Podcasts about smarter planet

In this episode of Quakers Today, co-hosts Peterson Toscano (he/him) and Miche McCall (they/them) explore how queer Quakers respond to climate change with joy, creativity, and radical inclusion. The episode features Damon Motz-Storey and Lina Blount, who delve into the intersection of queerness, spirituality, and climate activism. Miche and Peterson also review two books that provide fresh perspectives on environmentalism and queer ecology. Featured Segments: Queer Quaker Responses to Climate Change with Damon Motz-Storey and Lina Blount Damon Motz-Storey (they/them), a genderqueer Quaker, discusses the importance of radical joy, play, and community in climate work: “We're going to save the earth, and we're going to do it in six-inch heels and full makeup.” Damon Motz-Storey became the Chapter Director of the Oregon Chapter of the Sierra Club in 2023. They have a wealth of experience leading environmental and climate justice campaigns in the Pacific Northwest. Their achievements include blocking major new coal, oil, and gas expansions, pioneering the Portland Clean Energy Fund initiative, and contributing to Oregon's 2021 state legislation for low-income utility bill discounts, home energy retrofits, and a commitment to 100% clean electricity by 2040. Damon also worked with the Coalition of Communities of Color, managing communications for Portland's successful 2022 city government reform measure and organizing record-breaking fundraising events to support racial justice efforts. They live in East Portland near Powell Butte and enjoys hiking, cycling, weightlifting, cooking, and performing in drag. Lina Blount highlights the role of interconnectedness and reciprocity in climate justice: “Our liberation is bound up in each other's, especially in climate work, because it's how ecosystems work.” Lina Blount is an organizer, trainer, and nonviolent action strategist who has been involved in environmental justice campaigns in the Philadelphia area for over fifteen years. She currently serves as the Director of Strategy and Partnerships with the Earth Quaker Action Team. Lina has previously worked with the Divestment Student Network and has extensive experience as a canvas director and anti-fracking organizer in Pennsylvania. She identifies as a Quaker and considers the Earth Quaker Action Team, her primary spiritual community. Book Review: Queer Ecologies and Sustainable Futures Books Reviewed: Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future Peterson and Miche review this collection of essays edited by Zane McNeil and Rebecca Scott, which critiques environmental exploitation and maps alternative futures through queer perspectives. Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? by Gray Cox Miche introduces this book, published by the Quaker Institute for the Future, which examines the ethical implications of smart technology and its role in building a sustainable global community. Read Brad Gibson's Friends Journal review. Quotes: "It is our superpower to insist upon joy, even in a world insistent on pushing us back into the closet." – Damon Motz-Storey "Chosen family and ecosystems both offer models of connection that are life-giving and generative." – Lina Blount "We can laugh and dance through climate action because that's how we'll keep going." – Damon Motz-Storey "Ecosystems don't just work locally. There's this incredible web of interconnection." – Lina Blount Announcing Season Four: After a short break, Quakers Today will return to producing regular programs on November 12, 2024. Look out for extra features and announcements in October that will appear in your podcast feed.  Question of the Month: We want to hear from you! Here is a question for you: What novel, film, or television series changed your relationship with the world? The world of fiction can alter the way we see ourselves, each other, the natural world, the political order, history, and society. What work of fiction shifted your perspective or altered your worldview?  Leave a voice memo or text with your name and the town where you live. The Quakers Today number is 317-QUAKERS. +1 if calling from outside the U.S. You can also answer on any of our social media pages: Instagram, X, or TikTok.  Quakers Today is the companion podcast to Friends Journal and other Friends Publishing Corporation (FPC) content online. It is written, hosted, and produced by Peterson Toscano and Miche McCall. Season Three of Quakers Today is sponsored by American Friends Service Committee.  Do you want to challenge unjust systems and promote lasting peace? The American Friends Service Committee, or AFSC, works with communities worldwide to drive social change. Their website features meaningful steps you can take to make a difference. Through their Friends Liaison Program, you can connect your meeting or church with AFSC and their justice campaigns. Find out how you can become part of AFSC's global community of changemakers. Visit AFSC dot ORG.  Feel free to send comments, questions, and requests for our new show. Email us at podcast@friendsjournal.org. You can also call or text our listener voicemail line at 317-QUAKERS. This episode's music comes from Epidemic Sound. 

