ADViCE Launch Event [Online] - Digital Catapult

Overview

The UK has set high expectations to become the home for net zero interventions and innovation, as well as the place for responsible artificial intelligence (AI) innovation and adoption. Together, these goals can work in tandem, enabling new AI products and services that can support high carbon emitting sectors to decarbonise.

Artificial Intelligence Innovation for Decarbonisation’s Virtual Centre of Excellence (ADViCE) is an essential intervention to accelerate the development of innovative AI technologies for decarbonisation applications, through the facilitation of collaboration and knowledge sharing between key stakeholders.

This event marks the launch of ADViCE with the publication of two reports that will map the ecosystem of stakeholders and define the challenges faced within high carbon emitting sectors.

Registration for this event is for online participation only.

Why attend?

Online attendee’s will:

Be the first to hear report findings and insights before wider publication
Learn more about the opportunities to get involved as part of the ADViCE programme
Gain a deeper understanding of how collaboration across the AI for decarbonisation ecosystem can support achieving ambitious net zero targets

Who should attend?

The virtual centre of excellence will foster a vital ecosystem to promote the adoption and diffusion of AI decarbonisation applications. Sectors of particular focus are:

Agriculture
Built Environment
Energy
Manufacturing

Active stakeholder participation across these sectors is essential and the programme is specifically designed to encourage collaboration and engagement from:

UK industry/companies (potential AI adopters)
AI developers and innovators
Investment community
Local government authorities
Regulatory authorities
Academia and research centres

Agenda

09:30 – Welcome/Opening Remarks

Dr Jeremy Silver, CEO, Digital Catapult

9:40 – Government Keynote

10:00 – ADViCE Overview

David Pugh, Director of Sustainable Industry, Digital Catapult

10:20 – Report high level overviews from us and ESC

Victoria Williams, Senior Policy & Research Manager, Digital Catapult
Samuel Young, Practice Manager, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Energy Systems Catapult

10:40 – Panel focussed on collaboration to drive AI for decarbonisation

Chair: Adam Sobey, Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute
Buffy Price, Co-founder and Interim CEO, Carbon Re
Rebecca Ward, Research Fellow in Data-centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute
Professor Chris Baker, Science Director, Intelligent Data Ecosystems, Rothamsted Research, UK.
Peter Dudfield, Head of Technology, Open Climate Fix

11:10 – Q&A

11:30 – End

David Pugh

Director of Sustainable Industry

Dr David Pugh is Digital Catapult’s Head of Sustainability. In his role David sits at the interface between advanced digital technologies and industrial adopters to provide real business impact.

Victoria Williams

Senior Policy, Research & Engagement Manager

Adam Sobey

Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute

Adam Sobey is Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering at The Alan Turing Institute, the national AI Institute and Professor of Data-Centric Engineering at the University of Southampton. He also holds Non-Executive Director positions at Theyr Ltd, a Metocean and Voyage Optimisation Software provider, and AQ Live, a data assurance company. His current research topics are Evolutionary Computation, Reinforcement Learning in Continuous Environments and Black Box Machine Learning models that represent the ground truth. His fundamental advances have been applied in a range of industrial applications with a focus on reducing emissions.

Buffy Price

Co-founder and Interim CEO, Carbon Re

Buffy is co-founder and Interim CEO of Carbon Re, an AI and climate tech company developing the world’s most advanced AI-powered platform for decarbonising energy-intensive industries, such as cement, steel and glass.

Rebecca Ward

Research Fellow in Data-centric Engineering, The Alan Turing Institute

Rebecca is a researcher in data-centric engineering with over 20 years of experience in industry and academia. Her research is broadly linked to energy efficient operation of buildings, with a specific emphasis on the impact of plants on internal environmental conditions. She has developed a bespoke Greenhouse Energy Simulation tool for the ornamental glasshouses at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, which has since been developed for the Growing Underground farm in Clapham, London. This tool forms part of the CROP digital twin developed by the Alan Turing Institute.

Professor Chris Baker

Science Director, Intelligent Data Ecosystems, Rothamsted Research, UK

Chris graduated in agriculture and environmental sciences from Newcastle University and completed a PhD in soil microbiology at Cardiff University. For the last twenty years he has been prototyping semantic interoperability and AI solutions in biomedicine, biodiversity, global health and agriculture. Chris has been a panellist at the United Nations, an invited speaker at G20-MACS, has published over 100 papers and received numerous awards for his research work. He is known for his ground-breaking book Semantic Web Revolutionizing Knowledge Discovery in the Life Sciences.