VERGE
What happens when four massive technologies (energy, information, buildings, and transportation) collide? An unprecedented opportunity for business and sustainability? A multi-trillion-dollar market? We call it VERGE. Check out VERGE news, insights, and VERGE DC coverage below, and check out our Virtual Conference, available now on-demand.
Featured Content
- What's needed to cure the world's ills is real culture change, led by better communication about environmental issues and by the innovators Volans executive chairman John Elkington calls......
- Governments are key to fostering smarter cars, according to carmakers struggling to make progress. For now, speed bumps are keeping the market from accelerating as quickly as many would like. ...
- Cities already gobble up most of the world’s resources, so will increasing urbanization bring greater efficiency or simply more consumption?
- New technologies and emerging business pressures are combining to create an unprecedented era of change, according to speakers at today's VERGE conference....
- HonestBuildings.com hopes to jumpstart the commercial-real-estate market by connecting building owners and service providers via data and Web-based tools....
- With a startup mentality, Boeing Energy is working to drive innovation by leveraging its own internal resources and tapping into key partnerships....
- GreenBiz Group and the U.S. Green Building Council announce VERGE SF @ Greenbuild, November 12-13 in San Francisco.
- Quick-charging stations are seen as gateway to large-scale electric-vehicle adoption. Here's a look at some of the infrastructure players who are ready to pounce on the growing EV market....
- The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission's new headquarters is not only ultra green, it's smart too.
- Recyclebank's new citywide mobile app, designed by Nike's digital advertising agency, rewards London cyclers and walkers with discounts at local merchants, including Marks & Spencer.......
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Highlights from VERGE DC
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Day Three of VERGE DC brought to a close a conference filled with new ideas, and compelling dialog on the converging world of energy, information, vehicles and buildings. Here are some of the pictures from the event....
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With the results of the first Internet revolution -- one that Case, the co-founder of AOL, also pioneered -- firmly entrenched, Case talks about what his venture capital fund, Revolution, sees as the potential of ubiquitous computing....
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The chair of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, along with leaders from utilities and green power buyers, talked about the state of the utility business, what needs to be done to make smart grids happen, and why Enron had the right idea (sort of)....
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The development the AMEE carbon measurement and management platform provided the narrative for a "One Great Idea" presentation at VERGE DC and illustrated several of the conference themes....
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If you want to supply office furniture -- or just about any other product -- to Google, you'd better know what it's made of.
Citystates & Sustainability
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Here's what businesses need to know to leverage technology to help cities overcome some of their biggest problems, including traffic, water treatment and infrastructure upgrades.
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The seven characteristics or "states" for cities that show how the sustainability of cities and business are inextricably linked....
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On March 15th, a select group of city officials and thought leaders gathered at VERGE DC to discuss the futures of cities and sustainability. Here are some photo highlights of that event.
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Sustainability needs cities as much as cities need sustainability. What will it take to unleash their potential and what role can business play?...
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Can you have a healthy company in an unhealthy city? Arguably, no. And vice versa....
Studio C
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Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, talks with GreenBiz Group's John Davies about the VERGE opportunity. O'Reilly believes VERGE is where sustainability needs to go, citing examples of collective intelligence applications, such as Google's autonomous car, that demonstrate the opportunity of man-machine symbiosis. The advancement of computing and sensor technologies create transformative opportunities for energy and transportation management....
