AI for Breakfast National Capital Area Circle | AI, Sustainability, and Legal Leadership: Managing Opportunity, Risk, and Equity

Program:

Join us for a timely briefing on what legal professionals need to know about AI and sustainability with National Capital Area Circle member Fatima Ahmad.

Accelerated computing is transforming the economy, with wide-ranging implications for many sectors. In the energy sector, utilities and regulators are exploring how to meet rising electricity demand. Companies across the economy are assessing their sustainability and business resilience goals to determine the impact of AI.

This briefing and discussion will give legal and business professionals a working understanding of key legal issues emerging as organizations deploy AI at scale. It will cover AI supply chain sustainability, data center energy and water use, and how these questions are surfacing in contracting, compliance, and governance. The discussion will also examine how accelerated computing can advance sustainability and business resilience goals for organizations and their clients.

Attendees will leave with an understanding of leadership opportunities at the intersection of AI and sustainability for lawyers and law-related professionals.

Discussion leader:

Fatima Ahmad, CEO, AI For Energy. Fatima is a lawyer and policy strategist working at the intersection of AI, clean energy, and energy systems. She helps policymakers, companies, and NGOs advance energy innovation through new and updated laws, regulations, and policies.

As Senior Counsel to the U.S. House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, she helped craft legislative options that informed the energy and climate provisions of the Energy Act of 2020, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act. Earlier, at the U.S. Department of the Interior, she helped facilitate the licensing of 10,000 MW of wind, solar, and geothermal projects on public land. She also served as an Attorney-Advisor at NOAA.