2025 CLIMATE WEEK NYC × COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL
AI’s Energy Challenge: Powering Innovation in a Warming World
Thursday, September 25
12:30-1:45 PM ET
Lunch will be provided with RSVP.
Columbia Business School, David Geffen Hall, Cooperman Commons
665 W 130th Street, New York, NY 10027
Join us for a Columbia Business School Distinguished Speaker Series event featuring Michael Intrator, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of CoreWeave, a cloud purpose-built for scaling, supporting, and accelerating GenAI. As the leader of one of the world’s fastest-growing cloud platforms, he will share perspectives from the frontlines of AI innovation and discuss how this transformation intersects with critical questions around energy use, sustainability, and the future of global industries.
This conversation, co-presented by the Digital Future Initiative and Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change at Columbia Business School, will be moderated by Dean Costis Maglaras, with welcome remarks by Professor Bruce Usher.
Speakers:
- Michael Intrator '95SIPA, Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, CoreWeave
- Costis Maglaras (moderator), Dean of Columbia Business School
- With welcome remarks from:
Bruce Usher, Professor of Professional Practice; Co-director of the Tamer Institute for Social Enterprise and Climate Change; and Elizabeth B. Strickler '86 and Mark T. Gallogly '86 Faculty Director at Columbia Business School
A full list of Columbia Business School's 2025 Climate Week NYC programming can be found here.