VERGE
What happens when four massive technologies (energy, information, buildings, and transportation) collide? An unprecedented opportunity for business and sustainability? We call it VERGE. Check out VERGE news, insights, and events highlights below.
Zipcar's co-founder and former CEO discusses how sharing taps into excess capacity in its many forms, and how technology enables lower search, transaction and access costs.
Long-standing trends in the energy efficiency of computing promise an explosion in data collected from mobile sensors and controls. From the 2012 VERGE DC conference.
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.
To help shoulder grid expenditure from growing electric vehicle sales, RevTech is developing a virtual power plant platform and fast response energy storage capacity.
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...
An Internet-enabled vehicle that combines the efficiency and freedom of a motorcycle with the safety and convenience of a car.
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...
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...
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...
Dolezalek, Managing Director & Group Leader at VantagePoint Capital Partners, opens the VERGE 11 San Francisco Roundtable with an overview of how the covergence of VERGE...
Matt Rogers, Founder and Vice President of Engineering at Nest Labs tells how his company integrates design and technology to create a better thermostat — and make home energy...
Prudencio, a partner at the pioneering energy venture capital firm Nth Power, provides insights into how the world of energy is transforming — into what he calls "the open...
GreenBiz Group's Chairman and Executive Editor provides the big picture of the convergence of energy, information, building, and vehicle technologies, for the VERGE 11 Shanghai roundtable event....
Crosskey, Manager or Smarter Building Strategy at IBM, explains how building technologies are converging with information and energy technologies, even vehicles, to create high-performance...
Rachel Finson, Project Manager at UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center, offers a look at how transportation technologies are converging with information technologies...
Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk, and Emma Stewart, Autodesk's Senior Manager of AEC Sustainability talk about how the new world of technology convergence demands new thinking, and new tools...
Don Reed, Sustainability & Climate Change Director at PwC, explains how the convergence of technologies demands that companies adopt new strategies and programs to capitalize on the new...
Al Halvorsen, Director or Environmental Sustainability at Frito-Lay, tells how energy, information, building, and vehicle technologies are working together, at the VERGE 11 roundtable in San...
Bernie Bulkin, Venture Partner and Senior Advisor at VantagePoint Capital Partners, talks about why transportation looms large in shaping the energy component of a VERGE future, and the critical...
The managing director of Forum for the Future looks at the role information technology plays in sustainability. From the VERGE 11 London Roundtable.
McCabe, Principal Consultant at ITS Atkins, discusses the need to rethink the way we view transport from a sustainability perspective, driving economic growth while reducing emissions. From the...
Marks & Spencer's chief sustainability officer talks about the opportunities and challenges of bringing together technologies and people in the name of sustainability, and the business case...
Autodesk's Business Development Manager explains the role of design in accelerating the convergence of energy, information, building, and vehicle technologies. From the VERGE 11...
























