Tech Alliance Policy Matters Summit: Fueling the Ai Revolution: People, Power, and Purpose
This blog blends insights from the event with my reflections, sparking thought and conversation. The summit explored the rising energy demands of AI, the push for sustainable tech, and the urgent need for updated infrastructure and power supplying methods.
Topics Covered: Artificial Intelligence, Energy Grid, Policy Reform, Ai in Healthcare, Sustainable Tech, Innovation Policy, Surveillance
Conference Overall Ratings: Venue (4.5/5) - Food (5/5) - Speaker Content (4.5/5) - Networking Opportunity (3/5) - Likeliness to Return (5/5)
Initial Conference Overview - Why Attend? Well, to be honest, I was sorta rolling my eyes before this “conference about Ai”, cause how many speeches can you really hear about Ai? But, I was excited to check out this venue by the water/downtown and expected it to be very professional, technical, and informative.
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Bullet Point Notes from Conference :
INITIAL POINTS
Fueling the future: “power” is part of the Ai conversation.
Ai needs more electrical power than ever before. Electrical power is a huge part of Ai.
Ai data centers consume immense amounts of energy—estimates range from the equivalent of powering 80,000 to 800,000 homes annually, depending on their size and operations. This usage underscores the serious growing challenge of maintaining energy suitability while meeting Ai’s expanding computational abilities/usage.
EVENT NOTE: The EMCEE mentions -“It’s hard to quiet down the crowd because so many connections are being made.”
I think it’s up to the EMCEE to keep things moving and light hearted. Though it is hard to do when the event is scheduled very tightly without a lot of time for networking. People often want to talk at events related to policy, and very niche industry events. So, events like this are best when you prioritize time for networking - even a post-event get-together.
ENERGY DEMAND
Energy demand has reached historic highs in 2024, with projections indicating a 30% increase over the next decade—four times faster than the growth rate of the past 40 year, according to PNW Utilities Annual Projectors
This level of growth hasn’t been seen since WW2 tech booms.
Ai is using about 9% of the power grid at the moment, and thats projected to keep growing.
At the moment, there about 15 states seriously using Ai, especially Washington, California, and Oregon.
Ai needs more computing capacity to do what it needs to do.
Chat GPT uses 10x the amount of power per search than a simple google search. Training these systems takes even more power.
Increased demand for computational capabilities through machine learnings.
CHALLENGES AND SOLUTIONS FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY
We need to increase renewable and clean resources for getting energy: wind, sunlight (but in these cases, we need more storage)
At the moment we don’t have a lot of technology for STORING renewable energy.
We can’t store sunlight from the sunny day today for the stormy day tomorrow.
Advances in battery technology aim to store excess solar energy generated on sunny days for use during cloudy or stormy periods. However, current storage systems are insufficient for large-scale, long-term needs.
In the northeast they are developing 3 miles on an island (the entire island itself) dedicated to energy creation.
There is more energy demand than we’ve seen in decades, but we must also generate energy that is eco friendly. The plan is to entirely de-carbonize portfolios and switch to renewable resources.
The other problem is that the energy grids are very old and outdated. They need to be more green and renewable, ontop of that, the GRID is so complex that it sorta needs to be entirely updated. New power infrastructure is a good thing.
We need more storage and better distribution of energy.
The future energy grid will incorporate both renewable and non-dispatchable energy sources—forms of energy that cannot be turned on or off at will, like solar and wind. It will also include advancements in small modular reactors, fusion energy (still in research phases), hydrogen power, and biofuels. These innovations aim to create a more sustainable and resilient grid, capable of adapting to fluctuating demand.
Dispatchable Power Generation: controllable, off the base load, limitations to ramp up and down (you can’t quickly turn it on or off like a light switch)
Non-Dispatchable Power Generation: uncontrollable but can’t be turned on or off, like solar or wind.
Mount Ranier functions like a natural battery, storing energy in the form of snow and ice. As the ice melts, it powers hydroelectric systems throughout the year. However, climate change is disrupting this natural cycle, with warmer winters leading to less snow accumulation and shorter melt seasons, reducing hydropower output."
