How to Save a Planet - On a Budget
from The Energy Collective & Sustainable Cities Collective
Hour 3: Cleantech, the Venture Capital Climate, and Policy
Report by Clean Edge on the top trends in clean tech in 2011, and performance over the last decade. I assisted with research on biofuels and sustainable architecture.
http://www.cleanedge.com/
Report by Clean Edge on the top trends in clean tech in 2011, and performance over the last decade. I assisted with research on biofuels and sustainable architecture.
http://www.cleanedge.com/
This billing booklet looks at changes to flexible working, and how you can adopt to ensure your business benefits from new employment trends. In this issue you can also learn about networking, and how the npower Energy Services connections team works with new wind farms.
EarthEra: Sustainable Branding and Identity for NextEra EnergySustainable Brands
Learn how EarthEraTM can help position and align your brand with your customers’ beliefs. Hear how businesses, universities and municipalities are responding to their customers' values with the simple and powerful EarthEra message. At the end of this session, you will know how implementing EarthEra offers directly responds to your customers' needs and provides your company the opportunity to increase brand value and customer loyalty.
Selling the Sun: A real estate agent's guide to valuing and selling residenti...Keep Me Certified
This is the powerpoint deck used in a course taught by Craig Foley and produced in partnership with Keep Me Certified and the Mass Clean Energy Commission.
This course teaches real estate agents how to address Solar PV in a residential real estate transaction.
To learn more and enroll in the course, visit ma.keepmecertified.com/selling-the-sun
Keep Me Certified is a fully approved online real estate school offering pre-licensing and continuing education courses to licensed real estate professionals. keepmecertified.com
Solving indonesia's present and future energy needsAndre Susanto
Indonesia is an archipelago with over 17,000 islands. Almost 1000 of them are permanently inhabited and over 5000 more are inhabited for part of the year. A centralized grid with large power plants is costly, and logistically almost impossible.
Decentralized power generation and storage with microgrid infrastructures are what's needed to solve Indonesia's energy needs. Implemented and planned correctly, this will allow Indonesia to leapfrog the traditional power distribution and transmission method of electrification. Indonesia can be a leader in how to implement power plants that utilize and maximize the local renewable energy sources as part of its electrification strategy.
This presentation was the slides that I presented in Munich during the 2015 conference on decentralized solar PV systems in Indonesia. This event was sponsored and supported by the Renewable Energy Export Initiative under the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy.
The Role of Minigrids in Energy Access and National Electrification PlanningAndre Susanto
How to incorporate distributed generation and minigrids as part of the energy access and national energy planning. What's needed to ensure that the regulations allow for different business models and that the communities are allowed to grow.
Jason Walsh, Senior Advisor for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, shares research and program updates from the Department of Energy.
Materials generously provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
This billing booklet looks at changes to flexible working, and how you can adopt to ensure your business benefits from new employment trends. In this issue you can also learn about networking, and how the npower Energy Services connections team works with new wind farms.
EarthEra: Sustainable Branding and Identity for NextEra EnergySustainable Brands
Learn how EarthEraTM can help position and align your brand with your customers’ beliefs. Hear how businesses, universities and municipalities are responding to their customers' values with the simple and powerful EarthEra message. At the end of this session, you will know how implementing EarthEra offers directly responds to your customers' needs and provides your company the opportunity to increase brand value and customer loyalty.
Selling the Sun: A real estate agent's guide to valuing and selling residenti...Keep Me Certified
This is the powerpoint deck used in a course taught by Craig Foley and produced in partnership with Keep Me Certified and the Mass Clean Energy Commission.
This course teaches real estate agents how to address Solar PV in a residential real estate transaction.
To learn more and enroll in the course, visit ma.keepmecertified.com/selling-the-sun
Keep Me Certified is a fully approved online real estate school offering pre-licensing and continuing education courses to licensed real estate professionals. keepmecertified.com
Solving indonesia's present and future energy needsAndre Susanto
Indonesia is an archipelago with over 17,000 islands. Almost 1000 of them are permanently inhabited and over 5000 more are inhabited for part of the year. A centralized grid with large power plants is costly, and logistically almost impossible.
