Leveraging the Power of AI Partnerships to Address Natural Disasters
, Founder and President, Seed AI
, Senior Account Manager, NVIDIA
, Senior ML Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
, Director of AI Integration, Lockheed Martin
, Deputy Technical Director for Autonomy, Defense Innovation Unit
Intense wildfires fueled by warmer, drier weather have swept across enormous swaths of forest worldwide, causing nearly $20 billion in damage in the western United States alone in 2021. To better understand wildfires and stop their spread, NVIDIA and Lockheed Martin are working together with the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and Colorado Division of Fire Prevention & Control using AI and digital-twin simulation. Defense Innovation Unit’s xView Challenge Series and NeurIPS’s AI + HADR 2022 are also challenging commercial companies, universities, and startups to bring innovative approaches to better assist in these humanitarian assistance and disaster relief scenarios.
Public-private partnerships of this scale provide an opportunity for the nation’s sharpest minds to collaborate to bring AI to our toughest natural disaster challenges. Learn from technological experts and government leaders what we’re capable of today and how we’re planning for tomorrow.