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Industry and Society Webinar: Sustainable AI Solutions

FCAI INDUSTRY & SOCIETY WEBINAR

Sustainable AI Solutions

Tuesday, 16 April 2024 at 9:30-11:00 in Zoom

Current AI and machine learning systems are complex and require a lot of data and energy to operate. Energy efficiency and optimization are key factors in reaching higher level of sustainability in AI solutions, but complexity of the systems complicates the tasks. 

In this webinar speakers from industry and academia share their insights on smart and sustainable AI methods and solutions.

HOST AND SPEAKERS

Laura Ruotsalainen, Event host, Professor, University of Helsinki

Simo Särkkä, Professor, Aalto University

Mats Sjöberg, Machine learning specialist, CSC

Frédéric Parienté, Senior manager, Solutions architecture and engineering group, NVIDIA

Fabrice Saffré, Research Professor, VTT

Program

9:30 Professor Laura Ruotsalainen, University of Helsinki: Opening words

9:35 Simo Särkkä, Professor, Aalto University: Optimizing energy efficiency with AI and energy-efficient AI systems [VIDEO][SLIDES]

Discussion

09:55 Mats Sjöberg, Machine Learning Specialist, CSC – IT Center for Science: GreenNLP: building resources for sustainable natural language processing [VIDEO][SLIDES]

Discussion

10:15 Frédéric Parienté, Senior manager, Solutions architecture and engineering group, NVIDIA: Accelerated Computing is Sustainable Computing [VIDEO]

Discussion

10:35 Fabrice Saffre, Research Professor, VTT: Swarm Intelligence as ‘Frugal’ AI [VIDEO][SLIDES]

Discussion

10:55 Professor Laura Ruotsalainen, University of Helsinki: Wrap-up

11:00 End of the event