AI for a Changing Climate: Shaping Future R&D Opportunities

Accelerating AI for climate adaptation and mitigation in Australia

CSIRO invites you to a free webinar to explore the findings of the AI for Climate R&D Roadmap, a discussion starter on how artificial intelligence (AI) can accelerate efforts to adapt to a changing climate and mitigate emissions.

The paper focuses on downstream applications of AI in sectors already impacted by climate change, including infrastructure, emergency management, agriculture, energy, water, and healthcare.

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Why attend

This session is for government departments, professionals and researchers working in climate-affected sectors. It will outline emerging and existing AI use cases, highlight key risks and considerations for using AI safely and responsibly, and put forward suggested pathways for collaboration.

You’ll hear directly from the authors and engage with them during the Q&A segment.

Have your say

The webinar includes a consultation segment to gather feedback on how Australia can accelerate R&D opportunities for climate-related AI solutions. Your input will help shape future research, applications for industries, and partnerships.

You will also have the chance to share your insights through a detailed consultation survey. Be part of the conversation that’s setting the course for AI innovation in climate adaptation and mitigation.

Speakers

Dr Cara Stitzlein is an interdisciplinary Senior Research Scientist, specialising in responsible innovation, sustainability transitions, and science translation for evidence-based decision-making. Her research focuses on supporting organisations through sustainability transitions, leveraging design science and human-centred design methodologies.

Within CSIRO, she contributes to product development and commercialisation efforts with public and private partners. With a background in human factors engineering, Cara brings a strong sociotechnical systems perspective to projects needing interdisciplinarity and in contexts where principles of translating science fairly, transparently and in a usable way are critical.

She has helped bring user-friendly digital tools to market, including LOOC-C (carbon farming discovery tool) and LOOC-B (rapid biodiversity assessment tool), and is currently exploring how an AI-enabled tool can support work related to climate disclosures.

Dr Geoff Lee is a Senior Research Consultant in CSIRO’s Data61, leading a multi-disciplinary team developing the latest methodologies and technologies in applied mathematics and statistics, actuarial science, econometrics and optimisation.

His scientific and technical interests lie in exploring how quantitative risk modelling can be combined with domain knowledge to aid decision-makers in taking actions that both reduce risk and add value to organisations and society.

He is currently leading projects assessing climate risks on critical infrastructure both in Australia and overseas. The team have previously explored economic scenario generation, dynamic asset allocation and drawdown strategies in the superannuation space, including being a part of the CSIRO-MONASH Superannuation Research Cluster.

Dr Claire Naughtin is a Principal Research Consultant at CSIRO’s Data61, specialising in future-focused approaches to help leaders make long-term strategic and policy decisions. She leads the Digital Futures team, which brings together capabilities in strategic foresight, human-centred design and responsible innovation.

Claire regularly runs workshops with Executive teams and Boards to facilitate future-focused strategic conversations. She also presents the findings from her research and advisory project - including megatrends - at a broad range of external forums.

Some of Claire's most recent projects include the Beyond Tomorrow report for NSW Health, where she led the exploration of six emerging health megatrends impacting the NSW healthcare system and its workforce. Claire also co-led the delivery of CSIRO's once-in-a-decade global megatrends report, Our Future World.

Dr Mahesh Prakash is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at CSIRO Data61 and leads a group of Scientists, Engineers and Software Professionals who develop and apply a diverse range of modelling and analytics techniques for urban environmental applications with a key focus on emergency and disaster management.

His scientific and technical interests are in urban flood modelling, geospatial big data analytics and the confluence between environmental research (including climate change and climate change related risk) and technology including how an integrated approach could be applied to resolving some of the intractable challenges associated with deploying these tools for real world applications.

He works closely with the Environment Research Unit in order to achieve much needed cohesion between the deep science and technology expertise that lies within CSIRO in this exciting area of research.