Future Shapers: When Cloud Gets Clouded – Reconciling Processing Supremacy with Energy Resilience

Synopsis:

The world today harnesses an unprecedented level of computational capacity to power a wide range of applications, from large-language-model trainings to artificial intelligence-enhanced industrial operations. This requires staggering amount of energy, leaving behind substantial carbon footprints and increasingly risks compromising such technological gains with its unsustainably hefty environmental “price tags”.

This session discusses the pre-emptive ways forward to fuel the sustainable computing development, presenting fresh perspectives on investment, innovation and impact from top financiers, infrastructure providers, quantum experts and policy minds. The discussion will also explore Australia's transformative potential to become a hub for resilient High-Performance Computing (HPC) and climate-aligned data centres—critical infrastructure for the 21st-century digital economy.

Speakers:

Aditi Subramanya, Partner Engagement Manager, Pawsey Supercomputing Research Center
Dr. Dylan Muir, Vice President, SynSense
Vincent Choi, Co-founder, Lana

Moderator:
Tamara Singh, Sherpa, GFTN Insights, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)