Producer/Hosts: Ron Beard and Liz Graves Theme music for Talk of the Towns Theme is a medley from Coronach, on a Balnain House Highland Music recording. Talk of the Towns: Local Community concerns and opportunities This month: – What do you understand the term artificial intelligence (AI) to mean? – How do you understand AI already in use? How do you encounter it? – How have you made use of AI in your work and creative life? – What do you understand about concerns about AI… either addressing current or potential applications? – What are the most useful ways you have encountered to address some of these concerns? – What do you see as the potential of AI – Helping government better serve citizens and communities? – Helping with collaboration and understanding among people? – Helping people and institutions work through conflict? – Helping with learning (at any age)? – What might be some helpful ways of thinking about developing and using AI going forward? – What can we learn from human experience with other technology and scientific advancement as we ride the wave of AI? Guest/s: Gray Cox, professor of philosophy, College of the Atlantic, author of Smarter Planet or Wiser Earth? : Dialogue and Collaboration in the Era of Artificial Intelligence, published by Quaker Institute for the Future, 2023. Nina Barufaldi St. Germain, business owner, writer, artist. Gregg TeHennepe, Senior Director, Computational Sciences, Jackson Laboratory. FMI: barharbor365.substack.com writing with Nina Barufaldi St. Germain. graycoxhomepage.wordpress.com more from Gray Cox. www.jax.org The Jackson Laboratory. About the hosts: Ron Beard is producer and host of Talk of the Towns, which first aired on WERU in 1993 as part of his community building work as an Extension professor with University of Maine Cooperative Extension and Sea Grant. He took all the journalism courses he could fit in while an undergraduate student in wildlife management and served as an intern with Maine Public Television nightly newscast in the early 1970s. Ron is an adjunct faculty member at College of the Atlantic, teaching courses on community development. Ron served on the Bar Harbor Town Council for six years and is currently board chair for the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, where he has lived since 1975. Look for him on the Allagash River in June, and whenever he can get away, in the highlands of Scotland where he was fortunate to spend two sabbaticals. Liz Graves joined Talk of the Towns as co-producer and co-host in July 2022, having long admired public affairs programming on WERU and dreamed of getting involved in community radio. She works as the Town Clerk for the Town of Bar Harbor, and is a former editor of the Mount Desert Islander weekly newspaper. Liz grew up in California and came to Maine as a schooner sailor. The post Talk of the Towns 7/10/24: A Conversation About Artificial Intelligence in Our Lives first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

Commercial and industrial buildings waste around $200 billion worth of energy every year, and that is just in the US. Mark Chung is the Co-founder of Verdigris, a breakthrough AI-based sensor technology that helps companies monitor and reduce their energy usage. In this episode, Mark joins our host Donna Loughlin to discuss his mission to cut down on energy waste for the good of future generations, talking about how he identified an issue that went unnoticed for years and how he has since built a game-changing company that is truly making a difference. Before any world-changing innovation, there was a moment, an event, a realization that sparked the idea before it happened. This is a podcast about that moment — about that idea. Before IT Happened takes you on a journey with the innovators who imagined — and are still imagining — our future. Join host Donna Loughlin as her guests tell their stories of how they brought their visions to life.  JUMP STRAIGHT INTO: (02:58) - Growing up in Texas as a first-generation Asian American - “I recall when I was really young having one of the first IBM PCs that was available for consumer purchase. My dad got one and he taught me how to program tic-tac-toe on it. He was kind of a programmer. I was around computers and technology ever since I was a little kid.” (08:35) Mark's Before IT Happened moment - “I couldn't be just a bystander watching climate change erode when I have the ability to develop technology that could change the trajectory.” (14:00) The desire to tackle the $200 billion energy waste problem for future generations - “We sort of came to this realization that all of these devices were actually speaking a language that AI could understand, we just needed to figure out what it was saying.” (22:39) A problem no one had tried to solve before - “It was just surprising that even in the highest performing building with an unlimited budget to try and solve this challenge, there was no tech there. Nobody has tried to solve the problem before!” (26:33) - The benefits of energy savings for private enterprises and the government - “In the last two years those kinds of policies, the compliance and the company emphasis on it, has really elevated the conversation of energy management.” (34:05) - Mark's North Star - “Everything in the world is interconnected and we have a responsibility as part of that interconnection to measure what we're doing, and how does it impact everything else. You can't just take a bunch of coal out of the ground, burn it up and make it someone else's problem.”  EPISODE RESOURCES: Connect with Mark Chung on https://twitter.com/mychung (Twitter )and https://www.linkedin.com/in/markchung (LinkedIn) Learn more about https://verdigris.co/ (Verdigris) Listen to Before IT Happened's: https://www.beforeithappened.com/podcast-episodes/in-the-pursuit-of-cleaner-farming-making-great-wine-and-chasing-monarch-butterflies-with-carlo-mondavi-episode-12 (In the Pursuit of a Cleaner Farming, Making Great Wine and Chasing Monarch Butterflies with Carlo Mondavi) Thank you for listening! Follow https://www.beforeithappened.com/ (Before IT Happened) on https://www.instagram.com/beforeithappenedshow/ (Instagram) and https://twitter.com/TheBIHShow (Twitter), and don't forget to subscribe, rate and share the show wherever you listen to podcasts!  Before IT Happened is produced by Donna Loughlin and https://www.studiopodsf.com/ (StudioPod Media) with additional editing and sound design by https://nodalab.com/ (nodalab). The Executive Producer is Katie Sunku Wood and all episodes are written by Susanna Camp.

