AI for Peace AI for Peace - Interview with Branka Panic Topics explored include the mission for AI for Peace, why people should get involved in the AI for good movement, how AI for peace is engaged with responding to COVID-19 and advice for those looking to progress in their career in AI....
Environmental Monitoring Earth Day: Applying AI to Combat Poaching and Assist Conservation Sustainability and the impact of industrial development on the Earth and its atmosphere is an ever present topic in current news. You’re hard pressed to go onto social media without seeing #sustainability,...
Sustainability Can AI Help Save Our Planet? With advances in artificial intelligence, we can learn more and more about the planet and are able to identify elements such as the conditions of the oceans, the well-being of wildlife, and the pollution levels of the air to help us make informed decisions on how to reduce this....
Big Data Earth Day 2017: Tackling Climate Science With Deep Learning Climate change is one of the most important problems facing humanity in the 21st century. By using simulations, scientists can provide us with a unique opportunity to understand the evolution of the climate...
Energy Creating Places Where Smart Energy Systems Can Thrive Vital to a low carbon future, smart energy systems also form a central pillar of most smart city visions. But there is a yawning gap between the rhetoric and current practice that needs...
Energy Energy Shift: Reinventing the UK Electricity Grid The UK electricity grid is under stress, and at peak times, it's forced to use the oldest, most-pollutant and expensive power stations to meet the demand.Graham Oakes founded Upside Energy after successful...
Energy Reinventing Energy: Renewables vs. Fossil Fuels By 2020, renewable energy sources such as wind and solar will be cheap and easy to manage. Technological advances, environmental concerns and political backing will drive their adoption around the world.Renewable energy...
Energy Are We Entering a Renewable Energy Tipping Point? Energy, the world’s largest industry, is currently undergoing a revolution. A switch towards renewable energy sources from the traditional fossil fuels we have relied upon to advance industrial and economic growth is...
Machine Learning Computational Sustainability: Mapping Poverty with AI Policies for sustainable development can entail complex decisions about balancing environmental, economic, and societal needs, and making these decisions in an informed way presents significant computational challenges. Modern AI techniques combined with new...
Energy Reinventing Energy: How Can A.I. Advance Renewables? We're excited to announce a new event in collaboration with New Scientist: the Reinventing Energy Summit, taking place in London on 25 November 2016. New Scientist produced a GameChangers report earlier this year,...
Energy The Inevitable Marriage of Solar Energy & Transport Since creating Stella, a solar-powered family car designed to travel over 1,000 kilometres on a single charge, Solar Team Eindhoven has received world wide notoriety and success, including World Solar Challenges and...
Agtech Game-Changing AgTech for a More Sustainable World A new technology will enable all of the world's crops to take nitrogen directly from the air, rather than expensive and environmentally damaging fertilizers.Nitrogen fixation, the process by which nitrogen is converted...
Future Cities Women in Tech: Equality, Challenges & Advice with Tia Kansara To mark International Women’s Day 2016, we interviewed leading women in the fields of science and technology, to celebrate their achievements and to explore the challenges faced by women in the sector....
Connected Home How Will Renewable Energy & Machine Learning Change Our Future Homes? In Stuttgart, Germany, a prototype house is demonstrating what is possible with state-of-the-art renewable energy and building automation technology.The Aktivhaus B10 is part of a research project exploring how materials, design and...
Energy Smart Cities: What Can We Expect in the Next 5 Years? Cities are a focal point in the mission to create a sustainable planet for future generations, as urban areas are at the heart of unprecedented population growth and subsequent global challenges such as...
Big Data Leveraging Data Mining & Visualization in Future Cities The number of people living in urban areas is expected to double by 2050, and the challenge of supporting sustainable growth without exceeding the capacity of infrastructure, as well as meeting key carbon...
Hydroponics Innovations in Aquaculture: is Seaweed the Food of the Future? Lauded for it's benefits of helping with menopause, anxiety, fatigue, osteoporosis, to name a few, the seaweed industry is set to boom in the coming years. As it is rapidly becoming known as...
Future Cities Agtech for the Masses: Using Smartphones to Grow Food How can we use emerging technology to positively impact food production and ensure a sustainable future?Niwa is a visionary company aiming to do just that: by building a smart connected platform, enabling...
Energy Spotlight on Connected Core Services in Smart Cities As global Smart Cities flourish, Bigbelly is transforming one of the least efficient core services – public waste collection. It’s not the only innovation expanding connected street furniture like payphones, trash cans, park...
Energy Soofa Is Creating Smart, Sustainable & Social Spaces Smart phones are no longer just a phone - so why should benches just be a seat? More than half of the world’s population lives in an urban environment, and wants to...
Smart Transport A $7 Trillion Opportunity: Introducing Boston's Next Generation of IoT Disruptors IDC have predicted the Internet of Things (IoT) market will reach $7 trillion in just five years. However, despite this, a recent study found that 73% of companies have yet to make any...
Energy Reward a Startup Trying to Make the World More Sustainable for Future Generations To celebrate this year's Earth Day we are offering a free exhibit space to a startup at any RE.WORK event taking place within 2015. The startup must be working within sustainability &...
