As part of the London Festival of Architecture 2025, Cornell Tech's Urban Tech Summit asks: Can AI help us cope with climate change?
AI-powered automation is already an important tool for cities' hasty work to bolster infrastructure and services for rapid climate change. But can artificial intelligence help cities listen more effectively and empower people to adapt on the ground?
This talk by Anthony Townsend, internationally-recognised expert on the future of cities and urban technology, will explore emerging trends and innovations in AI that may provide new capabilities for intelligent, participatory urban climate adaptation. It will be followed by a conversation with Julia Skeete of SOM, to discuss the role of the built environment in adapting to this change.
This event is in association with the Urban Tech Hub, Jacobs Institute at Cornell Tech.
PROGRAMME
18:15 Arrivals
18:40 Welcome from Chair
Nick McKeogh, Co-Founder & Chief Executive, NLA
18:45 Intelligence for Adaptation: Can AI Empower Communities Coping with Climate Change?
Anthony Townsend, Senior Research Associate, Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute
19:15 In conversation with
Julia Skeete, Senior Associate Principal, SOM
20:00 End
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Speaker biographies
Anthony Townsend
Senior Research Associate, Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech’s Jacobs Institute
Nick McKeogh
Co-Founder & Chief Executive, NLA
Julia Skeete
Senior Associate Principal, Skidmore Owings & Merrill