Makers Playground — Stimulating the Next Generation of Entrepreneurs in Brussels
As Europe’s youth search for employment and acquiring the skills of the future, GE Garages provides pop-up learning lab on modern manufacturing.
There’s a lot of buzz — and even more noise and smell — in this room here in the centre of Brussels. Cutting-edge machinery produces colourful, imaginative items, and there are big smiles on the faces of the young designers tooling away at their creations. Operating the high-tech equipment are mostly students, who have come to get hands on with the manufacturing equipment at GE’s Garage in the Belgian capital.
GE’s Brilliant Advanced Manufacturing Plant in Pune, India
James R. Maughan: A Brief History of Peak Oil
How technological advances in exploration and production have pushed back the date when oil output will max out, creating an opportunity for the development of alternative energy sources.
With apologies to Stephen Hawking for the title of this blog and an acknowledgement of a recent Wall Street Journal article on the subject, here’s a summary of various predictions of when the world will run out of oil:
Marco Annunziata: 3 Economic Forces Shaping 2015, Explained
It’s barely February, but uncertainty has pervaded the global economy this year. Here’s what’s driving it, and what to expect next.
2015 has kicked off with an unusually high level of uncertainty (unavoidable) and a large dose of confusion (avoidable). The uncertainty is the product of three ongoing structural shifts:
- accelerating technological innovation, disrupting the competitive landscape for industries and countries;
GE Oil & Gas Annual Meeting, Day 1 Recap — Tackling Sustainability and Complexity
Could Crowdsourcing Lead to Lower Emissions, Water Use in Shale Oil and Gas Wells?
Failing Better: $2 Million Innovation Challenge Seeks Advanced Materials to Protect Football Players from Brain Injury
Tim Schweikert: Powering a Smarter, Greener Marine Industry
In the choppy waters of the marine business, stability is the name of the game. Whether exploring for oil & gas in deep waters offshore, touring in a luxury cruise-liner or transporting LNG, everyone is after the same thing — greater efficiency.
Jan De Coster: The Robot Soul
My name had come up because I have made several interactive installations at BBDO that had gotten some attention in the industry. My head was still filled with characters from the conference, so even though I had no idea what I was getting myself into, the only possible answer was: “Sure.”
