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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.
Featured Content
- How 15 entrepreneurs fared in Boston in front of two VCs and thousands of viewers.
- IBM's Dave Bartlett dishes on his efforts with the company's Smarter Planet campaign and why he is so optimistic about his work.
- Mark "Puck" Mykleby discusses three key opportunities -- housing, agriculture and resources -- where sustainability and economics intersect.
- It's a research-heavy week here at ICYMI HQ, with studies detailing everything from profiles of ESG professionals to solutions for sustainable cities.
- Lack of data for building automation control systems can create a host of problems and cost organizations money.
- New technologies that enable billions of devices to collect and analyze data can help systems operate with startling efficiency.
- In this Q&A, the author of "The Upside of Down" shares how his concept of societal resilience can help companies prepare for change.
- Data analytics, mobile apps will be central to success car-sharing networks and other sustainable transportation alternatives.
- VERGE Accelerate: James Rathmell, Corporate Development Manager, Lufa Farms
- Large commercial and residential buildings must report annual energy and water use, but aren't required to act on the results.
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VERGE Rewind
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Check out all the action from VERGE SF 2012, including videos, slideshows, and highlights from the event
Highlights from VERGE SF
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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 through the convergence of building, vehicle and information technologies.
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Investors may be back-pedaling away from the term "cleantech," but financial interest and innovation in digital transportation, smart energy and collaborative consumption is at an all-time high.
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Convergence of technologies and organizations takes a lot of TLC. Especially C: collaboration, collision, and community.
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IBM, First Fuel, Lucid and Noesis Energy offer perspectives for advancing energy efficiency and the adoption of smart building technologies at VERGE SF
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A crowd-sourced pitch competition, complete with "clap-o-meter" judging, pits nine disruptive startups in digital transportation, smart energy systems and collaborative consumption. And the winner is…
Studio C
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In a Studio C interview, Bill McDonough talks about how a city is made up of complex and serendipitous interactions, outlining new tools and approaches that are helping improve the livability of cities.
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In a Studio C interview, MGM's chief sustainability officer says enlightened companies can revitalize communities through public-private partnerships and a genuine commitment to sustainability.
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How always-on connectivity in vehicles is creating breakthroughs in wireless communication applications, data sharing, and transportation business models.
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Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO, O'Reilly Media, talks with GreenBiz Group's John Davies about the VERGE opportunity.
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Robin Chase, Founder & CEO, Buzzcar talks with Joel Makower, Chairman & Executive Editor, GreenBiz Group about the evolution of the shared economy.
Videos
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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.
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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.
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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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To help shoulder grid expenditure from growing electric vehicle sales, RevTech is developing a virtual power plant platform and fast response energy storage capacity.
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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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