Alistair Fulton (https://www.semtech.com/company/executive-leadership/alistair-fulton) is the Vice President and General Manager of Semtech's Wireless and Sensing Products Group. Semtech Corporation is a supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors and advanced algorithms for consumer, enterprise computing, communications and industrial end-markets. It has 32 locations in 15 countries in North America, Europe, and Asia. Semtech is the developer of LoRa, a long-range networking initiative for the Internet of Things. As of March 2021, over 178 million devices use LoRa worldwide. LoRa has been used in satellites, tracking of animals, and natural disaster prediction. Mr. Fulton joined Semtech in 2018 with over 25 years of experience in the Internet of Things (IoT), connected devices, machine to machine (M2M)/embedded, and analytics spaces. Before joining Semtech, Mr. Fulton led the development of Hitachi's Lumada Industrial IoT Platform, the leading "visionary" IIoT platform in Gartner's 2018 magic quadrant. Prior to Hitachi, he led Microsoft's early IoT initiatives, including the development and incubation of Microsoft's v1.0 IoT platform (the precursor to the v3.0 Azure IoT platform). Mr. Fulton also served as a Leader within Deloitte Consulting's Strategy & Operations / Telecommunications Media and Technology practice, focused on new product development, innovation and strategic transformation engagements in the wireless & Internet of Things (IoT) sectors. He started his career at Telefónica UK.

#ieee #fulldivevr #virtualreality Dr. Yu Yuan is a visionary researcher, inventor, and entrepreneur in the areas of Consumer Technology, Transportation, the Internet of Things, and Digital Transformation. He founded Senses Global Labs & Ventures a multinational technology company specializing in Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Human Augmentation. Dedicated to "Creating Better Worlds" as its long-term vision, the company is developing technologies, infrastructures, ecosystems, and resources needed for massively multiplayer ultra-realistic virtual experiences. The company is also engaged in technology consulting, technology transfer, and system integration services to help with the Digital Transformation of its clients in various industries. It has been proactively supporting standards development for emerging technologies (VR/AR/MR/XR, Blockchain, AI, IoT, Big Data. Digital Twin, Smart Lifestyle, etc.) in collaboration with many other companies and institutions. Prior to this he served as the president of CATE Global, a think tank focusing on bringing world-class expertise to clients and projects all over the world. Prior to that he worked for IBM Research as a research scientist and was a key contributor to IBM's Cell Broadband Engine, Smarter Planet, and IoT initiative. He has been a passionate volunteer in various leadership positions at IEEE and other professional communities. His outstanding service in IEEE standards activities at different levels (working groups, standards committees, and governance at higher levels) has been widely appreciated by standards developers, individual members, and corporate members. He has been serving as the Chair of IEEE Consumer Technology Society Standards Committee (CTS/SC) since 2015. He is also serving as the Chair of IEEE VR/AR Standards Committee (CTS/VRARSC), the Vice-Chair of IEEE Photonics Society Standards Committee (PHO/SC), the Secretary of IEEE Consumer Technology Society Blockchain Standards Committee (CTS/BSC), the Chair of IEEE VR/AR Advisory Board, and a voting member of IEEE Technical Activities Board Committee on Standards. He has a PhD in Computer Science, Tsinghua University. https://www.linkedin.com/in/dryuyuan http://www.facebook.com/DrYuYuan Twitter: @DrYuYuan

