Microgrid: Creating Resiliency for Cities and Establishing a New Energy Marketplace
Maggie Clout, Business Development Manager at Siemens. She is the lead business developer for 17 project wins of New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) NYPrize Community Microgrid Program. We discuss a pilot project where Siemens worked with a company, LO3, to transact, buy and sell solar energy between neighbors on a blockchain. From a…
The Intersection of Blockchain and Lean
Thomas Cox is a lean leadership coach and practitioner who found himself really interested in blockchain. He has focused his efforts on the governance aspect of blockchain because of the influence it has on relationships, resources, and collaboration. He was a former governor candidate, and he has a unique view on leadership lean and blockchain.…
Scalable Blockchain Database for Decentralized Construction Apps
Brian is the Co-CEO and Co-Chairman of FlureeDB, a new decentralized app platform that will transform how business applications are built. Fluree DB is the first true blockchain database. Fluree DB supports a multiple of blockchain consensus according to chosen transaction characteristics. Its query allows joins across multiple databases, so multiple consensus Databases can be queried as a…
Using Blockchain to Transform the Real Estate Industry
Ragnar Lifthrasir, Founder of the International Blockchain Real Estate Association and Founder and CEO of velox.RE talks with us about the blockchain pilot velox.RE. This pilot was done in Cook County to achieve the first USA based conveyance of a property and a public recording of the associated deed using the bitcoin blockchain. Lastly, we discuss…
Decentralized Knowledge Inventory Platform for the Built Environment
Dan Robles is one of the founders of the Integrated Engineering Blockchain Consortium. He talks about the engineering profession from a traditional segmented hierarchy structure to a network structure like common database called the engineering Body of Knowledge. He talks about capturing the knowledge that exists between the ears, instead of reducing it to a…