Decentralized power generation and storage with microgrid infrastructures are what's needed to solve Indonesia's energy needs. Implemented and planned correctly, this will allow Indonesia to leapfrog the traditional power distribution and transmission method of electrification. Indonesia can be a leader in how to implement power plants that utilize and maximize the local renewable energy sources as part of its electrification strategy.
This presentation was the slides that I presented in Munich during the 2015 conference on decentralized solar PV systems in Indonesia. This event was sponsored and supported by the Renewable Energy Export Initiative under the German Federal Ministry of Economy and Energy.
The Role of Minigrids in Energy Access and National Electrification PlanningAndre Susanto
How to incorporate distributed generation and minigrids as part of the energy access and national energy planning. What's needed to ensure that the regulations allow for different business models and that the communities are allowed to grow.
Jason Walsh, Senior Advisor for the Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, shares research and program updates from the Department of Energy.
Materials generously provided by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
LABC Solar Fit 4 LA presentation to MVCCSherri Akers
The LABC has made this presentation to the MVCC Green Committee and the following motion will be presented to the MVCC Board on Tuesday night Sept 14th.
The Mar Vista Community Council would like to extend our support to the Los Angeles Business
Council/UCLA’s proposed 600 MW Feed-in Tariff (FiT) program for the City of Los Angeles. We agree that the LABC/UCLA proposed program is an important step that our city can take right now to promote renewable energy in Los Angeles.
The LABC/UCLA Solar FiT program has already attracted the strong support of organizations
representing business, labor, the environment and numerous communities from around the city. We are pleased to join this extensive coalition of supporters because we believe the program offers great environmental and economic benefits for Los Angeles and its residents.
On September 20th, 2016 nearly 40 people gathered at the Shoreview Community Center to learn about community solar gardens and network with experts and developers. <a>Click here to learn more</a>.
Silicon Valley Bank Energy Efficiency Report: Key Sector TrendsSilicon Valley Bank
SVB's Energy Efficiency Report provides perspective on the key players and most compelling trends in the Energy sector. Topics covered include VC and government funding in the energy efficiency market; industry trends related to regulation, consumer demand and technology enhancements; and an overview of financing for energy companies.
To date, most green construction has been geared to commercial structures or affordable housing. An overlooked niche is market-rate single-family homes. While buyers are beginning to ask for green homes or are remodeling existing homes with green features, this type of construction is often overlooked due to economic feasibility. We explore issues relating to making green housing affordable. Even if building a completely green house is not economically feasible, incorporating green elements (materials, site planning, energy rebates) into the project is almost always possible and can help the environment.
Life in the Trenches: How Wind and Solar Projects Really Work (or Don't)Derek Satnik
Wind and solar energy are far from new, but the recent growth of these industries means that many new players are doing wind and solar projects, some with better successes than others. THis presentation talks about how
Given the Cap and Trade mechanism in place, there are additional opportunities to provide further incentives to meet carbon goals. Many financial institutions have mandates to achieve a zero footprint. The following proposal was made in 2009 to the Bank of Montreal: As a strategic maneuver to increase market share and advance its sustainability commitment, design a program to exchange low-interest rate financial products to collect the environmental attributes from the residential, commercial and institutional photovoltaic installations. If and when aggregated, the environmental attributes (carbon credits) would be of better use given than many residential, commercial and institutional are incapable of benefiting from the cap and trade program.
The presentation provides a review of the performance of installations to suggest the commercial and institutional market potential in Canada. A brief review of US Green Financial Products was also included as suggested approaches. Note that many new products/programs have been introduced since 2009. The prospect of releasing the environmental attributes to further incentivize Ontario's carbon goals is worth reviewing.
The Nigeria Alternative Energy Expo is Nigeria’s leading Energy Expo. NAEE features line-up of local and international speakers, delegates and exhibitors, who will gather to debate a new energy future for Africa's most populous nation
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Storytelling Gone Wild: The Key to Creating Viral ContentSocial Media Today
The question marketers have been asking themselves for a few years now is, “Is there a secret to creating viral content?” The answer is yes and no. Yes, there are ways to help boost your content towards the goal of going viral. No, it’s not a secret. In many ways, the tactics to go viral are common sense. What about your content will activate an emotional response in your audience? What kinds of emotions does your audience respond to? Are you providing practical information in a unique way? Are you getting it in the right feeds at the right times?
