The clean tech ecosystem in Barcelona is small, but solid. New models of clean tech use IT as a key elements (cleanweb). Here some insights about its players, what works, and what needs to be improved.
Cleanweb is about the development of ICT-based business solutions that make an efficient use of resources (i.e. energy, water). Many opportunities exists for entrepreneurs, investors, and society in general.
Stephen Passmore and Peter Head of The Ecological Sequestration Trust are joined by Bob Bishop of the International Centre for Earth Simulation to discuss there pioneering project creating Global to Local Scale, Human, Economic, Ecological, Systems Models
Cleanweb is about the development of ICT-based business solutions that make an efficient use of resources (i.e. energy, water). Many opportunities exists for entrepreneurs, investors, and society in general.
Stephen Passmore and Peter Head of The Ecological Sequestration Trust are joined by Bob Bishop of the International Centre for Earth Simulation to discuss there pioneering project creating Global to Local Scale, Human, Economic, Ecological, Systems Models
Designing flexible and adaptable estates for the digital revolutionAtkins
Atkins’ UK design director, Philip Watson, gave a presentation on the future for higher education in the digital age. He covered topics including the importance of meeting current challenges and looking beyond now to tomorrow, the likely differences in requirement needs, the challenges of meeting demand, future proofing teaching, learning and research spaces, optimising land and building asset use, and affordable, sustainable design best practice.
This presentation was first delivered in London in September 2014.
Read more: http://www.atkinsglobal.com/en-GB/media-centre/events/atkins-lectures/2014/designing-flexible-and-adaptable-estates-for-the-digital-revolution
We invite investment, in 3 categories, into a new Resilience Brokerage Fund RESBR to be used to complete development and deployment of a unique prototyped Resilience Brokerage software Platform resilience.io into most countries of the world by 2023. Resilience.io supports planning and investment in resilient city development, and has embedded Apps for the best clean technologies to be included in project pipelines.
We invite a minimum of 4 “Core Platform Builders” to invest $5m each for a 6 year term to receive annual interest and dividends.
We invite clean technology investors to invest $2m each for a 6 year term, to receive annual interest and use of the resilience.io platform with 4 Apps for their technologies added.
We invite Geographic investors to make a minimum grant investment of $500,000 for exclusive use of resilience.io in their region/country for integrated land use planning and investment.
Worldwide contest to promote innovation focusing on Home, Mobility & Health. Each of the three winning projects will receive €50,000 prize money and will benefit from a major advertising campaign across Europe. Go to PULSE.EDF.COM
In June 2016, with the culmination of 18 months work by the the team from IIER, Imperial College, Future Earth Ltd and the Trust, we visited Accra to debut the WASH sector prototype of our modelling app at the Accra International Conference Centre, 22nd June 2016.
resilience.io is an open-source, collaborative
human, ecological, economic, resource systems, modelling platform to enable “public good”
we also showed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGyCyxyatAQ
The Energy of the Future for the Economy of the Present: Business Opportuniti...RWVentures
This presentation (available in both English and Italian) for a regional business conference in Rovereto, Italy describes the growing market for "green" products, identifies business opportunities and sustainability strategies and offers suggestions for regional green strategy development.
Designing flexible and adaptable estates for the digital revolutionAtkins
Atkins’ UK design director, Philip Watson, gave a presentation on the future for higher education in the digital age. He covered topics including the importance of meeting current challenges and looking beyond now to tomorrow, the likely differences in requirement needs, the challenges of meeting demand, future proofing teaching, learning and research spaces, optimising land and building asset use, and affordable, sustainable design best practice.
This presentation was first delivered in London in September 2014.
Read more: http://www.atkinsglobal.com/en-GB/media-centre/events/atkins-lectures/2014/designing-flexible-and-adaptable-estates-for-the-digital-revolution
We invite investment, in 3 categories, into a new Resilience Brokerage Fund RESBR to be used to complete development and deployment of a unique prototyped Resilience Brokerage software Platform resilience.io into most countries of the world by 2023. Resilience.io supports planning and investment in resilient city development, and has embedded Apps for the best clean technologies to be included in project pipelines.
