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Hydropower

Fantastic Voyage: This Drone Submarine Could Make Inspecting Hydro Turbines Faster, Easier and Safer

May 25, 2021
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One Monday morning last autumn, David Auger-Habel, lead engineer at GE’s Hydro Solutions, walked along the banks of a photogenic reservoir in British Columbia, searching for the perfect shot. But the GE Renewable Energy engineer wasn’t looking to snap a panorama of the region’s natural wonders. He needed a close-up of large hydropower turbines spinning out of sight, deep inside an underground powerhouse.

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hackathon

Building The Bitcoin For Energy: This Woman Came Up With A Promising New Idea For Trading Clean Power

Maggie Sieger
Tomas Kellner
June 14, 2017
Talia Kohen exudes enough personal energy to light up a ballroom. But her goals are much grander. “I want electricity to be the factor that unites all of Europe, just like the euro,” she says.
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Minds-Machines

Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet Hackathon

Dorothy Pomerantz
December 05, 2016
Arnold Spielberg in 1961. Image credit: Museum of Innovation and Science Schenectady
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Holiday hack: developing brilliant software solutions for industry

December 29, 2015
GE’s second Industrial Hackathon, held on a December weekend in Melbourne, blew Santa’s elves out of the big-league gift game. Participants checked the GE customer wish list twice, coded all day and all night, and came up with considered solutions to industrial-sized dilemmas. Here’s the wrap!
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Hackathon? It’s code for entrepreneurial thinking

December 04, 2015

As startup business development manager for Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Australia and New Zealand, Ian Gardiner is an expert at leading technology companies to high-growth success. He recently facilitated the AWShine hackathon, in collaboration with Amazon Women Shine, which was designed to bring diversity to the development table and succeeded in achieving a 50:50 female:male participation. Young women graduates from GE joined the hack, and Mark Sheppard, CIO of GE Australia and New Zealand, was a judge at the event.

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Put 26 innovators in an incubator and … apply pizza!

December 03, 2015
Breakfast croissants, all-day pizza and technical and commercial mentors on tap fuelled the thought processes of participants at GE’s first Industrial Hackathon in Sydney on the weekend of November 28-29. There were other hackathons running elsewhere in the city, but at GE four industrial-sized problems had been posed. Eight teams—most of them formed on Saturday morning—hunkered down to create solutions in unfamiliar territory: remote-worker safety, railway maintenance, tracking licensing data of healthcare engineers, and optimising the energy usage of industrial users.
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Hackathon heaven—driving efficiencies on an industrial scale

November 06, 2015
Enter the new digital-industrial hothouse, where the blast-furnace of ideas and the phenomenal pace of collaborative coding will blow your mind as it produces viable software products faster than you can say digital-industrial revolution.
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