IKEA Retail (Ingka Group) wanted to turn rapid advances in AI into practical progress against its climate and nature goals, across products, buildings, supply chains, and responsible technology and align sustainability and digital leaders on where to focus first.
Nyamira Labs facilitated an AI Sustainability Lab with senior participants from sustainability and digital. The session gave teams a structured way to explore proven AI applications across Climate, Nature and Responsible AI, and to translate “AI possibilities” into clear, shared priorities.
We identified and prioritised a pipeline of potential AI opportunities across climate, nature and responsible digital, agreed initial owners, and drafted an early action plan to guide Ingka’s AI-for-sustainability agenda.
The group converged on priority themes including product-level carbon intelligence, building energy optimisation, responsible digital infrastructure, and AI-enabled customer engagement and built a shared view of what it would take to move from ideas to tested pilots.
Just as importantly, the Lab created real cross-functional momentum; participants highlighted the value of bringing “disparate parts of the company” together and described the collaboration as forming “superteams.”