Planet and Climate

Planet & Climate

Room 18

Workshop

Markus Reichstein

Curator for Planet & Climate Science

Director, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry; Director, ELLIS Unit Jena; Director, ELLIS Program Machine Learning for Earth and Climate Sciences; Professor for Global Ecology, University of Jena

Sašo Džeroski

Curator for Planet & Climate Science

Sašo Džeroski is the Head of Department of Knowledge technologies and professor at the Jožef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana.

Agenda

3 November

Location

Room 18

9:45

Welcome and introduction to Day 1 of the Planet & Climate Workshop

Markus Reichstein, ELLIS program ML for Earth and Climate Sciences, Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry

9:49

Florence Rabier (ECMWF, Reading, UK): AI and Machine Learning for weather prediction and climate

10:08

Christian Igel (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): AI for monitoring tree biomass

10:27

Jonas Peters (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland): AI for designing mitigation and adaptation policies

10:46

Kimmo Koski (CSC, Espoo, Finland): DestinE and European HPC/AI collaboration

11:05

Break

11:25

Salvatore Pinto (ESRIN/ESA, Frascati, Italy): The AI Strategy of the European Space Agency

11:45

Panel Discussion: How AI is transforming Planet & Climate Science: Vision, grand goals and challenges

4 November

09:00

Welcome, recap from previous day, outlook for this day

Sašo Džeroski, Head of Department of Knowledge technologies and professor, Jožef Stefan Institute, Slovenia

09:05

Leif Denby (Danish Meteorological Institute, Copenhagen): Forecasting Tomorrow: How Neural Networks are Revolutionising Weather Prediction

09:20

Alexis BoukOuvalas (Deepmind, London, UK): AlphaEarth Foundations: Efficiently Exploiting Full Earth Observation Archives Through Embedding Methods

09:35

Wieland Brendel (ELLIS Institute, Tuebingen, Germany): Europe needs more Moonshots - and the System to Launch them

09:45

Mohamed Karray (Programme manager for AI, EIC, Brussels, Belgium) – The DeepTech innovation loop: generating value from the lab to the market

10:00

Giuseppe Borghi (Φ-lab Division, ESA): The ESA Φ-lab vision of AI for Earth Observation

10:15

Panel Discussion: AI in Planet & Climate Science as a driving force for innovation: The road ahead

10:50

Recap, vision for moving ahead

Markus Reichstein and Sašo Džeroski

Top speakers

University of Montréal & LawZero

Yoshua Bengio is Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montreal, Co-President and Scientific Director of LawZero.

CTO and Co-founder of CuspAI and Professor at University of Amsterdam

Prof. Dr. Max Welling is a research chair in Machine Learning at the University of Amsterdam and a Merkin distinguished visiting professor at Caltech.

Henna Virkkunen

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, European Commission

Henna Virkkunen serves as the Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy at the European Commission, a role she assumed in December 2024.

Ekaterina Zaharieva

Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation at the European Commission

Ekaterina Zaharieva is Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation at the European Commision.

Christina Egelund

Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science

The minister will highlight the priority of AI in the strategy the Council of the European Union and Denmark.

David Dreyer Lassen

Rector, University of Copenhagen

At AIS25, Rector will highlight UCPH’s vision for AI in Science as part of the university’s overall vision for research and innovation in Europe.

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