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Panel: AI and Climate Change: Where is the funding and is it sufficient to meet the 2030 and 2050 goals? https://www.climatechange.ai/events/aaaifss2022#schedule Thursday, November 17, 2016, 5:10 pm – 6:00 pm
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- 1. Panel AI and Climate Change: Where is the funding and is it sufficient to meet the 2030 and 2050 goals? Jim Spohrer (ISSIP.org) 11/18/2022 1 Fahmida N Chowdhury NSF David Tew ARPA-E Andres Alonso Bank of Spain Jon Greene ITA International Moderator Jim Spohrer
- 2. Learning to invest in changing the local planetary energy infrastructure: Decarbonization costs • Smil V (2022) Taming the Climate Is Far Harder Than Getting People to the Moon. IEEE Spectrum 11/18/2022 Jim Spohrer (ISSIP.org) 2
- 3. Funding Opportunities Related to Climate Change and AI National Science Foundation Fahmida N. Chowdhury Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE) AAAI Fall Symposia, Nov. 17, 2022
- 4. Multiple Opportunities Across NSF NSF has invested over $100 million to establish five NSF AI Institutes. NSF AI Institute for Research on Trustworthy AI in Weather, Climate, and Coastal Oceanography (AI2ES) https://www.ai2es.org/ Create trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods for diverse environmental science (ES) users. Academia, Industry, National Labs involved.
- 5. NSF has several programs in clean energy and climate --- evolving and new program announcements coming every year. AI tools can be incorporated in many of these proposals. In FY 22, $19m awarded in projects involving international collaboration (PIRE); https://beta.nsf.gov/news/nsf-invests- use-inspired-climate-change-clean The Convergence Accelerator program in the new TIP Directorate: https://beta.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/convergence- accelerator Even if the program does not mention AI explicitly. See https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040613&Hist
- 6. How to build proposals with industry and other non-academic entities What are convincing strategies for future AI workforce development Whether to propose basic, foundational AI research or applications to climate and energy-related themes Points to Ponder
- 7. ARPA-E & AI David E. Tew Program Director, ARPA-E November 18, 2022
- 8. History of ARPA-E 8 In 2007, The National Academies recommended Congress establish an Advanced Research Projects Agency within the U.S. Department of Energy to fund advanced energy R&D. 2007 2009 2021 Rising Above the Gathering Storm Published - warning policymakers that U.S. advantages in science and technology had begun to erode America COMPETES Act Signed – authorizing the creation of ARPA-E American Recovery & Reinvestment Act Signed – Providing ARPA-E its first appropriations of $400 million, which funded ARPA-E's first projects 1,270 Awards 60+Programs FY22 Funding: $450M (President’s FY23 Request: $700M)
- 9. ARPA-E Mission 9 ARPA-E is part of the Dept. of Energy & supports high-risk & (hopefully) high-reward energy-related R&D
- 10. ARPA-E Impact Indicators 2021 10
- 11. ARPA-E Program Portfolio 11 Active Alumni RANGE REMOTE TERRA NEXTCAR REFUEL TRANSPORTATION MARINER AMPED ELECTROFUELS MOVE PETRO TRANSNET REEACH ASCEND SMARTFARM ULTIMATE EFFICIENCY METALS ARID ADEPT REACT SWITCHES CIRCUITS SENSOR SHIELD ROOTS MONITOR DELTA BEETIT PNDIODES BREAKERS HITEMMP DIFFERENTIATE FLECCS REPAIR ENLITENED ELECTRICITY GENERATION & DELIVERY GRID DATA INTEGRATE IONICS MOSAIC ALPHA GENSETS NODES GENI GRIDS HEATS REBELS IMPACCT FOCUS CHARGES MEITNER ATLANTIS BETHE DAYS PERFORM GEMINA GAMOW SOLAR ADEPT + OPEN 2009, 2012, 2015, 2018, & 2021 Solicitations + Seedlings, Competitions, Complementary Exploratory Topics + SCALEUP SHARKS BEEST ECOSYNBIO
