The document discusses the history of technology policy in the United States and challenges commercializing emerging energy technologies. It provides examples of energy technologies under development at the University of Texas at Austin, including algal biofuels. Barriers to commercializing these technologies include high production costs, challenges scaling up, and obtaining sufficient funding to prove concepts. The document advocates focusing on processing improvements rather than engineering and forming early partnerships with private investors to help technologies cross the "valley of death" between research and market viability.
Solving for the equation for disruption to the U.S. electric power industryDeloitte United States
Profound changes to the U.S. electric industry are not just inevitable, they are already occurring. The question is no longer if, but where and how fast? Deloitte’s papers on the rapidly changing electric industry landscape examine the dilemma facing utilities resulting from rising costs, flat or declining electricity demand, technological changes, regulatory constraints, and new market entrants. This infographic provides an overview of the disruptive changes occurring in the industry and introduces strategies electric companies can examine to solve the equation for disruption.
To learn more, visit http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/power-utilities/461c2af56dfb4410VgnVCM3000003456f70aRCRD.htm
Solving for the equation for disruption to the U.S. electric power industryDeloitte United States
Profound changes to the U.S. electric industry are not just inevitable, they are already occurring. The question is no longer if, but where and how fast? Deloitte’s papers on the rapidly changing electric industry landscape examine the dilemma facing utilities resulting from rising costs, flat or declining electricity demand, technological changes, regulatory constraints, and new market entrants. This infographic provides an overview of the disruptive changes occurring in the industry and introduces strategies electric companies can examine to solve the equation for disruption.
To learn more, visit http://www.deloitte.com/view/en_US/us/Industries/power-utilities/461c2af56dfb4410VgnVCM3000003456f70aRCRD.htm
Sostenibilità, ambiente e obbligazioni etiche - Senator Harris B. McDowell - ...hubroma
Lunedì 21 ottobre abbiamo ospitato Harris B. McDowell, Senatore dello Stato di Delaware. Tema del giorno: Sostenibilità, ambiente e obbligazioni etiche.
Il senatore ha analizzato la relazioni tra politiche economiche, ambiente e gli effetti sul mercato. Ci ha parlato in particolare del Programma Better Buildings dell’amministrazione federale e di uno studio su “start-up, nuova occupazione e finanziamento del non-consumo energetico attraverso un utilizzo etico del mercato obbligazionario”.
Worldwatch's goal is to build an energy system that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. Through our Sustainable Energy Roadmaps, we provide
supporting research; help government define goals, design strategy; and advise on implementation.
Tennessee and the Southeast have a role to play in the wind energy supply chain according to DOE’s 20% Wind Energy by 2030 report: http:://www.20percentwind.org
WWF CleantechGroup Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017 - Slide DeckStefan Henningsson
Slides for Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017. The index investigates the global state of cleantech
innovation in entrepreneurial start-up companies.
We are currently faced with a range of climate, energy
and economic challenges. Technology start-ups provide
one of the most important vehicles for developing and
commercializing innovation to meet these challenges,
while generating value for investors. The index collates data
as to where these innovative cleantech companies
are and will spring-up over the next decade, and shows which
countries are falling ahead and below the curve for
cleantech innovation.
Heavy Industries: Advancing American Manufacturing, Raymond Monroe, Steel Fou...Alliance To Save Energy
Nov 17, 2009: Alliance to Save Energy Congressional briefing, "Heavy Industries: Advancing American Manufacturing," - A discussion by industry experts centering on the current and future prospects for energy efficiency in their four respective industries. All agreed on the great potential for energy efficiency projects but acknowledged the formidable barriers that inhibit investment.
USEA/USAID Global Energy Efficiency Workshop: Briefing on Energy Efficiency and DSM Programs Overseas
Kateri Callahan
President, Alliance to Save Energy
Washington, D.C.
March 8, 2010
This presentation gives an overview of the steps involved in acquiring funding for a cleantech company, including sources of funding, typical early financing transaction challenges, as well as existing government programs.
Sostenibilità, ambiente e obbligazioni etiche - Senator Harris B. McDowell - ...hubroma
Lunedì 21 ottobre abbiamo ospitato Harris B. McDowell, Senatore dello Stato di Delaware. Tema del giorno: Sostenibilità, ambiente e obbligazioni etiche.
Il senatore ha analizzato la relazioni tra politiche economiche, ambiente e gli effetti sul mercato. Ci ha parlato in particolare del Programma Better Buildings dell’amministrazione federale e di uno studio su “start-up, nuova occupazione e finanziamento del non-consumo energetico attraverso un utilizzo etico del mercato obbligazionario”.
Worldwatch's goal is to build an energy system that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. Through our Sustainable Energy Roadmaps, we provide
supporting research; help government define goals, design strategy; and advise on implementation.
Tennessee and the Southeast have a role to play in the wind energy supply chain according to DOE’s 20% Wind Energy by 2030 report: http:://www.20percentwind.org
WWF CleantechGroup Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017 - Slide DeckStefan Henningsson
Slides for Global Cleantech Innovation Index 2017. The index investigates the global state of cleantech
innovation in entrepreneurial start-up companies.
