Climate change poses both imminent and long-term threats to many businesses. Increasing operational costs, supply chain disruption, natural disasters, and other issues will challenge the resilience of businesses across the globe.
The key to survival — and success — is understanding and adapting to these changes. Climate tech startup ClimateAI enables companies to do exactly that by using AI to model potential effects of climate change and their impact on businesses.
In The Disruption Is Now, host Greg Matusky speaks with Meredith Mejia, VP of Marketing at ClimateAI, about how this startup is changing the way companies plan for the future. They discuss how AI is democratizing data, clarifying the implications of climate change on businesses everywhere, and providing needed context for long-term decision-making.
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Key takeaways:
AI builds climate resilience
Crop failures that affect grocery prices and climate conditions that no longer support certain crops are just two examples of the challenges climate change poses to businesses. Organizations planning for the future must take these possibilities into account.
Meredith explains how ClimateAI’s platform uses historical data, algorithms, and business insights to help companies predict and adapt to the impacts of climate change on supply chains, agriculture, and more. This allows businesses to make data-driven decisions to build resilience against climate volatility.
AI simplifies climate complexity
The ClimateAI platform puts complex climate data into a user-friendly interface to make climate insights more accessible to non-experts. That way, any business user can easily see projections and insights tailored to their needs.
AI enables greater career mobility
Meredith left her career in e-commerce for ClimateAI to better align her work with her values. As a fast growing field, AI offers plenty of opportunities, and because it’s so new, it’s more open to people with less direct experience who have the skills to do the job.
Greg explains how AI writing assistants have helped him better teach communications and augment the existing skills of his staff, freeing more of them to focus on higher-level thinking and advance their careers.
Key moments:
● How ClimateAI is building climate resilience (2:25)
● Potential business impacts of climate change (3:54)
● How AI can combat climate volatility (5:32)
● Using AI to map out a long-term vision (7:12)
● How ClimateAI looks into the future (8:42)
● Making climate insights actionable (10:01)
● Meredith shares her career shift from e-commerce to climate tech marketing (13:40)
● How AI can open new career opportunities (15:22)
● Using AI writing tools to enhance communication skills (17:12)