- 12. ARPA-E DIFFERENTIATE (AI Focused Program) 12 ML-Enhanced Design Tools More Creative & Productive Engineers Better Energy Products Accelerated ARPA-E Mission ARPA-E Mission Mission: To overcome long-term and high-risk technological barriers in the development of energy technologies 3 REDUCE IMPORTS IMPROVE EFFICIENCY REDUCE EMISSIONS Ensure U.S. Technological Lead & U.S. Economic and Energy Security Leverage the transformative potential of machine learning (ML) to address today's energy challenges by seeking to automate the process of invention Current ARPA-E Program $35M
- 13. Design Process Framework 13 November 18, 2022 Problem Hypothesis Evaluation Solution Tool Capability Description Hypothesis Generation Optimizers with domain knowledge Hypothesis Evaluation Surrogate models with high fidelity @ low cost Inverse Design Design representations as functions of requirements 𝑥𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 = 𝑓−1 𝑦𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 1 2 3 1 2 3 Goal: Help to resolve our climate challenge by using ML to automate the process of energy-related invention 𝑦𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡 = 𝑦1 … 𝑦𝑁 E.g., Low-cost carbon- neutral long-distance transportation 𝑦ℎ𝑦𝑝 = 𝑓 𝑥ℎ𝑦𝑝 𝑥ℎ𝑦𝑝 𝑥𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 = 𝑥1 … 𝑥𝑁
- 14. Outside DIFFERENTIATE ‣ AI/ML is increasingly a tool of choice throughout our programs – Materials discovery – Digital twins – Sensor data analysis – Etc. ‣ Future opportunities @ ARPA-E – Designed to be quick to respond to challenges &/or opportunities – No roadmaps – Future programs (e.g., ML focused ones) determined by future PDs – If you don't like what we are doing, please come fix the problem! 14 November 18, 2022 • Primary focus is end application • AI/ML is one of many tools employed
- 15. Join the Team that is Transforming the Energy of Tomorrow 15 Independent energy technology development Program Director support Organizational support PROGRAM DIRECTOR Program development Active project management Thought leadership Explore new technical areas FELLOW TECHNOLOGY-TO-MARKET ADVISOR Business development Technical marketing Techno-economic analyses Stakeholder outreach Learn more and apply: www.arpa-e.energy.gov/jobs or arpa-e-jobs@hq.doe.gov.
- 16. ANDRÉS ALONSO <ANDRES.ALONSO@BDE.ES> Central Banks are working to unblock operational problems that prevent Green Finance to scale up. • Looking for a way to reduce the barriers that green fintechs might find to raise capital for AI-driven solutions. • The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is running an Innovation Hub (BISIH) and an Innovation Network (BISIN) dedicating resources to experiment with and monitor innovative technologies applied to Green Finance: Project Genesis 1.0 Project Genesis 2.0 Project Viridis ML & advanced analytics Project Gaia NLP for climate-related disclosures Blockchain, smart contracts & IoT.
- 17. ANDRÉS ALONSO <ANDRES.ALONSO@BDE.ES> • BIS- G20 Techsprint 2021: race horse competition on (i) data collection, (ii) climate risks, and (iii) connecting investors with projects. • Winners of these competitions usually benefit strongly from this recognition when going into the private market later on. • In our experience, AI-driven technologies have a huge potential in this field! Further resources: ESA gateaway; UK FCA Green Fintech Challenge, HKMA Green Hackaton.
- 18. AI & Climate Where is the funding? Is it enough? And are we asking the right questions?
- 19. 19 Just Cause and Mission Statement Mission Statement ITA International is a different kind of company that moves at the speed of business to ensure mission success for customers, “In The Arena.” We leverage subject matter expertise, data analytics and technology to make what may seem impossible, possible.
- 20. 20 Conditions of the Human Ecosystem
- 21. 21 The Standoff “We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator.” UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres “Climate-Change ‘Solutions’…Are Worse Than the Problem” Jason De Sena Trennert, WSJ Is it… Or… Climate change will have vast and unanticipated impacts, intervention on the scale required to address it will as well. Can we change the conversation?