MAIN ISSUES OF ENERGY:
Grid Adequacy
Transmission Line Congestion
Lack of Grid-Scale and Longterm Storage
Timeline of what we’re talking about. A lot of new sources and data centers take time to build, improve, enhance…
It’s so hard to balance: affordability & equity, reliability and resilience, suitability and cleanliness… all three are a constant challenge to achieve.
Every day is wasted opportunity if it’s windy or sunny… the storage isn’t great. We need to invest in better energy storage technology, multi-day batteries. To save energy for the future and store it. To receive excess energy, at the moment we dont’ have enough ability to capture it. “And we can’t control the weather”
But… this makes me think of the speech I went to a few months ago at the Boeing flight museum. There were two speeches in a row, and one was by someone working for some weather research facility and the other was a guy who worked at both UW & Nvidia - but he said he wasn’t there representing Nvidia. They both talked about how they can use Ai to track the weather and predict the weather in hundreds of scenarios, 1000 years in the future. The guy said that they knew the weather pretty much perfectly for the next 1000 years, with this Ai technology… so, okay - believe what you want, but it makes it WAY more likely they at least know the weather for the next few days/months/years?
Ontop of that - there is nonstop content online showing news reports from the past, with updates in weather modification technology. Ways they can alter, delay, amplify the weather at different science/weather centers, etc. If you haven’t seen these, they’re really all over the internet (especially platforms like TikTok and twitter, others don’t allow this type of content to go viral). When I look out my windows every morning and see planes all over the place spreading chemicals, RFK Jr saying it’s going to stop. I think someone/many people fight over control of the weather, at least a bit. SO… with that in mind, and these geopolitics… think about how weather being a resource for energy can be manipulated with as well.
As Ai evolves and gets more complex, it will need more advancements in memory technology. We need to make energy efficient Ai. Everything eventually deteriorates… jpgs, etc. We need more sold systems.
Reminds me of the XR conference where they talked about just this, and how pottery that is thousands of years old, made from clay, is still around. Everything we have right now (this whole website) could be erased in a second. Versus a bunch of pottery, etc.
EVENT NOTE: One of the hosts was so funny… first she gave a presentation, then she pulls on a new slide and casually says, “alright, so if you name is up here, wanna come up? Then we can do our panel.” (It doesn’t translate well in text, but it was so comedically timed and funny).
HYDROGEN AND FUSION ENERGY DEVELOPMENTS
The panels worked in the energy sector and talked about how there isn’t enough energy in the PNW and it’s only getting worse as more demand increases. Two people worked for hydrogen. There is a lot of talk here about hydrogen
It is an investment in everyone to invest in energy
Energy systems:we need a lot more, we need to work on how we move it and move it quicker, more efficiently.
Hydrogen is a good, flexible way to store and move electrons. It’s a way to store energy.
Today we are closer than ever to getting hydrogen power on the grid.
There is a deal with Microsoft to get fusion hydrogen plants going by 2028
Fission and Fusion are not the same. Fission is splitting apart, fusion is combining together to make energy. Fusion energy is getting more popular lately, but we don’t want to treat it the same as fission.
North Carolina’s license plates read: First in Flight… however, where are most of the planes made? Washington state. As we are “First in Fusion”, we want to also keep production in this state.
Puget Sound Energy serves 1.2 Million Customers. “How do we keep meeting the customer needs tomorrow? Next minute!?”
working to decarbonize the portfolio.
In the past, it was cheaper to buy energy from the East coast and ship it here… but now, there’s no extra power to be sold from the East Coast. They’re using it. So, now it’s time to invest in generating our own energy.
It’s now up to companies. They know that if they’re going to compete, it’s “BYOP: Bring Your Own Power”. All of the energy is accounted for
Hyperscalers like Microsoft must invest in energy production. They are pursuing the creation of energy.
A fusion plant has never been built before, so people aren’t exactly sure what to put on site. Additionally, new permits and policies will have to be decided on. How do you make permits when it has never been done before.
If it’s treated the same as fission, that will be very frustrating. Safety is the #1 priority but permits and regulations can hold up progress tremendously. There needs to be permit reform.
Permitting processes are often lengthy and complicated, delaying critical energy infrastructure projects. Streamlining these regulations while maintaining safety standards will get this project going and increase the energy availability quicker.
