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🌍 The Hidden AI Carbon Footprint: Is It Sabotaging Your Net-Zero Goals? 🌍 As companies push towards #NetZero targets, a significant obstacle is being overlooked: the carbon footprint of AI systems. Recent reports from Microsoft and Google have raised alarms about this issue, as their greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise despite efforts to curb them. Microsoft’s reliance on energy-hungry AI workloads, even with innovative strategies like nuclear power, is calling the viability of these net-zero goals into question These challenges highlight the gap in corporate sustainability plans, which often fail to fully account for the environmental costs of running AI models 🔍 What can businesses do to manage AI's environmental impact? 1️⃣ Audit Your AI Usage: Start by identifying where AI is being used across your organization—both formally and informally. From cloud-based tools to machine learning models embedded in daily operations, understanding the full scope of AI use is critical to managing its carbon footprint. 2️⃣ AI Energy Monitoring: Incorporate emissions tracking for AI processes. By understanding energy use, companies can better manage AI’s environmental impact and align it with sustainability goals. 3️⃣ AI Governance and Sustainability: Develop AI governance frameworks that prioritize energy efficiency, ensuring AI helps, rather than hinders, your net-zero strategy. 4️⃣ Learn from Leaders: Explore new solutions like sustainable energy sources and more energy-efficient AI models, as seen with Microsoft’s bet on nuclear energy At Mind Tech Group and BIG | Best In Governance, we are committed to helping organizations and boards modernize their governance strategies to address today’s complex challenges. Our expertise ensures that your AI use supports—not conflicts with—your sustainability and governance goals. BIG | Best In Governance is helping organizations and boards as they modernize their governance strategies, ensuring they’re equipped for a future where AI and sustainability intersect. Mind Tech Group and BIG | Best In Governance are proud partners in driving responsible AI governance forward. Reference articles: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gYp5BQVa 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ewtSibSp TSX Trust Vector Institute DLA Piper Torkin Manes LLP Institute of Corporate Directors Women Get On Board Inc. (WGOB) Women's Executive Network (WXN) Q4 Notified Richard Barber, ICD.D, GPC.D Ivy (Ivanna) Lumia Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) Computershare Computershare Canada Alliance Advisors Hugessen Consulting Inc. The Planning Group Diligent Boards & Governance *ChatGPT and DALL-E aided this article*

🏆 Mind Tech Group is proud to be recognized with the 2024 Modern Governance 100 (MG100) award by Diligent! 🏆 We are thrilled to be acknowledged alongside the world’s top governance, risk, compliance, audit, and ESG leaders. This recognition celebrates our commitment to helping organizations embrace purpose-driven governance and achieve sustainable success. Mind Tech Group was recognized as a Boards & Governance Innovator. A special congratulations to our CEO, Richard Barber, ICD.D, GPC.D, for being individually recognized for the MG100 award for his leadership in AI governance and responsible innovation. Thank you, Diligent, for this recognition, and congratulations to all the amazing professionals in the 2024 MG100 cohort! Press Release: https://lnkd.in/gBfEMrSZ Dominique Shelton Leipzig Dottie Schindlinger Maria Lopez Rob Kiser Sophia Velastegui Keith Enright #DiligentElevate2024 #MG100 #AI #ResponsibleAI #GovernanceExcellence #AI #GRC #Leadership Mayer Brown TSX Trust Vector Institute DLA Piper Torkin Manes LLP Institute of Corporate Directors Women Get On Board Inc. (WGOB) Women's Executive Network (WXN) Q4 Notified irlabs Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) Computershare Computershare Canada Alliance Advisors Hugessen Consulting Inc. BIG | Best In Governance Sodali & Co The Planning Group Diligent Boards & Governance

The Diligent Elevate conference in Houston is a wrap! It was not only a privilege for Mind Tech Group to participate in the Leadership Summit, but also for Richard Barber, ICD.D, GPC.D to present on "AI in the Boardroom" with Sophia Velastegui (Chief AI Officer, Microsoft to 2022, Advisor on AI to the White House) and Keith Enright (Chief Privacy Officer at Google). Check out all the conference takeaways here: https://lnkd.in/dT2BQYq5 Mind Tech Group was also nominated for the Modern Governance 100 award ... stay tuned! https://lnkd.in/dzKFJfxZ Dominique Shelton Leipzig Dottie Schindlinger Maria Lopez Rob Kiser #DiligentElevate2024 #MG100 #AI #ResponsibleAI Mayer Brown TSX Trust Vector Institute DLA Piper Torkin Manes LLP Institute of Corporate Directors Women Get On Board Inc. (WGOB) Women's Executive Network (WXN) Q4 Notified irlabs Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI)

The GPC Conference is a wrap! These inspiring sessions are helping Governance Professionals to take their leadership to the next level! What an energetic conference, celebrating 30 years of Governance Professionals of Canada (GPC) Mind Tech Group was pleased to contribute to the session on Navigating the Future: Unleashing the Power of Generative AI with Responsible Governance led by Shea Coulson, Dr. Jodie Lobana, Ph.D., CPA, CA and Richard Barber, ICD.D, GPC.D Arne Gulstene, ICD.D Ann Bowering Sara Gelgor, LLB LLM MBA ICD.D GCB.D GPC.D G.Dipl. CSR Helle Bank Jørgensen, GCB.D, CCB.D and NACD.DC Q4 Notified irlabs Canadian Investor Relations Institute (CIRI) Diligent TSX Trust Institute of Corporate Directors Canadian Professional Sales Association Women Get On Board Inc. (WGOB) Women's Executive Network (WXN) Vector Institute DLA Piper Torkin Manes LLP Mayer Brown NuEnergy.ai #GPCConf2024