I would say, a decade of taking these babies, every year we had a couple of initiatives that we were at, right? And we would keep adding one or two initiatives around IT sustainability.
And one of the things that we've started doing within the Smartsheet as well is we use the Sustainable IT has a great framework that they've published.
I want to know one thing, which is like the byproduct of doing AI very, very fast.
And my one of my favorite part of research was finding out why you won the Seattle CI of the year.
The consumption, the data center, the power consumption is going to go through the roof, right? And sustainable IT becomes even more important.
Because now you need to have these sort of smart thought processes that you put at edifex together, which were recognized as a part of that.
But that is always right now is almost has become like an afterthought that let's do first progress.
But, but, but then this is for us, we are the mankind and we need to think about the right thing first.
My, my question to you sort of is that how should C-suite executives think about their technology footprint with sustainability in mind?
We started, okay, we're going to start tracking our data center span, then we went to cloud, the SaaS migration, what does that look like? Then we started looking at our procurement processes and what does that look like? But then we started looking at, okay, what is our offboarding process and how can we become efficient in repurposing some of these machines and so forth? And then, you know, by the end of sort of, I would say, a decade of taking these babies, every year we had a couple of initiatives that we were at, right? And we would keep adding one or two initiatives around IT sustainability.
And one of the things that we've started doing within the Smartsheet as well is we use the Sustainable IT has a great framework that they've published.
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