Wiit S p A : Sustainability report

Consolidated non-financial statement pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 254/2016, prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards

Sustainability beyond Cloud

Sustainability Report 2022

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The WIIT Group, a leading provider of cloud and	Sustainability beyond Cloud
cyber security services for critical applications,
has been accompanying companies on their path
to digital transformation for over 20 years.
In addition to being among the companies with
the highest number of outsourcing operations
certifications at the global level, WIIT offers
distinctive skills and significant assets: 15 data
centres, two of which are Tier-IV certified, with a
third under construction. Thanks to the constant
commitment of its employees, organic growth and
M&A operations carried out in Italy and abroad,
in 2022 the company recorded revenues of over
€ 118.8 million and an EBITDA of over € 39.7
million*.
At the heart of WIIT's strategy there is the trust
of its customers, with whom the company builds
long-term,high-value relationships.

• As it is a public interest entity, pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 254/16, this document includes in its scope all companies consolidated on a line-by-line basis in the Consolidated Financial Statements

Following the publication of three editions of the Sustainability Report on a voluntary basis, the Group's first consolidated Non-Financial Statement (NFS), prepared in accordance with Legislative Decree No. 254/2016, represents a further step on WIIT's journey towards transparency and integration of sustainability. In line with the indications of the new GRI Standard 2021, the document has been drafted to highlight the performance and progress of the initiatives carried out by the Group in relation to WIIT's material sustainability issues and, not least, to provide the organisation's stakeholders with an accurate, comprehensive and transparent account of the results achieved.

INDEX

Foreword	Letter from Alessandro Cozzi	01
2022 in review	Key figures and highlights	03
2030 ESG Plan	WIIT's 2030 sustainability goals	05
The Premium Cloud	The European Hybrid Cloud leader	09
	Responsible growth	11
	A certified international cloud	13
	Transparent, accountable and sustainable governance	16
	The measurement of sustainability in WIIT	21
	ESG Plan: The Premium Cloud 2030 sustainability targets	28
WIIT4Data	CYber risks continue to increase in importance	31
	Cybersecurity culture	32
	Reliable, secure cyber services	34
	ESG Plan: WIIT4Data's 2030 sustainability goals	40
WIIT4Innovation	The Cloud at the service of new trends	43
	Innovation in WIIT's dna	44
	Grappling with the external context	46
	WIIT innovation news	47
	ESG Plan: WIIT4Innovation's 2030 sustainability goals	50
WIIT4Climate	The green transition in the ICT sector	53
	A green, efficient cloud	54
	The role of the cloud in the ecological transition	55
	ESG Plan: WIIT4Climate's 2030 sustainability goals	60
WIIT4People	The challenges of a highly specialised sector	63
	The WIIT group's HR culture	64
	Organisation and well-being for professional growth	65
	The WIIT academy	67
	ESG Plan: WIIT4People's 2030 sustainability goals	70
Methodological note	How this document was created	72
	WIIT's 9 material topics	73
GRI content index	GRI content index	75

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Consolidated non-financial statement pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 254/2016, prepared in accordance with the GRI Standards

Sustainability Report 2022

Foreword

"WIIT, an ongoing commitment to optimally managing the impacts of our activities and creating shared value over time. "

ALESSANDRO COZZI, CEO WIIT S.p.A.

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Foreword

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Dear WIIT Stakeholders,

A difficult period for maintaining the balance of global socio-economic systems seems to have begun in 2022.

In addition, the risks associated with climate change continue to weigh on economic activities, especially in a year like the that just ended, which set several negative records, such as those relating to rising temperatures and droughts.

European institutions remain closely focused on the sustainable and digital transition

of our economies, needed to make Europe the first carbon-neutral continent by 2050. To achieve this goal, Europe is working on developing tools for measuring corporate sustainability that are as objective, uniform and science-based as possible, so as to provide investors with quality information that enables them to direct capital towards truly sustainable economic activities.

In this context, which poses new challenges on a daily basis, WIIT continues its process of corporate expansion, focusing on directing its resources towards creating a solid, integrated Group, capable of taking a leading role in providing cloud services at a European level, while also managing the impacts related to the most important environmental, economic and social issues for the business and our stakeholders.