Join us in this webinar as our content experts discuss:
Examples of content that goes viral, with explanations why
How to ask the right questions of your own content, so each message you send out has potential
Kinds of strategies to apply at different parts of the process for best results
And how to analyze those results in a realistic, goal-appropriate way
Social Listening: Harness Marketing Insights from Consumer ConversationsSocial Media Today
Social channels like Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even Reddit have brought brands and their audiences closer than ever before. If your marketing team is like leading organizations around the world, you’re already using social listening technologies to conduct market research, monitor and measure your campaigns, and support customers.
That’s a great start. But if you and your team aren’t aware of all the other ways that you can use social media to really maximize your marketing investments, you could be missing out on additional channels to exceed your targets, expand your share of voice, and create even more marketing-generated revenue for your organization.
Join our experienced panelists as they discuss how innovative marketing teams are expanding their social monitoring strategies, including:
Using real-time alerts and trends for reputation & crisis management
Distributing social data and insights across the enterprise
Conducting content research to discover topics of interest for targeted influencer and advocate campaigns
Omni-Channel Marketing: Creating the Right Mix for Your BrandSocial Media Today
There is a fine line between an omni-channel marketing strategy and a messy social media presence, and it’s crucial that brands stay squarely on one side of that line. Now that social media has declared its power and is here to stay, there is no need to push your content and message on all channels at once. Good omni-channel marketing tailors content to specific channels and personalizes it for the buyer persona appropriate for that channel. You don’t have to be everywhere at once, but you do have to be several places authentically. In this webinar, you’ll discover that omni-channel is more than a marketing buzzword--that it’s an opportunity to personalize your brand story for more customer loyalty and trust.
Join us as our marketing experts discuss:
The balance between shouting your message across channels and tailoring your content for specific channels;
Tools to help you manage omni-channel marketing campaigns;
How to use customer journey mapping to better understand where and how your customers are active;
And how omni-channel can work not just in sales but also in listening, customer care, and analytics.
In the age of authenticity, there’s no greater tool at a marketer’s disposal than influencer marketing. Consumers no longer blindly trust advertisements. Instead, they trust influencers whose judgment has a proven track record. Done right, influencer marketing can communicate a brand’s culture directly to a target audience in a real way. But how do you justify investment in an influencer program, and how do you measure tangible results? How do you go about finding influencers to engage with in the first place? What are realistic goals to set? Which metrics matter and which are simply vanity metrics?
In this panel, our experts will discuss:
Why influencer marketing is one of the most effective marketing tools
How to find talent that is brand-appropriate and also aspirational
What kind of business goals to set with an influencer program
How to track and understand metrics to measure a program’s effectiveness
How Does Social Listening Change the Way You Do Business (and Create ROI)Social Media Today
You can’t do social marketing well if you aren’t nailing social listening. If you’re crafting and executing a social strategy in a vacuum, your results will probably be equally hollow. The thing is, consumers are on social right now, talking about your brand or talking about issues that are important for developing and selling your products or services. Are you listening to them? Are you listening across platforms? Are you gathering your results from all areas of social? Are you taking that data and and using it to re-formulate your marketing approach? If it sounds like a lot, it’s because it is. But it’s not impossible with the right know-how.
Join us as our panel discusses:
How to know what to listen to and when;
Strategies for integrating social listening into your marketing approach
Ways to aggregate listening across platforms
How to turn listening data into actionable insights for your business plan
It’s easy to let the holiday season bog your organization down in the influx of sales campaigns, but make sure you don’t miss out on forecasting trends in marketing for the coming year. January offers brands a chance to reformulate their marketing approach to fit the new cycle of innovation and tech trends. To that end, Social Media Today ends the year with a webinar that focuses on what’s to come in 2016. Where will live-streaming apps take us next? How important will mobile be? What if you don’t have a video strategy? What will be the next wave of startup innovation? How should the enterprise pivot in the face of unexpected challenges?
Join our panelists as we discuss:
- Predictions for trends and changes to come in social marketing in 2016
- How to use these predictions to shape your social strategy
- And which innovations from 2015 will continue to grow in the coming year.