We invite a minimum of 4 “Core Platform Builders” to invest $5m each for a 6 year term to receive annual interest and dividends.
We invite clean technology investors to invest $2m each for a 6 year term, to receive annual interest and use of the resilience.io platform with 4 Apps for their technologies added.
We invite Geographic investors to make a minimum grant investment of $500,000 for exclusive use of resilience.io in their region/country for integrated land use planning and investment.
Worldwide contest to promote innovation focusing on Home, Mobility & Health. Each of the three winning projects will receive €50,000 prize money and will benefit from a major advertising campaign across Europe. Go to PULSE.EDF.COM
In June 2016, with the culmination of 18 months work by the the team from IIER, Imperial College, Future Earth Ltd and the Trust, we visited Accra to debut the WASH sector prototype of our modelling app at the Accra International Conference Centre, 22nd June 2016.
resilience.io is an open-source, collaborative
human, ecological, economic, resource systems, modelling platform to enable “public good”
we also showed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGyCyxyatAQ
The Energy of the Future for the Economy of the Present: Business Opportuniti...RWVentures
This presentation (available in both English and Italian) for a regional business conference in Rovereto, Italy describes the growing market for "green" products, identifies business opportunities and sustainability strategies and offers suggestions for regional green strategy development.
This presentation explains the different actions of the ICT priority, as part of Horizont 2020 programme. These actions that will be launched in 2014-2015 in support of entrepreunership in ICT; support for definition & implementation of Inducement Prizes and support for precommercial procurement.
Presentació "Catalan Innovation Strategy" a càrrec de Sergi Marcén, responsable de desenvolupament industrial TIC i mobilitat de la Generalitat de Catalunya en el marc de la inauguració de l'SparkLab, el laboratori del telecentre del futur.
Presentació d'Oriol Martínez Alòs-Moner, Public Procurement d'ACCIÓ en el marc del Side Event “Practical approach to climate finance" organitzat per l'Oficina Catalana del Canvi Climàtic i ACCIÓ de la Generalitat de Catalunya durant la Carbon Expo 2015
IQS Tech Factory is a European hub for industrial startups located in Barcelona (ES). Here, we help develop the next generation of industrial companies through our acceleration programs, communities and series of events.
Smart Factory es un concepto que se refiere a la innovación llevada a cabo en entornos industriales. En esta presentación, revisamos 4 tendencias en innovación industrial: 1. Innovando con startups, 2. Industria 4.0, Abierto y/o Cerrado y, 4. Micro-Fabricas.
Los procesos de innovación abierta permiten involucrar a miembros externos a la organización en la identificación, y desarrollo de soluciones innovadoras. Aquí presentamos un proceso disponible para empresas, gobiernos, y fundaciones en busca de soluciones innovadoras.
For 3 days in April 2013, Barcelona will turn into the hub for social entrepreneurship in Europe. It will be the gran finale of the Unreasonable at Sea program, which we're going to celebrate with lots of awesome events. Join us at https://www.facebook.com/UnreasonableAtSeaBarcelona
Enviu develops solutions for environmental and social issues, and brings them to the market in the form of startups. Enviu develops world-changing companies.
Summer 2010 I prepared a presentation for a company about current technological trends, which were divided into four:
1. Media on the digital age
2. Creativity equals entrepreneurship
3. The internet of things
4. Atoms are the new bits
Most of them are still valid today.
Enviu - Innovators in Sustainability es una organización especializada en la generación de soluciones de negocio sostenibles.
Ahora, Enviu ofrece su experiéncia y conocimiento a organizaciones en España que buscan oportunidades de negocio eco-innovadoras. Puedes encontrarnos en www.enviubarcelona.com
Research proposal inviting artists, scientists, and academics to explore the relation between pop culture, sustainability & innovation.
