The AI-Empowered Sustainability Professional

Generative AI is dominating corporate sustainability conversations, but it can be difficult to separate theoretical buzzwords from tools that actually make your day-to-day work easier. Designed for the Diploma in Social Responsibility & Sustainability at USMC, this session cuts through the hype to focus strictly on practical, on-the-ground AI workflows.

Rather than discussing generic "ESG optimization," Dr. Panos Panagiotakopoulos will demonstrate how accessible AI tools, such as Gemini, NotebookLM, and emerging agent-based AI, can act as a powerful extension of your sustainability team to tackle the exact pain points you face daily.

Through real-world, highly practical demonstrations, participants will learn how to use AI to:

• Synthesize Complex Frameworks:
  Rapidly cross-reference and make sense of multiple, dense sustainability
  standards and reporting frameworks.
• Bridge Data Gaps: Clean, categorize, and
  complete missing quantitative data in greenhouse gas inventories or
  footprint pledges (e.g., the Cool Food Pledge).
• Simulate Stakeholder Engagement:
  Create customized AI personas to anticipate diverse stakeholder reactions,
  analyze feedback, and improve program design.
• Build Stronger Business Cases:
  Utilize AI research capabilities to articulate the indirect,
  hard-to-quantify benefits of sustainability initiatives to secure
  executive buy-in.

Join us to celebrate and support the Dr. Mimi Marrocco Social Responsibility & Sustainability Bursary.

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Purposed to increase access and student support for the Social Responsibility and Sustainability Diploma program, this fund has allowed the SR&S Diploma Program to establish The Dr. Mimi Marrocco Social Responsibility & Sustainability Bursary in honour of Dr. Mimi Marrocco, a St. Mike’s alumna (6T9) who is the founding Director of Continuing Education at St. Mike’s.

Dr. Marrocco pioneered Canada’s first professional university credential in Corporate Social Responsibility. Her leadership, mentorship, and dedication to her students has left a lasting impact locally and internationally, influencing thousands.

The Dr. Mimi Marrocco Social Responsibility & Sustainability Bursary is awarded to a young changemaker with a drive for social responsibility and/or sustainability and is an investment in the promise of tomorrow.

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