With viral word-of-mouth recommendations outpacing traditional advertising efforts, there’s no greater buzzword right now than influencer marketing. Yet most influencer marketing news focuses on B2C brands, ignoring the fact that influencer marketing is just as important an investment for B2B companies. In this webinar, we’ll use a B2B case study to look at ways your small business can leverage experts in the field for a better company both internally and externally, from content creation to relationship building.
Join us as our panelists discuss:
why influencer marketing is a crucial way to stay relevant and informed in your industry;
how to find context for your brand and a place to start looking for influencers;
a specific case study that will give you ideas to start your own program;
and tips for measuring results and determining ROI of influencer marketing.
Is Social Media Worth Multi-Million Dollar Investment? Using Social Listening...Social Media Today
There’s no greater quest in social marketing today than the quest to determine the ROI of social media. CEOs and CMOs want to know exactly what the financial investment is earning them in return, and who can blame them? There’s been a massive rush to the social space, but without a strategy for proving ROI, you can quickly find yourself knee-deep in tweets you don’t know what to do with. Specific goal-setting can help determine what kinds of social interactions to pursue, and understanding the value of social listening could change the entire shape of your organization. Social listening might not directly lead to sales all the time, but, used correctly, it will always lead to a better relationship with your customer.
Join us as our panel of experts discuss:
What the social media landscape looks like today and how ROI changes with it.
The inherent value in using social media to expand your reach, and how to measure those benefits.
Why social listening is the anchor of ROI.
Examples of the kinds of goals to set for social campaigns and how to determine their success.
December 1, 2015 Webinar:
In the age of employee advocacy, your brand can be as powerful as your workforce is enthusiastic. If your workforce is motivated, engaged, and socially equipped, you can pull off an appropriate and successful employee advocacy program. In fact, if your organization is mid-sized and doesn’t have at its disposal the marketing tools larger outfits might have, internal brand advocates are often the most powerful and cost-effective marketing tool in your arsenal. Our new report on the current state of employee advocacy finds that 64% of advocates cite a workplace program as the reason for attracting new business, and 45% can directly attribute new revenue streams to formal programs. So while you might not be able to dedicate an entire team to implementing a program, it's good for business to assemble your core of informed, active, and proud employee advocates. A great employee advocacy program knows no size boundaries.
In this webinar, join our panelists as they discuss:
Statistics from our report, including why 84% of employee advocates say it's had a positive effect on their career;
Why employee advocacy is word-of-mouth marketing at its best, and can give your brand an edge in the noisy marketplace;
How to identify the most motivated and engaged employees and activate their personal drive on behalf of your organization;
A content strategy that combines company and employee content for an authentic and relevant mix;
And how to use employee advocacy to amplify your brand beyond the limits of its size.
In an age where marketing currency equals digital consumption, the content marketing game has never been more intense or competitive. And while we can’t all claim to be as viral as a scandalous Kim Kardashian photo spread, we can aim to create and curate content that speaks directly to our audience in a new and incredibly valuable way. In this crowded social landscape, your content must provide serious value to capture the customers’ attention, and must be uber-relevant to stand out among the noise. This webinar isn’t going to give you a magical content formula, but it will help you get into a mindset to design a content strategy that has the potential to “break” the hum drum normalcy of the Internet.
Join us in this webinar as our content experts discuss:
Why content is your organization’s biggest asset when it comes to earned media;
Different content styles and categories, and how your business can produce in each;
How to organize and execute a strategy, including defining your brand story, sticking to an editorial calendar, and understanding performance analytics;
And what kinds of content lead directly to organization growth (and what that even looks like).
According to recent reports, just 8% of companies say they can prove ROI from their social media spending, yet 70% of marketers say they plan to increase their social media spending. CMOs are under the gun now more than ever to show how social media marketing directly impacts bottom line revenue. And while we all know that good social content marketing can foster an engaged community, how should we measure the tangible, financial benefits? What metrics should you be looking for to justify your social budget to the C-Suite? What, really, is the value of a “like?” If you are a marketer who needs help showing your CMO that an active social community actually improves commerce, this webinar is for you.
Hear from our panel of experts as they discuss:
How to use user-generated content to persuade and influence the purchasing decision.
