Name: AI Summit and IoT World Austin 2022
Start: 2022-11-02T00:00:00Z
End: 2022-11-03T00:00:00Z
Location: Austin Convention Center

Why ESG?

Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is about striving to find balance between economic results, social interests, and the environment. This is extremely important to us as team, our attendees, as well as to our industry.

The AI Summit & IoT World want to use our platform to help our guests achieve their own ESG goals - connecting people with the networks and knowledge they need to make change.

Bringing everyone together in Austin provides opportunities to not only work with our venue and suppliers to improve the impact of our event, but to weave ESG into the fabric of our content and features.

Diverse Tech Talent:

The tech industry is full of fantastic people that we strive to showcase; make sure to check out our speaker line-up.

Speakers

Content & Features:

Explore supply chain management and sustainability in the long term and dive into the ESG factors that can affect decision-making with these panels and debates.

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How IoT Fuels EV’s and Smart Mobility

25 mins
- Headliners
Helping to overlay digital information on top of a physical environment, which allows consumers to interact with data more efficiently Overcoming costs to design and deploy – using a proof-of-concept ...

Kate Kaufman, Vice President, Services and Solutions Operations - Michelin

Panel: Unlocking Value with IoT & AI - Navigating your Path to Smarter Business

30 mins
- Headliners
Overcoming silos and convergence of the different skills, overcoming differences in mindset and workflow of roles Using AI models and predictive analytics to reduce costs

Katie DeGraaf, Senior Vice President, Product & Telematics, OnStar Insurance, GM Financial - General Motors

Roger Rohatgi, Vice President, Global Head of Design - BP

John Canali, Senior Analyst, Service Provider IoT Strategies - Omdia

Panel: The City of Tomorrow - Creating Smarter Cities with Innovative Tech

40 mins
- Smart Cities & Environments
Working with different entities within the public and private sector, collaborating with other cities in cohesion Tracking funding and policies for cities for IoT initiatives and projects Building Sma ...

Ann Foss, Principal Planner for the Office of Strategic Initiatives - City of Arlington

Bill Pugh, Co-Founder & Managing Partner - Smart Connections

Jessica Jones, Research Associate, Office of Sustainability - City of Austin

Panel: Driving the Future of Transportation with Emerging Technologies

40 mins
- Smart Cities & Environments
Deploying smart vehicle infrastructure to better manage traffic function Mass transit networks sustainable in operations, design, and maintenance IoT as the gateway to improve public transit and trans ...

Amy Atchley, Sr. Lead EV Equity Program - Austin Energy

Kristie Chin, Director of Civic Innovation - University of Texas at Austin Center for Transportation Research

Simon West, Chief Experience Officer - Beep

Forging a Smarter and Greener City with IoT

25 mins
- Headliners
How to make our life smarter with IoT using green energy Connecting the dots in the cloud

Jeff Mo, IoT Tech Guru - Chunghwa Telecom

How Unilever is scaling AI to boost R&D innovation

25 mins
- Headliners
Unilever is combining AI, Data, and High-Performance Computing to boost our innovation; improve the resilience of our Supply Chain and make our product logic smarter. This presentation describes the c ...

Alberto Prado, Head of R&D Digital & Partnerships - Unilever

Considering the Societal Impact of Quantum Technologies

20 mins
- Quantum Computing Summit - Keynotes
Why the highly connected modern society is now ready for quantum Are there potentially negative side effects of quantum applications and how can we mitigate these? How can we boost the positive societ ...

Panel: Building Explainable Computer Vision (CV) Models for Consumer Trust

40 mins
- Computer Vision
Dive into a snapshot of explainable and interoperable models to demystify the “black box” Learn how to identify not only the “what” and “where” but the “why” models make their predictions How can we c ...

Mark Beccue, Principal Analyst - OMDIA

Brad Hastedt, Director of AI - DataForce
Panel: Navigating Commercial Needs with Responsible AI in Mind

40 mins
- Scaling AI
What are the considerations and best practices and what use cases do we have across industries? Dispelling AI myths and building trust in your teams and customers Can we ethically monetise enterprise ...

Natalia Modjeska, Research Director, AI and Intelligent Automation - Omdia

Brian Yang, Senior Director of Product Strategy - Verint

Paul Hecht, Senior Product Marketing Manager - Telus

The Human Side of Digital Transformation

25 mins
- Headliners
The increased complexity and interconnectedness of the digital world brings massive amounts of uncertainty to the business community. But the way we’ve traditionally managed companies is based on the ...

Brant Cooper, New York Times bestselling author - The Lean Entrepreneur

Massive IoT in a 5G Era: Opportunities through LoRaWAN

25 mins
- Next Generation Connectivity: 5G & Wireless
Deep dive into the diversity of networks and business models of LoRaWAN What is the role of LoRaWAN in commercial and industrial deployments? The sustainability elements of LoRaWAN that can help you m ...

Wrap-up panel discussion – Finding the next generation of quantum innovators: How great of a threat is the proposed skills gap?

30 mins
- Quantum Computing Summit - Innovation
While quantum computing has the potential to fundamentally transform technology as we know it, one concern that perhaps stands in the way of scalability is a relatively small quantum talent pool. But ...

Austin Convention Center is powered by 100 percent renewable energy from Austin Energy’s Green Choice Program.

50% of all waste generated is diverted from landfills through our extensive recycling, reuse, and composting program.

Signage will be upgraded to digital signage wherever possible and printed recyclable materials when needed.

We encourage local visitors to travel sustainably with both MetroRail and MetroBus stations located right next to the venue, and we offer Carbon Offsetting during registration.

We’ll clean with Green Seal-certified products.

We have eliminated printed surveys and plastic badge holders.

How does IoT & AI feed into ESG?

The intersections of technology and sustainability are key focus areas for businesses around the world, billed as Forbes’ biggest business trends for 2022-2025, and according to WEF around 84% of AI & IoT deployments are addressing or have the potential to address UN sustainability Goals.

ESG is no longer a nice to have, but a need. Investors, employees, and customers are requiring companies to improve their practices and be transparent and accountable about their business decisions including DEI, CSR & green practices. The IoT & AI industries sit at an integral point as these technologies possess the power to help deliver ESG if the people behind the tech are integrating ESG into their businesses. We all have the power to make the world a better place!

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