- 22. 22 A Complex System of Systems Approach …powered by AI
- 23. Jon Greene, jgreene@ita-intl.com, 540-553-5846
- 24. https://www.climatechange.ai/events/aaaifss2022#schedule Emails: Fahmida Chowdhury <fchowdhu@nsf.gov> David Tew <david.tew@hq.doe.gov> Andres Alonso <andres.alonso@bde.es> Jon Greene <JGreene@ita-intl.com> Jim Spohrer <Spohrer@gmail.com> Priya Donti <pdonti@andrew.cmu.edu> Frank Stein <fstein@ieee.org>
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- ===== AAAI FSS Panel https://www.climatechange.ai/events/aaaifss2022#schedule AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium Series November 17-19 (Thursday – Saturday) The Role of AI in Responding to Climate Change Looking forward to moderating the panel at the upcoming conference! Panel: AI and Climate Change: Where is the funding and is it sufficient to meet the 2030 and 2050 goals? https://www.climatechange.ai/events/aaaifss2022#schedule Thursday, November 17, 2016, 5:10 pm – 6:00 pm Format: (1) Intro: Moderator intro slide with topic - three bullet points - and each panelist brief intro (2) Panelists: Each panelist presents 2-3 slides, and gets one question from moderator (3) Q&A: Open up to general audience for questions Goal: Our goal is to inform the audience, and have a lively, informative, fun discussion - maybe with a few provocative questions and amazing facts to share. Panel Moderator Jim Spohrer, Retired Industry Exec (Apple, BM) URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spohrer/ URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7T2Pz1YAAAAJ&hl=en Panelist: Fahmida N Chowdhury, Program Director at National Science Foundation URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fahmida-chowdhury-109037a/ URL: https://www.nsf.gov/staff/staff_bio.jsp?lan=fchowdhu&org=NSF&from_org=NSF URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KUk2rssAAAAJ&hl=en Panelist : David Tew, Program Director at ARPA-E URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-e-tew/ URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=xh-ys38AAAAJ Panelist - via short video: Andrés Alonso, DGA Pagos e Infra. De Mercado, División de Innovación Financiera URL: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andr%C3%A9s-alonso-0998449/?originalSubdomain=es URL: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9Jz_aisAAAAJ&hl=en Panelist Jon Grene, ITA Intenrational, VP Global Security Operations URL: https://ita-intl.com/ita-international-appoints-new-vice-president-of-global-security-operations-and-hires-new-senior-advisor-to-the-ceo/ URL: Panelist TBD - being invited. Will know shortly. Emails: Frank Stein <fstein@ieee.org> Priya Donti <pdonti@andrew.cmu.edu> Fahmida Chowdhury <fchowdhu@nsf.gov> David Tew <david.tew@hq.doe.gov> Andrés Alonso <andres.alonso@bde.es> Jon Greene <Jon Greene <JGreene@ita-intl.com> Jim Spohrer <spohrer@gmail.com>
- BiblioS2022 Smil V (2022) Taming the Climate Is Far Harder Than Getting People to the Moon Decarbonization is a project with no clear beginning or end. IEEE Spectrum. URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/decarbonization Quotes: "Today, no category mistake is perhaps more consequential than the all-too-common view of the global energy transition. The error is to think of the transition as the discrete, well-bounded task of replacing carbon fuels by noncarbon alternatives. The apparent urgency of the transition leads to calls for confronting the challenge just as the United States dealt with two earlier ones: winning the nuclear-arms race against Nazi Germany and the space race against the Soviet Union. The Manhattan Project produced an atomic bomb in three years, and Project Apollo put two U.S. citizens on the moon in July 1969, eight years after President Kennedy had announced the goal. But difficult and costly as those two endeavors were, they affected only small parts of the economy, their costs were relatively modest, and the lives of average citizens were hardly affected. It is just the opposite for the decarbonization of the energy supply.";
- All of NSF’s international engagement is driven by core values. We strive to Promote collaboration that enhances research and education with direct benefit to the US Ensure intellectual partnerships with reciprocal benefit Maintain and grow networks that enable US access to various types of international resources -- whether that means access to expertise, facilities, ecosystems, or more To build globally-engaged workforce by providing opportunities for US students, post-docs and early career researchers to engage in international research And of course, we strive to lead with values about HOW we do research – via our commitment to openness, data sharing, transparency, equity
- Given the increasingly global nature of science and engineering, the long-term goal of IRES is to enhance U.S. leadership by developing the next generation of STEM leaders. IRES focuses on three tracks IRES Track I: IRES Sites (IS) are projects that engage a group of undergraduate and/or graduate students in active high quality collaborative research at an international site. IRES Track II: Advanced Studies Institutes (ASI) are intensive activities that engage advanced graduate students in active learning and research at the frontiers of scientific knowledge.
- This help may come in part from exciting new tools and techniques that leverage the transformational potential of artificial intelligence. The objective of the DIFFERENTIATE program is to develop advanced engineering design tools that empower engineers to expeditiously and cost-effectively develop the energy products that we need to protect our climate while both growing our economy and enhancing our quality of life. The approach proposed in the formulation of this program was to seek to leverage the emerging artificial intelligence revolution to automate the process of energy-product invention in the interest of driving down the cost and/or risk of developing better performing energy-related products. By doing so, we hope to accelerate ARPA-E’s mission of reducing our energy usage and related emissions and thereby helping to mitigate our climate challenges.
- URL: https://www.climatechange.ai/events/aaaifss2022#schedule AAAI 2022 Fall Symposium Series November 17-19 (Thursday – Saturday) The Role of AI in Responding to Climate Change Looking forward to moderating the panel at the upcoming conference! Panel: AI and Climate Change: Where is the funding and is it sufficient to meet the 2030 and 2050 goals? Thursday, November 17, 2016, 5:10 pm – 6:00 pm