Appian is an international IT company. Our mission is to accelerate customers’ businesses by discovering, designing, and automating

Appian for international sustainability

Appian is an international IT company. Our mission is to accelerate customers’ businesses by discovering, designing, and automating their most important processes. Appian told us about its commitment to sustainability, including the adoption of two 3Bee hives.

Graziella Rossi, <clr>Director Marketing Southern Europe</clr>, told us about appian's focus on sustainability. At Appian, we have several, employee-led, <clr>affinity groups</clr>, that play a key part in our efforts on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. Each group plays a vital role in articulating, building, promoting, and supporting the needs and<clr> goals </clr>of their various communities. Creating a positive impact through social, education, and outreach activities; fostering partnerships at Appian through inclusivity and educating allies. Appian Green’s mission, for example, is to make the <clr>Earth a cleaner place</clr>, by reducing our carbon footprint and come up with innovative ways to make Appian and the Earth a cleaner, greener place by encouraging sustainable practices with<clr> education, awareness, and community outreach.</clr>

Groups for positive impact

Impact

As said, the mission of <clr>AppianGreen</clr> is to reduce our carbon footprint and come up with innovative ways <clr>to make Appian and the Earth a cleaner</clr> place where to live. There are many ways we aim to do this, including:
- <clr>Company-wide events</clr> — one for all the vegetarian potlucks where we eat vegetables from our community garden, a small plot of land by the kitchen at our HQ. 
- <clr>Working with the Corporate team </clr>on how Appian as a company can reduce our carbon footprint and invest in green tech. 
- Partnering with other <clr>Affinity Groups</clr>, like AppianWellness for Bike to Work Month. 
<clr>Educational </clr>sessions on different environmental topics led by AppianGreen team members. 
For this year’s Earth Week, we’ll be learning about topics like microplastics and water conservation. 
- Maintaining the <clr>Horseshoe Trail</clr> at Hemlock Overlook Regional Park in Clifton, Va, which we adopted in the fall of 2020.
- <clr>Adopting beehives</clr> in southern Europe.
- Taking part to projects and initiatives to support sustainability.

Appian Green

Green

As Appian is established in different countries, there are different projects taking place <clr>around the world</clr>. There are many ways we <clr>develop sustainability projects</clr>, including, as mentioned, company-wide events, working with the central Corporate team on how Appian as a company can reduce our <clr>carbon footprint</clr> and invest in green tech at global level, and partnering with other Affinity Groups, like <clr>AppianWellness </clr>for several projects and educational sessions on different environmental topics led by AppianGreen team members. For this year’s <clr>Earth Week</clr>, we learned about topics like microplastics and water conservation, for instance with the Appian green <clr>Clean Sea i</clr>nitiative in Australia or the <clr>southern Europe beehive</clr> adoption to sustain the bees and the ecosystem for their healthy life.

Concrete international actions

international

One of the core Appian values is respect, for people, environment, life. We know that the natural <clr>ecosystem is fragile and bees are one of the keys to maintaining the balance</clr>. Moreover, the bees team <clr>working and community</clr>, where one is part of the whole thing giving value to create an holistic approach, is very similar to the way we work internally and with “our ecosystem”. Thanks to our adoption, the beehive is now <clr>monitored</clr> to guarantee the health and activity of the bees.  We decided to adopt two beehives, one in <clr>Piedmont </clr>and one in<clr> Brittany</clr>.