Registration and Breakfast

8:15 a.m. 

Welcome

8:45 a.m.

Iain McCulloch, Director, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Gerhard R. Andlinger Professor in Energy and the Environment; Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University

Jennifer Rexford, Provost, Office of the Provost; Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor in Engineering; Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University

Keynote: AI’s Opportunities and Challenges for the Energy Transition

9:00 a.m.

Melanie Nakagawa, Chief Sustainability Officer, Microsoft

Energy and Future Computing

10:00 a.m.

Continued advancements in AI are changing the field of computing and increasing the energy demands used. Panelists will discuss the future of energy efficient and sustainable computing in a world where AI is prevalent.

David Wentzlaff, Moderator, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Tom Gray, Senior Director Circuits Research, Nvidia

Mark Johnson, Director, Center for Advanced Manufacturing; Thomas F. Hash Endowed Chair in Sustainable Development; Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Clemson University

Stephen Kosonocky, Senior Fellow, AMD

Carole-Jean Wu, Director of AI Research, Meta

Break (15 mins)

11:10 a.m.

Power for AI

11:25 a.m.

The rise of AI and the associated expansion of data center capacity has already created surging demand for new power supply. Experts on this panel will discuss how society can meet the growing energy demands of AI while staying on track with and accelerating broader decarbonization efforts.

Jesse Jenkins, Moderator, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University

Allison Clements, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Matt DeNichilo, Partner, ECP

Lucia Tian, Head of Clean Energy and Decarbonization Technologies, Google

Lunch and Poster Session (at Frick Chemistry Laboratory)

12:35 p.m.

AI for Power

2:20 p.m.

Despite its energy consumption, AI can also unlock new approaches for addressing energy and environmental challenges. Panelists will discuss how AI can accelerate clean energy innovation and identify the most promising applications for AI in catalyzing a more sustainable future.

Minjie Chen, Moderator, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University

Tassos Golnas, Technology Manager, Solar Energy Technology Office, U.S. Department of Energy

Egemen Kolemen, Associate Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment, Princeton University; Staff Research Physicist, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL)

Na (Lina) Li, Winokur Family Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics, Harvard University

Chris White, President, NEC Laboratories America, Inc.

Break (20 mins)

3:30 p.m.

AI for Climate

3:50 p.m.

In addition to its potentially game-changing role in advancing energy technologies, AI could be similarly poised to support breakthrough innovations in climate science. Speakers will discuss the opportunities and challenges of using AI to address questions in climate research.

Gabriel Vecchi, Moderator, Director, the High Meadows Environmental Institute; Knox Taylor Professor of Geosciences; Professor in the High Meadows Environmental Institute; Deputy Director, Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System (CIMES), Princeton University

Adji Bousso Dieng, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University; Research Scientist, Google AI; Founder and President, The Africa I Know

Reed Maxwell, William and Edna Macaleer Professor of Engineering and Applied Science; Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute; Director of the Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center (IGWMC), Princeton University

Ning Lin, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University

Adjourn

5:00 p.m.

Reception and Poster Session Awards

5:15 p.m.