AI in Powering Green Energy, Food & Cyber Security

About the Program

A new challenge for the scientific community and decision makers is to assimilate Artificial Intelligence (AI) in advances in technology to help overcome existential threats to life on the planet. These threats include global warming, fuelled by the use of fossil energy, shrinking water resources and food shortages. The use of the new technology will need the advancement of cybersecurity to protect breaches in the new critical infrastructure that is being built around AI.

Bearing the brunt of the existential threats are those living in what is now known as the Global South. This conclave will examine the hope that current advances in technology can breach the boundaries of a prevailing world order that perpetuates the inequitable distribution of wealth and unjust control over the world’s natural resources. These resources are increasingly becoming the focus of conflict as competition sharpens for them, as the population of the world rises sharply.

Those who bear the brunt of the threats inhabit the South, that encompasses Africa, Asia and South America. Among these, the focus of the September 20 Global Dialogue Colombo Conclave are the regions of South and Southeast Asia, drawing inspiration from the past, when landmark conferences focussed on the economic uplift of these two regions. They had laid down in 1950 with the Colombo Plan a marker for subsequent South-South collaborations, later enhanced with the postcolonial aspirations that rise from the Bandung Conference of 1955, that included Africa too.

From Colombo to Bandung, old grievances are gradually being submerged by practical efforts to collaborate with the industrialised North, whose prosperity is in no small measure built on the natural wealth extracted from its colonies in past centuries. In the spirit of the Colombo plan that envisaged economic cooperation among nations of South and Southeast Asia and the aspirations expressed at the conference in Bandung of nations emerging out of colonial rule, this conclave modestly seeks to contribute to a contemporary discourse that updates globally common threats ranging from the environment to food and water scarcities.

It believes that technology led by AI and protected by cybersecurity will be a game changer in overcoming the planetary threats. In its updated form, technology that has come to drive economies, military might and everyday life will be channelled towards pursuing both age old concerns of food, water and energy, but also contemporary concerns of gender and environment, underscored by the pursuit of peaceful coexistence.

Program Details

Registration: 09:00 – 09.30 hrs

Inaugural function: 09.30 – 10:30 hrs

Welcome Address : Mr. Moses Manoharan, Chairman, Global Dialogue Forum
Strategic Overview: Lt General Arun Sahni, PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM (Retd), Indian Army, Secretary General, Club of Rome – India
Inaugural Address: Air First Marshal Asst. Prof. Dr. Ir. Arwin Sumari, S.T., M.T., IPU, ASEAN Eng., ACPE, APEC Eng., FSI, FSME, VDBM, SA, S.R. Eng., Special Staff to the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force, and heads the Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Research.
Keynote address: Mr. Eranga Weerarathne, Hon’ble Deputy Minister of Digital Economy, Government of Sri Lanka
Vote of Thanks: Ms. Nisha Ramdas, Director, Global Dialogue Forum

Session I: 10:30 – 11:45 hrs

AI in fossil fuel transition to green energy economy

Hydrogen, solar and wind –powered sustainable societies
Using Ai in building sustainable societies
Cyber Security networks to protect Ai led initiatives

Chair: Air First Marshal Asst. Prof. Dr. Ir. Arwin Sumari, S.T., M.T., IPU, ASEAN Eng., ACPE, APEC Eng., FSI, FSME, VDBM, SA, S.R. Eng., Special Staff to the Chief of Staff of the Indonesian Air Force, and heads the Cognitive Artificial Intelligence Research.

Speaker: Dr. Prashant Goswami, member, Global Dialogue Forum Advisory Council, Chair, India’s Institute of Frontier Science and Application, was visiting professor at École Normale Supérieure, Paris, and lead author at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Speaker: Mr. Rohit Bahadur, Managing Director and CEO, Prowess Advisors, Bengaluru, India

Speaker: Professor Dr. Sirajuddin Ahmed, a distinguished academic and researcher, is professor and founder, Head of the Department of Environmental Sciences at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.

Questions & Answers

Session II: 1200-1300 hrs

AI enhancing agricultural productivity towards global food security

AI in precision farming and securing water resources in challenging environments
AI-led climate risk forecasting: curbing Global Warming
Ai in crop yield forecasting to enhance Agri livelihoods
Synergy of AI, ML and IoT Technologies for Crop Yield Prediction and Sustainable Agriculture

Chair: Dr. Geethalakshmi Vellengiri, member, Global Dialogue Forum Advisory Council, globally recognised expert in agricultural meteorology, retired recently as Vice Chancellor, Tamil Nadu Agriculture University

Speaker: Dr. Ritu Rao, authority on water resources management, New Delhi India.

Speaker: Dr. Aruna Goswami, former professor of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA), Bengaluru, India

Speaker: Mr. Ujjwal Kumar, Co-Founder, digiMoGo inc., Quizly App (USA, India)

Questions & Answers

LUNCH 1300 – 1400 hrs

Session III: 1415-1545 hrs

Investment Insights on AI driven renewable energy and agro productivity

Incentivising Green finance to promote renewable energy
Ai generated predictive analytical models for Carbon yield and pricing
Mining big data with AI to optimize green investment, minimise risks
Leveraging AI for Proactive Cybersecurity in Green Finance and Critical Infrastructure

Chair: Lt. General Arun Sahni, PVSM, UYSM, SM, VSM (Retd), Indian Army, Secretary General, Club of Rome – India

Speaker: Mr. Harry Hakuei Kosato, BSc (Econ) Msc (Oxon) MA FRSA, is a global entrepreneur, social psychologist, and sushi curator.

Speaker: Mr. Mushthaq Ahmed, Chief Executive Officer, MediaOne TV, India

Speaker: Mr. Asela Waidyalankara, cybersecurity & AI policy Leader, Sri Lanka

Questions & Answers

Session IV: 1600-1700 hrs

Panel Discussion

Reviving North-South Dialogue for transition to Clean Energy and Global Food and Water Security, Legal Boundaries

Moderator: Mr. Shreyas Jayasimha, lawyer, mediator. Expert on Ai governance

Panellist: Mr. Mayura Malagala, – Human Capital Consulting, Engineering AI & Data, and Growth Office Leader at Deloitte, Sri Lanka

Panellist: Dr. Ika Noer Syamsiana S.T, M.T, IPU, ASEAN Eng, APEC Eng., Electrical Engineering Lecturer at State Polytechnic at Malang with expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering Technology

Panellist: Ms. Ashwini Natesan, is a legal consultant and researcher specializing in Technology, Media, and Telecommunications (TMT) law.

Panellist: C. Dawood, Managing Editor, MediaOne TV, India

HIGH TEA 1715-1830,

CONFERENCE CONCLUDES