New Technologies, Collaboration, Standards & Innovations

Technical Collaboration, Standards & Innovations MeetUp

Speeding up Clean Energy Deployment & Growth: New Technologies, Collaboration, Standards & Innovations.

Our goal is to explore innovations, methods & standards to considerably speed up the current pace of Clean & Renewable Energy deployment & growth. We will discuss initiatives to implement multi-disciplinary innovations to make Clean Energy more competitive & desirable by adopting a wide variety of innovative new technologies & solutions through Creative Collaboration. We will get to know each other better and strengthen our position in the marketplace as a united front represented by the various Clean & Renewable Energy industries.

We will focus on:

Attracting Technical Leaders & Innovators (current and aspiring) who are passionate about thinking, collaborating on and seeking solutions to energy, environmental, and sustainability challenges.

Utilizing systemic thinking and inter-disciplinary collaboration as foundations to spark Innovations & solve Technical problems to accelerate Clean & Renewable Energy deployment & growth.

Cynosure: Identify & define the fundamental hurdles that are in the way of Clean Energy deployment & growth.

Attendees should deeply think about the Weaknesses & Hurdles in current Technology, Methodologies & Standards within the Clean Tech industry. Identify Technologies & Solutions that eliminate and/or mitigate these weaknesses & hurdles. Find ways to Spark Innovations that increase our competiveness in the marketplace.

Action: Starting the conversation to identify & define key technologies & solutions needed to eliminate and/or mitigate our weaknesses & hurdles.

Define the Problems.

Create the Solutions.

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MeetUp Agenda:

1:30 pm - Doors open and Networking
2:00 pm - Welcome, MeetUp Objectives & Introduction by Steven M. Daniel
2:15 pm - Panel Discussants (List will be expanded & modified):

• R N Kabir - CTO & Chief Strategist, ENDS Energy (http://www.ENDSEnergy.com (http://www.endsenergy.com/)) - A Small Step for a Company, A Giant Leap for Industry - TCSI Objectives & Strategy. Discussing an industry case studies that revolutionized a stagnant industry by identifying the hurdles, overcoming them with innovative new solutions and creating new standards & technologies through cooperation & solidarity.

• Janine Finnell - Founder - Leaders in Energy Research, Communications, Policies & Analysis (http://www.LERCPA.org (http://www.lercpa.org/)) - Towards a 100% Clean & Renewable world. Discussing the impetus for her group and exploring challenges & solutions we face going forward.

• Bill Brandon - Founder & Industrial Eco-Systems Planner/Designer- IESP Consultants - Integrated Solutions and his take on collaborations needed to spark innovation & reducing costs towards a Renewable future.

• Jordan Engel - Mentor Chair, CleanTech Open (http://www2.CleanTechOpen.org/ (http://www2.cleantechopen.org/)) - the world’s largest accelerator for CleanTech startups. Discussing the view from his part of clean energy ecosystem, focusing again on collaborative challenges and solutions.

• MD Senator Ben Cardin - COP21 US Delegate Leader - Maryland Leadership & Support - Governmental & Policy Collaboration with the industry to spark Technical Innovations.

3:15 pm - Proposed Workgroups & Collaboration Strategy:

The Clean Tech Industry should create multiple, 7-15 person workgroups or "Regional Groups" within a region. A good example of a region is DC, VA & MD. Each Regional Group or RG will be composed of at least one representative from each Clean Tech segment such as Hydro, Wind, Storage, etc., as well as a particular discipline such as Material-Sciences Scientist, AI Software Engineer, etc., (a good, diverse mix within each RG). Each RG will also elect a 2-3 person "Leader Team" or LT to represent their RG.

The RGs will, at first, collaborate & tackle specific subject matters such as Harvestor Innovation, Standards, etc., and/or IoT Integration, Standards, etc. within their group. Then they will work with other local RGs to create consensus & proposals. The Leader Teams or LTs will work with other region's LTs to create 7-15 person Multi-Regional Groups or MRG, again composed of at least one representative from each Clean Tech segment such as Hydro, Wind, Storage, etc., as well as a particular discipline such as Material-Sciences Scientist, AI Software Engineer, etc., (a good, diverse mix within each MRG).

These MRGs and their LTs will be the foundation of a national, and eventually a global, network of Clean Tech Scientists, Engineers & Innovators to collaborate towards solving our Clean Tech hurdles. The approach is to utilize systemic thinking and inter-disciplinary & inter-industry collaboration as foundations to spark Innovations & solve Technical problems to accelerate Clean & Renewable Energy deployment & growth

3:30 pm - FollowUp & WorkGroup Strategy, Q&A and Discussion:

Discuss, as a group, to identify fundamental hurdles that are in the way of Clean Energy deployment & growth. Identifying the Problems:

• What are the Technical weaknesses, challenges & roadblocks?

