Connect with BSR at CEBA Summit 2026

BSR Members Only

Seattle

May 19-21

Registration

Are you going to CEBA Summit 2026? If you’re registered and planning to attend, we’d love to connect—please reach out to set up a time.

You can also join Kelly Gallo's session, How Can Companies Reduce the Environmental Impacts of AI, on May 19 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm PDT.

AI-driven growth is already contributing to rising electricity demand (for both clean and fossil fuel energy sources), water stress, land use conversion, and upstream hardware emissions, with visible impacts at local and regional levels. Electricity demand for AI data centers is expected to double by 2030 compared to 2024, likely pushing operators to rely on fossil fuels such as diesel to absorb this power influx. In parallel, AI environmental impacts are scaling faster than AI corporate governance, transparency, and infrastructure planning. As AI adoption accelerates, companies are facing strategic, operational, and reputational risks.

This session will discuss the emerging practices that companies are taking to identify and implement efforts internally and to engage with key stakeholders externally on practical mitigation tactics to reduce the environmental impacts of AI and increase clean energy use to power AI demand.

BSR Staff at CEBA Summit

Kelly Gallo, Director, BSR

Director, BSR

San Francisco

Kelly helps technology companies achieve their sustainability goals, with a focus on supporting high-growth companies in embedding resilient and inclusive practices that both support business strategy while addressing societal and environmental impacts. Through BSR’s Business Transformation advisory service offerings, Kelly works with members to prioritize material sustainability issues, develop issue-specific strategies, set ambitious yet realistic goals, and communicate sustainability initiatives to key stakeholders.

Prior to BSR, Kelly spent more than six years consulting on energy efficiency, sustainability, and renewable energy for California’s utilities and public-sector clients. She has also served as a Board Member for the US National Committee for UN Women, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and Spark, a non-profit that seeks to advance gender equality by engaging the next generation in accessible forms of philanthropy.

Kelly holds a MA in International Relations from San Francisco State University and a BA in Global Studies from the University of California at Santa Barbara.