Introduction
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is organizing a virtual workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and
Environmental Efficiency on 09 December 2020 from 14h00 to 16h00 (CET).
The workshop will explore environmental efficiency in the age of AI, increasing automation, and smart manufacturing. Join the workshop for keynote presentations and interactive sessions to discuss the environmental efficiency of emerging technologies and their potential to contribute to climate action as part of global efforts to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The workshop will also highlight practical tools to evaluate environmental aspects of emerging technologies and discuss the role to be played by international standardization in supporting the expansion of this toolkit.
The workshop discussions will feed into the second meeting of the
Focus Group on environmental efficiency for AI and other emerging technologies (FG-AI4EE),
10 December 2020. Participation in both the workshop and the Focus Group meting is open to all interested parties and free of charge.
Registration is mandatory to access the workshop via our
remote tool. A
free ITU account is required to access the platform.
Programme
14:00 – 14:10
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Opening Remarks
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Chaesub Lee, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
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Paolo Gemma, Co-Chairman, Focus Group on Environmental Efficiency for Artificial Intelligence and other Emerging Technologies (FG-AI4EE), ITU / Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., China
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| 14:10 – 15:00 |
Session 1: Keynotes and Q&A on AI and Emerging Technologies for Environmental Efficiency
This session will explore the role to be played by AI and other emerging technologies in enabling environmental efficiency in various sectors as well as means to address their own environmental impacts.
Moderator:
Bilel Jamoussi, Chief of Study Groups Department, TSB, ITU
- Keynote: Benjamin Combes, Innovation and Sustainability, Assistant Director, PwC United Kingdom
- Keynote:
Neil Sahota, Co Chairman, FG-AI4EE / Technossus, IBM & University of California [
Presentation ]
- Keynote:
Sasha Luccioni, Postdoctoral Researcher, AI for Humanity, Université de Montréal, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
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Presentation ]
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Question & Answers
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15:00 – 15:55 |
Session 2: Assessment and Measurement of the Environmental Efficiency of AI and Emerging Technologies
This session will highlight practical tools to evaluate environmental aspects of emerging technologies. It will provide an overview of the existing evaluation metrics and methodologies for energy efficiency and also address the role of global partnerships in fostering digital innovations and aligning them with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Moderator:
Stefano Nativi, Big Data Lead Scientist, Joint Research Centre, European Commission,
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Annik Magerholm Fet, Vice Rector and Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology [ Presentation ]
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Paolo Bertoldi &
Tiago Serrenho, Joint Research Centre, European Commission:
Energy Efficiency in Data Centres and Broadband Communication [ Presentation ]
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Ying Shi, China Telecom:
Application of AI technology in 5G base station to Improve Energy efficiency [
Presentation ]
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Salvatore Giacomuzzi, Professor, University of Sopron /University of Poltava/ University of Lviv/ and European Institute for Education Transformation Processes:
Smarter Artificial Intelligence Technology and its Implications on Evaluating Human Behaviour [ Presentation ]
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Luca Valcarenghi, Associate Professor, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy:
An Approach for Estimating Energy Consumption of AI Hardware [
Presentation
Question & Answers |
15:55 – 16:00
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Closing remarks
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