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Addressing environmental sustainability is one of the most pressing issues of our time. In a digital world, technologies must be designed in an environmentally-friendly way to face sustainability challenges.
How can AI minimize its carbon footprint while maintaining performance?
How can data and AI support physical products’ sustainability throughout their life cycle?
How can technology help people to act in a more environmentally sustainable way?
The PERKS Project, co-funded by the Horizon Europe Programme, adopts AI to empower industrial practitioners in creating, using, and governing procedural knowledge—the ‘know-how’ essential for industrial processes. By prioritising human-centred, trustworthy AI and following a human-in-the-loop paradigm, PERKS ensures that its solutions address the concrete needs of workers, enhance their capabilities, and contribute to a resilient and sustainable industrial landscape.
In this second episode of the PERKS webinar series, we focus on AI and data solutions for sustainability and green applications, in collaboration with two leading European Projects: ENFIELD and CIRPASS2. Together we will discuss some of the current solutions for promoting sustainable practices in the digital world.
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Speakers

Irene Celino
Head of Knowledge Technologies Group @ Cefriel
Irene Celino is the Head of the Knowledge Technologies group in Cefriel. Her research activities mainly focus on Knowledge Graphs and Human Computation with a focus on Smart Cities, Mobility/Transport and Industry 5.0. She has 20 years of experience in 40+ cooperative research projects, at regional, national and European level, and she is the author of 100+ scientific publications on her research work. She currently coordinates the Horizon Europe PERKS project on industrial procedural knowledge management supported by AI solutions. Irene will be the host of this webinar and will interact with the speakers and guests to moderate the discussion on Environmental sustainability aspects in AI and Data Management.

Pankaj Pandey
Senior Research Scientist @ NTNU – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Dr. Pandey currently serves as a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway, and he is the project manager for the ENFIELD project, a European Commission-funded initiative aiming to manifest trustworthy and environmentally sustainable AI. ENFIELD is a large EC-funded RIA Project that aims to create a unique European Centre of Excellence that excels in fundamental research in the scientific pillars of Adaptive, Green, Human-Centric, and Trustworthy AI and further advance the research within verticals of healthcare, energy, manufacturing and space industry to reinforce a competitive EU position in AI.

Sjoerd Rongen
Coordinator Digitale Product Paspoorten @ TNO
Sjoerd has a background in IT, decentralized data sharing technology and semantic technology. He is the coordinator of DPP research in TNO, the Dutch RTO. In this role he is active in a variety of national and European DPP research initiatives, including the CIRPASS2 project. And works towards the development, implementation, and adoption of cross-sectoral provenance solutions. In this webinar a brief overview of current DPP developments will be shared, as well as the link to how these could interact with AI systems on the short term and where this may develop in the future to support various sustainability aspects.