Event: Energy and AI, Match Made in Heaven or Hell?
Date: Wednesday, December 4th, 2024
Time: 5:00pm-7:30pm
Generously sponsored by JPM Private Bank.
Location: Bellevue, WA
Description: How will all of us be able to afford the energy to run the basic functions of our lives while AI use cases take a bigger and bigger slice of the supply? Join us for a lively discussion on the opportunities and challenges facing the energy domain as the world diverts more energy to drive AI. Panelists from PSE, Sustainability Startups, NGO’s, Megatech, and AI will share how energy consumption and production will evolve. You will be joined by fellow business and technology leaders as well as experts from energy, data center infrastructure, AI, and leadership domains.

For enterprises consuming energy:
– Is energy especially electricity about to get prohibitively expensive?
– How do I become a smarter buyer and planner of energy?
For data center infrastructure players and AI companies:
– What should I plan for to sustain the infrastructures my customers expect/demand?
– Which new providers of energy I can tap?
Sustainable energy startups:
– Nuclear?
– Solar/wind/…?
Traditional energy companies:
– How do you plan to meet the requirements of the society in 5 years, 25 years?
– How do you view the evolution of regulations?
Policy makers:
– What are you losing sleep over?
– What are the opportunities?
We guarantee this will be a fun event. 🙂
Speakers
Haresh Sangani
Founder and CEO at Hitech Advisors
Haresh Sangani is the CEO of Hitech Advisors, leveraging technology to improve business and life. Prior to that, Haresh co-founded Faira, the most modernized e-commerce platform for buying and selling homes in the US. He held leadership roles at Amazon, AT&T, Kronos, and several startups before turning founder and entrepreneur. Also serves as an advisor to select executives and founders.
Aditi Garg
Director, Strategic ISVs, Azure Engineering
Aditi Garg has over two decades of global IT experience, working with companies like Accenture and Microsoft as a Data and AI Architect. She currently manages Microsoft’s most strategic Independent Software Vendors (ISVs). A passionate advocate for sustainability, Aditi has led initiatives to optimize solutions for greater sustainability, featured in Microsoft’s Annual Sustainability Report. She is now leading efforts to create sustainable AI workloads and is pursuing a Master’s in Sustainability Leadership at Harvard University.

Jonathan Azoff
Co-Founder & General Partner, SNØCAP
Jonathan is the Co-Founder and General Partner of SNØCAP, the venture fund behind frontier innovations that reduce costs and eliminate pollution in our global supply chains. He is the board president of Sweet Farm, a nonprofit climate tech incubator, whose many graduates have gone on to raise over 600M in downstream funding. Jon advises startups innovating at the intersection of climate tech with logistics, real estate or finance. He’s the inaugural backer of The New York Climate Film Festival, and a major sponsor of Work on Climate, a global community of climate builders. He’s a fractional CTO at Fortium Partners, providing guidance and operational support to businesses across the United States. He also started POSTMODERN, a boutique software development consultancy based in Seattle, WA. He’s built several venture backed startups, enjoyed two notable exits (to Zillow and Disney), and helped grow multiple teams from idea to exit.

Andy Weinstein
CEO at GODOT
3rd Generation Pepsi bottler turned Waste to Value entrepreneur. With deep expertise in food, beverage and janitorial production and distribution, Andy finds opportunities in the externalities of the global supply chain.
As an industry thought leader, Andy has been invited to speak on wide range of issues including AI, automation, organizational design, innovation and sustainability.