Using AI and Generative Design to Create a More Sustainable World

We need to do more, better, with less—and we need to start now. Zoé Bezpalko shares how generative design can help us make manufacturing more sustainable today.

To achieve the reductions in CO2 emissions necessary to affect climate change in a meaningful way, we need to move to a circular economy, and we need to start today. The tools that make it possible are already available, including generative design and artificial intelligence. Sustainability Strategy Manager for Autodesk Zoé Bezpalko shares how product designers and manufacturers around the globe are using these technologies to create better products in more sustainable ways.

About the speaker

Zoé Bezpalko is the sustainability strategy manager for design and manufacturing at Autodesk. She is responsible for identifying new and emerging product design and manufacturing solutions to market and develop. She has a special focus on technology solutions for circularity. She previously worked for the Autodesk Foundation, and holds a master’s degree in Environmental Engineering and an MBA in Design Strategy.

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