Smart City Series: Green Tech Revolution: Sustainable Microchips for Smart Urban Development
Date: March 26, 2025, 12 noon – 1 pm ET
An exclusive event dedicated to exploring the latest advancements in sustainable microchip technologies and their transformative impact on smart city development.
Event Highlights:
Keynote Address by Dr. Agarwal: Dr. Anuradha Murthy Agarwal, a principal research scientist at MIT’s Materials Research Laboratory, is leading innovative efforts to create sustainable microchip technologies that align closely with smart city initiatives, addressing critical challenges in urban development and environmental sustainability.
- Interactive Q&A Session: Have your questions answered by experts in the field and gain insights into practical applications of these technologies.
- Virtual Networking: Connect with fellow city leaders, tech innovators, and sustainability advocates to share ideas and explore collaboration opportunities.
Why Attend?
- Gain Knowledge: Understand how sustainable technologies can drive energy efficiency, cost savings and environmental sustainability in your city.
- Innovate: Discover cutting-edge solutions to meet the growing demands of data gathering and processing in urban environments.
- Collaborate: Build partnerships with key stakeholders to foster innovation and economic growth within your city.
Don’t miss this opportunity to be at the forefront of technological advancements and sustainable urban development. Register now to secure your spot!
Speaker
Dr. Anu Agarwal
Principal Research Scientist, MIT
Dr. Anu Agarwal is a Principal Research Scientist at MIT, developing a Si-CMOS compatible platform for mid-IR sensing and imaging.
She is an Optica Fellow (2022), has over 250 journal and refereed conference publications, 21 awarded patents, and 1 pending patent.
She is director of electronic-photonic packaging at the MIT Microphotonics Center and leads the Lab for Education and Application Prototypes (LEAP) at MIT.nano within the Initiative for Knowledge and Initiative in Manufacturing (IKIM). Through this LEAP initiative her team has built hybrid advanced manufacturing skills training programs to bridge the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities gap in STEM across the workforce supply chain from K-Gray.
She leads a program in resource-efficient microchip manufacturing and operation that seeks to build a global self-consistent roadmap across technology, value chain innovation, and workforce.