The Sustainability Super-power: AI

Previous Session Pushing the boundaries of Sustainability leadership with AI can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbg1iYiyzpY

What is this session about?
This session builds upon the ‘Pushing the boundaries of leadership with Sustainability AI’ session and takes a deeper look at developing AI solutions, assessing, and evaluating the environmental cost of doing so from the perspective of Green Software Engineering Principles. Where costs of development are high not only in terms of time to build expertise but also in compute costs, open-source climate AI models are a great starting point, which can be compared in terms of performance from a variety of angles.

Who is it aimed at?
This session is aimed at anyone working in AI-development and/or looking to leverage open-source sustainability models to drive change and improve business processes or society in general.

Why should you attend?
•Learn how to build green software engineering considerations into AI project development processes
•Gain insight into the variety of open source climate AI models and start comparing performance from a variety of interest points.

Speaker Bio
Darshna is the Director of Innovation at Sustainability Studio (part of the Elastacloud Group) and Microsoft AI MVP. Building on her broad-ranging consultancy experience, in which Darshna has developed and deployed a wide range of machine learning models on Azure across a myriad of industries, she has refined focus over the last few years to developing solutions in Sustainability. Darshna has a PhD in Neuroscience, specialising in neuronal network dynamics in drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy from which her passion for Data and AI stemmed. During the last few years she has established herself as a speaker and mentor, having given talks at Tech(K)now Day, Microsoft’s Future Decoded conference, The TFL Data Science Group, UK Azure meetup, Digital Camp UK, SQL Bits as well as co-organising and leading the monthly Data Science London meetup group to bring together a community of over 10,000 members together to discuss and learn about the latest and most compelling data science algorithms and use-cases. She has a huge passion for sustainability and loves speaking with diverse audiences, learning and sharing knowledge through talks, hacks and blog posts.
Connect with Darshna on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/darshna-shah-69493284/