  Be formless… shapeless like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle… you put water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash… Be water my friend.”  -- Bruce Lee   According to our friends at the International Labour Organization (ILO) the COVID-19 pandemic will wipe out 6.7 percent of working hours in the second quarter of this year. To put that in perspective, that is the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers. Huge losses are expected across different income groups, especially in upper-middle income countries (7.0%, 100 million full-time workers)   Fear not though… we’re not here to just lay a bunch of bad news on you! We want to show what ingenuity and adaptability can do for a company, for their personnel and for the the rest of us as well.   Textiles company American Roots converted its facility to produce medical supplies.   LVMH Group has turned its perfurmery brands, including Dior, Givency and Bulgair, into hand sanitizer manufacturers.   Tito’s Vodka converted production facilities to make hand sanitizer. Thanks to the combination of their attitude and ingenuity, they now have the ability and capacity to manufacture over 60 tons a week.   What is corporate leadership doing to adapt to and overcome a situation that has shown devastating consequences?   On this episode of InSecurity, Matt Stephenson welcomes new co-host Michelle Moskowitz for a chat with Forcepoint CMO Matt Preschern. With the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic affecting us all, we learn how Forcepoint adapted quickly to get the most out of their 2800 employees and give them the opportunity to adapt in order to help their customers and themselves. How can companies help themselves in order to help others? Check it out..   About Matt Preschern     Matt Preschern (@mattpreschern) is the chief marketing officer for Forcepoint. He leads the company’s global marketing organization that includes brand management, corporate communications, events marketing, digital and web marketing, revenue and field marketing, and sales enablement. He joined Forcepoint in January 2019. Preschern is a veteran technology marketing leader with more than 25 years of experience in brand, digital marketing, demand generation and revenue management, customer experience, and corporate communications. Previously, Matt was senior vice president of marketing at CA Technologies where he was responsible for the development and execution of global, regional and partner marketing programs across all businesses. He has also served as the CMO of HCL Technologies where he led the effort to substantially increase HCL’s brand recognition as a digital solutions, IT services and technology consulting company and supported its rapid, multi-billion dollar growth. He also served as the Enterprise CMO of Windstream Communications. Early in his career, he held numerous vice president roles at IBM across marketing strategy and performance marketing and played an integral part in launching IBM’s Smarter Planet initiative. Matt is an award-winning marketer, having been named among the top 20 most influential CMOs by Forbes and recognized for his success in driving marketing innovation by the CMO Club.   About Michelle Moskowitz     Michell Moskowitz is Vice President of Business Development & Chief of Staff at Sublime Communications. In her previous lives, she spun up the New Media Division for Lifetime network as well as working with numerous cybsecurity startups.   With a career spent swimming in the waters of digital marketing and consulting Michelle has somehow found the time to also be a journalist at the Greenwich Sentinel.   Michell will be joining us as a recurring co-host to bring additional perspective to the important role that communication plays in a world that grows increasingly technical.   About Matt Stephenson       Insecurity Podcast host Matt Stephenson (@packmatt73) leads the broadcast media team at Cylance, which puts him in front of crowds, cameras, and microphones all over the world. He is the regular host of the InSecurity podcast and video series at events around the globe.   Twenty years of work with the world’s largest security, storage, and recovery companies has introduced Stephenson to some of the most fascinating people in the industry. He wants to get those stories told so that others can learn from what has come   Every week on the InSecurity Podcast, Matt interviews leading authorities in the security industry to gain an expert perspective on topics including risk management, security control friction, compliance issues, and building a culture of security. Each episode provides relevant insights for security practitioners and business leaders working to improve their organization’s security posture and bottom line.   Can’t get enough of Insecurity? You can find us at ThreatVector InSecurity Podcasts, Apple Podcasts and GooglePlay as well as Spotify, Stitcher, SoundCloud, I Heart Radio and wherever you get your podcasts!   Make sure you Subscribe, Rate and Review!

Dr Paul W Dyer and Sean talk about Baltimore. As person that is seeing and talking and living in Beautiful Baltimore it is heart breaking Sean says to see the broken of the people. Sean is the author of two well-received books; and a researcher for two other bestsellers. He wrote about the issues facing expectant fathers , including being allowed into the delivery room, at time when this was a rarity. One of his Glamour Magazine reports was featured on The Today Show. And in the early years of the AIDs crisis, Sean collaborated on a book focused on educating young people about healthy sexual relationships.Sean’s communication skills served him well in the corporate world, where he crafted speeches on topics ranging from reinventing cities to cyber-security, to business innovation, for CEOs and senior leaders at three Fortune 100 companies, including Digital Equipment Corporation, with a 12-year stint as an IBM speechwriter. There he led the communications efforts for IBM’s Global Public Sector focused on worldwide Smarter Planet and Smarter Cities initiatives.

