☀ #TogetherEnsemble a commencé!📣 Consultez la description complète du programme ou regardez la conférence en direct sur notre site Web.🍁🌏🔗 togetherensemble.ca Together | Ensemble #ODD #Agenda2030

“Businesses and how they operate is central to how we achieve the #sustainability goals” - Elizabeth Dove, Executive Director, UN UN Global Compact Network Canada

Looking forward to hearing from more leading voices in sustainability at #TogetherEnsemble Day 2 in Waterloo! Our Sustainability and Inclusion Specialist Leslie is on site, but you can tune in to streamed sessions on their website! togetherensemble.ca

"We can support the #AI ecosystem through policy, education, and collaboration." - Mardi Witzel, Co-Founder and CEO, Polyalgorithm Machine Learning

"We need to tell the founders of companies what it means to be responsible in terms of building products." - Kevin Tuer, Chief Technology Officer, Communitech ⚙️🤖🌐

“The work on these behavioural models today are like where we were with language models in 2018.” 🤖 - Ajay Agrawal, Economist and Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management + Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab

“Instead of focusing on inputs… focus on outputs as a target”🎯 - Ajay Agrawal, Economist and Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management + Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab

As host and a founding institution of SDSN Canada, #UWaterloo is proud to bring together organizations & individuals for Together | Ensemble to explore Canada’s toughest sustainable development challenges. Thanks to all attendees for your leadership & collaboration.

“#AI has put a huge strain on the need for electricity… What we are moving towards is a virtual power plant… AI will help us do that.” - Salman Qadir, Associate Principal, Sustainability Venture Fund, BDC

"#AI spreads across all sectors and we are now solving problems in record time with it.” - Keegan Pinto, Associate, ArcTern Ventures

“#AI can help us to better understand carbon capture, fill gaps in our knowledge, and help us prepare for the future, but it does not necessarily reduce the emissions (on its own).” - Tyler Hamilton, Senior Director – Clean Technologies MaRS

"#AI is increasing productivity, but the question is what will happen to the people whose jobs are being displaced? What will the first jobs for young people be in the future?" - Salman Qadir, Associate Principal, Sustainability Venture Fund, BDC

“#AI can be used by old industries to perpetuate their model… We need to be careful about (that).” - Tyler Hamilton, Senior Director – Clean Technologies MaRS

"The pace of change is making it difficult for us to adapt to the just transition that we need." ⚖️🌱⚙️ Tyler Hamilton, Senior Director – Clean Technologies MaRS

"We cannot solely rely on #AI models…We need to avoid biases due to not updating the models… And we have to keep checks and balances” - Keegan Pinto, Associate, ArcTern Ventures

Wrapping up with our fireside chat in the sun! ☀️ #TogetherEnsemble

We appreciate everyone who joined last week's conference & our fantastic team of organizers.🌟 Reflecting on the #SustainableDevelopment issues we explored is important on #WorldEnvironmentDay & every day after.😉 Stay tuned for our full report!

Nous apprécions tous ceux qui ont rejoint la conférence de la semaine dernière.🌟Il est important de réfléchir aux questions de #DéveloppementDurable que nous avons explorées lors de la Journée Mondiale de l'Environnement et tous les jours suivants.😉

🍁#Canada ranked 25th in the Sustainable Development Report (#SDR2024). We are making progress with SDG 11: #SustainableCities & Communities☀️ but still see some major challenges ahead with SDG 13: #ClimateAction.🌎 Read the full report and let us know what you think!🤔

We're moving to U Calgary in July.🎉 New place, same dedication to reporting on the #SDGs in Canada!🍁