Sustainable AI - Reducing Carbon Footprint and Optimizing Performance

4.2 (6)

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3 Weeks

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Cohort-based Course

Learn how you can reduce the Carbon Footprint of your AI applications in the Cloud and Optimize Performance and Cost.

Course overview

Optimize your AI applications for sustainability

This course will enable you to understand the environmental impact of AI applications, how to monitor and optimize your AI workloads to minimize their energy consumption, increase performance and decrease cost.

Who is this course for

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If you are in the midst of a career transition in the climate tech field, you will gain some valuable background on top of mind topics.

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CTOs, CIOs and Technology Leaders who shape an organization's technology strategy and investments.

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IT consultants will gain the expertise to advise clients on sustainable AI/ML strategies and implementation.

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DevOps professionals and Cloud Engineers can use the knowledge from this class to incorporate sustainable practices into their workflows.

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Product Managers can differentiate their offerings in the AI space by incorporating sustainable practices from the ground up.

What you will get out of this course:

Learn about the environmental impact of AI

AI has a large impact on datacenter usage, server energy consumption, GPUs and data storage. How do you measure it and what are the consequences.

Architect and Design a sustainable AI application

From LLM optimization techniques, to parameter tuning, we'll explore best practices to architect and design a sustainable AI application.

Demonstrate to your management the ROI of AI applications

Adopting sustainable practices also has a direct impact on lowering the costs of AI cloud usage. It can be a powerful lever to justify to your management the ROI of AI applications development and adoption.

Industry trends in the field of sustainable AI

What are the most promising trends to limit the environmental impact of AI LLM and make its growth more sustainable.

End to end case study

Discover real life examples and understand how leaders in the space have implemented these practices.

This course includes

5 interactive live sessions

Lifetime access to course materials

15 in-depth lessons

Direct access to instructor

3 projects to apply learnings

Guided feedback & reflection

Private community of peers

Course certificate upon completion

Maven Satisfaction Guarantee

This course is backed by Maven’s guarantee. You can receive a full refund within 14 days after the course ends, provided you meet the completion criteria in our refund policy.

Course syllabus

Week 1

Dec 3—Dec 8
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Week 2

Dec 9—Dec 15
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Week 3

Dec 16—Dec 17
    Nothing scheduled for this week

Post-course

    Dec

    3

    Session 1: Environmental Impact of AI

    Tue 12/38:00 PM—9:30 PM (UTC)

    Dec

    5

    Office Hours Week 1

    Thu 12/58:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Dec

    10

    Session 2: Energy Efficient Model training and inference

    Tue 12/108:00 PM—9:30 PM (UTC)

    Dec

    12

    Optional: Office Hours week 2

    Thu 12/128:00 PM—9:00 PM (UTC)
    Optional

    Dec

    17

    Session 3: Green Software Development and Implementation for AI/LLM Applications

    Tue 12/178:00 PM—9:30 PM (UTC)

    Week 1: Environmental Impact of AI

    5 items

    Energy-efficient Model Training and Inference

    5 items

    Green Software Development and Implementation for AI/LLM Applications

    8 items

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Meet your instructor

Pascal Joly

Pascal Joly

Sustainability Consultant, IT Climate Ed

With over 25 years of IT experience and a deep passion for environmental sustainability, Pascal is a renowned sustainability consultant dedicated to helping organizations drive meaningful progress towards a greener future. As the instructor of this MasterClass, Pascal brings a wealth of expertise in optimizing digital transformation initiatives and mitigating the effects of climate change.

Drawing from his extensive background, Pascal offers a comprehensive suite of services - from engaging educational climate workshops to expert green IT consulting and cloud partnership strategy.

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Sustainable AI - Reducing Carbon Footprint and Optimizing Performance

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Dates

Dec 3—17, 2024

Application Deadline

Dec 2, 2024

Course schedule

3.5 hours per week

  • Tuesday Live sessions

    12:00pm - 1:30pm PST


  • Thursday office hours

    12pm-1:00pm PST


  • Weekly projects

    2 hours per week

    Homework assignments will include quiz, presentations and other research topics.

Free resource

Sustainable AI: How to Get started

How can you optimize your AI application to minimize its energy consumption 💡 and cost 💰 while maintaining its performance?

In this recorded presentation, I go over the environmental impact of AI and some of the key principles to get you started with optimization in this nascent and rapidly evolving field.

You will also get a sneak preview of my 3 week course.

Get this free resource

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Active hands-on learning

This course builds on live workshops and hands-on projects

Interactive and project-based

You’ll be interacting with other learners through breakout rooms and project teams

Learn with a cohort of peers

Join a community of like-minded people who want to learn and grow alongside you

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Join an upcoming cohort

Sustainable AI - Reducing Carbon Footprint and Optimizing Performance

Cohort 3

$399

Dates

Dec 3—17, 2024

Application Deadline

Dec 2, 2024

$399

4.2 (6)

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3 Weeks