Qlik and C40 Cities Partner to Help the WorldÔÇÖs Megacities Fight Climate Change with Data and Analytics

Partnership to Accelerate Global City Network Access to Actionable Data
to Address Climate Risks

NEW YORK & RADNOR, Pa.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–C40
Cities, a global network of megacities committed to urgent climate
action, and leading analytics platform Qlik
are bringing the power of data and analytics to the fight against
climate change. C40 will leverage QlikÔÇÖs analytics platform to create
engaging, actionable data applications for its 96 member cities to gain
valuable insights on performance, collaboration opportunity and
world-changing policies. This partnership comes as part of the Qlik
Corporate Responsibility program, which provides software and services
to NGOs to transform their organizations through insights, advancing
their ability to positively impact climate change and associated
humanitarian issues through data.

ÔÇ£The urgency of the climate crisis means that city leaders must use
every tool available to them to tackle the threats of climate change,
with data among the most critical. Cities have shown their commitment to
share data, ideas and learning with each other to help drive climate
action further and faster. C40 is excited to work with Qlik to
accelerate this work with the power of data and analytics,ÔÇØ said Mark
Watts, Executive Director of C40.

C40 and Qlik launched the partnership at the recent Qonnections
conference through the Qonnections Hackathon Challenge. The City of
Boston and the C40 Cities network granted the Qlik developer community
access to data about energy use in buildings across the city. The
challenge focused on creating applications to address building energy
performance, and uncovering opportunities for BostonÔÇÖs building owners,
businesses and residents to reduce energy use, energy costs and
greenhouse gas emissions.

The Qonnections Hackathon Challenge delivered eight solutions, with the
winning submission coming from the Schneider Electric team, alongside
second and third place submissions from Axis Group and Slalom. A full
overview of the process and finalist solutions will be detailed in an upcoming
webinar with Qlik and C40 Cities on June 20, 2018. The winning
solutions focused on surfacing and linking a variety of data points
around building KPIs such as ENERGY STAR scores and Energy Usage
Intensity, and providing a deep dive into building category level data
to compare buildings within groups, such as education facilities, and to
compare buildings across groups (e.g. education facilities vs.
manufacturing vs. retail.)

ÔÇ£Buildings account for nearly three quarters of greenhouse gas emissions
in Boston. Anything we can do to make our homes and offices more energy
efficient will be good for residents, good for our economy, good for
Boston. Making strategic use of the building data we have is going to be
key to achieving our goal of carbon neutrality by 2050,ÔÇØ said Austin
Blackmon, Chief of Energy, Environment and Open Space for the City of
Boston. ÔÇ£WeÔÇÖre excited to see the outcomes from this great initiative by
C40 Cities and the Qlik Hackathon Challenge.ÔÇØ

The Qlik and C40 Cities partnership has already begun to impact C40ÔÇÖs
work through another session at Qonnections, the Late Night Lunacy
challenge. During this session, developers worked on applications to
uncover hidden insights through data around issues such as GHG emissions
and climate hazards. The data used for these applications spanned a
variety of data sets from all 96 C40 Cities, including information on
emissions, climate hazards and climate actions. The applications
developed during Late Night Lunacy will be made available to C40ÔÇÖs
member cities to enhance data-driven connection and strategic analysis.

ÔÇ£Analytics has the power to transform organizations by bringing groups
together through data to elevate their shared mission. Qlik is proud to
partner with C40 to help city governments connect, collaborate, and
enact policies that will directly address climate change and improve the
everyday life of urban citizens around the world,ÔÇØ said Mike Capone,
Qlik CEO.

About C40 Cities

C40 Cities connects 96 of the worldÔÇÖs greatest cities to take bold
climate action, leading the way towards a healthier and more sustainable
future. Representing 700+ million citizens and one quarter of the global
economy, mayors of the C40 cities are committed to delivering on the
most ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement at the local level, as well
as to cleaning the air we breathe. The current chair of C40 is Mayor of
Paris Anne Hidalgo; and three-term Mayor of New York City Michael R.
Bloomberg serves as President of the Board. C40ÔÇÖs work is made possible
by our three strategic funders: Bloomberg Philanthropies, ChildrenÔÇÖs
Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), and Realdania.

To learn more about the work of C40 and our cities, please visit our
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and LinkedIn.

About Qlik

Qlik® is the leading data analytics platform and the pioneer of
user-driven business intelligence. Its portfolio of cloud-based and
on-premise solutions meets customersÔÇÖ growing needs from reporting and
self-service visual analysis to guided, embedded and custom analytics,
regardless of where data is located. Customers using Qlik Sense®,
QlikView® and Qlik® Cloud, gain meaning out of information from multiple
sources, exploring the hidden relationships within data that lead to
insights that ignite good ideas. Headquartered in Radnor, Pennsylvania,
Qlik does business in more than 100 countries with over 48,000 customers
globally.

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