Where can we get clean, reliable, firm energy:
employ geothermal
longterm storage
smart grids
ai agreement with amazon WS
WASHINGTON STATE BUSINESS, ECONOMY, AND POWER GRID
Many people woudl think you’re silly to say, in Washington State, “I’m worried about the economy”… but there is reason to be concerned
Washington State’s robust tech and energy sectors often lead people to assume the local economy is secure. However, rising energy demands and outdated infrastructure pose significant challenges, particularly for young professionals and future industries dependent on sustainable power.
Mostly there is concern about the future economy for young people. What pathways do future generations have for employment?
If we can’t solve this energy problem, if we don’t fix it, we’ll start to see more and more companies go for other hubs with ports, technology, etc.
There is already not enough power.
Companies will find other places to build and invest in for the longterm.
Government initiatives like the Inflation Reduction Act and infrastructure investments have allocated trillions toward renewable energy development, grid modernization, and AI integration, aiming to secure a sustainable energy future.
We’re lucky for these trillions of dollars invested into this from the government at this time, but now we must spend it wisely. We must invest.
These are investments into energy which benefit the entire state of Washington. Margins aren’t as deep as you think, we need government help and spending, and the timeline shortened with permit reform and prioritization of these projects.
Permitting stalls so much and it is a huge struggle to keep up with new technology.
We need to see united messaging and leadership from our leaders.
Right now it’s so many small businesses delivering everything, we need to bring everyone together on the big vision.
“Hope that a blackout isn’t what it takes for us to take this seriously”
Right now, “new money” isn’t the biggest problem, it’s harder to get people to want projects:
getting through regulations
this project is so important, we must learn to walk and chew gum at the same time.
we can decarbonize our grid, but we need to remove government regulatory behavior… “we need a benevolent dicer to get all these projects online”
fix the interconnection issues of Washington State.
The workforce of the future of the power grid needs hands-on labor:
Construction workers, data scientist, computer sciences, electrical engineers, technicitions, assembly line workers, builders, manufacturers, electronic workers, mechanical workers.
Keep making programs that incentivize skilled work and labor work. Full paid tuition, over in a quarter or a few, then they can go into work, debt free, with a good job.
Keep feeding into programs that encourage this. We’ve got to educate people better about energy
“There are many people leading policy that don’t understand how the grid works. They think a few solar panels will fix everything.”
Dude… in another event I went to, about taxes, they said literally this. How you can put a solar panel on your business and get tax credits. 🤦♀️
EVENT NOTE: I appreciated how much the panel liked the previous presenter (now host) and their slide. Everyone at this event made so many shoutouts to the other speakers for their presentations earlier. They were like “we’re so glad you brought this up! we’re so glad you talked about that, you said it so well! I need to leverage your presentation for my next one”. I think it showed how these challenges are coming at them fast, they appreciate hearing each other summarize whats going on, and are realizing the value in this event/communicating.
BITCOIN’S IMPACT ON POWER CONSUMPTION
Then the senator spoke up with a question - this is a senator i’ve seen at multiple events. she seems very friendly and social, reminds me a bit of my grandma in that she’s very charismatic, sweet seeming, out and about, and they have the same haircut.
She asked a question which got a funny reaction… cause at first, the panelist answered like “oh, it doesn’t matter, we don’t pay attention to that or take it seriously” and then they even more admitted that “it’s just super super volatile and hard to even count on, so they don’t” What was the topic? Bitcoin/crypto! Here’s a bit more about what they said:
The senator asked about how much bitcoin and crypto take up energy, will that be a factor in the future?
There was discussion about how “the lid is off fossil fuels” with this new administration, alongside a push for crypto & bitcoin.
Though I am so, front row seat metaphorically to this bitcoin situation/globally - no clue what to expect from bitcoin/crypto. I think it has potential/total real-world uses (digital currency) like I’ve seen in China… where it’s 100% digital payments basically, and I could see a world where the US dollar totally loses so much value that they want to replace it with something… at the same time, that’s also crazy to say and just “the dollar survives and crypto gets wiped out” makes so much sense too.
Crypto and mining is a complexity that people dont’ understand. Crypto takes an incredible amount of power to mine. Houses that are mining crypto, apartments, they catch on fire often because of overheating while left idol, mining. IT’s very dangerous. Ontop of that, mining operations go out of business all the time as the price of crypto fluxuates so unexpectedly.
