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AI and Sustainability – a strategic overview of opportunities, paradoxes, and decision implications for business and policy leaders.

AI and Sustainability – Driving Transformative Change

Join an engaging masterclass exploring how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can act as a powerful catalyst for sustainable innovation across science, technology, and industry.

The session will uncover how AI supports breakthroughs in areas such as sustainable food and protein design, while also delving into how paradox theory helps us understand and navigate the inherent tensions between economic growth, environmental responsibility, and social progress.

Through a dynamic mix of conceptual insights, practical examples, and visual materials, participants will gain both strategic and hands-on perspectives on how to integrate AI into sustainable development initiatives.

This session invites reflection and dialogue, helping you discover how AI and systems thinking can empower your organization to accelerate its sustainable transformation journey.

You will leave the masterclass with:

New frameworks for understanding the complex relationships between AI and sustainability.
Concrete examples of how AI drives innovation toward circular and regenerative solutions.
Actionable inspiration to kickstart or scale sustainable change projects in your company or research environment — with AI as your intelligent wingman.

Here are the details:

Date and time: December 2nd. 16:30 – 18: 30
Place: Kollegiebakken 421, entrance C, at DTU Lyngby campus

The programme for the event is as follows:

16:30 – 18:00 – Lecture

18:00 – 18:30 – Something to drink and eat, as well as an opportunity to network.

Please note that the event is free!

As there will be limited seatings, we encourage you to sign up for the event as soon as possible. Don’t miss out – sign up today.

You’re more than welcome to spread the word and invite your peers.

We hope to see you there!

DTU Master in Sustainable Leadership is master programme for senior specialists, project managers and business leaders who wish to continue their lifelong learning journey and enhance their skills in leadership and how to lead sustainable change.

Innovation is essential for growth. Without constant renewal of products, services, processes and business concepts, companies stand to lose market share. That is why the DTU executive MBA focuses on innovation, new business creation and leadership of current and future technologies.

Every assignment in the programme is focused not only on expanding your knowledge but also on impacting your business challenges. In other words, your Executive MBA can be implemented in your daily work life from day one.

The admission requirements are five years of work experience with three years of experience as knowledge-leader, project-leader and/or people-leader.

Visit the Master in Sustainable Leadership programme page for more information.

Speaker

Jacob Michaelsen

Head of Sustainable Finance, Nordea

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France Bourguin

Industry Fellow, DTU Entrepreneurship

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Sophie Elmgren

Lederne

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Salla Laasonen

Dr. Laasonen is Academic Director at DTU Executive Education, Technical University of Denmark. She is co-director of the Master programme in Sustainable Leadership, a technology and innovation driven programme.

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Farley Simon Nobre, Ph.D.

Guest Researcher, Center for Climate IT, IT University of Copenhagen Professor, PPGADM, UFPR

Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Systems at the Graduate Program in
Business Administration at the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil. He also serves as a Guest
Researcher at the IT University of Copenhagen, where he develops a project on AI and the
Sustainable Development Goals. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the
University of Birmingham (UK), with the thesis “On Cognitive Machines in
Organizations” (2005), a pioneering work that connects AI, cognition, and organizational
theory. His research focuses on AI, sustainability, strategy, and systems theory, and he has
authored more than 100 publications appearing in international journals and conferences.