The best ways to quantify positive social sentiment.
Which metrics matter in the connection between digital community and business bottom line.
What CMOs really want to hear and the best ways to deliver those results.
Behavioral Analytics: How Your Customers’ Behaviors and Profiles Can Shape Yo...Social Media Today
If you’re like most marketers, you’re facing a conundrum: sales demands are just as high as ever, but traditional marketing has long lost its momentum. Marketers are scrambling for ways to add value for a potential customer without seeming intrusive or clunky. Luckily, companies that commit to a social presence have mounds of data to help them out, and a particularly important area of data is behavioral analytics. Looking at data that only includes your brand mentions is one thing, but looking at the way your customer behaves online--whether it directly involves your brand or not--can help revamp your lead generation and conversion process. But what kinds of behavioral analytics should you be looking at and exactly how do they lead to insights about your sales cycle? How do you move from numbers to targeted marketing?
In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
Which tools and platforms will help you gather analytics data and wade through analysis;
How to identify behavior that tells you where your potential customer is most susceptible to being converted;
The difference between aggregate and individual analysis, and pros and cons for both;
Why integrating behavior analytics into your marketing strategy is key to finding new sales opportunities.
This year, Entrepreneur said, “the future of new business is social selling.” Statements like that are easy to get employees excited about at first but it can be difficult for companies to maintain that momentum if it doesn’t yield immediate results. Consistency and sticking with it, however, is key to social selling success. So how can you build your social selling dream team and increase your company’s investment in the process? There are a few tips and strategies--such as breaking down silos between sales and marketing as well as getting the C-Suite involved --that can refresh your team’s approach to social selling and help close deals with greater regularity and ease.
In this panel, our sales experts will discuss:
-How to unite your sales and marketing departments so that your social efforts are supported company-wide;
-How to train and internally motivate your team for better morale and better external results;
-Why the c-suite needs to be involved and how to involve corporate leadership sales initiatives;
-Social selling strategies that focus on authentic and well-researched relationship-building.
It's time to pay attention to millennials: a quarter of the total U.S population is made up of millennials and nearly 85% of them own smartphones. If you aren't targeting at least some of your marketing efforts towards this demographic, you're probably missing out on huge opportunities. You must create a marketing campaign for the audience you have, but also the audience you want. Yet what if your brand isn't naturally geared toward millennials? What exactly is a millennial? And won't this marketing strategy shut out other demographics? And how do you speak "millennial," anyway?
In this webinar, learn from our expert panelists:
-How to make sure your content strategy is mobile-friendly for all demographics
-Tips and tricks on spinning the content you already have for the millennial audience
-Ideas for shaping a new content strategy that will appeal to a younger mobile audience
-Information on where B2B intersects with millennials, and why it's important to reach out to that demographic to scale.
To deliver value in today’s business climate and with a new generation of consumers, marketers are increasingly learning that ‘old tricks’ and predictable branding games – might not get the desired impact. Join Nichole Kelly, CEO of Social Media Explorer as she unveils a bold look into how most brand actions can be grouped into 13 'game groups’. These game groups are not all equally well received. Nichole is joined by Pernille Bruun-Jensen, CMO of NetBase, as they review the power of a new Marketing approach that resonates, brought to life through deep dives on brands like:
-Nike
-Mercedes-Benz
-Dollar Shave Club and
-Dyson
Get the tips on how to get your brand ready to win the hearts and minds of today’s consumer – a more savvy consumer than ever.
There’s a reason offices spaces are becoming more "open" these days. Siloed departments are a thing of the past. If your marketing department and sales department aren’t talking to each other and collaborating, you’re doing something wrong. If you don’t have social informing every department, you’re going to be hard-pressed to see significant ROI from social, or improve the customer experience. The very nature of social media requires that it crosses boundaries and informs all campaigns and marketing efforts and customer touchpoints. But it’s difficult to make that happen in your company simply by taking down cubicle walls. You must also set up infrastructure within your organization that allows for convenient communication, and you must invest in the right tools and platforms that are flexible enough to move with your prospect and customer initiatives instead of rigidly defining them.
