AI & Energy will take center stage at Energy Week 2025
By Giordana Verrengia
Media Inquiries- Communications Manager
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation would like to extend a personal invitation to you to be part of our energy innovation ecosystem by participating in CMU Energy Week 2025! Our flagship event will take place March 24-28, 2025, in CMU’s Cohon University Center.
AI & Energy will take center stage at Energy Week 2025. Representatives from academia, industry, and government will gather to discuss both the benefits and the risks of AI—a tool with endless sustainability applications that also consumes eye-watering amounts of energy to power its data centers.
“We need to lead on AI innovation — but we need to make sure that our use of AI helps us meet our climate objectives, keeps costs low, and enables our energy system to be resilient,” said Costa Samaras, director of the Scott Institute.
AI has been evaluated for its accuracy and trustworthiness, but the conversation should expand to include questions about the resources that fuel its applications–and the impact of those applications. Cracking the code to make AI more sophisticated while achieving sustainability objectives should be a top priority.
Energy Week 2025 supports breakthroughs in artificial intelligence by putting great minds in the same room. Whether in formal settings like the event’s startup pitch showcase or informal conversations during receptions, attendees leave Energy Week every year with new connections, who may turn into future research collaborators or business partners.
Hosted by the Scott Institute, CMU Energy Week brings energy and sustainability leaders from across the nation together to combine forces in exploring the world’s most pressing energy issues. Through a series of panels, forums, and networking events, Energy Week helps attendees––ranging from graduate students preparing startup pitches to investors looking for innovative solutions to pressing problems––come together to assess where we are, clearly identify where we want to go, and begin asking questions about how to solve the most significant energy problems facing our society today. We are coming off the heels of a very successful Energy Week 2024, which featured 500 registered attendees from more than 120 organizations who discussed decarbonizing the transportation sector.
Registration for Energy Week 2025 will open in January.
Learn more about previous CMU Energy Weeks.