AI and Sustainability: Balancing Innovation with Planetary and Social Well-being
Date: October 10th, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM
Location: The McGill Faculty Club: 3450 McTavish St.
Location: The McGill Faculty Club: 3450 McTavish St.
Annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design
Each year the Institut de l’énergie Trottier (IET) at Polytechnique Montréal and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) at McGill University take turns hosting this event. Made possible through the generous support of Dr. Lorne Trottier, this is a forum for students, professors, government, and industry professionals to connect with the general public on advancements for sustainability through engineering and design. This series has been made possible by the generous gift from the Trottier Family Foundation
2023
The Technological Dilemma: Exploit Without Ruin
2022
Confronting Climate Change with Design for Resilience
2021
Energy objective: decarbonize while reinventing society
2020
Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis
2019
Climate change: Passively suffer or reinvent our societies
2018
RESILIENCE: Planning for Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change
2017
TRANSPORTATION
What’s Fueling the Transition?
2016
Renewables: What holds us back? What moves us ahead?
2015
Energy in Quebec and Canada: A Conversation Starter
2014 Engineering our Prosperity: Sustainable Cities and Industries in the 21st Century
"We use immense quantities of resources to enjoy things today, but not to build things that will last for the next 100 years, and this approach comes at a great expense to the earth."
Highlighted past speakers
DR. MICHAEL E. MANN, PHD
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric
Science at Penn State and director of the
Penn State Earth System Science Center
(ESSC).
DR. NAOMI ORESKES, PHD
Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.
Valérie Masson-Delmotte, PHD
Climatologist and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I Valérie Masson-Delmotte will discuss climate change, its impacts, and how to mitigate it.
Mario Tremblay
Vice President, Corporate and Public Affairs – Fonds de solidarité FTQ Mario Tremblay will discuss the solutions to be implemented, to act concretely and, above all, in a sustainable and equitable manner for the whole of society.