Sunil Kumar Yadav
Associate Partner, Climate Change and Sustainability Services
EY Singapore
ABOUT
Sunil is an Associate Partner at EY’s Climate Change and Sustainability Services department in Singapore. He has overall 23 years of experience in the energy and sustainability sector, with a focus on driving decarbonisation, decentralisation, digitalisation, energy transition practices with ESG as core across ASEAN markets.
Sunil has domain expertise in decarbonising large infrastructure, industry, data centres and real estate across India, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia, having worked with various MNCs (Siemens, Schneider Electric, Johnson Controls, Carrier, Philips) and is a founding member of bbp (KKR portfolio). In his last assignment, he was Director of ESG advisory at KPMG Singapore.
Presenter – Data and AI in Smart & Sustainable Buildings
Track 2C: Smart, Data-Driven & AI-Optimised Buildings | Thursday, 10 July 2025, 5:00 PM
The interaction and collaboration between humans and AI mark a significant advancement with the rise of AI use-cases in buildings to make buildings smart and more sustainable. Imagine AI-driven assistants planning your next system planned maintenance and making all the necessary arrangements; human-like bots acting as virtual assistant for the non-tech savvy senior clients; or AI-supported specialists in the supply chain optimising inventory in real-time based on fluctuations in demand.
The era of Agentic AI unlocks transformative potential for the built environment, enabling smarter, more efficient operations that reduce operational carbon emissions while maintaining rigorous impact assessments.