As industry sector transformations accelerate,  industrial and systems engineering departments and as well as all academic disciplines should prepare a next generation of T-shaped adaptive innovators, with depth of problem-solving skills and breadth of communication skills.

We look forward to exploring the transformation underway across industry sectors as we engineer our 21st century service economy. In this final virtual event of 2024, our panel of experts from industry, government, NGO and academia will explore trends, tools, challenges and how to define excellence and measure progress in the Energy & IT Sectors. 

See also Gartner Predicts Power Shortages Will Restrict 40% of AI Data Centers By 2027.  And see the six pillars of decarbonization here.  Fortune reports OpenAI wants to build 5-gigawatt data centers. 

Co-hosts:

Jim Spohrer (ISSIP)

Vittal Prabhu (Penn State University, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Service Systems Engineering)

Panelists:

Meghana Puvvadi, NVidia, Director AI Platforms and Products 

Mary Ann Piette, Associate Lab Director of the Energy Technologies Area (ETA) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 

Troy Helming, CEO & Founder of EarthGrid, A Public Benefit Corporation 

Dinesh Verma, IBM Fellow, Interview: https://youtu.be/w9Frkh9x4Ss

Date: Wednesday December 11, 2024

Time: 11am PST/2pm ET/20:00 CET/03:00 Tokyo

Where: online (zoom link will be emailed 30 minutes before event starts to all who register)

Register Here