Event: AI as a sustainability enabler
Welcome to the first AI Sustainability Talk Grab your favourite cup of coffee, or your favourite tea and enjoy listening in to a keynote and a fireside chat with AI and sustainability experts from the Nordics and Silicon Valley moderated by Silicon Vikings discussing how AI can be a driving force in transforming towards a more sustainable society.
We will deep dive into how AI can be used as an enabler and driving force for creating more sustainable industries and organisations, what are the opportunities today, and more importantly, how ready are we to make the changes needed?
Keynote
PhD. Victor Galaz, Deeputy Director, Associate Professor, Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University
Victor Galaz’s research focuses on financial systems, and their connection to large-scale environmental change with global non-linear climate repercussions. He is deputy director and associate professor at the Stockholm Resilience Centre
Fireside chat
PhD. Sohini Roychowdhury, Founding team, Director AI/ML Curriculum at FourthBrain
Sohini believe in out-of-the-box solutions being applied to real world problems. As an Industrial-Academic AI expert, she has had the privilege of working on a wide range of problems ranging from automated pathology detection from medical images, epidemiological modeling, to autonomous driving, advanced driver assistance systems and data science applied to e-Commerce.
Peiman Momeni, Head of Sales, Peltarion
Currently, Peiman works as the head of Sales at Peltarion. Peltarion is a company that strives at making AI more accessible for every individual and orgnaisation as we are certain about the positive impact that AI can bring. Prior to joining Peltarion, Peiman spent 7 years at ABB in various positions.
Anette Nordvall, Tech Investor and Environmentalist
Active Early Stage Tech Investor and Environmentalist, focusing on the New Nordic markets of ICT, Deep-tech Science based innovation; while adding for profit Impact, Diversity, Environment and Race to Zero. Climate Reality Leader as well as Appreciated Board member, Public speaker and accomplished Astrologer and Business leader.
About the AI Sustainability event series
This AI sustainability talk is the first out of a series of events focusing on creating awareness and knowledge sharing around how AI can be a sustainability enabler. The aim is to bridge between Nordic industry players and forefront technology providers in Silicon Valley to create awareness around how AI and Data can be a sustainability driver when collaborating across borders.
The event series is hosted by Silicon Vikings and Nordic Innovation House from Silicon Valley and AI Sweden, Automation Region and the strategic innovation program PiiA from Sweden.
Practical information
- Date: Wednesday, 13 october 2021
- Time: 17:00 – 18:30 CET · Add to your calendar
- Place: Zoom, we will provide you with the link before the seminar
- Questions: Please contact Catarina Berglund (Automation Region), Malin Rosqvist (PiiA) or Ebba Josefson Lindqvist (Silicon Vikings and AI Sweden)
