BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20241103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240927T205205Z UID:A782500C-8A7C-4698-A971-1200F6563EAF DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20240926T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20240926T203000 DESCRIPTION:Using Open Source to Accelerate Sustainability Initiatives\n\nA ddressing climate change and sustainability is one of the most urgent conc erns we face. A key step in addressing these concerns is for organizations to measure\, analyze and document their carbon emissions and climate risk s. Sustainability and climate reporting is effectively being mandated by b oth governments and industry. This reporting\, however\, often requires si gnificant investments in time and resources to design\, develop and implem ent. The right data must be found\, prepared and organized to support for instance\, calculation of the Greenhouse Gas emissions. This can be a sign ificant challenge. Open source projects\, such as Egeria\, can play a sign ificant role in accelerating these initiatives. In this talk you will lear n about:\n\n- What are some of the key standards and programs for measurin g and reporting on Sustainability\n- Acceleration through Open Source pro jects\n- An overview of Egeria and it can jumpstart sustainability projec ts\n- A deeper look at the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Carbon Accounting showing how Egeria can help organizations establish and deliver trusted su stainability reports\n\nAbout Speaker:\n\nDan is a founder of[Pragmatic Da ta Research Ltd](https://pdr-associates.com/). – a consultancy specializ ing in accelerating digital transformations through innovative data archit ectures and governance. Dan is a contributor to the Linux AI & Data Founda tion’s Egeria Project. Egeria supports an open metadata eco-system enabl ing the exchange and use of metadata across a broad variety of use cases f rom self-service analytics to data governance in a heterogeneous\, federat ed and distributed environment.\n\nDan retired from IBM as a Distinguished Engineer and Director/CTO in the Weather Business Solutions group of IBM AI Applications in Q4 2021 where he led the application of geospatial data and analytics to multiple areas such as environmental intelligence\, agri culture and utilities. He was responsible for technical leadership\, produ ct development and operations in this rapidly growing area with particular interest in the delivery of insight into analytical and operational solut ions and the curation and management of multi-petabyte systems. As an expe rienced technical executive and thought leader\, Dan focuses on creating a nd implementing pragmatic systems that create new value from information.\ n\nA proven CTO and Development Director\, Dan has combined technology dev elopment\, team development and operations to build and deliver numerous g round-breaking products and technologies. Dan’s last project before reti ring from IBM was to lead the collaboration between IBM Research and Devel opment teams to shape\, implement and operate the IBM Environmental Intell igence Suite to provide customers insights on how Weather\, Climate and Ge ospatial analytics can enhance their sustainability\, operations and plann ing. Previously\, Dan was the CTO for the IBM InfoSphere Brand covering da ta integration\, governance\, master\, reference and meta data.\n\nDan has over 40 years of experience in research and commercial distributed comput ing ranging over transaction and object-oriented systems\, software fault tolerance\, messaging\, information integration\, business integration\, m etadata management and database systems. Dan has served as a trusted advis or to customers on data architecture\, information and governance strategi es across Financial Services\, Manufacturing\, Agriculture\, and retail. A co-author of numerous papers\, patents\, and books\, Dan is also credited with over 60 patents. Appointed an IBM Distinguished Engineer in 2003\, t he Association for Computing Machinery recognized Dan in 2010 as an ACM Di stinguished Engineer.\n\ndan@wolfsonnet.com\n\nhttps://pdr-associates.com\ n\nwww.linkedin.com/in/wolfsonnet\n\nJoin us the IEEE RRVS Computer/Contro ls & PELS chapter Meeting at 6pm.\n\nSpeaker(s): Dan\n\nAgenda: \n6:00 PM Gathering\n\n8:30 PM Adjurn\n\nRoom: 1322\, Bldg: Woodward Technology Cent er (WTC)\, Rock Valley College\, 3301 N Mulford Rd\, Rockford\, Illinois\, United States LOCATION:Room: 1322\, Bldg: Woodward Technology Center (WTC)\, Rock Valley College\, 3301 N Mulford Rd\, Rockford\, Illinois\, United States ORGANIZER:d.zinger@ieee.org SEQUENCE:8 SUMMARY:IEEE RRVS: September 2024 Meeting URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/427926 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h4>Using Open Source to Accelerate Sustainab ility Initiatives</h4>\n<p>Addressing climate change and sustainability is one of the most urgent concerns we face. A key step in addressing these c oncerns is for organizations to measure\, analyze and document their carbo n emissions and climate risks.