Welcome to the AiDASH Evolve 2024 podcast.

AiDASH makes critical infrastructure industries climate-resilient and sustainable with satellites and AI. Evolve 2024 in New Orleans, Louisiana, was our inaugural event! We gathered industry leaders, innovators, and visionaries to explore how cutting-edge technology in satellites and AI is safeguarding critical infrastructure and fostering biodiversity to ensure a sustainable future, amidst climate change challenges. It was a day and a half of speakers, sessions, masterclasses, networking—and a fair amount of fun.

We learned from so many leaders in and around the utility industry, from vegetation managers to regulators to politicians to technologists, including our sponsors: Maxar, UP42, BCG, and Schneider Electric.

In this podcast series, we are recapping the entire event—every speaker and session. In this episode, hear AiDASH Co-Founder and CEO Abhishek Vinod Singh open Evolve 2024 with remarks about groundbreaking technology solutions, which are now more critically important than ever. We must secure tomorrow and evolve to adapt to a changing climate.

We have all sorts of additional content for you from Evolve 2024, including videos of each session, blog recaps of each session, and a full event report. You can find it all on our content hub at: aidash.com/evolve2024.

Check out more resources:

• AiDASH blog: https://www.aidash.com/blogs
• AiDASH YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdU1Xuncxsn0YXY-YigOoJg
• AiDASH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidash
• AiDASH case studies and customer stories: https://www.aidash.com/customers

In this episode, listen to former Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards deliver the opening keynote at AiDASH Evolve 2024. He expounds on how increasing storm intensity and frequency are putting American infrastructure at risk, creating danger for future generations. Learn what steps have been taken at both the federal and state levels to fight this problem by allocating budgets and making climate adaptation a priority.

Summary:

• Climate change-related disasters like storms are intensifying.
• We need to evolve to ensure climate resiliency, and technology is a key component of that effort.
• There must be collaboration on climate adaptation across academia and the public and private sectors.

More here: https://www.aidash.com/john-bel-edwards-keynote-securing-critical-infrastructure-in-a-changing-climate/

We have all sorts of additional content for you from Evolve 2024, including videos of each session, blog recaps of each session, and a full event report. You can find it all on our content hub at: aidash.com/evolve2024.

Check out more resources:

• AiDASH blog: https://www.aidash.com/blogs
• AiDASH YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdU1Xuncxsn0YXY-YigOoJg
• AiDASH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidash
• AiDASH case studies and customer stories: https://www.aidash.com/customers

After his opening keynote, former Governor of Louisiana John Bel Edwards sat down with Neil Chatterjee, Former Commissioner and Chairman, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), for a fireside chat. They dug deeper on the items Governor Edwards discussed in his speech.

Summary:

• Technology is critical to the upcoming energy transition.
• Making the case for action includes talking about economic development, investment, and job creation.
• Where there are challenges, there are opportunities.

More here: https://www.aidash.com/a-fireside-chat-with-former-governor-john-bel-edwards-and-neil-chatterjee/

We have all sorts of additional content for you from Evolve 2024, including videos of each session, blog recaps of each session, and a full event report. You can find it all on our content hub at: aidash.com/evolve2024.

Check out more resources:

• AiDASH blog: https://www.aidash.com/blogs
• AiDASH YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdU1Xuncxsn0YXY-YigOoJg
• AiDASH LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/aidash
• AiDASH case studies and customer stories: https://www.aidash.com/customers