Fast-Tracking Climate Resilience with AI – a Stakeholder Discussion

Quickly, AI is starting to define all our industries – but we wonder if it can also help us solve the bigger societal issues we are facing. Especially in the Netherlands, the threat of climate change worries us all. Can AI help us change its course? Or help us adapt to what it changes?

Due to climate change the population is facing difficult questions, to which the answers have huge consequences. Any decisions made about the future will have to take into account the changing landscape; a third of Netherlands is below sea level and severe droughts are compromising the integrity of our dikes. With rising water levels, how do we avoid becoming climate migrants in 50 years time?

To help us solve or face these problems, research and development looks to AI technology. However, there are still many questions on the way to go about it. In the long run, do we believe that AI is a viable solution for climate resilience? And if we do, how is AI currently being used to address climate change in cities? Also, who should the population look to for the solutions provided? Who will be at the forefront of leading the transition to protecting our homes?

Join us at Mondai | House of AI in Delft for this Convergence AI Mixer, where an esteemed set of panellists will try to answer some of these questions:

Astrid de Wit – Programme Manager Climate Adaptation, Province of South Holland (linked page in Dutch)
Hans de Voogd – Programme Director Convergence Resilient Delta
dr. Peter van der Putten – Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Institute for Advanced Computer Science
dr. Sunil Tankha – Assistant Professor at the Erasmus International Institute of Social Studies
Prof.dr.ir. Behnam Taebi – Professor at the TU Delft, Faculty of Technology Policy, and Management

We will start the event with an introduction of the Letters from Nature art project by Peter van der Putten. Together with artist Jeroen van der Most they gave a voice to Nature: by using OpenAI’s GPT-3 text model, Nature can write letters to world leaders to warn us about Climate Change, and to ask for help.

Programme
15.00 – 15.30: Doors open, walk in.
15.30 – 17.00: Panel discussion by our panelists, moderator to be announced.
17.00: Drinks!

Interested in joining us for a lively discussion? Please register via the button above.

Letters from Nature
“Climate change is destroying our planet and nature did not have a voice to speak up. Now AI gives Nature the means to warn us, and to ask for help.”

Convergence
The urgent and complex societal challenges of our time ask for fundamentally new forms of cooperation. This is why Delft University of Technology, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Erasmus MC cross the boundaries between institutes and disciplines to create new perspectives and solutions. They come together in research and education, committed to combine their strengths, knowledge and methods to address societal challenges such as climate change, sustainability, pressure on the healthcare system, urbanisation and digitalisation. Find out more about Convergence and its themes here.

Climate Adaptation
The Netherlands is faced with four climate trends: it is getting warmer, it is getting drier, it is getting wetter, and the sea level is rising. Together we need to adapt to these changes. Want to learn more about the plans to climate-proof the Netherlands? Visit The Knowledge Portal for Climate Adaptation.

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