Event Summary
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to address sustainability challenges around the globe, helping to mitigate environmental impacts, improve resource efficiency, support climate goals and overall optimize decision-making, irrespective of the type of company and sector. With increasing compliance demands on sustainability officers, and more data available from companies reporting against their ESG goals, executive leadership will increasingly need to explore the various technology solutions available to them to better collect and synthesize information and explore predictive modeling across multiple variables to optimize forecasting and decision-making. However, AI has its challenges including the significant uptick in energy consumption required, the concerns around bias and transparency in the underlying data being used to run models, and data privacy and security.
The course will be structured with a one-hour presentation including Q&A about the key use cases for AI in sustainability, followed by a 45-min fireside chat with the founder of an AI intelligence platform focused on ESG and impact, and Q&A to follow.
Attendees will receive 2 Professional Development Hours (PDH) upon completion.
Learning Objectives
- This course is designed to provide a high-level overview of the various use cases of AI that can be applied to solving some of the most complex climate and sustainability challenges today.
- Hear from experts first-hand on the challenges of building AI solutions and what’s next for sustainability and impact.
Who Should Attend
C-suite (including Chief Sustainability Officers and those in Strategy and Procurement) and Board members who are trying to get a better understanding of how AI could be applied to better achieving their corporate sustainability and climate goals.
Meet the Instructor
Nidhi Chadda
Founder and CEO, Enzo Advisors
Chief Impact Officer, Richmond Global Sciences (RGS)
Nidhi Chadda is a generalist growth investor and advisor across public and private markets. She is the Founder and CEO of Enzo Advisors, a female and minority-led sustainability consulting practice she founded that focuses on helping private, small and mid-cap companies build best-in-class sustainable business models and works closely with institutional investors to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies and frameworks across their investment processes. Enzo Advisors is at the nexus of finance, strategy and technology, taking a holistic qualitative and quantitative approach advising corporate and investor clients on how to integrate sustainability initiatives to mitigate risk and unlock value creation.
She is also the Chief Impact Officer for Richmond Global Sciences (RGS), where she focuses on developing and executing business strategies aligned with market and customer insights with a keen focus on RGS’ portfolio construction investment solutions linking financial criteria to various environmental and social impact drivers. Prior to launching Enzo Advisors, Nidhi was a portfolio manager at RBC Global Asset Management, where she spearheaded the initiative to drive ESG integration across investment processes for her team managing $3 billion in assets under management in aggregate across 3 funds. Nidhi also serves on several advisory boards and investment committees at angel associations and venture funds.
Nidhi has hosted numerous webinars related to ESG / impact / climate – related topics and has been featured across a number of media engagements including CNBC, the Women in Asset Management Summit, ESG Clarity magazine, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD), ESG Today, and Venture Capital Journal. Nidhi is also an instructor for the Southern Gas Association where she teaches courses on ESG / sustainability; decarbonization and the pathway to net zero; emerging climate technologies; and climate risk modeling. She also spearheaded the launch of the quarterly ESG Series on behalf of the Board of the Harvard Business School Women’s Association, which has hosted sold out events since inception. Nidhi has 20+ years of experience as an investment banker, strategic consultant, and investor.
She earned her MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania where she was a Benjamin Franklin and Joseph Wharton Scholar, as well as the recipient of the Dean’s Award for Innovation.
She is the recipient of the Impact Investment and Advisory Award (June 2024, NRI Achiever Awards) as well as the recipient of the Outstanding Leadership in Finance Award (July 2023, MORE 2.0 Conference.) Nidhi has also received numerous accolades including being named one of Aspiring Women Leaders for 2022 by Aspioneer Magazine, was a finalist for the Next Generation Leader Award in 2021 and a finalist for the Women in Asset Management Award for US Small / Mid-cap Equities in 2019.
Guest Speaker
Sakis Kotsantonis
Co-Founder & CEO, Richmond Global Sciences (RGS)
Sakis has extensive experience in ESG investing and research, having previously co-founded KKS Advisors, a leading advisory firm instructing clients on innovative solutions to more sustainable business models and communities. He has been a senior advisor on ESG integration to organizations around the world, having accrued significant experience in building new ESG datasets and developing measurement frameworks. He holds a PhD in material science and engineering from Imperial College London.
