Title: Sustainability Insight Finder
Time: 14.00 - 15.00
Date: 18 August 2026
Synopsis:
The SustAInability Insight Finder is an AI-assisted sustainability platform developed at the Sustainability Research Institute (SRI), University of East London (UEL). It brings operational and research sustainability data into a single environment with dashboards, an AI-powered chatbot, search, automated reporting and analytics, reducing the significant staff time previously spent assembling figures from league-table sources such as People & Planet and the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings. It makes UEL's net-zero and sustainability activity clearly visible, and gives staff and students a single place to see how sustainability relates to their studies and which green skills matter for their careers. The session demonstrates the platform live and looks at its development, current capabilities, and roadmap towards live institutional data integration.
Speakers: Vincy Kannatheri Valsan — AI Research Support Officer, Sustainability Research Institute, University of East London
Vincy Kannatheri Valsan is an AI Research Support Officer at the University of East London's Sustainability Research Institute, where she develops the SustAInability Insight finder platform. She holds an MSc in Artificial Intelligence (Distinction) from UEL and brings over ten years of cross-sector experience. Her work focuses on applying AI responsibly to sustainability data, combining semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation and dashboards with strong governance principles such as explainability, traceability and human oversight. Her current interests include agentic, autonomous governance and AI trust and verification for institutional reporting.
Useful Pre-reading links:
UEL Sustainability
THE Impact Rankings / Sustainability Impact Ratings methodology
UN Sustainable
Tagged : Sustainability
Type : Training
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