On the 12th – 14th October 2024, the AI for Net Zero Project held a stand at New Scientist Live, the world’s greatest festival of ideas and discoveries.
The event was held at the ExCel centre in East London and included three days of activity packed fun! The crowd of over 20,000 people was hugely diverse, ranging from pre-school children to retired people, and all the sectors of society in between. More than half of the visitors said that they had come to learn something new and/or because they just love science.
The AI for Net Zero Team certainly experienced this curiosity and love of science welcoming hundreds of visitors to the project stand. The team engaged with as many people as possible by demonstrating different parts of the project in easily understandable ‘experiments’ including, but not limited to, learning to balance a stick on your hand and explaining how we teach computers to learn in the same way, a simple computer app looking at the most efficient way to arrange wind farms, a model lorry demonstrating aero dynamics, and a hydrogen safety model demonstration.
The event is thought to be a huge success for all of the research team, being the first time for many of them in which they have needed to explain their and others’ research in simple terms, to such a varied and non-technical audience.