AI for Climate Action: From Data to Impact

Join Climate Change AI and Google DeepMind for our New York Climate Week event, “AI for Climate Action: From Data to Impact”

Tools from artificial intelligence (AI) can play an impactful role in supporting climate action, across areas as wide-ranging as energy, agriculture, and disaster response. For instance, AI is already being used to improve renewable energy forecasting in power grids, optimize heating and cooling systems in buildings, create real-time flood reports from satellite imagery, and accelerate the design of next-generation clean technologies. However, scaling the use of AI for climate action will require addressing critical gaps in data, expertise, capacity, and coordination, with considerations of equity and ethics at the core.

At the event, we will discuss Climate Change AI and Google DeepMind’s work on assessing critical data gaps in the AI-for-climate space. We will also hear from innovators and practitioners who are impactfully leveraging AI to address climate challenges across sectors, and engage in discussion on what is needed to enable this kind of work responsibly at scale. The format of the event will consist of lightning talks, a panel discussion, and networking among participants in order to share existing work, identify gaps, and build collaborations. To this end, we aim to bring together researchers, practitioners, funders, and decision-makers who are already working in the AI-for-climate space, as well as newcomers to the space who are looking to learn more about how to get involved.

This event is co-hosted by Climate Change AI (a global nonprofit empowering innovators, practitioners, and decision-makers to accelerate responsible climate action through the use of AI) and Google DeepMind (a world-leading AI research lab, committed to building AI responsibly, delivering scientific breakthroughs to monitor, mitigate and adapt to climate change).

Agenda:
– 2:30-2:45pm: Pre-event networking
– 2:45-4:15pm: Main program
– Welcome and overview
– Talk: AI for Climate Action: Patterns, predictions and possibilities – Google DeepMind
– Project presentations from CCAI Innovation Grantees
– Talk: Addressing gaps in data, capacity, and coordination – Climate Change AI
– Panel discussion: How can we foster collaboration and enable on-the-ground impact?
– 4:15-5pm: Networking with light refreshments