The proposal focuses on four areas:
1. Interpreting sustainability
2. Greening of pop culture
3. Future nature
4. User-centered sustainability
If this triggers you, please leave a comment, or visit www.oriolpascual.com
Conceptualization of a service that makes cars up to 30% more fuel efficient by applying small modifications. The road to zero emission mobility includes the improvement of combustion engine fuel efficiency.
Collection of notes from a recent trip (January 09) to Silicon Valley where the goal was to understand the current status of clean-tech innovation from a variety of perspectives; political, entrepreurship, and venture capitalists.
More on sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation at www.enviu.org
Enviu – Innovators in Sustainability – is an international network organisation for and by young entrepreneurial people.
Enviu develops the so-called Wow! Ideas: solutions for sustainability issues, with a clear business case.
Examples of those ideas are the Sustainable Dance Club, the Hybrid Tuk Tuk Battle, or the Rotterdam Innovation Lab.
Find out more at www.enviu.org & www.enviu.tv
Lifecycle thinking brought a revolution to the field of industrial design engineering. Today, the rules of the game are changing, and how is money spent at the demand side is key. The presentation includes a case study on Ecovalue. Masterlcass by Oriol Pascual for the course Business, Design & the Enviroment at Technical Univeristy Delft. More at oriolpascual.com
What is the current status of ecodesign in business? What are the challenges? Where is the field going? Get all the answers in this Fast Forward presentation for TUDelft PhD Day07.
All summarized in 29 slides, for which you have 2 minutes to present = 4 seconds x slide. Roll it!
Thoughts on building an audience with new media. A non-profit organization requested me to expose its potential for them. It may also apply to you: simply substitute "you" by your name, brand, or organization.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
4. Spain
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The first incubation program launched in 1989
Currently, Spain hosts 38 startup programs - most
launched after 2010
Ticket size: between 20-60K
Average equity share across accelerators: 8-14%
6. Barcelona
9 accelerators/incubators in Barcelona
Barcelona, leads in clean tech sub-categories:
• Smart City
• World Mobile Capital
• Large “sharing economy” community
7. Rise of the renewables
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1997-2013: Spain became a world leader in PV
and wind energy production
Of all Spanish patents, 43,6% are related to solar
Spain is the 5th country in the world in number of
patents in renewables, after US, Japan, Germany
& UK
8. Fall of the renewables
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Today, Spain is an unattractive and risky market to
invest in renewables
Of the 50 factories PV silica and related in 2011,
only 10% remain open today, with a focus in
inverters and exports
photo by treedork
9. Challenges
Current clean tech challenges are not about
fundamental science:
• Complex financing & incentives
• Failure to communicate to consumers
• Poor sales channels
13. The Barcelona entrepreneur
Barcelona
Silicon Valley
33.29
34.12
5% / 95%
10% / 90%
Education (dropout vs. master+PhD)
1 : 10
1 : 2.5
Serial entrepreneur
41%
56%
% non-technical founding teams
12%
16%
Customer (B2B vs B2C)
5:2
2:1
Working hours per day
8.25
9.95
Age
Gender (F/M)
Source: Telefonica
28. What works
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Barcelona attracts international talent, and retains
local due to the attractiveness of the city itself
Barcelona is Mobile World Capital
Proactive local government; “business friendly”
Bottom-up entrepreneurial community
Catalonia produces 1% of all research in the world but does’t have a direct translation in valorisation of
this science
29. To improve
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Lack of ambition: local startups think small, a local win is
enough rather than conquer the world
English is not yet common language amongst all society
To fund a limited company is expensive and bureaucratic
Need for more “learning by doing” education, rather than
fact-based education
30. To improve
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More success stories
Early stage funding clearly insufficient
Many players, but fragile ecosystem due to insufficient
funding resources
Not enough projects with high growth potential
31. Final thoughts
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Regulation can be an enabler or barrier for clean
tech to create a positive impact
Clean tech is evolving towards new forms that have
IT as central element
Barcelona has the ingredients to become a reference
in clean tech for the south of Europe and the
Mediterranean
36. Rise of the renewables
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Period 1997 - 2013 represents a high point on
renewable energy installations
Spain became a world leader in PV and wind
energy production