It can be challenging to think about how to deal with crypto because it is so sportatic, but for now, it’s a non-factor. For utilities companies, they must supply energy to everyone and keep up with demand.
Could energy be going to better/other places?
We have to start making investments TODAY so we can be ready for 2045. We need better support, we need to convince decisionmakres that this is a good investment for the best interest of the entire region.
It’s up to individual businesses, especially data centers, to use power/energy efficiently.
it’s all about efficiency, using resources intelligently and ethically
There are some super constraignts
Even if Ai’s growth is slowing down, we will keep quickly finding great uses for it and data centers will keep consistently consuming power.
EVENT NOTES: People in the audience said they wished there was more time for Q&A. Some of the speeches didnt’ have any, at all!
I ran into someone I’ve met once or twice at events. He remembered me from my old work (atm my involvement in a certain company is so unclear!!) and now he’s having a conference in June! I told him how now i’m working on this blog and have experience with events, if he needs some help - then he said I can be a volunteer… so. Then this makes me think… hmm… I need to think about how to “word all of this” in the future. Part of me is like “um, no, i’m not going to go be a volunteer” like handing out flyer?. OR doing some duty on site. IDK. I like to be taken more seriously, and get involved with things more large-scale… (I guess you could volunteer in that way?) My thinking was to be, more, taken seriously as a professional/partner.
After this interaction, I realize I need to clean up a number of things about the way I’m communicating my current situations/projects . To be honest, I’m not even sure how to “fix it” but it was good to experience/be aware of, though it felt a little like a stumble.
LUNCH
I spoke with a senator’s assistant and a guy who worked at the ferry terminal in administration. We talked about how we love New York hahaha.
After lunch (which was TOO good):
I loved the SALMON with BEETS - cause I am always trying to eat beets.
I loved how the food was local + healthy. It made me feel like it had a really special “feel” to it. It brought awareness to the amazing surroundings/water, and great culture/offerings of this Provence.
EVENT NOTE: After lunch, the host/emcee was not too happy because everyone was really taking a long time to sit down and settle down and get started on the next speech. I will point out, that I moved to the front few rows after she asked everyone to the first time, but she kept giving the audience a hard time about being quiet and moving forward so it looked good for pictures, etc. I noticed a lot of people talking in the lobby, cleaning out especially as the day went on… I wonder if it was related at all to this mood… and/or I just REALLY think people here were excited to talk to each other… so maybe if that could have been more embraced, with more intentional networking - or more after party things? haha. I’m not sure. But it seems everyone filled their time intentionally at this event, but not everyone was prioritizing these speeches.
SIDEWALK DEVELOPMENT OVER THE NEXT DECADE WITH Ai
It was noted how special it was to have the top voices of Washington Communities in Ai all together.
Transportation, safety, workers impact, community impact, sustainability.
We can even ask questions like: how many Washingtonians have access to frequent transit? What is “frequent transit"?"
The goal is to do a complete sidewalk inventory of the entire state of Washington. Who has access to sidewalks (side note! I didn’t up until moving to this new apartment and it was so dangerous/annoying with a baby, and all the drivers act like I’m annoying for walking with a baby on MY OWN STREET - hello!)
“In countless neighborhoods, sidewalks are either deteriorating or simply don’t exist. And people choose against active transportation when they dont’ know where they would feel safe.”
Why does sidewalk data matter? It shows gaps in safety, connectivity, equity, and underserved communities. It limits access to essential services.
Google Maps does not always have accurate sidewalk info and it can send you down dangerous pathways or unsuitable roads with no sidewalks at all . (Accessmap.com solves this, using data tools to provide useful routes)
So far the data is 35% complete… the data on Washington’s landscape, environment, and infrasture had a lot of inaccuracies.
“Events like these get the eyes of senators and decision makers”
Yet, when I used the restroom, etc, I saw a lot of people were in the lobby… the senator included for much of the 2nd half. And sitting in there, I saw the room cleaning out over time. So, this made me think about EXACTLY THIS… everyone’s time and attention is so limited but crucial. Knowledge is power in creating good decisions… but it’s hard to sit through hours and hours of meetings, presentations, day in and day out. This is an issue.