Understanding how to apply “Enterprise AI” to automate your supply chain and business processes is a must to remain competitive in today's digital world. Join me as I talk to Matt Denesuk, Cofounder and Chief Data Officer at Noodle.ai, about what opportunities are available to C-level executives who are looking to deploy AI throughout the enterprise and how to make it happen. Noodle.ai is one of the leading AI companies in the space. And few people have the depth of experience in the field as Matt does. In his past he has held the role of Chief Data Science Officer at GE and General Manager of their Data Science Center of excellence where he led AI programs across all of GE's business units. He also led Smarter Planet and Industrial Machine Learning Research at IBM Research and was also a partner in IBM's venture capital group. The future is here. Is your company ready?

Building an audience isn't simple, especially when most of your sales are done via the website and clicks are critical. Mychell Mollot is a data-driven CMO who focuses on what brings the most bang for her budget. In this episode we talk about KPIs, audience building, and going from an enterprise to a startup. About Mychelle Mollot Mychelle loves technology and marketing, and marketing and technology… the order depends on the day. Currently she is the CMO of Klipfolio, a Cloud real-time business dashboard company, where she is responsible for Marketing and Product Management. Before Klipfolio, Mychelle was CMO for the Websphere and Business Analytics divisions of IBM where she launched the Smarter Analytics component of IBM’s Smarter Planet. Mychelle started her career as Geophysicist doing gold exploration in the Yukon. Mychelle has a degree in Engineering Geophysics from Queen’s University. Outside of work, Mychelle loves doing anything outside with her family, particularly kayaking, hiking and cycling. About Shira Abel Shira Abel is the CEO and Lead Strategist at Hunter & Bard (http://www.hunterandbard.com), an inbound marketing and branding agency. Clients include: Folloze, Totango, Cyara, Sarine Technologies, Pushbullet, AXA Tech, CloudEndure, AppsGeyser, Pitango VC, Allianz, and more. Creator and host of the SaaS Insider podcast. Creator of the Behavior Engineering Canvas. Mentor at 500 Startups. Former professor of Marketing for Startups at Tel Aviv-Jaffa Academic College. MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Loves family time, cooking, and traveling. Hates writing about herself in the third person. She lives in Silicon Valley with her husband, teen and tween sons and a very large Great Pyrenees. If you would like to be interviewed on SaaS Insider - please contact Shira at the URL above. The SaaS Insider podcast is brought to you by Hunter & Bard, a marketing agency specializing in design, branding, content and marketing automation – helping SaaS companies reduce their marketing debt. It’s also a member of the C-Suite Radio Network. Check out Hunter & Bard today at http://hunterandbard.com

Welcome to episode #396 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. He's been on Conan O'Brien, David Letterman, Saturday Night Live and more. His name is Tim Washer and he's currently working on social media for Cisco. He's one of the funniest people that I know... and one of the sharpest minds in digital marketing. Beyond being a Webby-nominated video producer and corporate humorist, Tim also worked on IBM's amazing Smarter Planet campaign and works as a keynote speaker and event emcee as well. What makes him so fascinating is how he blends comedy, social media, video production and storytelling to humanize brands. He's an all-around great guy and whenever we're together (which isn't often enough!), I always learn a ton about writing and storytelling. I think you will as well. Enjoy the conversation... Here it is: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #396 - Host: Mitch Joel. Running time: 46:18. Please send in questions, comments, suggestions - mitch@twistimage.com. Hello from Beautiful Montreal. Subscribe over at iTunes. Please visit and leave comments on the Blog - Six Pixels of Separation. Feel free to connect to me directly on Facebook here: Mitch Joel on Facebook. or you can connect on LinkedIn. ...or on twitter.  Six Pixels of Separation the book is now available. CTRL ALT Delete is now available too! In conversation with Tim Washer. Follow Tim on Twitter. This week's music: David Usher 'St. Lawrence River'. Get David's song for free here: Artists For Amnesty. Download the Podcast here: Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast - Episode #396 - Host: Mitch Joel. Tags: advertising podcast blog blogging brand business book business podcast cisco conan obrien content marketing david letterman david usher digital marketing facebook ibm itunes marketing blogger marketing podcast podcast podcasting saturday night live smarter planet social media tim washer twitter video podcast webby awards

