P4F #01 / SE2 with Alessandro Pistillo, Director Digital Strategy of BASF

Kicking of our series 2 of the “Platforms 4 Future” podcast with a
chemical industry powerhouse and dinosaur - BASF. It’s the world
leading chemical company with about 110.000 employees worldwide,
10% of them within R&D department spending 2 billion on
innovation each year. More importantly, almost everything on our
lives is based on chemicals so you can image the impact of such a
company has on our lives and our planet. There is no better place
to drive sustainability with a massive impact. But even for such a
big giant, tackling sustainability is a too big task and you need
to align even more players to create change. Together with
Alessandro Pistillo, Head of Digital Strategic Projects, we explore
how such a traditional company can use it’s footprint in the market
to lay the foundation for a more sustainable collaboration among
all the players in the ecosystem. Alessandro started it’s career 20
years ago and went through different jobs within BASF, which gave
him a lot of insights into all facets of the value chain and
chemical industry. In the last two years he is part of the
Corporate Strategy Department driving digital innovation projects.
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