In this panel, we’ll gather experts to discuss:
-Why integrated social is the only way to go if you’re going to become a social business
-How to measure social ROI when it encompasses many departments and strategies
-Tools and platforms that can help your organization stay socially agile
-How a thorough dedication to social across your organization can help you scale and grow at a manageable rate
-The kind of internal methodology needed to integrate a social-centric approach
It’s true: your best brand advocates are coming from inside the company. Are you leveraging the reach and authentic enthusiasm of your employees? Identifying and mobilizing your employees are the first steps to putting in place a solid advocacy program. But a crucial last step that isn’t often talked about is measuring results and tweaking your program. In this webinar, we’ll talk to experts from brands that have measured the effectiveness of their advocacy programs to identify what’s working and what could work better. Whatever stage of implementing your program you’re in, it’s important to understand how to tell if your efforts are making a difference for your brand’s reputation in the market.
In this webinar, our panelists will talk about:
-How to set up your employee advocacy program with clear goals and KPIs while also remaining agile;
-What parts of your program you should be measuring;
-How to turn data from your program into results that tell a story;
-Which tools will help you consistently measure your results in a clear, helpful way.
In an era where your customers’ attention spans are close to that of a goldfish, you have no time to waste in your marketing efforts. Customers will only respond to campaigns that fit seamlessly into their digital life, and they’ll only respond to content that is uber-relevant to their needs and desires. At the same time, you need to be meeting your own internal KPIs and consider your company’s relevance across media and trends. Anchoring your strategies in the place where audience desires and brand goals overlap can transform your marketing from digital noise to personalized, appealing content. Additionally, taking inspiration from events can make your campaigns useful as they toggle online and off. Approaching each campaign with a set of CX principles will ensure that your company remains relevant as the needs and desires shift.
But where should you begin with all of this?
In this webinar, we’ll discuss:
-Finding the sweet spot where customer desires, industry trends, and brand goals overlap and using that to guide your marketing efforts;
-Ways to create narratives for your campaigns that move seamlessly from online to offline and back again;
-How to discover what kind of content is relevant for today’s online consumer and how your products or services can fit into it;
-How to develop a system of marketing campaign principles that will allow your campaigns to stay fresh and creative.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
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.
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.
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
FIDO Alliance Osaka Seminar: Passkeys and the Road Ahead.pdf
How to Save a Planet - On a Budget: Cleantech, the Venture Capital Climate, and Policy
1. How to Save a Planet – On a Budget
Hour 3 (11:15 – 12:15 EST):
• Green Seeds: Venture Capital and Cleantech Startups
• Government Policy and Cleantech
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2. About this Webinar
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3. About Our Speakers
Will Coleman is a partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures. He has logged ten years in cleantech and has
worked with startups, cleantech funds, and on project finance structures for new energy
technologies. He previously worked as the Legislative Director for the New Fuels Alliance (Formerly
REAP), for GE Wind in the commercial operations group, for Xseed Capital, and on a variety of
renewable energy projects abroad.
Scott Edward Anderson is founder of VerdeStrategy, a consulting and advisory firm focused on the
cleantech, energy, and environment sectors, and is a frequent commentator on FOX Business
Network. He has over 20 years experience in management, marketing, fund raising and business
development, and has held management positions institutions such as The Nature Conservancy and
Ashoka, a social venture capital organization.
Daniel Shugaris CEO of Solaria, and has spent over twenty years advancing the renewable energy
industry, most recently as president of SunPower Corporation, and previously of PowerLight. Mr.
Shugar has invented various PV system applications, holds multiple U.S. patents and has published
over 50 technical papers. Mr. Shugar holds a BS in electrical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute and MBA from Golden Gate University.
