Healthy People Healthy Planet (Hybrid Workshop)

The theme of this workshop is: “Healthy People and Healthy Planet: AI for Decarbonized, Healthy, Inspiring, and Energy Positive Cities.” It aims to bring together leading experts, researchers, and practitioners to explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in urban sustainability. The meeting will focus on how AI can be leveraged to reduce carbon emissions, enhance public health, inspire innovative urban design, and create energy-positive environments. Key objectives include sharing cutting-edge research, fostering interdisciplinary collaborations and funding opportunities, listening to voices from industry and communities, and developing actionable strategies to integrate AI technologies into urban planning and policy. By the end of the workshop, participants will have identified existing problems in the urban environment and practical AI-driven solutions to advance the development of smart, sustainable, and resilient cities. 

This is a hybrid meeting and free to register. Agenda for the workshop can be found below.

Location: RSM1.47, Royal School of Mines, Imperial College London Data Science Institute (DSI) Boardroom, Imperial College London. You can access DSI through the Sherfield Walkway (see link for a map of South Kensington Campus).

Time: 2PM - 6PM, 25 July 2024

Registration: Please register via the link.

Refreshments: Tea and coffee will be provided during the coffee break (13:30 and 15:10); Vegetarian wraps and nibbling will be provided during the refreshment session (17:00).

Contact: Dr Fangxin Fang (f.fang@imperial.ac.uk), Philip Challinor (philipchallinor@hotmail.com), Linfeng Li (l.li20@imperial.ac.uk).

Online meeting link: The online meeting is on the Microsoft Teams Meeting - https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_MDA0ODgxNjUtNjljNi00NThhLTg4YzYtZGM4OTU2ZmEzZmYw%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%222b897507-ee8c-4575-830b-4f8267c3d307%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%228dadb162-4d24-4032-8f70-0b19e50c991f%22%7d.

Agenda: Aganda for the workshop can be found in the PDF file.

Slides: Slides from the speakers can be found in below.

• Challenges in Net Zero: Delivering Healthy Places for social connection, aesthetics, inspiration, safety, health & well-being (Philip Challinor, Architect) PDF file
• Introduction of a recently funded EPSRC project: “Hybrid AI and multiscale physical modelling for optimal urban decarbonisation” (Fangxin Fang, Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College) PDF file
• Climate Change Policies Reduce Air Pollution, improve Health and Increase Physical Activity: Benefits, Costs, Inequalities, and Indoor Exposures (Sean Beevers, Environment Research Group, Imperial College) PDF file
• Bayesian Source Identification with Dual Hierarchical Neural Networks for Urban Air Pollution (Elissar Al Aawar, KAUST, Saudi Arabi) PDF file
• Healthy urban transitions: reducing car dependency (Audrey, de Nazelle, Centre of Environmental Policy, Imperial College) PDF file
• Adaptation and RECLAIM Network Plus (Prashant Kumar, Surrey Univ. ) PDF file
• Robust Urban greening, climate and interpretable SciML for fluid flows using multiscale graph neural networks (Romit Maulik, Penn State Univ. ) PDF file
• From Data to Action: Enhancing Urban Life with Climate Intelligence (Daniil Mintc, OpenWeather Meteorological Service) PDF file
• Creating Trustworthy AI for Building Management (Amir Taba, Direk) PDF file

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