Second Green AI Summit at Harvard and Boston University Successfully Convened
Speakers
Edward Markey United States Senator from Massachusetts
Deputy Secretary of General, the International Telecommunication Union
Vice Provost and Professor for Climate and Sustainability, Harvard University
Sarah Craig Senior Director of IT Operations in Harvard University Information Technology
David Havelick Associate Director of Harvard Office for Sustainability
Founder and President, Green AI Institute
Carole-Jean Wu Director of AI Research at Meta
Director of Harvard Data Science Initiative; Professor of Biostatistics at Harvard
KJ (Kaushik)Josh
Chief Business Officer and Head of Data Center Business, Hitachi; Formal Global Managing Director, Equinix
Electrical Engineering Professor at Harvard School of Engineering And Applied Sciences
Computing & Climate Impact Fellow, MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium
Jiaqi Liang
Director of Data Center Operations Planning and Energy, Tencent
Keynote Speech
Executive Director of AI and Quantum at EPRI
General Manager, Global Data Center, Alibaba Cloud.
Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard School of Engineering And Applied Sciences
Paulo Carvao Senior Fellow at Harvard University; Former General Manager, IBM
Panel 2
Senior Technical Leader at Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
Senior Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations; Former Chief Strategy and Innovation Officer at Ørsted
Assistant Professor at Harvard School of Public Health
Shaolei Ren Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Riverside
Manager of Power System Automation Eversource Energy
Panel 3
Assistant Professor at Harvard
Nate Gemelke Chief Technology Strategist, QuEra Computing Inc.
Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University & Architect at Lightmatter Inc.
Co-founder, Quantum Energy Initiative
Lightening Talks
KJ (Kaushik)Josh
Chief Business Officer and Head of Data Center Business, Hitachi; Former Global Managing Director, Equinix
Monica Wang Deputy Director of the Institute of Industrial Innovation, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Jennifer Turliuk Practice Leader, Climate and Energy AI at Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship
Can Hankendi Post-doctoral Researcher, Boston University
Chief Climate Officer at Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Karen Clopton Former Chief Administrative Law Judge for the California Public Utilities Commission
Advisor in IoT and Sustainability, Cognizant ; Former Senior Vice President of Enterprise Systems, International Data Corporation
Keynote Speech 2
Melissa Lavinson Executive Director of Office of Energy Transformation, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy
Elise Morgan
ad Interim Dean, College of Engineering, Boston University
Robert A. Brown President Emeritus and Professor, Engineering and Computing & Data Sciences, Boston University
Yonggang Wen Professor and President’s Chair, College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University
Senior Fellow at Harvard University; Former General Manager, IBM
Director, Data Science, Capital One
Kate Saenko
AI Researcher,Meta; Professor, Department of Computer Science at Boston University
Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham
Stephan Klinger Senior Expert Counsel, Liebler, LGP Law Vienna
Panel 6
Hendrik Hamman Professor Stony Brook University;Former Chief Science Officer, IBM
Ayse Coskun Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Junwei Cao Professor of Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Elli Ntakou Manager of System Resilience and Reliability, Eversource Energy
J.B. Duke Fellow, Duke University;Board Director,NC Clean Energy Fund
Panel 7
Suchi Gopal Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Managing Director, CICC
UNA Youth Group Chairman, United Nations & Founding Director, Climate Cardinals
Hessann Farooqi Executive Director at the Boston Climate Action Network
Nathan Phillips Professor, Earth and Environment, Boston University
Closing Ceremony
Ayse Coskun Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University
Karen Clopton Former Chief Administrative Law Judge for the California Public Utilities Commission
Founder and President, Green AI Institute