AI is accelerating electricity demand while reshaping who has access to power and on what terms. As data centres scale rapidly, they are competing with industry, transport, and cities for clean, affordable electricity. The challenge is no longer understanding the strain;it’s managing the trade-offs between speed, cost, and sustainability in a constrained system.

Demand for AI is outpacing infrastructure, energy supply and natural resources. Yet, AI may be the key to fast-tracking the renewable energy transition, generating sustainable investments, and galvanizing the climate action movement. The AI Forum at Climate Week NYC will convene senior leaders from business and government to examine the problems a growing AI market creates, as well as the innovative opportunities that data centers can bring. This session will explore the disparities between energy supply and demand, present new models for AI infrastructure, confront AI's thermal challenge and the emerging business models it's creating.

After Glow NYC, where conversations stretch late into the night, the energy stays high, and one unforgettable evening often becomes a highlight of the week. This gathering brings together leaders and change-makers from across the sustainable business community. Expect warm, unhurried conversations and an atmosphere that makes it just as easy to reconnect with old friends as it is to meet new ones.

In July 2025, the International Court of Justice published a groundbreaking advisory opinion that establishes the legal obligation for states to adopt significant measures to combat climate change—particularly industrialized nations that have contributed most significantly to the crisis. The charge is clear, now scientifically and legally: We must transform infrastructure to ensure the planet’s future for all those who inhabit it. But what does a postcarbon future look like? And how can the infrastructure of that future serve to not only repair and restore environments but fundamentally reimagine the unjust, inefficient, and unsustainable systems that, quite literally, fuel the climate crisis and its inequitable impacts?

Too often, circularity is reduced to recycling. But for industry, real circularity is much broader—and far more transformative. Hear from leaders from Bain & Company, Envetec, Haddy, Volkswagen, and Siemens as they explore how organizations are rethinking product design, material flows, asset performance, and value creation across the full product lifecycle. From modernization and refurbishment to remanufacturing, resource recovery, and new service-based business models, circularity is fundamentally reshaping how industrial companies create value.