How AI Can Earn Its Keep with Manufacturers' Sustainability Data

Sandeep Chand is Co-founder and CEO of Tracera, the sustainability data platform built for manufacturers. Before becoming CEO, he was Tracera's Chief Technology Officer, architecting its core approach of tracing every reported value back to its source document and flagging the data that's missing. Prior to Tracera, he was CTO at Caroo and Rocketrip and led engineering organizations at WorkStride and iCIMS. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from Delhi Institute of Technology (now NSUT).

Poppy Hammond is Head of Product at Tracera. Before joining Tracera, she worked at EnerSys, a global manufacturer of stored energy and power solutions. She holds a master's degree in Climate from Columbia University, and her research background includes Imperial College London and Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. Her work focuses on turning the practical realities of sustainability data collection and disclosure into product capabilities that hold up under audit.