MONITORING EXTREME WEATHER
EVENT TOPIC NOTE: The next section was on fire and using Ai for fire surveillance. I thought this was insane, how he presented this, cause he was basically like, “we use our things a lot for social media surveillance, but for this speech we’ll talk about fire safety”. Then they were showing all these sattelies and radars they use to track social media/fires. It was nuts
On average 400B/year is lost in costs from extreme weather events.
Again, my alarm bells are ringing like crazy. Just having attended that event a few months back (where they talked about ability to accurately predict the weather into the next 1000 years, like I said above… and then hearing how much money can be made/spent after weather disasters… its a huge way for the economy to be stimulated, and provide jobs - through descrutction. It makes me think this is SO much money, you can’t ignore that people are taking advantage of it. I would love to see more accountability and awareness from administrations. More people standing up for their values and actively pushing to make smarter/better for all decisions, using our money and resources better.
In 2024, this number jumped to 700B in costs from extreme weather
I mean, when the mainstream consensus is that weather is not up to us, “what can we do?” - yeah, this is an easy way to make extra billions… idk. Just smells fishy!!!
These PowerPoints had “unclassified” all over them…. meaning that others are classified!
The slide that was showing all of the radars they use had my eyes popping out of my head, as he accompanies it with, “we use Ai to collect data off of social media platforms, using platforms, to see how people use them and interact. “
AI systems analyze data from social media platforms to track trends and gather insights, such as public responses to extreme weather events or natural disasters. While this raises questions about privacy, it also helps emergency responders make timely decisions.
So I”m lik ewahtttt - hahaha. Okay… tracking everyone with RADARS! But we won’t get into that today, instead let’s talk about wildfires! So then this whole speech I’m thinking about wildfires = social media posts, trends, stories… and i’m like, omg.
Aircrafts are collecting data in real time.
Aircraft equipped with advanced sensors collect real-time data on wildfires, using infrared technology to map heat perimeters and predict fire spread. This information allows firefighters to respond more effectively, reducing damage and saving lives.
They use infrared technology to know the current and future worries
Our country has a lot of inaccuracies and out of data data about our landscape. Predictive models don’t produce good results with bad data.
The landscape is often changing with landslides, wildfires, hurricanes, etc)
Some of the models can tell how plants are doing, do they need more water, more sun, etc. Can sense vegetation in distress before the human eye can see it.
Again, I think about the power that “manipulating the weather” and what extent it’s being done? and how that can effect your crops. Who has this data? Could they intentionally make things grow as much as diminished. It feels like the frontier for modern fighting, though I’d like to see it as a means for cooperation and teamwork.
They can isolate areas and see where are the fires strongest, what is the heat perimeter, what is likely to catch on… with time series and event dynamics.
It costs 40-50k/plane to collect that data one time… using their platform the same information only costs a dollar.
Before implementing advanced AI-driven monitoring and pre-treatment strategies, wildfires in the area spread across 7,000 acres annually. With these new tools, the affected area has been reduced to just 1,000 acres per year, showcasing the effectiveness of targeted interventions
Pre-treatment, the fires were spreading to about 7,000 acres per year, after their consulting + help, they were down to about 1,000 per year.
MICROSOFT’S LEADERSHIP IN Ai
“Microsoft is working hard to battle misinformation, especially about the last election.”
Microsoft has developed AI tools to address misinformation, focusing on topics like elections and public health. These tools aim to improve content authenticity and transparency, though concerns remain about the potential for bias in AI moderation.
Responsive Ai is a focus at Microsoft. Ai isn’t just another piece of technology, it can be a tool to augment human capabilities. It frees us up and provides better value work. It evens out the playing field a bit for the educated and uneducated. It gives us the potential to be the greatest democratic force so far.
This helps train and place the power into the hands of people without training, to code… it evens out the benefits from the technical revelation and places into the hands of the more average-educated individuals.
Ai can create content, summarize, do semantic searches, and generate code
What are large language models? They follow the most natural map of the langueage
use math to calculate probability of what the next things shoudl be.
uses math to identify probability, correct outputs that could be helpful to come next. This technology is very useful to produce content.
Ai gets you 80-85% of the way there.