I am Kathy Klotz-Guest, founder of Keeping it Human, coming to you live from San Jose, CA, in the heart of Silicon Valley. This show airs Thursdays at 3:30 PM PDT.  Keeping it Human helps marketing executives and their teams tell their best and most important company, product and customer stories to the world. We are a jargon-monoxide-poisoning free zone. Our show is created especially for marketing and business execs, and their teams. Lighten Up, B2B!Humor IS Human. B2B Marketing isn't known for humor. It's changing - slowly - but thankfully. The rate at which content is created is mindnumbing and there is more coming at each of us every day. Imagine being in your customer's or prospect's shoes. Stop with the same-old marketing tactics. Make 2014 the year you lighten up your marketing - have some fun, create more meaningful conversations and set your brand apart. Join me Thurs, Jan 9. for afabulous and fun chat with one of my favorite marketing funnymen, Tim Washer.  It will add 50 points to your humor quotient! And it'll be a hell of a lot of fun. About Tim Tim Washer is a Webby-nominated producer, comedy writer, and conference speaker. He's contributed to SNL, Conan and The Onion Sports Network.  In his corporate life, he led social video production for IBM's Smarter Planet campaign, and is now senior marketing manager at Cisco. His video work has been featured in AdAge, ADWEEK, FastCompany and The New York Times.   

Steve Rogers, director of the IBM CAI, interviews Michele Chambers, IBM GM and VP of Analytic Solutions, to get her reaction to the study, Outperforming in a Data-Rich Hyper-Connected World.

Scott Laningham speaks with Steve Trammell with ESRI, Dave Kerr with SpotOn Systems, and Rob Dolan with Business Analytics at IBM about mapping and geo-spatial analytics and how their integration with business intelligence software is bringing new, more powerful analysis tools for all kinds of organizations.

Kevin is the author of Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't, The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM and Megamedia Shakeout. He was a reporter, editor and columnist at USA Today for 22 years and a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio. He has been a contributor to Fortune and Wired magazines, The Atlantic, NPR and ABC News.

Felicia Day is an actress and writer whose projects include The Guild, an original web series on the eccentric lives of online gamers. Gine Poole is VP of Marketing for IBM Rational. Both joined me at Innovate last week for some light-hearted chat about taking on Watson and Grady Booch in Jeopardy, hosting a big developer conference, social geeking, and the Innovate conference experience.

Charles Krueger is CEO for BigLever Software, Inc., creator of GEARS, a product line engineering tool and lifecycle framework for systems software. He joined me at Innovate 2011 to talk about the growing need for reducing production complexity and simultaneously increasing scalability, and sites examples of aerospace and automotive companies they have helped. BigLever utilizes numerous IBM Rational tools -- Doors, Rhapsody, Team Concert, ClearCase, and Synergy.

Here are my interviews with three of the finalists, including the winner, at IBM SmartCamp Austin. Sam Fuller (Waldo Health), Matt Wensing (Stormpulse), and Barrett Taylor (SecureWaters, Inc. and SmartCamp Austin Winner) talk about their respective smarter planet solutions. Jim Corgel, Director of ISV and Developer Relations for IBM, wraps it up with a few words about the IBM SmartCamp experience.

This Week on developerWorks! dW newsletters editor John Swanson joins me to talk about our planned coverage of Impact 2011, number three of the big five IBM conferences each year and the one centered around WebSphere. Impact starts Sunday in Las Vegas and runs through Thursday, ending with a WebSphere Unconference, hosted by Cloudcamp founder, Dave Nielsen. Dave joins to talk about the latest with cloud and what to expect on Thursday.

