The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University works to find solutions for energy challenges through research, education, and policy outreach. It is led by Directors Jared Cohon and Andrew Gellman and Associate Directors Deborah Stine and Anna Siefken. In 2015-2016, the Scott Institute supported 9 seed grants totaling $460,420 and held its first Energy Week conference with over 720 participants. It focuses on strategic areas like building energy efficiency, energy cyber-physical systems, shale gas, and materials for energy technologies.
Kajsa Ellegard Energy Cultures Conference 2016 Keynote “On the success of energy conservation in the household sector– a matter of daily activities at individual, household and aggregate levels“
Carnegie Mellon University Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach, entrepreneurship, and education. As one of CMU’s only university-wide institutes, we seek to optimize energy resources, reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and develop breakthrough technologies and solutions that will have meaningful global impact.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University is focused on developing and demonstrating the technologies, systems and policies needed to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future.
Kajsa Ellegard Energy Cultures Conference 2016 Keynote “On the success of energy conservation in the household sector– a matter of daily activities at individual, household and aggregate levels“
Carnegie Mellon University Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University addresses the world’s most important energy-related challenges by enabling collaborative research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach, entrepreneurship, and education. As one of CMU’s only university-wide institutes, we seek to optimize energy resources, reduce the environmental impacts of energy production and use, and develop breakthrough technologies and solutions that will have meaningful global impact.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University is focused on developing and demonstrating the technologies, systems and policies needed to accelerate the transition to a sustainable energy future.
Plugging into the Smart Grid: How College and Universities Can Get InvolvedMieko Ozeki
prepared and presented by Mieko A. Ozeki, Sustainability Projects Coordinator, at the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Conference on April 2, 2012 at Syracuse University.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation’s and world’s energy challenges through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
Phillipa Watson “Getting Bill-Smart: Outcomes of an energy efficiency project for low income householders in Tasmania.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Lindsey McCarthy “Energy (In)Efficiency: Exploring what Tenants expect and endure in the Private Rented Sector in England.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
This publication presents a compilation of extended abstracts of VTT’s recent research on energy and eco-efficient built environment. Sustainability as a dominating driver of technology development can also be seen in the R&D portfolio of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. A clear focus of our research for the building sector is sustainable construction, particularly the energy efficiency of the built environment.
Buildings and the whole built environment are in a key role when societies are mitigating climate change and adapting to its consequences. Despite the temporary economic downturn, construction globally remains one of the most significant areas of human activities globally. Due to the urgency of measures related to climate change and the need to provide a proper environment for living and working, a large number of national and international measures have been agreed to guarantee the future development of sustainable built environment for all. Indirectly, this has lead to a need to develop existing and completely new technologies and processes for the built environment with a speed faster than ever and with a more holistic performance metrics than ever.
“Built environment” here refers to buildings and districts as well as the physical networks for water & waste, transport, energy and information. From a technological point of view the built environment is increasingly becoming a holistic “machine” requiring consideration of all the technologies in the system simultaneously. Yet the technologies are only there to serve a purpose. Long-term human needs, like sustainability, are at the end the foundation for all the development.
John Urry: Innovating Low Carbon Mobility FuturesSTEPS Centre
A presentation given by Professor John Urry, Director, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, at the IN-EAST conference, University of Duisberg-Essen, November 2013. The presentation draws on Prof. Urry's 2013 book, Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures. It is also relevant for his project: Low Carbon Innovation in China - Prospects, Politics and Pratice. Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/project/low-carbon-china
Frauke Urban: Low carbon innovation in China – Prospects, Politics and PracticeSTEPS Centre
Presentation given by Frauke Urban (SOAS) at the University of Münster, January 2015
Part of the STEPS affiliate project on Low Carbon Innovation in China. Website: http://steps-centre.org/project/low-carbon-china
Strategic Renewable Energy Planning on Campus
Part of a workshop presented by Mieko A Ozeki, University of Vermont
This workshop will share lessons learned from two public institutions, University of Connecticut and the University of Vermont, that carried out comprehensive renewable energy feasibility studies and renewable energy plans on their respective campuses. Participants will break up into small groups to brainstorm ideas to implement a renewable energy and microgrid plan, and mindmap how these ideas can be tied to research, co-curricular education activities, green job opportunities, operations, and climate action planning on their respective campuses.
