Welcome to Sustainability through ICT Summit 2019

In an increasingly connected world, where Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is transforming all spheres of human activity, both opportunities and challenges for sustainability are arising from the widespread use of ICT. ICT can be leveraged for sustainability's triple bottom line of economic, environmental and social benefits by facilitating green business models and societal functions. However greening ICT through energy efficient operation and resource management as well as the use of renewable energy sources and proper life cycle management is indispensable to unleash the full potential of greening through ICT and more generally of ICT as a driving force of sustainability.

We welcome you to the 2nd edition of the IEEE Sustainability through ICT Summit (StICT), which is held on 18-19 June 2019 at the ETS campus in Montreal. Under the theme of "ICT - A Key Driver for Sustainability," the Summit promotes a holistic approach on prospects for technologies, standards and policies for ICT-enabled sustainable development that also takes into consideration the sustainability of ICT resources. The summit is sponsored by the IEEE Sustainable ICT Initiative.

Professionals from different disciplines are contributing to the open dialogue over the 2-day summit. The summit provides an inter-discipline collaboration platform for ICT practitioners; users; technology providers; the standardization community; policy makers; and the research community to exchange views and share expertise through:

Two keynotes and a World Cafe event on June 18th. In the World Cafe event attendees from industry, academia, technical, policy, management and social sciences backgrounds discuss, in an interactive setting, challenges and solutions to achieve sustainability "in" and "through" ICT. The white paper, which was the result of the October 2017 Greening through ICT Summit in Paris, France, forms the basis for the World Cafe event. A subsequent white paper is planned to be produced as a result of these discussions.
and a panel discussion on Data Center Sustainability (with representatives from large industries) and 12 technical paper presentations from industry and academia on June 19th.

We would like to thank our silver sponsors, Bell and Prompt, as well as IEEE Communications Society, our sponsoring society. We would also like to extend special thanks to our technical committee members and the reviewers for providing high quality and timely reviews for the technical papers submitted to the summit.

Prof. Jaafar Elmirghani, Honorary Co-Chair
Prof. Charles Despins, Honorary Co-Chair
Prof. Mohamed Cheriet, Local Arrangements Chair
Dr. Emad Alsusa, General Co-Chair
Dr. Taisir El-Gorashi, General Co-Chair
Dr. Burak Kantarci, Technical Program Chair