🚨 MAY 28 & 29 🚨 Attend #TogetherEnsemble, Canada’s conference on the #SDGs.🌎🍁 Register now to explore this year’s theme of innovation and join essential conversations on AI, cities, & finance! 🤖🚗📈 🤝IN-PERSON 🔗 bit.ly/TEconferenceInPerson 💻ONLINE 🔗 bit.ly/TEConferenceOnline

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

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.😉

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!

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

"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, @ArcternVC

"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 @MaRSDD

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

"#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 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 @MaRSDD

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

“#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

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

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

"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 ⚙️🤖🌐

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

“Businesses and how they operate is central to how we achieve the #sustainability goals” - Elizabeth Dove, Executive Director, UN @globalcompactca