Legislatures want help with Ai to summarize long, long bills - they need to read, understand, and sign these things very quickly
This feels like it could be taken advantage of by the owners of the Ai software, and written to make certain things always ignored (so they sign anyway) or worded carefully, etc… seems it could be manipulated and conveniently biased. While of course, it’s also a great sounding idea… it just has ways to be manipulated and corrupt.
Ai can be a tool or a weapon. When your tech changes the world, it is your job to deal with the world you create.
Fairness = make important decisions about people, treat them the same
Reliability and Safety = operation a wy that’s reliable and keeps us safe
Privacy and Security = holds a lot of data
I am most skeptical about this one… and then it’s the one he elaborated on the least! lol…
Inclusivity: People of all over the world, they com with biases and prejudices
Transparency: (he literally didnt mention)
Accountability: (also just skipped over)
They are working to create a “responsible AI Council” - an ethics committee to provide governance
Principals inform how to reform the tech. You can see it today on their website, the “Responsible Ai Commitment”
The Biden administration put out volunteer commitments which Microsoft adapted them.
I’m like… uhhh, did Microsoft send the ideas to the administration, then they released them, then they agreed? lol. idk. Just felt this claim was missing some info.
Content Provenance + Authenticity: can this be used to make content of ch_ld sx videos, mimic politicians? Protection of revengee p*** and generative Ai child p**
.Okay, when he brought this up, I was like, “what the heck??? where did this come from, why are you using this as the example??” and then I just thought of these parties, these thousands of victims coming forward. Sure.. fake content will be made. But I think that it’s not all fake. That’s all I’m going to say. But it’s like… dude… you brought it up - what narrative are you trying to get a head start on at this policy event? Why bring this up? And you guys are also the ones now stepping in as the moderators officially deciding whats real and fake?? Hm.
Microsoft is working with engineers to help them figure out what is real and what is generated content (this makes me think of the event I went to a few days ago, the Ikigai event, where the FinTech programmers said that in the finance world, they aren’t allowed to get close enough to the problems to truly solve them, because so much is classified.)
But they are worried that their work will not continue on with this new administration(again, i’m like what the heckkkk!! hahah. I’m like… okay, cause I know this current administration thinks there’s a lot of really bad things going on with some big leaders of our world - involving kids and some of this stuff. so i’m like, okay…. you mention this now, too! Idk this speech was like, a lot hahaha)
We are in the early days of tech, governance. It relieves on a place to address these concerns and discuss. What are the risks and harm?
COLLEGE ADVISOR AI BOTS
Ai is being used to help give kids specific guidance on where they can go to college and how to prepare. This pressure is taken off of the college administration, and not saved until senior year. Instead, they can start proactively planning as early as freshman year.
Capital One granted money to help make a bot that interacts with families and helps them make college decisions. This company is a nonprofit out of NYC and they’re looking to expand. They only provided info to seniors and juniors, but everyone in the high schools want this help.
They’ve helped over 30,000 students since 2019.
This bot is made to be like a friendly chatbot (reminds me of AIM’s messaging bot from my childhood: smarterchild)
AI WITH PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
Reimagining Medicine, Ai-Driven Reevaluating Medicine and Personalized Care.
Realizing that certain medicines can help with multiple problems.
The goal and project is taking different Ai which specialize in certain fields (the effects of all food on the body and compounds, the effects of all medicine, the reactions of these things on the human body)
bring this information together and find out new facts. Each one is a sepecliaist in a certain way, but together they can gie the best information.
Reasoning and interpreting from all of the knowledge databases.
The knowledge graphs connect all the relationships (links) that cat connect to homiletical concepts (nodes)
They build a matrix showing each drug, each diseases, and which drugs are approved for each disease. Then looked into what else can help with what?
They found out that viagra can help with althesimers because it increases blood flow and decreases cognitive decline
But again, this sounds like not addressing the root of problems, or this problem arises because you’re already taking medicine and our culture doesn’t do the best job teaching s*x education… love, relationships, etc. so… I don’t like how we turn to medication to solve more and more things.
It’s keeping you on medicine instead of getting you off medicine. It’s just setting you up for more symptoms
Like… yay! let viagra get paid more so that I can not get althsimers… (when actually, true love, lovely love making, etc, can help you too. lol… I wish we’d focus more on the longterm and human experience, not pharmaceuticals profiting off of human suffering. These profits are steering away from a better quality of life.)
