Posts Tagged ‘strategy’
Sunday, October 7th, 2012
The HEAT Conference has been running since 2007 annually and you can join it via here. Each year it has covered a different set of topics within home energy technologies, including solar PV, lighting, passivhaus & MMC. This year is the exciting turn of iHEAT or intelligent heating systems for smart home/building automation.
The aim of this private-sector led conference, which is sponsored by global chip designer ARM Holdings plc, MNC Schneider Electric, fast-track SME AlertMe Ltd and startup accumulator tank company Galu Ltd, is to show how to optimise and automate heating so that consumers who have shown themselves to be less than engaged with esoteric dials and displays, can now live their normal lifestyles in the safe knowledge that they are spending as little as possible on heating, and emitting the least possible carbon for that lifestyle. What could be simpler and more to the point?
So come to Cambridge University, CB3 0DF, on 13 November at 09:30 to see how this is done! With 6 years of successful gatherings under this heading, and a clear and coherent aim for the 2012 edition of iHEAT, it is a conference to enjoy and relish.
What is more is that this year, in order to complete this cleantech series that began in 2007, there will be a separate conference, led inter alia by Anglian Water, WIN and UKWIR, called iWater & iWaste 2012. Registration is at the same site here, as iHEAT above. As these names suggest, the topics will cover core cleantech areas of how new water technologies and product innovations can help enable water utility buyers to improve their services to consumers and businesses.
Led by Anglian Water, half of the day will be devoted to another related core cleantech issue of waste-as-resource. Waste-to-energy (W2E) or energy from waste (EfW) will be covered in one session, another will look into more general closing of loops, reuse and resource efficiency, and how profits can be made in so doing. A final panel will look at how the sectors of water, waste and energy can learn from each other in coming up with significant and infrastructural level change. Examples could be the application of communications standards from electrical metering systems to gas and water, new types of gas being directed into the grid, and industrial symbiosis.
Networking between the two conferences will be joint, with a combined exhibition and buffet lunch.
The date for the iHEAT, iWATER and iWASTE Conferences is 13 November 2012 at Cambridge Universiry CB3 0DF. Book now for the conference at www.cir-strategy.com/events/register or you can book at 01223 303500.
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
How time flies! That’s almost 10 years since the inaugural HVM Conference in 2002. This year the date for the 10th Anniversary HVM Conference is 14 November, organised by CIR Strategy, the Cambridge-based strategy consultancy. With an all keynote lineup, this year’s decade anniversary festivities promise to be super. But what will be talked about at the celebration of this 10 birthday?
It will be an opportunity for private sector companies to discuss their strategy alongside other private sector companies and supply chain companies offering routes to market for products, and experts & service providers whose companies can add value. An ideal mix!
Cambridge has punched well above its weight in technology and innovation, with a cluster of over 800 genuine innovators, and this is mirrored in High Value Manufacturing. HVM is the present and the future of industry in the UK. HVM companies can make and market difficult-to-make, well-designed, IPR-rich products to global markets, scale quickly, reinvest in their own product development pipeline and spawn new emergent industries.
This is why this conference came into being 10 years ago, with a meeting bringing together such companies as Plastic Logic, CDT, Xaar, and Inca Digital. While the share of services in our economy has continued to rise to around 87%, the value of manufacturing as an anchor to the economy has grown, and its presence enables some of the services businesses that are created.
On 14 November, HVM companies young and old will come together and we’ll discuss segments such as printed electronics, 3D deposition, electronics & sensors, regenerative medecine, nanomaterials, chemicals, nuclear, and core manufacturing needs such as CNC, precision forging, sheet forming, folding and so on.
The 100-strong director level group will discuss trends and drivers, R&D, the economy, investment, government influence & limitations, competitiveness, competencies, processes & products, servitisation, growth strategies and several case studies.
What does UK HVM landscape look like now? What will UK HVM look like in the future? Who are the key private sector players: large and SME companies and investors and channels to market? How has success been achieved by some? What are the barriers to growing HVM companies in the UK?
“I’m very proud of our modest influence on our UK manufacturing segment in terms of high level discussions and reporting during the last decade.” said Justin Hayward, Consultant and Conference Director. “It seems to me that there are great opportunities for those who dare.”