After three editions of a voluntarily published Sustainability Report, our first Consolidated Non-Financial Statement (Legislative Decree No. 254/2016) marks the Group's entry into mandatory non-financial reporting - a further step in WIIT's journey towards transparency and sustainability integration. Moreover, entering the scope of the directive brings with it the need to measure up against the European Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance (Regulation EU No 2020/852), the first single international classification system for measuring the sustainability of economic activities.

The application of the Taxonomy, together with the results obtained from the evaluations provided by some of the most authoritative ESG rating agencies, confirms WIIT's ability to effectively measure its sustainability performance, aligning itself not only with the standards suggested by the market, but also, and above all, with the indications provided at regulatory level.

Since 2020, WIIT's sustainability priority has been to maintain the Group's commitment by progressively achieving the 18 targets of the 2030 ESG Plan, which, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) promoted by the United Nations, outline our current and future development path on sustainability issues that are priorities for us. In addition, 2022 marked the beginning of a journey dedicated to improving the energy efficiency and circularity of our data centres, by verifying the compliance of the Parent Company's assets with the principles of the European Code of Conduct for Energy Efficiency in Data Centres, a voluntary initiative promoted by the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC).

As you read through the following pages, you will learn in detail about the objectives and initiatives through which we aim to respond to the main environmental, economic and social challenges our Group will face, now and in the future.

We remain confident that a future full of opportunities for shared, sustainable development awaits us and hope you enjoy this report.

Alessandro Cozzi

CEO of the WIIT Group

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2022the

overview

The Premium

Cloud

118.8 mln

TURNOVER

9

GROUP COMPANIES

15

PROPRIETARY DATA CENTRES

18

ESG PLAN 2030 GOALS

92%

SHARE OF REVENUE ELIGIBLE FOR THE TAXONOMY, AND 40% ALIGNED

WIIT4

Data

Tier IV

MILAN'S DC SECURITY LEVEL

99.995%

CERTIFIED DATA CENTRE AVAILABILITY UPTIME

0

SECURITY INCURSIONS AND BREACHES

53 petabyte

DATA BACKED UP IN WIIT'S DATA CENTRES

120

PEOPLE INVOLVED IN THE WIIT SECURITY AWARENESS PROGRAMME

WIIT4

Innovation

Metaverse, Blockchain and AI

EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TRENDS CONSIDERED IN THE INNOVATION STRATEGY

Kubernetes on Steroids

WINNING PROJECT AT THE

DIGITAL360 AWARDS

3

OBSERVATORIES IN COLLABORATION WITH POLIMI

2

IDEAS RECOGNISED WITH THE INNOVATION AWARD

11

PROJECTS IN THE AUTOMATION AND BUSINESS FOCUS TECHNOLOGIES DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE

WIIT4

Climate

1,548 MWh

ANNUAL MWH SAVED BY CUSTOMERS THANKS TO THE WIIT CLOUD

100%

OF ELECTRICITY PURCHASED IN ITALY IS GENERATED FROM RENEWABLE SOURCES

61.9 MWh

ANNUAL MWH PER PETABYTE: ENERGY INTENSITY OF WIIT'S DATA CENTRES

0.00256

TONNES OF CO2 PER PETABYTE PER YEAR: EMISSIONS INTENSITY OFTHE PARENT COMPANY'S DATA CENTRES

105.70

TONNES OF CO2 ABSORBED WITH TREEDOM

WIIT4

People

573

PEOPLE, 95% PERMANENT

67

NEW HIRES UNDER 30

29.12

AVERAGE HOURS OF TRAINING PER EMPLOYEE

17

PEOPLE HIRED THROUGH THE REFERRAL PROGRAMME

17

EXECUTIVES AND MANAGERS WHO HAVE COMPLETED A MINI-MASTER'S DEGREE

*The scope includes the Companies acquired more than 24 months ago

2030 ESG Plan

2030 ESG Plan

WIIT's 2030 sustainability goals

WIIT's ESG Plan represents the Group's sustainability commitment from now until 2030. It is an ambitious plan drawn up in 2020 and consisting of 18 long-term,measurable goals with intermediate targets for 2025, in line with the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the United Nations as part of its 2030 Agenda.