Jesse Jenkins, moderating,is Director of Energy and Climate Policy at the Breakthrough Institute, and
is a leading energy and climate analyst and advocate. Jesse's work and analysis has been featured in
many media outlets, and he is recently the co-author of Bridging the Clean Energy Valleys of Death:
Helping American Entrepreneurs Meet the Nation's Energy Innovation Imperative
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5. Firm Overview
• Founded in 1983
Early Stage • “Early Stage” Venture Investor
Venture Investor • Invested in more than 275 companies
• $2B Under Management
Cleantech
Life Sciences
Information Technology
7. Dow Jones as a leading indicator
• Cleantech private investing has loosely tracked DJ
• Significant IPO backlog needs to process
• Many investors are cautiously watching exits
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18. Financing – Typical Risks / Issues
• Early capital intensity before validation
– Requires access to different sources of capital
(PE / debt / strategic / government)
• Late binding risk reduction
– Economics of process only proven at scale
• Later stage investors’ interests might not be aligned with
entrepreneurs and early stage investors
– Cost of Capital less important to decision making
19. Things we have learned
• Build something that matters
– Typically: difficult = differentiation = value capture
• Build something that can be a solution not a component
• Manage capital intensity
– It’s as much about the timing as the total capital
• Cleantech investing is more complex than classic IT
– Many more financing sources, strategic interests, policy, etc.
• Successful business development can beat technology
(at least over the short run)
22. A Year of Unprecedented Energy Disasters
BP Deep Water
Horizon Oil
SpillApril 2010
Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear
MeltdownMarch
2011
Natural Gas
Upper Big Pipeline
Branch Coal Explosion in San
Mine Bruno,
DisasterApril CASeptember,
2010 2010
23. Solar Power Applications – Diverse Range
Residential Commercial Rooftop Utility Scale
1-10 kW 10 kW – 1 MW 1 MW– 250 MW
24. Solar Growing Rapidly, Averaging 65%
Compound Annual Growth Rate for the Past 5 Years
17 nuclear power
plants worth
of solar peak
power
shipped in 2010
Source: PV Industry Growth Data from Paula Mints, Principal Analyst, Solar Services Program, Navigant
25. Global Solar Industry Growth has
Produced Steadily Falling Prices
Module Pricing Trends 1985-2011
Sources: 1976 -1985 data from IPCC, Final Plenary, Special Report Renewable Energy Sources (SRREN), May 2011; 1985-2010 data from Paula Mints, Principal Analyst, Solar Services Program, Navigant;
2011 numbers based on current market data
26. Solar Adoption on High Tech Trajectory
US cell phone
subscribers has risen
from 5.3 million
to 285 million
in 15 years
27. Solar Price Drops Mirror
High Tech Consumer Goods
Driven by Innovation, Automation, and Scale
Cell Phones
Digital Cameras
with plan
DVD Players
28. Financing is Driving Residential Solar Adoption
• 100% Financing accelerating solar home sales
• Sale of Energy, not equipment
• Never an Increase in your Utility Bill
• >100,000 solar power systems already installed
29. Solar is Less Expensive
Than New Nuclear
$0.139
$0.129
Cents per Kilowatt Hour
$0.095
$0.07
Average time to permit and build a nuclear 1 GW power plant – 13 years.
Average time to permit and build 1 GW solar – 1 year.
The last nuclear power plant completed in the US, Watts Bar 1 in Tennessee, took 23 years 7 months to construct.
Sources: 2011 nuclear price is the mid-point of the LCOE range given by Lazard, version 5.0. 2020 nuclear price is illustrative, calculated assuming 3.5% annual escalation; 2011 & 2016 PV Prices from DOE, Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Energy, $1/Watt Photovoltaic Systems, May 2011, 2020 PV price illustrative, assuming 4% annual cost reduction from 2016
(further validated by prices bid by solar developers into the California markets).
30. Solar Beats Natural Gas Peak Power Today
$0.238
$0.226
Cents per Kilowatt Hour
$0.139
$0.086
250 MW Gas CT
Gas peakers pollute 3 times more than natural gas power plants.
Sources: 2011 gas price is the mid-point of the LCOE range given by Lazard, version 5.0. 2016 gas price is illustrative, calculated assuming 1% annual escalation; 2011 & 2016 PV Prices from
DOE, Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy, $1/Watt Photovoltaic Systems, May 2011 (further validated by prices bid by solar developers into the California markets).