The speaking and panel lineup for the day is building rapidly now and includes
Chair for day: Professor Sir Mike Gregory CBE
Speakers:
Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister (invited)
Indro Mukherjee, CEO Plastic Logic
Ray Southam, CEO Tonejet
Phil O’Donovan, Founder Cambridge Silicon Radio plc
Billy Boyle, Founder Owlstone Technologies
Richard Archer, former CEO TAP Biosystems
Tony Abri, MD, BritonEMS
Nathan Hill, Qi3 Accelerator
Will Barton, TSB Lead HVM
Dick Elsy, CEO HVM Catapult tbc
Nigel Brown OBE, IQ Capital
Sir Michael Marshall CBE, Owner, Marshall Group
Panel: Lord Sainsbury of Turville, Chancellor Cambridge University, Former Minister Innovation, Matthew Bullock, Former CEO NPBS
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Poyry will note at Cleanpower 2012 Cambridge (14 June) that the government expects electricity generated from biomass to play an important role in meeting the UK’s 2020 renewables target. This talk describes the policy and regulatory background affecting biomass electricity developments, including the Renewables Obligation, Electricity Market Reform, and the April 2012 Bioenergy Strategy.
Ali Lloyd, Principal Consultant at global renewable energy leader Poyry, will present ‘The outlook for biomass electricity in the UK’.
Biography for Ali Lloyd
Ali Lloyd joined Pöyry Management Consulting in February 2010 and has around 20 years of commercial experience in UK energy markets. He has a detailed knowledge of the UK electricity market including support schemes for renewable and CHP generators. Ali is part of Pöyry’s renewables team, providing advice primarily to renewable and energy-from-waste developers on project valuation and off-take contracting strategy.
This 4th Annual Smart Grids & Cleanpower Conference, uniquely covering the core and range of technologies and strategic vision for grids and power, is brought to you by CIR Strategy in association with ARM plc and Schneider Electric, and is part of the Cleantech Conferences of Cambridge Series.
Bookings online at: http://www.cir-strategy.com/events/register or by phone at 01223303500
Tags: bioenergy, biomass, cleantech, conference, decc, Defra, environment, Green Deal, growth, ofgem, strategy, technology, UK, Waste as Resource
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Monday, April 30th, 2012
Twenty-two per cent of the world’s population - 1.6 billion people - are unconnected to the grid and, despite governmental efforts, the number in Africa is still rising. Eight19’s Indigo pay-as-you-go solar combines mobile phone and solar technology to provide off-grid power as a service, providing clean power without the up-front cost of a traditional solar power installation.
Powering the Ungrid
This talk by Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO, Eight19, will take place in the Smart Grids stream looking at unusual applications of grid and power technology during the 4th Annual Smart Grids and Cleanpower Conference 2012 on 14 June at Cambridge University’s premier conference centre at Murrary Edwards College. CIR Strategy, organisers and specialists in service design and routes to value advice, offer this 25th Conference in their series since 2002.
You can see the lineup, themes and aims of this year’s leading CleanTech conference in Cambridge on grids and power here and you are welcome to book online.
Simon Bransfield-Garth, CEO, Eight19
Simon has 25 years’ global experience building rapid growth, technology-based businesses in sectors including Semiconductor, Automotive and Mobile Phones. His career includes seven years at Symbian, the phone OS maker, where he was a member of the Leadership Team and VP Global Marketing.
Simon was founder of Myriad Solutions Ltd and was previously a Fellow at Cambridge University. He holds a BA and Ph.D in Engineering from St John’s College, Cambridge UK.
Tags: africa, Cambridge, cambridge university, cleantech, conference, Energy, ethical, growth, humanitarian, investment, microgeneration, pay-as-you-go, poverty, Power, pv, smart grid, SME, solar, strategy, sustainability, technology
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Thursday, April 26th, 2012
An analytical keynote talk by Professor John Miles of the Engineering Department at Cambridge University in the opening session of the Cleanpower Conference on 14 June at Murray Edwards College, will look at the possibilities for generating clean energy in the UK in pursuit of the Government 2050 goals. In particular, the cost of supplying energy from these sources will be commented on and some possible practical routes forward explored.
Professor John Miles, Director ARUP & Cambridge University Engineering
John Miles has been a Group Board director at Arup, the global consultancy, for 17 years and has been responsible for a number of high profile projects and developments over that time. John has very wide experience in the fields of energy and resources, and has particular expertise in the areas of energy strategy and low-carbon transport systems. As a senior member of the firm, John has been a media spokesman on subjects ranging from Peak Oil to Intelligent Mobility, and has actively contributed to the debate on carbon reduction and global warming. Outside Arup, John has held a number of significant positions including a three-year term as a commissioner on the UK Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and a term as a director of the UK Housing Forum. He is currently a member of the UK Automotive Council, the UK Energy Research Partnership, and a non-executive director of the Construction Industry Research and Information Association.
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Tags: bioenergy, Cambridge, CHP, decc, Energy, FiT, microgeneration, nuclear, ofcom, ofgem, ofwat, parity, RHI, shale gas, solar, strategy, technology, University, wind
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