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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">We are delighted to invite you to the first seminar in our new seminar series organised by the Sustainable Finance Theme at The Alan Turing Institute.
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">The first <i>AI for Sustainable Finance</i> seminar will take place at the Enigma Room in The Alan Turing Institute (British Library, 96 Euston Rd, London
NW1 2DB) on Thursday 19th March, from 11am-1pm, with a sandwich lunch provided. <b>
<u>Please RSVP as places are limited!</u></b></span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">The agenda for the seminar (and future seminars) will be roughly as follows:</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">11:00-11:30 Updates from across the group<br>
11:30-12:30 Presentation and Q&A<br>
12:30-13:00 Lunch and Networking </span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">The main purpose of the series is to identify and discuss how data science and AI can contribute to sustainable finance as an emerging interdisciplinary
field of research and practice. We will bring together academic researchers from across different disciplines, together with practitioners, to explore the following challenges: </span></p>
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<li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">Deploy data science techniques to new and existing datasets, including alternative data, to support financial institutions and financial regulators
in the transition to global environmental sustainability</span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">Measure and track environment-related risks and impacts facing companies and investor portfolios </span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">Mainstream the use of geospatial data and analysis, particularly asset-level data, relevant to financial decision-making </span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">Analyse the performance of (un)sustainable investments in different asset classes using novel datasets</span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">Harness new technologies, including distributed ledgers and smart contracts, to enable the efficient deployment of capital into sustainable investments
across different asset classes, sectors, and geographies</span></li><li class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="color:black"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif">Ensure greater data quality, consistency, and comparability, including through better data assurance and new data standards </span></li></ul>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">The first seminar presentation will be given by<b>Lucas Kruitwagen</b>, a DPhil student at the University of Oxford. Details below: <br>
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<b><i>Remote Sensing & Computer Vision: Localising Energy Transitions</i></b><br>
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Understanding the spatially-embedded energy system is necessary to manage generation intermittency, to mitigate climate risks and associated social impacts, and to target optimal policy interventions. Remote sensing and computer vision offers a novel method
for localising energy infrastructure agnostic to company and country reporting. Using a longitudinal corpus of remote sensing imagery and machine learning we provide a globally-exhaustive inventory of utility-scale solar PV generating stations, complete with
installation dates for facilities built after June 2016. We also present ongoing research in the development of a self-supervised sensor-fusion model for general-purpose semantic embedding of remote sensing imagery.<br>
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If you would like to give a research presentation at future seminars, please email us your suggestions.</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"-webkit-standard",serif; color:black">Feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues. We look forward to seeing you on the 19th March!</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Dr Nataliya Tkachenko</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">AI & Data Science Lead, Oxford Sustainable Finance Program</span></b></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">University of Oxford</span></p>
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<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">The Alan Turing Institute</span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt; vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm"><a href="http://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-programmes/finance-and-economics/sustainable-finance"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:#0563C1">http://www.turing.ac.uk/research/research-programmes/finance-and-economics/sustainable-finance</span></a></span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">M: +44(0) 7 517 440 536 | </span></p>
<p class="x_x_MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Candara",sans-serif; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0cm">E: nataliya.tkachenko@smithschool.ox.ac.uk | ntkachenko@turing.ac.uk </span></p>
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