Sustainable energy for whom? Governing pro-poor pathways to low carbon energy...STEPS Centre
David Ockwell and Robert Byrne (University of Sussex/ STEPS Centre) gave this presentation at King's College London on 25 February 2014 as part of the Environment, Politics and Development Research Group seminar series.
Despite the potential development benefits of low carbon energy technologies, existing international policy has failed to deliver against the needs of low income countries or poor and marginalised people therein. This seminar presents (and seeks feedback on) preliminary findings from a CDKN-funded project on off-grid solar electrical services in Kenya (see http://steps-centre.org/project/low_carbon_development/ ). Utilising the STEPS Centre’s Pathways Approach, it is argued that the failure of existing policy stems from its tendency to frame low carbon development as a problem of financing low carbon hardware transfer to developing countries. Alternative conceptual framings, building on insights from innovation studies and socio-technical transitions, applied to in-depth historical analysis of the successful adoption of off-grid solar in Kenya, suggest neither hardware financing policies nor the free market are likely to result in widespread uptake of low carbon energy technologies amongst poor countries and poor people therein. Instead, interventions should seek to act as “innovation system builders” with an explicit focus on building inclusive innovation systems via a range of specific capacity building approaches.
Dr David Ockwell is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Geography at the University of Sussex and co-convenes the STEPS Centre’s energy and climate domain. He’s also affiliated to the Sussex Energy Group and the Tyndall Centre. David’s research focuses on low carbon development with particular recent emphasis on the implications of international policy in terms of poverty and social justice.
Dr Rob Byrne is a Research Fellow in SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex. He co-convenes the STEPS Centre’s energy and climate domain with David and is also affiliated to the Sussex Energy Group and the Tyndall Centre. Rob’s research focuses on low carbon development with a particular empirical focus on off-grid solar electrical services in East Africa where he has worked both as a practitioner installing solar home systems as well as conducting academic research on this issue
Beyond hardware financing: Pro-poor pathways to low carbon developmentSTEPS Centre
A presentation by Dr David Ockwell and Dr Rob Byrne, given at UEA in October 2013, as part of the project Pro-poor, low carbon development: Improving low carbon energy access and development benefits in Least Developed Countries (LDC). Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/project/low_carbon_development/
Sciencewise Energy infrastructure webinarSciencewise
In this webinar we will present the findings of public views on the topic of energy infrastructure: how does the public feel about the technologies, drivers and trade-offs behind the complex and evolving area of energy infrastructure in the UK.
For our research we have reviewed findings from public engagement activities and relevant reports, exploring public views on the supply-side of national energy infrastructure in the UK.
We will present the key messages, trends and possible gaps in current knowledge about what the public think about energy infrastructure and why. You will also hear about good practice in engaging the public around climate change and energy.
We are also keen on hearing your views and experiences in engaging the public on these issues, and discuss what good quality (local) engagement with energy infrastructure looks like.
ENERGY IN BUILDINGs 50 BEST PRACTICE INITIATIVESJosh Develop
Technology, economics and policy are rapidly transforming energy markets
and the broader economy. Global efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases are leading to increased focus on policies that can reduce energy use
or promote low emissions generation.
Australia’s economy-wide target under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change is to reduce emissions by 26-28 per cent
on 2005 levels by 2030. By the second half of the century, achieving net zero
emissions is likely to be necessary to meet international climate commitments.
The cost of producing electricity from renewable resources has declined
significantly over recent years and remains on a rapid downward trajectory.
Energy and Environment (TECNALIA Research & Innovation)Jokin Hidalgo
TECNALIA Research & Innovation is the first privately funded applied research centre in Spain and one of the leading such centres in Europe. A combination of technology, tenacity, efficiency, courage and imagination.
We identify and develop business opportunities through applied research. Inspiring Business is a different, unique vision: we visualise ideas that generate value and provide creative technological solutions to produce real results.