--{ Psychological Stew Creating You: "Propaganda's the Tool Used on the Mind, Ensuring You Fit with Peers of Your Kind, You Share the Knowledge with Rest of Minions, Comforted by All Sharing Same Opinions, Occasionally a Topic's Allowed "This Way or That", But in Time You'll Agree Just Where it's At, Mind-Masters Prepare You for What's Ahead, Segmented Indoctrination to Ensure You're Led Without Conscious Knowing of Where it Leads, Via Bits & Bytes and Onboard News Feeds, Until On a Topic You Will Be Adamant, All Achieved by Psychology (Without an Implant), Your Mind is the Battlefield, Your Defences Fell, Ongoing Propaganda is Shaping You Well" © Alan Watt }-- No National Governments, World Gov. Already Here - New Soviet System of Communitarianism/Volunteerism - Foundation-Funded Public Broadcasting Networks, Propaganda to Prepare Minds for Compliance - Philanthropists' "Charity". Bogus "Global Warming" guise for Redistribution of Wealth - Record Cold and Snow in Britain - Geoengineering "to Come" - IBM et al, "Smarter Planet", Global Integration, Food Tracking - Public-Private, Homeland Security/Walmart Partnership for Spying - Politicians Parachuted into Office from Foreign Countries - Swedish Constitution to be Changed for EU - Brave New World is Here - Gov. Sex-Text Advice to 13yr-olds - Perpetual War - Office of Strategic Information, Pentagon, Paid "Experts". (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Dec. 10, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ On Neuroscience Article: No More Self-Reliance, Obey the Tyrants of Neuroscience: "Neuroscientists Claim Expertise on the Brain, Say Those Who Think Too Much May Go Insane, If You're Firm On Conclusion Researching an Issue, You've Got Too Many Cells in Pre-Frontal Tissue, "Normal" People Remain Timidly Weak and Unsure, Always Seeking Approval for Thoughts so Demure, Those Who are Positive are Not Altruistic, Nor Pleasing to Others, Proves They're Autistic, Psychiatry Loves this Psycho-Babble, Helps Keep Off-Balance, The General Rabble, The Obedient Citizen has Easy Upgrades, Adapting to Experts, Their Memory Fades, Soviet Dissidents had "Inflexibility of Opinion", To Survive, Play Stupid in this World Dominion" © Alan Watt }-- Freemasonry and Eugenical Religion of Elite - Plato's Republic, Guardian Class, Breeding Workers for Specific Tasks - Authoritarian Society - Declarations from Experts and Scientists - Thinking Too Much is Bad for "Mental Health" - Manipulation of Populations by Electronic Means, Technotronics, Aerosol Spraying of Tranquilizers - Voice-to-Skull and Thought Implantation - Neuromarketing to Influence Behaviour (without Your Knowing) - Elimination of Private Property - Banks Seize Record Number of Homes - UN Agenda 21 and Millennium Goals - "Urban Sprawl" - Cramming People into Crowded Cities - Planned Takedown, Drugs, Unemployment, Depopulation. George Soros, His History, Funding of "Left-Wing" Groups, British Economic Crash. IBM's "Smarter Planet", Sustainability Agenda. Genetically-Modified Chocolate. (See http://www.cuttingthroughthematrix.com for article links.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Sept. 17, 2010 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

Andy Piper from the IBM Hursley Lab joins to talk about making the most of remote reporting devices with WebSphere MQ Telemetry. And, we run down this week's dW highlights.

This week on developerWorks, plus TQ and Fred Gutierrez from the Rational Events team preview the IBM Rational Innovate 2010 Conference coming up June 6-10 in Orlando, Florida.

Hear from Hayden Lindsey and Scott Searle on why IBM's Innovate 2010 conference on June 6-10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for Power Systems customers. At Innovate 2010, Power Systems customers will have an opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You will get glimpse into the future of Smarter Systems and software from IBM that forms the foundation for building a Smarter Planet. Attend the brand new track dedicated for Power Systems customers, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions and a special reception for Power Systems customers Monday evening in the Bluezoo lounge.

Hear from Hayden Lindsey and Scott Searle on why IBM's Innovate 2010 conference on June 6-10, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, is a must attend event for System z customers. At Innovate 2010, System z customers will have an opportunity to network with 4,000 software and systems peers, see exciting keynotes from the IBM senior executive team, learn about the future of Technology from IBM Fellow Grady Booch, hear from Dean Kamen, the creator of the Segway Personal Transporter, on the power of Innovation, and much more. You will get glimpse into the future of Smarter Systems and software from IBM that forms the foundation for building a Smarter Planet. Attend the brand new track dedicated for System z customers, hands-on technical workshops, panel discussions and a special reception for System z customers Tuesday evening in the Bluezoo lounge.

SXSWi 2010 is now history and Todd Watson and I are joined by developerWorks web application developer David Salinas for closing thoughts, particularly on how this year's conference was heavier on design and philosophy discussions and lighter on core tech topics.

Recap of Sunday and Monday at SXSWi with thoughts on sessions by Twitter CEO Evan WIlliams, NYU New Media teacher Clay Shirky, IBM Director of Citizenship and Technology John Tolva, and more.

Todd Watson and I share some thoughts at the end of day one at the South by Southwest Interactive Conference in Austin, Texas, including reflections on author Doug Rushkoff's talk, "Program or Be Programmed."

In this week's show, hosted by Julie Martin, Dave Parfitt has an interview with Samantha Brown from the Travel Channel. Samantha Brown talks about the 10th Anniversary Show she recorded at Walt Disney World this past November. Kevin Klose has a review of Christinis Restaurant and Kathy Werling tells us about the new Smarter Planet attraction by IBM in Innoventions at Epcot. All that plus this week's news and Rapid-Fire on this week's edition of the DIS Unplugged. Call us toll free from within the U.S. at 877-310-9662 (outside U.S. call 407-574-5093)

Ron Ercanbrack, VP and GM, Enterprise Content Management, IBM on ECM announcements around analytics and optimization, a master content server, and smart archiving; ECM's part in the overall IBM information management strategy.

