Can AI Be Your Sustainability Partner?
From modelling low-carbon cities to mapping climate risk at scale and streamlining emissions reporting, AI is becoming an increasingly important part of the sustainability toolkit. Hear from practitioners across research, climate tech, and corporate sustainability to explore where AI is already delivering impact and what it genuinely takes to put it to work.
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Kaela Montgomery (Sustainability Program Manager, Google) will share on "Making AI helpful for the planet"
Google is working to make AI a tool for systemic change by addressing the energy demands of the technology while applying it to build a more resilient world. Kaela will share how Google drives sustainability through its operations and empowers others through products that mitigate climate change.
She will also highlight the recent launch of the FOAK in APAC Google DeepMind “AI for the Planet” accelerator which supports startups, research institutions and non-profits leveraging Google AI models agentic capabilities for nature protection, carbon mitigation and climate solutions at large. (Technical Level: 100)
Dr Ang Yu Qian (A/Prof., NUS & Co-Founder, UrbanFlow) will share on "Data, Design and Decarbonization: AI for Sustainable Cities"
Cities are both a cause of and a solution to climate change, housing over half the world's population while generating approximately 70% of global energy-related CO₂ emissions.
Explore how sensing and advanced computational approaches can transform urban areas into low-carbon, regenerative environments. Drawing on Singapore as a living testbed, examine how physics-based and AI-driven approaches can inform design and policy decisions, quantify the energy-carbon-comfort nexus, and identify interventions that deliver real climate impact. (Technical Level: 100)
Dr Abraham Wu (CTO, AlphaGeo) will explore "Closing the Climate Data Gap with AI?"
Can AI solve the data bottleneck in climate adaptation? High-quality environmental data is notoriously expensive and slow to acquire. Abraham will explore how deep learning can bypass traditional physical mapping barriers - scaling coverage across the contiguous US while reducing data acquisition costs from billions of dollars to just under $1,000.
See how AI can turn incomplete local records into high-resolution national risk maps, exposing critical gaps in official statistics and offering a scalable blueprint for global climate resilience. (Technical Level: 100)
Viola Iselin (Product Manager, Unravel Carbon) will share on "AI for Sustainability Reporting"
Sustainability teams are being asked to do more with less: collecting granular data, calculating emissions, preparing disclosures and keeping up with evolving reporting expectations all at once.
Viola will explore how purpose-built AI agents can support this work in practice, from transforming messy activity data to analysing reporting gaps, product carbon footprinting, and supplier engagement. Expect a live walkthrough of Unravel Carbon's platform and a candid look at what it really takes to make climate reporting less overwhelming. (Technical Level: 100)
Community Partner: Climate Change AI
Climate Change AI (CCAI) is a global nonprofit community of volunteers from academia and industry working at the intersection of climate change and machine learning. Founded in 2019, CCAI brings together researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, companies, and NGOs to catalyze impactful climate action through AI and machine learning. Its work focuses on community building, education, infrastructure support, and advancing discourse across the climate ecosystem.
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Kaela Montgomery is a Sustainability Program Manager at Google, where she operates at the critical intersection of AI and climate action. With a professional background in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) from her tenure at Google and Meta, Kaela focuses on how AI-driven applications can accelerate climate adaptation and mitigation. She is particularly dedicated to ensuring these technologies serve as equalizers, protecting the livelihoods of women and marginalized communities who are disproportionately impacted by environmental shifts. Kaela also serves as a leader with Women@ Google Singapore. Outside of work, Kaela also serves as the Director of Mentorship at the Young Women’s Leadership Connection (YWLC), a Singapore Grassroots organization where she oversees the flagship Mentorship programme that empowers early to mid-career women in Singapore through high-impact mentorship and professional development with some of Singapore's most accomplished women leaders. Mentored by leaders Minister Grace Fu (Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore) and Maya Hari (former CEO, Terrascope), Kaela is committed to building a future that is as inclusive as it is sustainable by bridging the gap between cutting-edge technology and social equity.
Dr Ang Yu Qian is an Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Professor) at the National University of Singapore and cofounder of UrbanFlow, an AI-native urban science startup. His career spans academia, government, and entrepreneurship. He holds a PhD from MIT and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Gates Scholar. He currently leads the City Syntax Lab, where his research focuses on AI and physics-based approaches for urban sustainability. His lab is supported by public agencies and industry (including NVIDIA) to translate urban AI research into real-world applications. Prior to academia, he served as Senior Assistant Director at Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry, contributing to the development of Singapore’s $19 billion national research masterplan. He has also consulted for the World Bank on data science initiatives.
Dr Abraham Wu is the co-founder and CEO of GroundVision, where he is building AI-native urban intelligence systems for real estate, underwriting, and urban decision-making. His work explores how artificial intelligence is reshaping the mechanisms through which urban value is produced, captured, and spatially distributed. Previously, Abraham was the founding CTO of AlphaGeo, where he developed climate and geospatial intelligence systems used by institutional investors including EQT, Oaktree Capital Management, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, and Teacher Retirement System of Texas. Trained in architecture and urban studies at the National University of Singapore, his research on AI, climate risk, and urban systems has been published in journals including Nature Communications and Nature Sustainability. At the center of his work is a broader question: how should cities and real assets be valued in the age of AI?
Viola Iselin is a Product Manager at Unravel Carbon, where she combines sustainability expertise with product development to build practical AI-enabled tools for corporate climate action. She helps turn complex greenhouse gas accounting, reporting, and emissions data challenges into intuitive workflows for companies and consultants. With a background in GHG accounting, decarbonisation, corporate sustainability strategy, food systems, and agricultural value chains, Viola brings a practitioner’s perspective to climate software design. In this session, she will showcase how Unravel Carbon is using AI agents to make sustainability- and GHG data workflows more efficient, structured, and actionable.
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