Assessing impacts of AI With a Multidimensional Understanding of Sustainability

Voices on Sustainability

Artificial Intelligence is rapidly transforming how companies, organizations, and society work, innovate, and make decisions. While AI creates new opportunities for business and entrepreneurship, it also raises important questions about its broader social impact, responsibility, equality, and gender. This Open Lecture Series explores AI from different perspectives – bringing together insights from business practice, research, and society to critically discuss both its potential and its challenges.

Voices on Sustainability is an annual open lecture series hosted by the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Applied Sciences Wiener Neustadt and the Institute of Sustainability at the HWR Berlin. The online series invites experts from industry, research and consultancy to share their perspectives on how sustainability is evolving in today’s business world. Through lectures and interactive discussions, it aims to bridge academic learning with sustainability practice.

Open Lecture Series 2026

08.10.: Legal & Environmental Perspectives on artificial Intelligence
Speaking: Dr. Peter Gailhofer, Attorney, Research Coordinator for Ethics and Governance in Digitalization | Öko-Institut e.V.

22.10.: Secondhand by default - what AI can and cannot do
Speaking: Anna Grail, Co-Founder & COO | Minimist

13.11.: Assessing impacts of AI With a Multidimensional Understanding of Sustainability 
Speaking: Dr. Theresa Züger, Head of Research | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Contact person at the Institute for Sustainability @FHWN: Dr. Ursula Ploll, ursula.ploll(at)fhwn.ac.at

Contact at the Institute for Sustainability @HWR Berlin: Ina(at)hwr-berlin.de