We are currently faced with a range of climate, energy
and economic challenges. Technology start-ups provide
one of the most important vehicles for developing and
commercializing innovation to meet these challenges,
while generating value for investors. The index collates data
as to where these innovative cleantech companies
are and will spring-up over the next decade, and shows which
countries are falling ahead and below the curve for
cleantech innovation.
Heavy Industries: Advancing American Manufacturing, Raymond Monroe, Steel Fou...Alliance To Save Energy
Nov 17, 2009: Alliance to Save Energy Congressional briefing, "Heavy Industries: Advancing American Manufacturing," - A discussion by industry experts centering on the current and future prospects for energy efficiency in their four respective industries. All agreed on the great potential for energy efficiency projects but acknowledged the formidable barriers that inhibit investment.
USEA/USAID Global Energy Efficiency Workshop: Briefing on Energy Efficiency and DSM Programs Overseas
Kateri Callahan
President, Alliance to Save Energy
Washington, D.C.
March 8, 2010
This presentation gives an overview of the steps involved in acquiring funding for a cleantech company, including sources of funding, typical early financing transaction challenges, as well as existing government programs.
Entrepreneurship 101: Commercializing University / Hospital TechnologiesMaRS Discovery District
Speaker: Tom Corr, DBA, MBA, ADipC, Director of Commercialization, IT and Communications, at Innovations at the University of Toronto
An audio presentation can be accessed by going to
http://www.marsdd.com/ent101
and clicking on the October 17, 2006 session:
"Entrepreneurship 101 - An Introduction to Commercializing University/Hospital Technologies"
For the full video of this presentation, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com/platinum-members/embedded-vision-alliance/embedded-vision-training/videos/pages/may-2016-embedded-vision-summit-firelake
For more information about embedded vision, please visit:
http://www.embedded-vision.com
Peter Shannon, Managing Director at Firelake Capital Management, presents the "Practitioner’s Guide to Commercializing Applications of Computer Vision" tutorial at the May 2016 Embedded Vision Summit.
Computer vision technology is advancing at an exciting pace, but still has a long way to go toward maturity and realizing its full potential. The technology itself presents attractive opportunities, but the opportunity presented by the applications it will enable dwarfs this. The ultimate possibilities are limited only by the imagination and insights of professionals across industries, but how do we assess what applications are feasible today? What attributes do today’s applications have in common, and how do we go about realizing them?
This talk explores the practical implications of commercializing a vision-enabled product, from product requirements to development expectations through to validation and ensuring a good customer experience, highlighting the points of contrast with the commercialization of more traditional software-based products.
Commercializing legal AI research: lessons learnedAnna Ronkainen
Presentation about research commercialization (general points and some examples), held 2016-05-19 at the CodeX Legal Innovation Workshop in connection with the FutureLaw conference at Stanford University.
Within universities and research institutions there are no shortage of good ideas; but not all of those ideas make commercial sense. In this lecture, we explore what makes a technology worthwhile commercializing. We also touch on some of the lessons we can take from the university setting and apply to any start-up technology.
Speaker: Raphael Ronen, Commercialization Manager, The Innovations Group (TIG)
Part of the CIBC Presents Entrepreneurship 101 MaRS event series.
Read more on this event and catch the session video here: http://www.marsdd.com/Events/Event-Calendar/Ent101/2008/intro-tech-companies-10222008.html
Presentation delivered by Craig S. Conoscenti, MD, FCCP, Director, Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Program Lead, Clinical Development and Medical Affairs, Respiratory, Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc. at the marcus evans Evolution Summit Fall 2015 Las Vegas
The Future Foundation has carried out an extensive forecasting exercise to explore the future of several commercial themes and sectors beyond 2020. In this report, we examine our predictions for the future of retail, identifying informed assumptions for the evolution of consumer trends, product and service innovations and the role that technological developments will play. We also provide invented images of retail concepts that might characterize the future marketplace as a result of the shifts we describe.
Presentation slides for virtual presentations about the flipped classroom-the full picture http://usergeneratededucation.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/the-flipped-classroom-the-full-picture-presentation-materials/
How much do you know about Irish tech startups? Which startups have the most buzz? Which tech giants have their offices here? And who are the Irish tech figures to know?
Frontline Ventures (www.frontline.vc) created this guide to promote Irish entrepreneurship while offering a 101 guide for anyone visiting the country or starting out in their career.
It covers the most successful Irish startups and companies on the rise, Irish tech accelerators and meetups, Irish tech press, resident VCs, and the story of how our homegrown industry began.
If you have a suggestion to add to the list, tweet @Frontline and get in touch!
How does a designer fit into an organization as a leader alongside their client service, project management, and financial management peers? Or, as happens in many cases, how does a solo designer, studio owner, or in-house group determines that fine balance between the health of the studio from an operational perspective and nurturing a strong creative vision that guides both the client work and the studio culture?
Suggestions:
1) For best quality, download the PDF before viewing.
