GenAI: A Business Game-Changer or a Disaster in the Making?

About This Event

Ready to discover how GenAI is not just transforming business but also paving the way for a more sustainable future? 🌍 While AI makes many processes more efficient, it is also insatiably resource-hungry. We explored the groundbreaking impact of AI in reshaping industries — the risks and rewards. ⚖️

🔍 Key Topics

• 🤖 Agent AI: How autonomous systems are changing the human-AI relationship
• 📚 AI Literacy: Bridging the gap between adoption and true understanding
• 💪 Resilience & AI: Strengthening businesses, but also the threats to resilience
• 🌱 AI & Sustainability: Can AI help reduce its environmental footprint, or is it part of the problem?
• ⚖️ Responsible AI: Navigating data privacy, bias, and ethical concerns
• 💼 AI in SMEs: Real-world applications and who is truly benefiting

Speaker Bio

Rainer Karcher is Founder and CEO of Heartprint, enabling twin transformation through digitalization and sustainability. He served as Chief Sustainability Officer and Chief Human Rights Officer at Allianz, spent over a decade at Siemens in corporate IT, and began his career at IBM in 1997. He is also CSO of SustainableIT.org.

📑 Video Chapters

🌍 The Problem

• 00:00 — Welcome & context
• 00:24 — Who Rainer is — and why sustainability meets AI
• 02:43 — Game changer or disaster: the core question
• 03:44 — The highway to climate hell
• 05:38 — A simple ecosystem lesson: chocolate and mosquitoes

⚡ AI's Hidden Costs

• 07:00 — AI's biggest hunger: Energy
• 08:12 — Why AI efficiency is getting worse, not better
• 09:50 — Cooling AI with water
• 10:28 — Half a liter of water per prompt
• 11:35 — New Zealand as a benchmark
• 12:25 — Who gets the water: Agriculture or AI?
• 13:04 — Where data centers are built — and why it's a problem
• 14:04 — The hidden cost of AI hardware
• 14:43 — Shredded servers and exported harm

🌱 Where AI Helps

• 15:47 — Turning the lens: where AI helps
• 16:07 — AI in agriculture and food systems
• 17:13 — Supply chain transparency with AI
• 18:04 — AI in healthcare
• 18:46 — Energy efficiency: the fastest climate win
• 21:36 — AI vs. manual sustainability reporting

⚖️ Responsibility & Future

• 22:51 — Cloud, sovereignty, and dependency
• 25:25 — Bias in AI systems
• 27:18 — Self-training AI — and why that's dangerous
• 27:43 — The twin transformation explained
• 29:00 — Designing sustainability digitally
• 31:14 — Future readiness over sustainability buzzwords
• 32:03 — Transparency, risk, and resilience
• 34:21 — AI, power, and human rights
• 36:36 — Why kids will believe everything
• 37:42 — Responsibility over perfection
• 38:35 — Technology has no moral compass
• 38:57 — Closing thoughts & Q&A

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Event Details

• Venue: jambit GmbH, jambit MeetHub, Birketweg 21, 80639 München
• With the kind support of CompuSafe Data Systems AG & jambit GmbH

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