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2030 ESG Plan

WIIT4

Data

Security		2022		2025		2030	Scope:
			Only
Assessment	30%		70%		100%	Italy
100% of top 50 customers with cybersecurity assessments according
to the WIIT Security Universe (WSU) model
Fault-	2022		2025		2030	Scope:
tolerant IT						1,500 kW Group
	588 kW	1,000 kW
infrastructures
1,500 kW of certified fault-tolerant(TIER-IV) IT infrastructure at the Group level
TIER-IV		2022		2025		2030	Scope:
coverage
in WIIT	50%		n.a.	75%	Group
Countries

75% of Countries with Cloud Facilities covered by at least one TIER IV Data Centre within 2 years of corporate acquisitions

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WIIT4

Innovation

Process		2022		2025		2030 Scope:
automation	3	6	15	Group

Launch of new automated processes dedicated to accelerating our customers' time-to-market

Co-		2022		2025		2030 Scope:
innovation	3	15	40	Group

More than 100 among companies, suppliers, start-ups, students, institutions and academics involved in co-innovation initiatives (e.g. hackathons or coding contests) to stimulate the search for innovative solutions in the field of cloud services

Digitalisation	2022	2025	2030	Scope:
of non-profits		113,400 €		250,000 €		500,000 € Group
€ 500,000 for digital services for non-profit organisations
Scientific		2022		2025		2030	Scope:
research	6	20	50	Group

Funding of at least 10 scientific research initiatives in the digital/cloud area

As part of its non-financial reporting, WIIT undertakes to conduct annual monitoring of the progress of the goals set and related initiatives. Monitoring of the Plan may highlight the

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WIIT4	WIIT4
Climate	People

need to recalibrate the targets defined in response to a change in the context, whether external or internal, such as the impact of new acquisitions on the Group's targets.

The scope of the 2030 ESG Plan is to be considered flexible, and any updates to it the result of WIIT's drive for continuous improvement

Women in		2022		2025		2030
the Board of
45%	30%		45%
Directors
		✔
45% of the Board of Directors of WIIT S.p.A. is composed of women
Women		2022		2025		2030
in Senior
20%	20%		30%
Management
	✔
30% of the senior management of WIIT S.p.A. is made up of women
ESG goals	2022	2025		2030
in Senior

Energy		2022		2025		2030
intensity	24.85%	-20%	-50%
		✔

50% reduction in energy consumption for data storage in the data centres of WIIT S.p.A.

Green energy	2022	2025	2030
towards 0
79%	70%	100%
emissions
		✔

100% of purchased electricity produced from renewable sources to reduce the Group's indirect emissions to zero (scope 2) -

Scope:

Parent

Company

Scope:

Group*

Upskilling and	2022	2025	2030
Reskilling		17		30		100

100 people who participated in a multi-yearmini-master's degree course organised by WIIT Academy aimed at upskilling and reskilling in technical and managerial fields

Knowledge		2022		2025		2030
Intensity	22%	15%	20%
		✔

20% of technical personnel obtain at least one technical-specialist certification each year (ITIL, PMP, SAP, Microsoft, etc.)

and value creation over time.

Management		30%		50%		100%
MBOs		✔

100% of senior management with at least 1 ESG goal in their MBOs

Green	2022	2025	2030	Scope:
corporate							Group
36.7%	30%	70%
fleet
		✔
70% of the company car fleet consists of hybrid/electric cars
Second life		2022		2025		2030	Scope:
of IT assets	33.56%	25%	80%	Italian
companies
		✔

80% of replacement technology materials for high schools and academic and social institutions

ESG		2022		2025		2030
co-creation	2	4	10

Implementation of at least 1 ESG project per year proposed by employees and funded by the Group

Job Path		2022		2025		2030
65%	75%	100%

100% of the employees of the Group's Companies on a job path for internal growth after 24 months from acquisition