2) Open at least two windows: One for the Youtube video, one for the screencast (link below), and optionally one for the slides themselves.
3) The Youtube video is shown on the first page of the slide deck, for slides, just skip to page 2.
Screencast: http://youtu.be/VoL7JKJmr2I
Video recording: http://youtu.be/CJRvb8zxRdE (Thanks to Al Friedrich!)
In this talk, we take Deep Learning to task with real world data puzzles to solve.
Data:
- Higgs binary classification dataset (10M rows, 29 cols)
- MNIST 10-class dataset
- Weather categorical dataset
- eBay text classification dataset (8500 cols, 500k rows, 467 classes)
- ECG heartbeat anomaly detection
- Powered by the open source machine learning software H2O.ai. Contributors welcome at: https://github.com/h2oai
- To view videos on H2O open source machine learning software, go to: https://www.youtube.com/user/0xdata
Russ Choma presents at the Reynolds Center's Washington, D.C. workshop, "What's Next for the Economy in Your Town." For more information, please visit http://businessjournalism.org.
Towards an Energy-Efficient Economy: Market Solutions, Policy and BarriersAlliance To Save Energy
Kateri Callahan
President, Alliance to Save Energy
February 17, 2010
Eilat- Eilot: International Renewable Energy Conference
Why isn’t the market driving cost-effective energy efficiency? Callahan joined a distinguished group of presenters (including Yael Cohen Paran, CEO of Israel Energy Forum) and Darrell Smith (president of the International Window Film Association) in a panel chaired by Ze’ev Gross, Israeli minsiter of National Infrastructures Resource Management to discuss existing barriers and possible solutions towards effectively penetrating the market with energy efficient technologies and practices.
Harvard University Study: America's Unconventional Energy OpportunityMarcellus Drilling News
A study published by the Harvard Business School in June 2015 that says, essentially, if fracking is done right (and we already have the technology to do it right), if it's regulated properly, it's safe and has enormous benefits economically for America. This study lays out a plan to achieve just that.
Speaking to participants of the Asia Pacific Research Center's Peer Review on Energy Efficiency, Castelli offered a status update on energy efficiency in the U.S., and the ways that energy efficiency programs are financed, monitored and measured there. After briefing the audience on the history of energy legislation in the U.S., Castelli introduced them to the energy efficiency provisions of the recently passed American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Russ Choma presents "Covering the Green Economy - Follow the Green Money," a Webinar geared toward business journalists.
The Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism provides free tools and training for business journalists throughout the year. For more information, please visit businessjournalism.org.
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.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
GridMate - End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid...ThomasParaiso2
End to end testing is a critical piece to ensure quality and avoid regressions. In this session, we share our journey building an E2E testing pipeline for GridMate components (LWC and Aura) using Cypress, JSForce, FakerJS…
zkStudyClub - Reef: Fast Succinct Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Regex ProofsAlex Pruden
This paper presents Reef, a system for generating publicly verifiable succinct non-interactive zero-knowledge proofs that a committed document matches or does not match a regular expression. We describe applications such as proving the strength of passwords, the provenance of email despite redactions, the validity of oblivious DNS queries, and the existence of mutations in DNA. Reef supports the Perl Compatible Regular Expression syntax, including wildcards, alternation, ranges, capture groups, Kleene star, negations, and lookarounds. Reef introduces a new type of automata, Skipping Alternating Finite Automata (SAFA), that skips irrelevant parts of a document when producing proofs without undermining soundness, and instantiates SAFA with a lookup argument. Our experimental evaluation confirms that Reef can generate proofs for documents with 32M characters; the proofs are small and cheap to verify (under a second).
Paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1886
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 5DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 5. In this session, we will cover CI/CD with devops.
Topics covered:
CI/CD with in UiPath
End-to-end overview of CI/CD pipeline with Azure devops
Speaker:
Lyndsey Byblow, Test Suite Sales Engineer @ UiPath, Inc.
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/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
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.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
Sudheer Mechineni, Head of Application Frameworks, Standard Chartered Bank
Discover how Standard Chartered Bank harnessed the power of Neo4j to transform complex data access challenges into a dynamic, scalable graph database solution. This keynote will cover their journey from initial adoption to deploying a fully automated, enterprise-grade causal cluster, highlighting key strategies for modelling organisational changes and ensuring robust disaster recovery. Learn how these innovations have not only enhanced Standard Chartered Bank’s data infrastructure but also positioned them as pioneers in the banking sector’s adoption of graph technology.
Observability Concepts EVERY Developer Should Know -- DeveloperWeek Europe.pdfPaige Cruz
Monitoring and observability aren’t traditionally found in software curriculums and many of us cobble this knowledge together from whatever vendor or ecosystem we were first introduced to and whatever is a part of your current company’s observability stack.
While the dev and ops silo continues to crumble….many organizations still relegate monitoring & observability as the purview of ops, infra and SRE teams. This is a mistake - achieving a highly observable system requires collaboration up and down the stack.
I, a former op, would like to extend an invitation to all application developers to join the observability party will share these foundational concepts to build on:
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.
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