Beyond the Hype: AI's Real Impact on Cleantech & Sustainability — Keynote Session & Networking
Explore AI's environmental costs and governance with women in cleantech and sustainability. Keynote + Q&A + networking.
Sustainability professionals are adopting AI at a lower rate than other industries and women are adopting AI at a different rate than men in the workplace. What’s going on? We’ll talk GenAI impact, industry specific use cases and mindset shifts.
This keynote & networking event features a 45 minute keynote from Madalina Buzdugan on AI's true cost, followed by interactive Q&A. Unlike events selling adoption strategies, this centers women facing "AI or die" pressure while witnessing environmental costs. Madalina covers:
Environmental and social costs: energy, emissions, labor exploitation, bias;
Cognitive load and burnout;
Governance: EU AI Act and its limits.
You'll leave with criteria for choosing tools, permission to set boundaries, and concrete actions.
Speaker:
Madalina Buzdugan is a Sustainability & AI Strategist and former Director of Sustainability at EVBox. She built ESG frameworks for fast-growing tech companies across Europe and Asia and now helps organizations pause the "AI or die" madness through Sustainable AI sessions and AI for Impact workshops. She's writing The Tired Overachiever, a book on global challenges for Millennials and Gen Z. Her approach: practical, no-nonsense, direction from chaos.
Sponsor:
Skytree is engineering the CO₂ transition by building Direct Air Capture (DAC) machines that capture CO₂ from the air and transform it into a valuable resource for industries like renewable fuels, greenhouse operations, and beverage carbonation. With over 10 years of applied research from the European Space Agency and patented technology, their modular machines can deploy at scale in any climate — targeting 10M tonnes of CO₂ captured by 2030.