Guest Speakers

Opening Ceremony: Keynote Speech

Jerry Huang

President of Green AI Institute

Paulo Carvão

Senior Fellow M-RCBG

Suchi Gopal

Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University

Jason Mohaghegh

Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy

Ayse Coskun

Professor at Boston University

Junwei Cao

Professor at Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University

   Zhaohao Ding

Professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, North China Electric Power University; Deputy Director of the Power Market Research Institute

Amal Aldaej

Senior Advisor, Global Engagement, National Center for Vegetation Cover Development & Combating Desertification, Saudi Arabia.

Keynote Address

Devesh Tiwari

Associate Vice Provost at Northeastern University

Andrew A. Chien

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 

Ayse Coskun

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering & Systems Engineering, Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering, Boston University

 Tamar Eilam


IBM Fellow, Chief Scientist for Sustainable Computing


Gregory S. Patience

Professor of Chemical Engineering  of Polytechnique Montreal

Shaolei Ren

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 

Suchi Gopal

Professor of Earth and Environment, Boston University

 Sean Lubner

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science Engineering, Boston University, Core Faculty of Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS)

Aidan Regan

Partner, Restored Living | Rethinking Affordable Housing in New England, USA

Xinghua Li

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

Jason Mohaghegh

Professor of Comparative Literature and Philosophy at Babson College

Yanli He

President of the Post-Pandemic Leadership Research Institute

Ahmad Antar

Founder of Digital Emissions

Phuong Ho

Postdoctoral Associate at MIT CEEPR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Panel 4: Entrepreneurship in AI and Sustainable Development 

Alex Kozyr

Sr. Director of Client Solutions at NIX United

Lei Wu 

Founder & CEO of Realix.ai, President of the Harvard University Asia-Pacific International Education Association

Jyotirmaya Patro

MBA+MS '25, Trailblazer in Digital Technology & Data Strategies,

Paul Lam

BOT Auto, Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Finance

Jack Huang


Advisor of the Centre for World Citizens

Presentation: AI and Sustainability Key Findings 

Pengfei Li

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside, specializing in Trustworthy Learning and Sustainable Machine Learning Systems.

Yankai (Luke) Jiang 

Ph.D. in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

Baolin Li 


Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, Northeastern University

Sustainable Development Leadership Challenge

Closing Ceremony: Keynote Speech

Bruce Zou

Former Secretary to the Governor of Kentucky

Manav Goel

Tech Lead ML and Products - Climate at Meta


Mark Jackson

Senior Quantum Evangelist at Quantinuum


Karen Clopton

Immediate Past Chair, San Francisco Human Rights Commission

Operational, Legal and Compliance Expert