Plugging into the Smart Grid: How College and Universities Can Get InvolvedMieko Ozeki
prepared and presented by Mieko A. Ozeki, Sustainability Projects Coordinator, at the Northeast Campus Sustainability Consortium Conference on April 2, 2012 at Syracuse University.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation’s and world’s energy challenges through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
Phillipa Watson “Getting Bill-Smart: Outcomes of an energy efficiency project for low income householders in Tasmania.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
Lindsey McCarthy “Energy (In)Efficiency: Exploring what Tenants expect and endure in the Private Rented Sector in England.” Energy Cultures Conference 2016
This publication presents a compilation of extended abstracts of VTT’s recent research on energy and eco-efficient built environment. Sustainability as a dominating driver of technology development can also be seen in the R&D portfolio of VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland. A clear focus of our research for the building sector is sustainable construction, particularly the energy efficiency of the built environment.
Buildings and the whole built environment are in a key role when societies are mitigating climate change and adapting to its consequences. Despite the temporary economic downturn, construction globally remains one of the most significant areas of human activities globally. Due to the urgency of measures related to climate change and the need to provide a proper environment for living and working, a large number of national and international measures have been agreed to guarantee the future development of sustainable built environment for all. Indirectly, this has lead to a need to develop existing and completely new technologies and processes for the built environment with a speed faster than ever and with a more holistic performance metrics than ever.
“Built environment” here refers to buildings and districts as well as the physical networks for water & waste, transport, energy and information. From a technological point of view the built environment is increasingly becoming a holistic “machine” requiring consideration of all the technologies in the system simultaneously. Yet the technologies are only there to serve a purpose. Long-term human needs, like sustainability, are at the end the foundation for all the development.
John Urry: Innovating Low Carbon Mobility FuturesSTEPS Centre
A presentation given by Professor John Urry, Director, Centre for Mobilities Research, Lancaster University, at the IN-EAST conference, University of Duisberg-Essen, November 2013. The presentation draws on Prof. Urry's 2013 book, Societies Beyond Oil: Oil Dregs and Social Futures. It is also relevant for his project: Low Carbon Innovation in China - Prospects, Politics and Pratice. Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/project/low-carbon-china
Frauke Urban: Low carbon innovation in China – Prospects, Politics and PracticeSTEPS Centre
Presentation given by Frauke Urban (SOAS) at the University of Münster, January 2015
Part of the STEPS affiliate project on Low Carbon Innovation in China. Website: http://steps-centre.org/project/low-carbon-china
Strategic Renewable Energy Planning on Campus
Part of a workshop presented by Mieko A Ozeki, University of Vermont
This workshop will share lessons learned from two public institutions, University of Connecticut and the University of Vermont, that carried out comprehensive renewable energy feasibility studies and renewable energy plans on their respective campuses. Participants will break up into small groups to brainstorm ideas to implement a renewable energy and microgrid plan, and mindmap how these ideas can be tied to research, co-curricular education activities, green job opportunities, operations, and climate action planning on their respective campuses.
Sustainable energy for whom? Governing pro-poor pathways to low carbon energy...STEPS Centre
David Ockwell and Robert Byrne (University of Sussex/ STEPS Centre) gave this presentation at King's College London on 25 February 2014 as part of the Environment, Politics and Development Research Group seminar series.
Despite the potential development benefits of low carbon energy technologies, existing international policy has failed to deliver against the needs of low income countries or poor and marginalised people therein. This seminar presents (and seeks feedback on) preliminary findings from a CDKN-funded project on off-grid solar electrical services in Kenya (see http://steps-centre.org/project/low_carbon_development/ ). Utilising the STEPS Centre’s Pathways Approach, it is argued that the failure of existing policy stems from its tendency to frame low carbon development as a problem of financing low carbon hardware transfer to developing countries. Alternative conceptual framings, building on insights from innovation studies and socio-technical transitions, applied to in-depth historical analysis of the successful adoption of off-grid solar in Kenya, suggest neither hardware financing policies nor the free market are likely to result in widespread uptake of low carbon energy technologies amongst poor countries and poor people therein. Instead, interventions should seek to act as “innovation system builders” with an explicit focus on building inclusive innovation systems via a range of specific capacity building approaches.
Dr David Ockwell is a Senior Lecturer in the Dept of Geography at the University of Sussex and co-convenes the STEPS Centre’s energy and climate domain. He’s also affiliated to the Sussex Energy Group and the Tyndall Centre. David’s research focuses on low carbon development with particular recent emphasis on the implications of international policy in terms of poverty and social justice.