• What are the Implementation & Integration weaknesses, challenges & roadblocks?

• What are the systemic hurdles/challenges we encounter on a regular basis?

• What are the combined challenges standing in the way of Clean Energy growth?

• How can we speed up Clean Energy acceptance, investments & growth?

• What will spark Innovation and make us more competitive against legacy systems?

• Your challenges >

Identifying the Solutions: the Goal is to explore innovations, methods & standards across and between the different industries & disciplines with Creative Collaboration to aggressively accelerate the current pace of Clean & Renewable Energy innovation, deployment & growth:

Explore how New Technologies & Innovations along with innovations in methodologies, technical standards, manufacturing standards, installation standards & policy standards that can be implemented to bypass our hurdles to faster Clean Energy deployment & growth.

Discuss ways to incorporate innovative new technologies from Multiple Disciplines, some surprisingly not developed for energy systems.

Develop Plug & Play Systems that integrate quickly across Technologies, Vendors & Solutions.

Identify & discuss new types of Energy Harvestors to increase efficiencies.

Identify & discuss new technologies such as Additive/3D Manufacturing to cut costs.

Identify & discuss new controls such as Deep Learning AI embedded at the hardware level.

Identify & discuss new sensor tech such as IoT & Big Data derived from the IoT universe.

Identify & discuss new local & cloud based Intelligent Systems that learn, predict and automatically adjust & control to increase efficiency and decrease TCO.

Identify & discuss new methodologies such as, End to End DC Networks at the Distributed & Micro/NanoGrid level for a leap in efficiency.

Future-Conducive Architecture, Designs that make sense for the long term, in which we can quickly & efficiently implement future innovations/changes, to make sure we can continuously incorporate innovations, technologies & solutions from diverse disciplines with minimal costs.

Future Proofing, Implementing Innovations and changes that make sense for long-term growth.

Discuss ways to Establish Open Standards for new technology adoptions, technology implementation & collaboration across multiple disciplines & platforms to leap forward.

Interoperability & Complementary Standards & Protocols between our products & services.

Set Technical, Installation & Data Standards that allow for smarter, more robust platforms. Plug & Play Systems & Standards to integrate multiple Harvestors & Vendors into a system.

Develop Collaborative Tools, Platforms, Standards and Methods to spark & push innovations in our field.

Initiatives & Incentives to CONTINUOUSLY network and problem-solve among a community of our peers across disciplines, industries & platforms.

Proposals for Collaborations, initiatives, and useful technical, manufacturing & installation/integration improvements & standards.

Pairing better technology & innovations to grab attention and make waves, initiating ‘Industry Trends’ that will catch the eyes of major investors, and big businesses, and policy makers.

Collaboration to give us solidarity & power to enable fundamental changes for Clean Energy.

One voice for all Clean Energy companies & Entrepreneurs to capture attention from the big manufacturers and big business. The more unified we are, the easier it is get cooperation from major players to enact change that is conducive to our growth.

Your solutions >

Industry Representation & Speakers Follow-up for April 27th & Beyond:
The following are the proposed segments & the speakers that represent these segments. We are looking for Speakers/Leaders/Participants with Technical/Engineer/Scientific mindsets. CTO types make more sense than CEO types.

• Wind - AWEA & DWEA - Mike Bergey

• Hydro & Kinetic - Verdant Power - Trey Taylor

• Solar - MDV- SEIA - Dale Davis or Dana Sleeper

• Storage & Intelligent Controls - Tesla PowerWALL - Elon Musk

• Hardware - Communications - IoT - QUALCOMM - Matthew S. Grob

• Hardware - Sensors - IoT - Intel - Ravi Iyer

• Software - Cloud - IoT - GE Predix - Harel Kodesh

• Innovations - Standards & Collaborations - ENDS - Kabir

• Government - Assistance & Policy - MD - Senator Ben Cardin

• Collaboration -Valley of Death - BEC - Bill Gates

• Startup & Incubators - Potential Energy DC - Dave McCarthy

Suggestions for speaker/participant candidates are welcome.

Workshops & Follow-up Events held on the LAST Wednesday of every month. Thoughts are needed on, Creative Collaboration among ALL within the Clean & Renewable Energy sector along with superior technical innovations & logical standards that allow us to compete more effectively against legacy energy solutions to leapfrog our growth.

4:15 pm - Networking

Light refreshments will be served. MUST RSVP to enter, either by joining EICE on this page or via EventBrite: http://eice.eventbrite.com/ .