Climate Change for Professionals

Generative AI (or GenAI) refers to a subset of artificial intelligence that creates new content—such as text, images, audio, video, or code—based on patterns learned from large datasets. These technologies provide a lot of new opportunities both for personal productivity and for businesses. In corporate and business environments, Generative AI is being leveraged for various tasks including automating workflows, generating business insights, enriching and validating data, enhancing customer service, managing risks, and accelerating innovation. This course will explore how professionals can tap into these advanced capabilities, especially in the space of climate and sustainability.

This is another course in our series "Technology for non-technical people", so this is not a technical course and no coding is involved.  It is suitable for anyone who wants to understand the technology capabilities beyond simple queries in ChatGPT, how GenAI is being integrated in business operations, and how it is changing the way we work.

In this course you will learn the basic concepts and definitions related to Generative AI. We will give you an overview of GenAI tools and explain/show how they are used not only for fun, but professionally – to improve your productivity, automate things and enhance the quality of your work. The course will explain the hype around Gen AI agents and Agentic AI. We will cover the choices the companies should make when choosing an enterprise solution. The course provides a range of case studies of GenAI applications in climate and sustainability across various industries. And we will finish the course discussing environmental and ethical considerations of using GenAI. We will talk about future trends and why GenAI is becoming one of the most demanded skills for employment, and how you can get started with GenAI. 

We also invited a number of fantastic great guest speakers for this course:

1) Elia Kabanov - a science writer focussing on sustainability and Artificial Intelligence. Elia is brilliant in explaining complex technical subjects in simple terms and has a strong interest both in sustainability and AI. He is co-hosting this courses with me.

2) Alex Vakhitov - an AI and Software architect with extensive experience as a Chief Technology Officer, who specialises in the digital transformation of the energy sector. He will bring the technology perspective to our course and will talk about his experience of using GenAI in his work.

3) Olga Isakova - the AI Business implementations expert and Product Manager responsible for Claranet’s Miscrosoft Co-pilot services, which is a great example of GenAI tools. Olga will show us how to use Copilot to boost productivity, automate processes, secure and analyse data. Given that many companies use Microsoft products, this is an essential tool for all sustainability professionals.

Hope you will enjoy our course!