by Alex Marshall | Oct 31, 2012 | Smart Cities
Times change and the language people speak change with them. The word “infrastructure” is bandied about a lot now, and the concept is a useful one. It’s generally used to describe the physical systems that hold us together and underlie our economy and ways of life....
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Oct 30, 2012 | Announcements
Superstorm Sandy brought both devastation and a climate change reality check when she hit the Eastern Seaboard last night. Social media feeds, including Twitter and Facebook, are full of climate change discussions, yet climate change has been largely absent from our...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Oct 30, 2012 | Announcements
Meeting of the Minds 2012 convened in San Francisco on October 9-11 with 344 attendees from 16 countries, 63 speakers, 27 sessions, almost 700 webcast viewers worldwide, and approximately 1,000 tweets. Download the final report here to get a full de-brief on Meeting...
by Dave Hahn | Oct 30, 2012 | Announcements
SeeClickFix has teamed up with regional and national media outlets to help assess the damage from Hurricane Sandy. Websites like the Huffington Post and the Bangor Daily News are using the innovative, interactive mapping tools powered by SeeClickFix to report and...
by Gordon Feller | Oct 25, 2012 | Smart Cities
With the completion of the Duke Energy Center (DEC) in Charlotte (North Carolina, USA), the path has been laid for smart buildings to become the new standard in commercial real estate. What exactly does it take to be the smartest building in America? When they decided...
by Dave Hahn | Oct 25, 2012 | Announcements
Meeting of the Minds co-founder Gordon Feller will be working with Électricité de France, the world’s second largest electric utility company, and with the French Consul-General in San Francisco, to convene a special session of the California France Forum on Energy...
by Clara Brenner and Julie Lein | Oct 24, 2012 | Smart Cities
Having trouble finding a parking space? San Francisco-based Park Please takes the AirBNB model and applies it to help frustrated city drivers find parking spaces. Longing for a coffee shop or organic food store in your neighborhood? Washington, DC-based Popularise...
by Dave Hahn | Oct 23, 2012 | Announcements
Meeting of the Minds 2012 featured an all-star line-up of urban mobility experts in the panel, Where is the Urban Mobility Revolution Headed? The participants included: Moderator: Bill Reinert Susan Shaheen Eric Cahill Susan Zielinski Scott Samuelsen A Q&A at the...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Oct 18, 2012 | Announcements
Gordon Feller, Co-Founder and Convenor of Meeting of the Minds, discusses the three majors themes that came out of the 2012 Meeting in San Francisco in this video: Innovators need to be empowered and incentivized Strong leadership is crucial for creating an...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Oct 18, 2012 | Announcements
The Scion iQ-EV, the smallest 4-passenger, 100% electric vehicle in the world, is designed to charge in 3 hours and cover a range of 62 miles. The car is considered the next frontier of urban mobility solutions, allowing drivers to park in miniscule spaces that were...
by Dave Hahn | Oct 17, 2012 | Announcements
SmartPlanet’s Rachel King continued her excellent coverage of Meeting of the Minds 2012 this week with two articles focused on Colin Harrison and Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. Excerpts: ‘Smart’ cities organize services around needs The digital and physical...
by Jessie Feller Hahn, Executive Director, Meeting of the Minds | Oct 17, 2012 | Announcements
Meeting of the Minds 2012 in San Francisco provided, for the first time, a showcase for Qualcomm and Cisco to collaborate on a new kind of digital public space. Both companies used the Leidesdorff Alley at the conference venue as a showcase for innovative urban...
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