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My interview at IBM’s Connect 09 event

by Tom Raftery on February 10, 2010 · 3 comments

in video

IBM interviewed me at the IBM Connect 09 event last year. I was coming down with the flu at the time so hence the puffy eyes, and lack of coherency but the good folks at IBM seemed happy with the video and have posted it so here it is for your delectation!

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IBM’s Software Analyst Connect event, Smarter Planet and sustainability

by Tom Raftery on November 27, 2009 · 18 comments

in water

I attended IBM’s eighth annual Software Analyst Connect (#Connect09) last week in Connecticut. The theme of the event was “IBM Software for a Smarter Planet”.
You have to admire IBM for coming up with the Smart Planet branding strategy. Now anything Smart (Smart Cities, Smart Water even Smart Work) is automatically, subconsciously associated with IBM. [...]

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IBM’s Jim Spohrer on the Smarter Planet University Jam

by Tom Raftery on August 1, 2009 · 14 comments

in GreenMonkTV, video

IBM held their inaugural Smarter Planet University Jam earlier this year. The Jam was a crowdsourcing process held by IBM earlier this year where nearly 2,000 students from more than 200 universities from 40 countries around the world took part with the aim of building a Smarter Planet through technology.
Some of the findings from the [...]

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Mobile phones – distributed air quality sensor network?

by Tom Raftery on July 21, 2009 · 16 comments

in sustainability

Since giving my talk on sustainability in the mobile phone sector at Mobile 2.0 in Barcelona a few weeks back and writing my post about how Augmented Reality on mobiles could be transformative for Green tech I have been thinking a lot about how mobiles could make a significant positive contribution to the planet.
The [...]

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