Dr Rob Byrne is a Research Fellow in SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research) at the University of Sussex. He co-convenes the STEPS Centre’s energy and climate domain with David and is also affiliated to the Sussex Energy Group and the Tyndall Centre. Rob’s research focuses on low carbon development with a particular empirical focus on off-grid solar electrical services in East Africa where he has worked both as a practitioner installing solar home systems as well as conducting academic research on this issue
Beyond hardware financing: Pro-poor pathways to low carbon developmentSTEPS Centre
A presentation by Dr David Ockwell and Dr Rob Byrne, given at UEA in October 2013, as part of the project Pro-poor, low carbon development: Improving low carbon energy access and development benefits in Least Developed Countries (LDC). Find out more: http://steps-centre.org/project/low_carbon_development/
Sciencewise Energy infrastructure webinarSciencewise
In this webinar we will present the findings of public views on the topic of energy infrastructure: how does the public feel about the technologies, drivers and trade-offs behind the complex and evolving area of energy infrastructure in the UK.
For our research we have reviewed findings from public engagement activities and relevant reports, exploring public views on the supply-side of national energy infrastructure in the UK.
We will present the key messages, trends and possible gaps in current knowledge about what the public think about energy infrastructure and why. You will also hear about good practice in engaging the public around climate change and energy.
We are also keen on hearing your views and experiences in engaging the public on these issues, and discuss what good quality (local) engagement with energy infrastructure looks like.
ENERGY IN BUILDINGs 50 BEST PRACTICE INITIATIVESJosh Develop
Technology, economics and policy are rapidly transforming energy markets
and the broader economy. Global efforts to reduce emissions of greenhouse
gases are leading to increased focus on policies that can reduce energy use
or promote low emissions generation.
Australia’s economy-wide target under the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change is to reduce emissions by 26-28 per cent
on 2005 levels by 2030. By the second half of the century, achieving net zero
emissions is likely to be necessary to meet international climate commitments.
The cost of producing electricity from renewable resources has declined
significantly over recent years and remains on a rapid downward trajectory.
Energy and Environment (TECNALIA Research & Innovation)Jokin Hidalgo
TECNALIA Research & Innovation is the first privately funded applied research centre in Spain and one of the leading such centres in Europe. A combination of technology, tenacity, efficiency, courage and imagination.
We identify and develop business opportunities through applied research. Inspiring Business is a different, unique vision: we visualise ideas that generate value and provide creative technological solutions to produce real results.
The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, education, and policymaker and public communication.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education.
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon Univer...Amanda Finkenbinder, MPM
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for the nation's and the world's energy challenges including pathways to a low carbon future, smart grid, new materials for energy, shale gas, and building energy efficiency through research, strategic partnerships, public policy outreach and education
Overcoming Pakistan's current crisis through energy efficiency and renewable energy was the topic of a seminar supported by USAID and organized by Senator (R) Rukhsana Zuberi, chairperson of the Pakistan Engineering Council and head of the non-government organization, South Asian Women in Energy.
The Alliance's Alexander Filippov was among the experts advising Pakistani representatives on energy efficiency implementation.
The 90-minute webinar included four parts: (1) Karma Sawyer, Technology Manager at U.S. Department of Energy, gave an overview of R&D Directions and Opportunities at the Building Technologies Office of USDOE; (2) Jimmy Tran, Operations Manager of U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) on Building Energy Efficiency (BEE) Consortium, gave an overview of objectives, key research activities and outcomes from CERC-BEE 1.0 (2011-2016) Program and the upcoming CERC-BEE 2.0 (2016-2021) Program; (3) Tianzhen Hong, Staff Scientist, and Yixing Chen, Senior Scientific Engineering Associate of Building Technology and Urban Systems Division of LBNL , provided an overview of the occupant behavior research project under CERC-BEE 1.0, introduced and demonstrated the three occupant behavior modeling tools; and (4) Questions and Answers.
For more information, contact Tianzhen Hong at thong@lbl.gov or visit http://behavior.lbl.gov/?q=node/5
Webinar: Proposed government–provided incentives to promote the capture and u...Global CCS Institute
It is widely recognised that additional large–scale early mover projects are needed to advance CCS/CCUS. These projects will reduce CCS cost through ‘learning by doing’ and by serving as platforms to demonstrate emerging lower-cost technologies. They will also increase public confidence in the safety and efficacy of CCS. However, high capture costs and lack of incentives are discouraging new large–scale projects from entering the planning pipeline and making it difficult for existing projects to reach a financial investment decision.
The National Enhanced Oil Recovery Initiative (NEORI) and the Coal Utilization Research Council (CURC) have each developed concepts for incentivising large–scale projects through a tax credit tied to the use of captured CO2 for enhanced oil recovery. Both organisations estimate that the government would recover its credit investment within 10 years from tax and royalty revenue received on additional oil production, and that the investment would become revenue positive for the government thereafter.
A Global CCS Institute webinar was held on Wednesday 26th June where Patrick Falwell, Solutions Fellow for the Centre for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), on behalf of Judi Greenwald, Vice President for Technology and Innovation at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES), discussed the NEORI concept. Patrick was joined by Ben Yamagata, Executive Director of CURC, who discussed the CURC concept.
Clean Energy Overview - Pecan Street Project_BeceiroJohn Thornton
Austin’s Pecan Street Project: One model for integrating the Smart Grid into a comprehensive sustainable development strategy
Jose Beceiro, Board Member, Austin’s Pecan Street Project, and Director of Clean Energy Economic Development, Austin Chamber of Commerce
Integrated multi-component planning and implementation methodology guiding energy transitions at any level of government.
A dynamic and comprehensive methodology with multiple tools that analyzes the economic and social impacts of alternative technological pathways in the specific context of a municipality, country, or region. It explores existing clean energy business opportunities and recommends concrete policies and measures that improve the given investment environment.
These slides were presented at the MIT Enterprise Forum Cambridge event on 04.30.19 hosted at Foley Hoag in partnership with: ACTION Innovation Network, NECEC/Navigate, The Cleantech Open Northeast, Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), Greentown Labs, Launchpad Venture Group, MassCEC, The MIT Tech Transfer Center (MTTC), NECEC, North Shore InnoVentures, The Engine, and the Worcester Cleantech Incubator.
Better by Design workshop, Wilton Centre, 26th Nov 2013BenPeace
Sustainable Business and Chemical Engineering.
Run by C-Tech Innovation, in collaboration with Chemistry Innovation and Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Networks, and the IChemE.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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.
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.
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
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
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.
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.
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/
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
2. Scott Institute Leadership
Jared Cohon, Director
President Emeritus
University Professor, Civil and
Environmental Engineering &
Engineering and Public Policy
Andrew Gellman, Co-Director
Lord Professor of Chemical
Engineering, Chemistry
(Courtesy), Materials Science
and Engineering (Courtesy)
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Deborah Stine, Associate
Director for Policy
Outreach
Professor of the Practice,
Engineering and Public
Policy
Anna Siefken, Associate
Director for Innovation
and Strategic Partnerships
3. Mission
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The Scott Institute for Energy Innovation works through the
academic units of Carnegie Mellon University to find solutions for
the nation’s and world’s energy challenges through research,
education, and policymaker and public communication.
4. Scott Institute Activities
• Research
– Seed grants
– Presidential Fellowship matching for proposals
– Investments in strategic areas
• Industrial Partnerships and Technology
Commercialization
• Education
• Outreach
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5. 2015-2016 Highlights
• 130 Faculty Affiliates
• 9 Seed grants supported with $460,420
• First Carnegie Mellon Energy Week
• Allegheny Cleantech University Prize Collegiate
Competition
• Public Radio Energy Bite Radio Program Turns 1
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6. Strategic Investments
• Leverage CMU’s comparative advantages
• Choose important parts of the energy system
where we already have strengths and
competitive advantage
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7. CMU’s Comparative Advantages
• Systems approach to problem-solving and
design
• Unique energy policy expertise
• Interdisciplinary collaboration
• Innovative and entrepreneurial
• Location (Marcellus shale, industry, NETL)
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8. Preliminary Priority Areas
• Building energy use and efficiency including
consumer behavior, devices, control systems
and analytical tools
• Energy cyber-physical systems: the smart grid
• Shale gas
• Materials for energy technologies: storage,
solar generation, fuel cells, etc.