Knowledge Graphs take scientific literature and use Ai to come up with new statements and get a solution.
Knowledge graphs are extremely useful in these scenarios and can help us connect everything together.
Remember when that marketing conference presenter said that KNOWLEDGE GRAPHS are the number two trending… “trend” under Ai! Hahah and that’s part of why now I’m always linking comments to other pages. To #KnowledgeGraph them 😁
Responsible Ai is a C-level conversation from the board-down. It brings together so many pieces of the company. It builds trust, creates values, and protects from risk. Governments world wide are putting regulations into place. so far 148 bills passed and more are to come.
California is the biggest Ai market, so they will be the leader of privacy
I’m like, omg, wtf… California has so many issues going on I don’t agree with now. Especially with privacy and accountability for things mentioned above. I’m like… “are we taking crazy pills?” they’re the leaders of this, displaying valuesss? oof.
ENERGY PRODUCTION PAYS THE HELPFUL CONSUMER BACK
Use Ai on homes of the future, how roofs and solar panels can put money back into peoples homes and energy back onto the grid. Return of investment, where every’s home can be adding to the grid.
These days, everyone is charging their cars at night when there is no sunlight, after work. If we can work on preserving energy, you could collect the sunlight and save it for later or send it back into he grid.
You could make $2000/household selling money back to the grid, or collecting with your vehicle.
Fortune 500 companies are already starting to do this, adding energy back to the grid.
Washington state is the enter of Ai transforming medicine. New vaccines target pathogens with “pandemic potential”.
Work with Ai to ensure responsible safety in the White House and trustworthy Ai
EVENT NOTE: The purpose of this event was “policy” and change, so the main audience was policymakers. This puts lots of pressure for policy makers to pay attention the entire time. The event scheduler should keep this in mind and what they know of those policymakers. It’s smart to manage time and mix in networking.
Conference “Overall Rating” Further Elaboration:
VENUE - 4.5/5
Allow me to Elaborate: Loved the waterfront location, amazing setting, and great auditorium. But, they need a better interior designer. Even someone to come in and not spend a dollar on anything, just rearrange the furniture/UX a little better. Optimize it. Because of this location… it has such potential.
FOOD - 5/5
Allow me to Elaborate: I arrived too late for lunch, but everything else was incredible. As I said, I had the best salmon of my life!! I love how things were local, healthy, and delightfully delicious.
SPEAKER CONTENT - 4.5/5
Room for Improvement: I thought the speeches were so fantastic. The two problems that arose is that everyone was rushed and there was no time for Q&A. The speakers could have been asked to give shorter speeches, more awareness of time placed on the speaker (so it wasn’t all on the host to try and navigate the agenda running late in the moment) and also that would have left more time for Q&A… many speakers had none at all- especially at an event like this, where literally policies were being discussed and impacted, it could have been a little more engaging.. I also just crazily surprised to learn how most of the data we have about the Earth is inaccurate. That just can’t last long.
NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES - 3/5
Room for Improvement: The event felt very rushed (not in a totally bad way, but also, just in the way that there wasn’t much dillydallying and everything was running a little behind). An “after party” or dinner may have been appreciated, because this group was really interested to hear what each other had to say. Though all of the speeches were interesting, too. Remembering to prioritize networking next time would be beneficial.
LIKELINESS TO RETURN - 5/5
ALLOW ME TO ELABORATE: I was very impressed with the panel and found all of the speeches interesting. I would love to return and I think there is so much to learn in this field. However cliche that may sound.
Kelly’s Remaining Questions:
How is Washington State addressing its ever growing energy demands? What strategies can reduce the costs while balancing all of their necessities?
Who are some of the biggest energy users? Are some of these offices using more energy than needed? Other sectors?
How possible is it for people to soon receive money for collecting energy?
Do companies realize they need to BYOP?
Is the energy grid actively being updated?
What are the current backup plans? There must be things they have in mind to happen first?
Until next time, I wish you the motivation and success to search for opportunities around your area. Search and explore: Who is out there giving talks? There are new things happening all of the time
Find relatable or interesting topics you like and check them out! Maybe even something hosted at a cool venue, if there’s no other reason to go. Let’s see what you can learn and discover not too far from home. 😊
