VERGE
There is a coming convergence of four technology platforms: energy, information, buildings, and transportation. We call it VERGE. This convergence is fundamentally transforming cities, companies, campuses, and communities, providing a wide range of opportunities for companies across a range of sectors. GreenBiz has launched a series of VERGE conferences around the world, in addition to a free, year-round virtual conference, focusing on the implications of convergence for business and sustainability.
- How can one find an energy strategy that can be applied to a diverse group of buildings? AT&T and Rocky Mountain institute's Portfolio Challenge are teaming up to show buildng owners that...
- With the large number of DC powered devices in buildings, and with DC generation now utilized in many newer structures, we need to maximize its use -- and stop conversion waste.
- The greatest potential to achieve transformations in increasingly urban populations is at the municipal level. GreenBiz Group's conference aimed to accelerate the action around smart cities...
- See how developers, concerned citizens and entrepreneurs worked like mad to create solutions for sustainability at GreenBiz Group's hackathon on Nov. 9-11.
- Prologis Inc.'s corporate headquarters will pay for $1.6 million in upgrades at its headquarters with innovative financing tool that helps local governments incentivize clean energy.
- GreenBiz Group's conference focused on big data, smart buildings, connected vehicles, and empowered consumers marks a changing conversation on how to create solutions for sustainable change.
- Johnson Controls opens a new marketplace intended for commercial building owners to save energy and money, and provides a new channel for energy analytics startups to sell their wares
- VERGE Accelerate: Investors are now looking for nimble, innovative startups offering IT and data-intensive business ideas, how can entrepreneurs position themselves to succeed? Presented...
- Legrand has decided to share the tools it's developed to cut energy.
- The City as a Platform
- Information technology, data collection and new PACE financing mechanisms are poised to make buildings smarter.
- Creating platforms and networks for people to convene, innovate, and thrive doesn't take a tech revolution. More like a culture revolution.
- By opening up its Panoptix energy management platform for HackCity this week, Johnson Controls unveils a developer program and a first-of-its-kind app marketplace
- Chicago and Las Vegas are among the cities demonstrating that the future of urbanism doesn't have to be Blade Runner dark.
- Think cleantech is over? You haven't seen the new generation of digital cleantech startups, where software meets energy
- How does technology convergence change the nature of cities and suburbs, and how we live, work, travel, play and shop? A new report says innovation is coming to a neighborhood near you.
- AutoGrid Systems is the newest startup to tackle the big (and unstructured) data smart grid challenge.
- November 9-11, hackers came together at Code for America's Headquarters for "Hack City" - a 3 day-long Cleanweb hackathon at VERGE.
- In partnership with The Sustainability Consortium, the big-box giant announces big plans in China involving supply chain research, sourcing and product design.
- The city is challenging residents to use the massive amount of energy data generated in their homes as a tool to encourage greater sustainability.