&nbsp\; Sustainability and climate reporting is effectively being mandated by both governments and industry.&nbsp\; &n bsp\; This reporting\, however\, often requires significant investments in time and resources to design\, develop and implement.&nbsp\; The right da ta must be found\, prepared and organized to support for instance\, calcul ation of the Greenhouse Gas emissions. This can be a significant challenge . Open source projects\, such as Egeria\, can play a significant role in a ccelerating these initiatives.&nbsp\; In this talk you will learn about:&n bsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<ul>\n<li>What are some of the key standards and program s for measuring and reporting on Sustainability&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>&n bsp\;Acceleration through Open Source projects&nbsp\;</li>\n<li>&nbsp\;An overview of Egeria and it can jumpstart sustainability projects&nbsp\;</li >\n<li>&nbsp\;A deeper look at the Greenhouse Gas Protocol and Carbon Acco unting showing how Egeria can help organizations establish and deliver tru sted sustainability reports</li>\n</ul>\n<p><strong><span style="color: rg b(0\, 0\, 0)\;">About Speaker:</span></strong></p>\n<p>Dan is a founder of <a href="https://pdr-associates.com/" data-feathr-click-track="true" data- feathr-link-aids="5cdda43ba3a493000bf82f7f">&nbsp\;Pragmatic Data Research Ltd</a>. &ndash\; a consultancy specializing in accelerating digital tran sformations through innovative data architectures and governance.&nbsp\; D an is a contributor to the Linux AI &amp\; Data Foundation&rsquo\;s Egeria Project. Egeria supports an open metadata eco-system enabling the exchang e and use of metadata across a broad variety of use cases from self-servic e analytics to data governance in a heterogeneous\, federated and distribu ted environment.</p>\n<p>Dan retired from IBM as a Distinguished Engineer and Director/CTO in the Weather Business Solutions group of IBM AI Applica tions in Q4 2021 where he led the application of geospatial data and analy tics to multiple areas such as environmental intelligence\, agriculture an d utilities. He was responsible for technical leadership\, product develop ment and operations in this rapidly growing area with particular interest in the delivery of insight into analytical and operational solutions and t he curation and management of multi-petabyte systems.&nbsp\; As an experie nced technical executive and thought leader\, Dan focuses on creating and implementing pragmatic systems that create new value from information.&nbs p\;</p>\n<p>A proven CTO and Development Director\, Dan has combined techn ology development\, team development and operations to build and deliver n umerous ground-breaking products and technologies. Dan&rsquo\;s last proje ct before retiring from IBM was to lead the collaboration between IBM Rese arch and Development teams to shape\, implement and operate the IBM Enviro nmental Intelligence Suite to provide customers insights on how Weather\, Climate and Geospatial analytics can enhance their sustainability\, operat ions and planning. Previously\, Dan was the CTO for the IBM InfoSphere Bra nd covering data integration\, governance\, master\, reference and meta da ta.&nbsp\;&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Dan has over 40 years of experience in research and commercial distributed computing ranging over transaction and object-o riented systems\, software fault tolerance\, messaging\, information integ ration\, business integration\, metadata management and database systems. Dan has served as a trusted advisor to customers on data architecture\, in formation and governance strategies across Financial Services\, Manufactur ing\, Agriculture\, and retail. A co-author of numerous papers\, patents\, and books\, Dan is also credited with over 60 patents. Appointed an IBM D istinguished Engineer in 2003\, the Association for Computing Machinery re cognized Dan in 2010 as an ACM Distinguished Engineer.</p>\n<p>dan@wolfson net.com</p>\n<p>https://pdr-associates.com</p>\n<p>www.linkedin.com/in/wol fsonnet</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Join us the IEEE RRVS Computer/Controls &a mp\; PELS chapter Meeting at 6pm.</p><br /><br />Agenda: <br /><p>6:00 PM Gathering</p>\n<p>8:30 PM Adjurn</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR