apidays Paris 2022 - The journey of Generali, Alexandre Chretien, Astrakhan

apidays Paris 2022 - APIs the next 10 years: Software, Society, Sovereignty, Sustainability
December 14, 15 & 16, 2022

Why the Corporate & Sustainable Responsibility strategy should become THE strategy of any organization: the journey of Generali.
Alexandre Chretien, Managing Director at Astrakhan & Co-founder of the Climat Entreprise Convention
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Transcript

1. Generali Return of experience
   API Days - Sustainable Digital Challenge 2022
   

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2. 2023 SERIES OF EVENT
   New York
   May 16&17
   Australia
   October 11&12
   Singapore
   April 12&13
   Helsinki & North
   June 5&6
   Paris
   SEPTEMBER
   London
   November
   15&16
   June 28-30
   SILICON VALLEY
   March 14&15
   Dubai & Middle East
   February 22&23
   

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3. 2
   2
   Sustainable Digital Challenge 2022
   Generali Team’s Objectives
   Company Culture
   Raise awareness
   among Generali’s staff
   about the challenges of
   digital sobriety
   Digital
   Show how IT can help
   achieve sustainable
   objectives through
   practical use cases
   OBJECTIVES
   Business
   Help our clients select
   sustainable investment
   funds for eco-responsible
   investments
   

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4. 3
   3
   Sustainable Digital Challenge 2022
   Sobriety pillars
   Web Pages
   Optimization
   Backend
   Optimization
   Infrastructure
   Optimization
   Web pages, Savings reached engine
   architecture and physical infrastructure
   Identified Areas
   The number of calculations performed by the savings
   engine decreased by 63%: from 900M to 330M/year
   Power Consumption
   Remarkable improvements on all web pages
   of the arbitration journey
   Eco-Index Scores
   POC containerization resulted in abandoning several Virtual
   Machines (VM).
   Infrastructure Rationalisation
   Arbitration
   Transform the arbitration activity into an eco-
   responsible process. Performed 66 732
   times/year by our clients
   Expected gains
   30% reduction in carbon footprint
   resulting from the arbitration activity.
   

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5. 4
   4
   Sustainable Digital Challenge 2022
   Sobriety opportunities: results and 1-year projection
   1,54g CO2
   X
   66 732 events/year
   =
   102* Kg CO2
   Web Pages
   At least 570M
   calculations/year
   =
   106,8** kW
   =
   18,5 Kg CO2
   Backend
   Use of 21 GB of RAM out
   of 96 GB available
   =>
   Resource Pooling
   Infrastructure
   * Eco-Index metrics ** Scaphandre metrics
   56% CO2
   56% CO2
   

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6. 5
   5
   Scope 3
   Generali is continuously working to direct capital flows towards sustainable investments in order to
   finance sustainable and inclusive growth
   Simulator
   Create an environmental impact
   simulator that allows clients to
   evaluate the energy and financial
   performance of their investments.
   ESG Scores
   Display environmental scores per
   fund via APIs on users’ selection
   screens on the same model as
   risk scales
   Funds identification
   A new fund selector tool allows to
   narrow down the research for
   information on funds and to direct
   users’ choices based on the selected
   critea (ESG Criteria).
   Disclosure
   Share pre-contractual information with
   clients in order to provide them with
   more transparency regarding the
   integration of sustainability risks
   Sustainable Digital Challenge 2022
   r
   Investment Management
   100% Green product
   Create a 100% green product
   promoting a responsable
   investment. The product will be
   made of funds chosen according to
   their full compliance with strong
   ESG criteria
   In production Upcoming
   

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7. 6
   6
   Sustainable Digital Challenge 2022
   Next Steps
   SQL requests
   buffering
   60% less consumption
   API Rationalization
   Reduction in the number of
   calls made by partners
   Arm Processors
   60% energy saving
   Scalability
   Setting up K8s
   clusters
   Dev Containers
   Abandoning dev VMs
   

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