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Robin Chase, Founder & CEO, Buzzcar talks with Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group talks about the evolution of the shared economy. .adslot-overlay {position: absolute; font-family: arial, sans-serif; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.65); border: 2px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.65); color: white !important; margin: 0; z-index: 2147483647; text-decoration: none; box-sizing: border-box; text-align: left;}.adslot-overlay-iframed {top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; bottom: 0;}.slotname {position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; right: 0; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; padding: 3px 0 3px 6px; vertical-align: middle; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.45); text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap; overflow: hidden;}.slotname span {text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-transform: capitalize;}.revenue {position: absolute; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; font-size: 11px; padding: 3px 0 3px 6px; vertial-align: middle; text-align: left; background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.45); font-weight: bold; text-overflow: ellipsis; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap;}.revenue .name {color: #ccc;}.revenue .horizontal .metric {display: inline-block; padding-right: 1.5em;}.revenue .horizontal .name {padding-right: 0.5em;}.revenue .vertical .metric {display: block; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;}.revenue .vertical .name, .revenue .vertical .value {display: block;}.revenue .square .metric, .revenue .button .metric {display: table-row;}.revenue .square .metric {line-height: 1.5em;}.revenue .square .name, .revenue .square .value, .revenue .button .value {display: table-cell;}.revenue .square .name {padding-right: 1.5em;}.revenue .button .name {display: block; margin-right: 0.5em; width: 1em; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: clip;}.revenue .button .name:first-letter {margin-right: 1.5em;}a.adslot-overlay:hover {border: 2px solid rgba(58,106,173,0.9);}a.adslot-overlay:hover .slotname {border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(81,132,210,0.9); background-color: rgba(58,106,173,0.9);}a.adslot-overlay:hover .revenue {border-top: 1px solid rgba(81,132,210,0.9); background-color: rgba(58,106,173,0.9);}div.adslot-overlay:hover {cursor: not-allowed; border: 2px solid rgba(64,64,64,0.9);}div.adslot-overlay:hover .slotname {border-bottom: 1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.9); background-color: rgba(64,64,64,0.9);}div.adslot-overlay:hover .revenue {border-top: 1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.9); background-color: rgba(64,64,64,0.9);}...
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Jennifer Pahlka, Founder & Executive Director, Code for America speaks with GreenBiz Group's John Davies about Code for America. Pahlka calls Code for America a 'Peace Corps for geeks', and the organization enlists some of the best and brightest programming and design talent to work with city governments for a year to work on web and mobile apps. The program at the heart of the convergence of cities and data, helping to create new systems and processes to make local governments work more efficiently and sustainably. ...
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Daniel Kim, Founder & President, Lit Motors Corporation talks with GreenBiz Senior Writer, Adam Aston about Lit Motors. The Lit electric motorcycle takes advantage of sensor technology to create a 2-wheeled vehicle that behaves as much like a car as a motorcycle. The vehicle's small footprint will help relieve congestion, and fit well within an existing infrastructure....
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Gavin Starks, Founder and Chairman, AMEE talks with GreenBiz Group's John Davies about AMEE, an environmental data business that aggregates the world's standards related to carbon assessment, lifecycle analysis....
Highlights from VERGE London
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What's needed to cure the world's ills is real culture change, led by better communication about environmental issues and by the innovators Volans executive chairman John Elkington calls "zeronauts."...
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Cities already gobble up most of the world’s resources, so will increasing urbanization bring greater efficiency or simply more consumption?
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Governments are key to fostering smarter cars, according to carmakers struggling to make progress. For now, speed bumps are keeping the market from accelerating as quickly as many would like. ...
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New technologies and emerging business pressures are combining to create an unprecedented era of change, according to speakers at today's VERGE conference....
Videos
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The role of information as a tool for market transformation in the buildings sector, how availability and access to information can change the building industry. From the 2012 VERGE DC conference....
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How the extraordinary convergence of computing and human potential is creating a collective intelligence shaping the future of sustainability, from the 2012 VERGE DC conference....
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What will it take to connect 50 billion devices by 2020 and what value is created by these connections? Exploring how a cloud platform for the "Energy Internet" addresses the complexities involved in connecting diverse devices and the important role of consumer applications in the development of the Internet of Things. From 2012 VERGE DC....
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VERGE cities aren't just smarter -- they are more efficient, cleaner, safer, and more economically sound. Capitalizing on the convergence of energy, information, building, and transportation technologies will require visionary political leaders, private-sector investors, and unprecedented partnerships. This panel discusses what it will take for New York to be the showcase city....
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Jim Fletcher, IBM's Chief Architect for Smarter Buildings, talks about how analyzing data from buildings creates a wealth of opportunities to improve buildings for people and the environment. From the VERGE 11 London Roundtable.