Ambuj Goyal, General Manager Business Analytics and Business Optimization on what IBM means by informaiton-lead transformation and how it relates to a smarter planet.

Nancy Pearson, IBM VP, BPM, SOA, WebSphere and Industry Marketing on the thinking behind the IOD conference, key smarter planet messages, and excellence as a moving target.

Bill Pulleyblank, IBM VP, Business Analytics and Optimization on maker better business decisions using gathered information, and examples.

Mary Garrett, IBM VP, Marketing Communications, GlobalSales and Distribution on turning to more social media for customer communication, challenges in information transformation, and a great example from NYPD.

Steve Mills, Senior VP and Group Executive, IBM Software Group on smart essential information strategy, making things predictive in real time, and anticipating success.

The reach of technology today extends nearly everywhere, and more importantly, in this new age, beyond the data center. Not only do more and more people carry the internet in the palm of their hand, but virtually all elements of business processes, production, collaboration and physical infrastructure are becoming instrumented electronically, networked and accessible, enabling new and exciting solutions and services. This is the foundation of a smarter planet, creating new value for business, government and science. A very dynamic infrastructure is required to support this expansion of value, powered by advances in Service Management to provide improved agility in leveraging technology, with vastly reduced costs and greater automation and efficiency. Service Management provides the visibility, control, and automation of this dynamic infrastructure, and a vehicle to monetize management technology. I will discuss market forces, opportunity, technology directions, and research challenges.

Scott Johnson is founder of SolarNetOne, a project delivering a solar-powered, turnkey Internet hotspot. He talks about building SolarNetOne for maximum efficiency and portability, about the importance of open source software to the project, and about his initial brainstorm sessions with Dr. Vint Cerf.

--{ The UN's 'New and Improved' (Privatized) Sovietized Politburo: "The World's on the Move with the UN Gangsters, Creating a Politburo for the Global Banksters, With International Businesses' CEOs For the Nanny-State World, Run by NGOs, They'll All be There Running the United Nations, Writing Miles of Rules for the Populations, 'Governanced' by Those Who Rule the Market, Under the Guise of Altruism, Their Demo-racket, 'Cause We Can't Elect Them, Control Freaks, Driven By Sado-masochistic Tendencies, Abhor Criticism, 'We're Only Cruel to be Kind,' the Deviants Say, God Help Us All if They have Their Way" © Alan Watt }-- Media, Trivia, Rehashed News, Entertainment, Prattle, Sex - Predictive Programming, Sci-Fi Stories, Writers - Genetic Discrimination, "Faulty" Genes and "Risk", Medical Insurance (Scam). Eugenics, Foundations, National Census, Tracing Heredity - War, British (London) PR, "Rendition" (Kidnapping), Torture, MI6, MI5, US - Reporters - Thugs. Actors, States, International Corporation CEOs, NGOs, Global Governance, UN - WTO, GATT - Globalization - Al-Qaeda, "Preventative" War. Britain, TV, Much Music, Monkey See Monkey Do, Primary School Sex Education - Children's Cartoons. "Public" Works Privatized, Public-Private - Canada, Electricity - Britain, Water System - IBM, Prisoner Cardex Data, Water, Infrastructure, Computer Network, "Smarter Planet". Religions Taken Over by Institutions - Protestant Breakaway Sects. Bertrand Russell, Recruitment or Elimination of the Intelligent. Obama, National Civilian Army - Terrorists Everywhere, Psychiatric Evaluations - Military Inoculations. (Articles: ["Australians refused insurance because of poor genes" by Deborah Smith (smh.com.au) - March 10, 2009.] ["Binyam blames UK for mistreatment" (news.bbc.co.uk) - March 13, 2009.] ["State sovereignty must be altered in globalized era" by Richard Haass [President of Council on Foreign Relations] (taipeitimes.com) - Feb. 21, 2006.] ["Primary schools give sex education to children as young as FIVE after the Alfie Patten case" (dailymail.co.uk) - March 10, 2009.] ["IBM plans to get deep into the water business" AP (at msnbc.msn.com) - March 13, 2009.] ["Inquiry calls over Iraq dossier" (news.bbc.co.uk) - March 12, 2009.]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - March 13, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)