Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

AI and Sustainability: Balancing Innovation with Planetary and Social Well-being

Date: October 10th, 2024 Time: 6:00 PM
Location: The McGill Faculty Club: 3450 McTavish St.

Annual Trottier Symposium on Sustainable Engineering, Energy and Design

Each year the Institut de l’énergie Trottier (IET) at Polytechnique Montréal and the Trottier Institute for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (TISED) at McGill University take turns hosting this event. Made possible through the generous support of Dr. Lorne Trottier, this is a forum for students, professors, government, and industry professionals to connect with the general public on advancements for sustainability through engineering and design. This series has been made possible by the generous gift from the Trottier Family Foundation
2023
The Technological Dilemma: Exploit Without Ruin
2022
Confronting Climate Change with Design for Resilience
2021
Energy objective: decarbonize while reinventing society
2020
Lessons from a Pandemic: Solutions for Addressing the Climate Change Crisis
2019
Climate change: Passively suffer or reinvent our societies
2018
RESILIENCE: Planning for Resiliency in the Face of Climate Change
2017
TRANSPORTATION What’s Fueling the Transition?
2016
Renewables: What holds us back? What moves us ahead?
2015
Energy in Quebec and Canada: A Conversation Starter
2014 Engineering our Prosperity: Sustainable Cities and Industries in the 21st Century

"We use immense quantities of resources to enjoy things today, but not to build things that will last for the next 100 years, and this approach comes at a great expense to the earth."

Highlighted past speakers

DR. MICHAEL E. MANN, PHD
Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science at Penn State and director of the Penn State Earth System Science Center (ESSC).

DR. NAOMI ORESKES, PHD

Professor of the History of Science and Affiliated Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University.

Valérie Masson-Delmotte, PHD

Climatologist and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group I Valérie Masson-Delmotte will discuss climate change, its impacts, and how to mitigate it.

Mario Tremblay

Vice President, Corporate and Public Affairs – Fonds de solidarité FTQ Mario Tremblay will discuss the solutions to be implemented, to act concretely and, above all, in a sustainable and equitable manner for the whole of society.