Green Tech South West

We're delighted to be welcoming the hugely impressive Sylvia Downing (CTO, Azimuth AI) to GTSW.

Sylvia's talk is part of the Bristol Digital Futures Institute Summer School on Ecocentric AI. Read more about the program and sign up for other events here.

While working on climate change seems a good use of time, it's often difficult to know if one's efforts are improving the world. How can we look at the big picture and find a way to effect meaningful change with the skills we have, within the governmental and economic systems we humans created?

Fortunately there are public data pointing to major contributors. IPCC highlights that the power and transportation sectors contribute about half of the world’s greenhouse gasses. And governments and industries worldwide have programs focused on efficiency and infrastructure.

But how can we contribute if we’re not experts in these areas?

This talk describes one engineer's efforts to change the weather. Using experience, partnerships, stubbornness, and above all, the ability to listen and learn, she will describe how she found problems worth solving in support of reducing greenhouse gasses worldwide.

The hope is that the audience is inspired to do the same.

About Sylvia

Sylvia Downing is Chief Technology Officer of Azimuth AI, a startup company delivering custom silicon chips for advanced electrical metering, battery management and battery energy storage systems. Prior to her current role, she worked for over 30 years at Intel Corporation, specializing in bringing new technologies to market: first flash devices, first encryption, GPU and CPU architecture, and Intel's first neural network accelerator. Her final role at Intel was as Chief Technologist for the Carbon Reduction and Green Software group, working to provide tools to quantify the carbon cost of computation.
Sylvia loves the outdoors, has walked Hadrian's Wall and has bicycled throughout the world with friends and family.

*** Schedule
🔓 18.00 - Scott Logic doors open for in-person attendees
👋 18.30 - Event welcome from organisers
📢 18.40 - 60 second intros - a chance for the audience to introduce themselves, ask for help or share something interesting
💚 18.50 - Sylvia's talk
❓ 19.30 - Q&A
🗓️ 19.50 - Round-up and close
20.00 - In person attendees can continue networking at LeftHanded Giant

We're hoping to record the event and publish with slides shortly after.
This event is made possible by kind sponsorship from:

• ADLIB Recruitment
• Bristol Digital Futures Institute