In this seminar, Dr. Heike Brugger, an energy and AI expert from Germany, will deliver an insightful talk on energy efficient digitization and green IT. The keynote will provide valuable perspective in the field of AI (including the European AI Act) and its applications in the energy sector. Following the presentation, there will be an interactive Q&A session. The keynote speech and ensuing discussion will delve into the dual role of digitalization and artificial intelligence (AI) in the clean energy transition. Dr. Brugger will elaborate on how these technologies serve as both enablers, offering innovative solutions to reduce energy consumption, and as challenges, presenting new demands and complexities in energy management. Special attention will be given to the energy demand side, exploring how AI and digital tools can optimize energy use, improve efficiency, and contribute to a more sustainable future. This seminar provides a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between advanced technologies and energy sustainability.
Please register for this event by Tuesday, October 8, 2024.
Speaker Biography
Dr. Heike Brugger joined the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI in 2018. She works as a senior researcher and project manager at the Competence Center Energy Policy and Energy Markets. Since March 2021, Heike Brugger is Coordinator of the Business Unit Energy Policy.
Her research interests include the design and evaluation of energy and climate change policies, particularly in the field of energy efficiency, digitalisation and artificial intelligence as well as the modeling of the development of energy consumption in private households and the tertiary sector. An additional research interest lies in the analysis and consultation of local energy and climate policy and politics. Heike Brugger studied politics and public administration as well as mathematics and physics at the University of Konstanz, Germany. From 2014 to 2015 she was a visiting research scholar at the School of Governance and Public Policy at the University of Arizona (Tucson, USA). In 2017 she obtained her Phd from the University of Konstanz in the Department of Politics and Public Administration with her work focusing on the local energy transition in Germany and the relevance of policy networks therein. Heike Brugger is a member of the Advisory Board of the “Competence Center for Energy Efficiency Through Digitalisation”, a project by the German Energy Agency.
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