2024 Green AI Summit Guest Speakers
Opening Ceremony: Keynote Speech
President of Green AI Institute
Senior Fellow M-RCBG
Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy
Professor at Boston University
Professor at Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University; Deputy Director of the Power Market Research Institute
Senior Advisor, Global Engagement, National Center for Vegetation Cover Development & Combating Desertification, Saudi Arabia.
Keynote Address
Associate Vice Provost at Northeastern University
William Eckhardt Professor of Computer Science at University of Chicago
Ayse Coskun
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University
Panel 1: AI and Data Center Environment Impact Forum
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University
Professor of Chemical Engineering of Polytechnique Montreal
Associate Professor at University of California, Riverside
Ram Rajagopal
Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University
Manav Goel
Tech Lead Machine Learning at Meta, Climate Products
Alessandro Solbiati
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Meta, Climate Products, and Green AI
Panel 2: AI-Driven Solutions for Sustainable Development
Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University
Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Engineering, Boston University, Core Faculty of Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS)
Partner, Restored Living | Rethinking Affordable Housing in New England, USA
Associate Professor of Media Studies at Babson College
Eric Fang
Principal and Practice Area Leader at Perkins Eastman
Panel 3 Safety, Ethics and Regulation of AI
Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Babson College
President of the Post-Pandemic Leadership Research Institute
Founder of Digital Emissions
Phuong Ho
Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CEEPR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Panel 4: Entrepreneurship in AI and Sustainable Development
Sr. Director of Client Solutions at NIX United
Founder & CEO of Realix.ai, President of the Harvard University Asia-Pacific International Education Association
MBA+MS '25, Trailblazer in Digital Technology & Data Strategies,
BOT Auto, Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Finance
Presentation: AI and Sustainability Key Findings
Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside, specializing in Trustworthy Learning and Sustainable Machine Learning Systems.
Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University
Sustainable Development Leadership Challenge
Closing Ceremony: Keynote Speech
Former Secretary to the Governor of Kentucky
Manav Goel
Tech Lead ML and Products - Climate at Meta
Karen Clopton
Immediate Past Chair, San Francisco Human Rights Commission
Operational, Legal and Compliance Expert