• Pathways to a low-carbon future
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9. Seed Grants 2015-16:
9 funded of 35 submissions
• Reactivity of Biocides in Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids
• Development of a Portable Membrane Introduction Mass
Spectrometry Interface for the Rapid Analysis of Volatile Chemicals in
Water
• Hazard and Risk Modeling of Induced Seismicity
• Workshop on Techno-Economic Assessment Methods for Energy
Technologies
• Nitrogen Enriched Carbon Quantum Dots for Photocatalytic Hydrogen
Evolution
• Economics and Externalities of Moving Crude Oil by Pipelines and
Railroads: Evidence from the Bakken Formation
• The Social and Cultural Impact of Energy
• Simultaneous Multiple Fault Diagnosis for Air Handling Units to
Improve Building Energy Efficiency using Hybrid Modeling Approach
• Enabling Quantum-Dot Based Solid State Lighting
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10. Inaugural
Energy
Week
• 720 participants
• Speakers included:
– Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall,
Deputy Secretary of Energy
– Jay Weatherill, premier of South
Australia
– Bill Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh
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11. Inaugural Energy Week
• Speakers included (continued):
– Grace Bochenek, Director of the
National Energy Technology
Laboratory
– Paul O’Neil, former Secretary of
the Treasury, former CEO of
Alcoa
– Richard Celeste, former
Governor of Ohio
– Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot
College
– Michael McQuade, Executive VP
for Technology, United
Technologies
– Carol Williams, former Executive
VP, Dow Chemical
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12. Energy Week Highlights
• Energy Technology Commercialization
Roundtable with >25 start-up company
leaders and venture capitalists
• Roundtable on Industrial Energy
Efficiency and Energy Workforce
• “Andy” Talks on CMU research
• Clean Tech Prize Competition
• Drama School Monologues
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13. Internal Outreach
• Distinguished Lecture Series
• Faculty Development Workshops (Affiliates only)
• Monthly Luncheon Series (Affiliates only)
• Funding Opportunities Newsletter (Affiliates only)
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14. External Outreach
• Policymaker Outreach
– Policymaker Guides on Topical Issues
– Events in Washington, DC & Pittsburgh
– Host events for Department of Energy
– The Hill (Capital Hill Newspaper) Op-Eds
• Public Outreach (Videos, Radio/Podcasts, Local Events)
– Energy Week (March 27-31, 2017)
– Energy Bite Radio Spot/Podcast
– Animated Videos
– Co-host Events with Non-governmental Organizations
• Innovator, Entrepreneur, Investor Outreach
– Technology Guide of CMU Energy Innovations on Market
– Allegheny Student CleanTech Prize Competition
– Catalyst Connection Webinar for Manufacturers
– Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy Summit
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16. Public Outreach
Are You REALLY Saving
the Environment with
Your Hybrid or Plugin
Car? Video
Energy Storage and
Conversion:
The Next Generation
Video
Are you REALLY Saving
the Environment
investing in a wind
farm or solar plant?
Video
Chemistry in a
New Light:
Solar Fuels Video
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Itunes Podcast/ Radio Show
Sample Episodes:
• I am considering buying an
electric vehicle, should I?
• Is there one single technology
that could solve the climate
problem?
17. Innovator, Entrepreneur, Investor Outreach
Webinar
connecting CMU
innovations to
manufacturers
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Guide to
Innovative
Energy
Technologies
Developed at
CMU
Marketing of CMU Energy Innovations at
Industry-
Focused
Public Affair
Programs
DOE-Sponsored
Allegheny
Cleantech
University Prize for
students in PA, OH,
WV, and MD
18. For More Information
• Website: www.cmu.edu/energy
• Newsletter Signup: tinyurl.com/scottnews
• Funding Opportunities Newsletter Signup (CMU only):
tinyurl.com/ScottFundingNews
• Scott Institute Affiliate Signup (CMU only): http://bit.ly/scott-institute-
affiliate
• Seed Grant Proposals: tinyurl.com/Scott-Seed-2016 (CMU only)
• Energy Week: cmuenergyweek.org
• CleanTech Competition: cleantechprize.org
• Energy Bite: energybite.org
• Jared Cohon: cohon@andrew.cmu.edu
• Andrew Gellman: gellman@cmu.edu
• Deborah Stine: dstine@andrew.cmu.edu
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Editor's Notes
AJG. Capitalized consistently.
Same as above. It takes work to figure out which text is associated with which person.
AJG. Change color of the text “Allegheny ….” for better contrast