Episode 16. Carlos Villalpando on Working at the Intersection of Data, Business, and Sustainability
Description
Our guest for this episode is Carlos Villalpando, a technology leader, sustainability advocate, and enterprise architect who’s helping some of the world’s biggest companies make sense of their carbon data.
Carlos is a Director at Salesforce, where he works on the Net Zero Cloud team guiding organizations on their path to credible climate action through better data, smarter systems, and long-term strategy.
His journey into sustainability wasn’t planned. With a background in IT and customer success, Carlos spent years leading tech teams, mentoring architects, and building enterprise solutions across higher education and philanthropy. But after an internal realignment at Salesforce brought him into the Net Zero Cloud space, he discovered a new purpose.
Carlos stayed—and he’s been learning, building, and advocating ever since. Not just for better sustainability software, but for better collaboration between sustainability and tech teams.
In this episode, we explore what it means to be an enterprise architect in the world of sustainability, why Scope 3 emissions are such a beast to tackle, and how sustainability professionals can level up their data strategy to unlock real impact—not just reporting.
Carlos also shares how his background in IT helps him bridge the gap between business goals and sustainability needs, and why the best sustainability work often starts with asking the right questions—not just taking orders.
Whether you’re working in sustainability, data, or somewhere in between, this episode is packed with insights on how to build smarter systems and stronger careers.
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