31. New Coal Can’t Deliver Power for 6-8 Years,
When Solar Will Be Competitive
$0.139
$0.109
Cents per Kilowatt Hour
$0.08
$0.07
$0.07
Coal Plant 5%
500 MW
Source: 2011 coal price is the mid-point of the LCOE range given by Lazard, version 5.0. 2020 coal price is illustrative, calculated assuming 5% annual escalation: 2011 & 2016 PV Prices from DOE, Advanced
Research Projects Agency - Energy, $1/Watt Photovoltaic Systems, May 2011, 2020 PV price illustrative, assuming 4% annual cost reduction from 2016
(further validated by prices bid by solar developers into the California markets).
32. Solar Meets Critical Peak Power Demand
Sources: For summer peak load shape – California Independent System Operator (CAL-ISO); For time of use rates – Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E); For PV Tracking Output – Solaria Corporation
33. Solar Creates U.S. Jobs
100k
80k
60k
40k
20k
8
7
7x more jobs per MW
100,237 Americans work in solar today 6
than coal
5
4
Solar employment grew 6.8% while 3
the general economy grew 0.7% 2
1
0
Nat ural Gas Coal Nuclear Wind CCS Biomass Solar Thermal Geot hermal Solar PV
Sources: Kammen, David M et al, 2004, Report of the Renewable and Appropriate Energy Lab, Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry
Create?, Energy Resources Group, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley.Wei, Max et al, 2010, Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs
Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?, Energy Resources Group, Goldman School of Public Policy and the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, in
Energy Policy, vol 38, issue 2, February 2010.
Solar Foundation 2011 National Jobs Census
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: May 2010 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
34. Solar is Ready Now
Solar
Coal Natural
17 GW 6.7 GW Gas
5.5 GW
Solar added more Major combined
than 17 GW sources of polluted
worldwide energy only added 12.2
2010 GW in the US
2010
Source: Erik Shuster, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Tracking New Coal-Fired Power Plants, January 14, 2011(Natural as includes NGCC at 4GW and NG GT and 1.5 GW.)
35. Bipartisan Public Support for Clean Energy
91 percentof Americans say
developing sources of clean
energy should be a priority
for the President and
Congress
85% of Republicans
89% of Independents
97% of Democrats
Sources: Public Support for Climate & Energy Policies in May 2011, Yale Project on Climate Change.
36. Transition to Renewables
To 2030 To 2040 To 2050
• Flexible Generation
• Substitute Generation •Smartgrid
• Energy Storage
TWH/yr
Solar power will be the largest source of electricity in the U.S.
Sources: McKinsey Report, 2007 for starting points and energy efficiency; AWEA for wind; internal SunPower calculations for DPV, CPV, CSP
37. Solar
Less expensive than new nuclear and cost
competitive with new coal and gas started today
Delivers Gigawatts of power fast – 8 to 20 years
faster than coal or nuclear
Delivers strong ROI in the form of American jobs
and global economic competitiveness
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Editor's Notes
Investor classes are concentrating and shifting slightlyFewer overall investors – which is natural and probably goodmore corporates – particularly in later stage deals (probably through JVs and other buildouts)Mostly we see the players who were dipping their toe pull back a bitCorporates and private equity play a heavier role in cleantech investing than in other VC categoriesWe’ve heard some questions about whether the VC model works in cleantech, and we will get some opinions on that here on this panel. Many, but not all CT plays are more capital front loaded. The fact that PE and Corp play a larger role highlights this and the need for accessible downstream financing…. And what we are seeing is….
We’re seeing continued growth in asset financing and exits.Project Finance, M&A, and IPOs all up in 2010Interestingly a large portion of the Cleantech IPOs were in China (11 of 14 in Q1-3). Increasing player not just in tech liquidity but clean tech.
Amazing how much CT continues to correlate with oil and NG pricesMost people see the long term trends here being up and to the right – even with shale gas we have a fundamental set of problems
Taking another step back. I just want to put this chart up and leave it during our discussion. It shows a view of how different types of capital layer into a theoretical heavy industrial innovationThe commercialization section I just showed is this middle area where you all are entering and where we all spend our time investingYou can see that some gaps can emerge in those later stages as I mentionedMore importantly, you see how different types of capital layer inGovtARPA-E and early seed (Michael)VC (My firm)Corporates and PE (although most PE is later) (Daniel)And then Project finance equity and debt (Daniel)
By way of comparison, Bureau of labor statistics says - 79,500 Americans work in iron & steel manufacturing. 84,000 work in coal mining.