Smart Grid Summit at ITEXPO including Energy Management in the Home

Feel like conferences you attend have the same people and showcase the same technologies? Not ITEXPO. Smart Grid Summit at ITEXPO, Sept 1-3, 2009 is a hot new area that is driving massive participation. Check http://smart-grid.tmcnet.com/conference/west-09/.

Grid Interoperability & Standards
As reflected by The Energy Independence and Security Act, the need for a common grid architecture, where all aspects of grid communications and control are standardized uniformly is of central importance to a proper functioning Smart Grid infrastructure. In this panel, members of various international and national standards bodies spanning the full spectrum of the communications industry, together with leading solutions providers will share their insights.

Energy Management in the Home
Home energy management will be a significant opportunity brought on by the Smart Grid. There are various issues which have to be addressed in this space: if real time-time data access is needed, device interoperability, the impact of regulations on a competitive landscape, issues of who controls devices and owns the data they generate, consumer privacy.

Emerging Opportunities
When the Smart Grid is connected to the Smart Home, we will have the required infrastructure to expand past energy management into many other fields enabled by real-time two-way communications. This session will explore emerging opportunities and business models that come with ubiquitous broadband, smart metering, and critical steps to reduce our dependence on non-renewable energy sources.

Utilities and Their Smart Grid Visions
Smart Grid is a broad concept, and being so new, utilities have various visions and deployment plans. Some of this is driven by regulatory and policy issues, some is based on local market dynamics, and some is based a particular vision about sustainable or green energy initiatives. This session will explore a range of visions and best practices from utilities in various stages of Smart Grid deployment.

Demand Response on a Communications Enabled Grid
In industrial settings, Demand Response services play a central role in the efficient use of energy. Looking beyond this niche, the automation and real-time gauging of Demand Response applied to consumers in general will be, among other things, both essential to a grid supporting renewable energy sources and paramount to a reliable energy grid. This panel will include thought leaders from the leading DR service providers, DR technology vendors, and researchers to explore the new opportunities of demand response on a Smart Grid.

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Need laptops Mar. 19 and Apr 3-4 for Local LinkingArms Telethon

Need laptops on Mar 19 for test run and also April 3-4 for last test and actual telethon. Please help. (I'm loaning 2, an Asus and a Toshiba. Wish I had more to loan.)

Anyone in Pensacola area or elsewhere ... have laptops with wireless capability for use at the http://www.linkingarms.org telethon at the Pensacola Improv Center on April 4 Saturday? We need to test with each for incoming calls also from contributors calling in to donate money on Mar 19 also. That is the test-run day. Please call 1850 607 6608 or 1850 479 1473 to help. Ask for Kenny or Paul.

Your name and/or company name will be included in a press release submitted to TMCNET, Pensacola News Journal, and Independent News about the success of the telethon along with TeamForrest.com's IP PBX, DIDX.net for phone numbers, Cox Communications for Internet, WRNE for radio advertising, Comtel Networks, Pensacola Improv Center for location, Skype.com for headsets, Digium.com for some guidance ... names Fred Posner, Paul Deane, Steve Cayona, Max Glucksmann (DIDX API consultant and integrator), Alan Pesatty, etc.

Linking Arms, Inc. is a local nonprofit organization that assists kids who are failing and in trouble at schools and their caretakers to be productive part of their community, to have homework help and involvement in family and fitness-oriented activities. It's local!!!

Please help. It's tough nowadays for many of us. Let's work together to make good things to happen.

Free Chat, Calls and IM on Orkut with Nimbuzz? Cool

See it here at the Nimbuzz blog at http://blog.nimbuzz.com/2009/01/12/free-calls-chat-and-messaging-with-nimbuzz-on-orkut/.

I checked it out, and I think they got me on this greeting: "Deixe seus amigos te ligarem de graça direto do seu perfil do Orkut! - Your friends love you! Let them call you for free!"

;-)

Nimbuzz also works on your cell phone. No kidding.

VoIP デッドオアアライブ, Dead or Alive with Sheryl Breuker

Whether it's Hajimemashite, Konichiwa, or Sayonara to VoIP... check out...

VoIP デッドオアアライブ, Dead or Alive ~ Sheryl Breuker and Ken Camp "help people in technology find their passions, reach their goals, and soar to the stars." On January 5, 2009 Monday at (GMT -08:00), be a part of the CALLiFLOWER free conference call and conversation hosted by Sheryl Breuker. VoIP, Dead of Alive.

This call will address what I think are tough questions, ones that we need to ask and answer truthfully... and it might help when the air gets hot and stuffy, that Robin Williams pay a visit to lighten things up a bit.

1. Do you truly and honestly believe VoIP is a vital, growing technology that's of any interest to customers?

2. In ten words or less, what do you think the single hottest niche segment within the unified communications space is for 2009? Depending how many they get, they may discuss these in more detail, because Sheryl thinks this is where the meat of the conversation we're circling around lies.

3. In ten words or less, what do you think is the single most talked about but unlikely to drive real change and innovation technology in 2009? Where do you think time, effort and money are being wasted?

4. What one company or service do you think will take the industry by storm in 2009?

5. What one spectacular flameout do you think is coming in the industry in 2009?

Add yourself to the debate, conversation, discussion ... here ... http://apps.new.facebook.com/calliflower/conf/show/43921.

I want to write more, but my husband, Paul Epstein and I have to go measure the Pensacola Marathon race course before the roads get busy. It's a dangerous job but someone's got to do it. I'm the driver. They are the bikers.

(I originally placed this on http://blog.tmcnet.com/monetizing-ip-communications/, but it appears that it's not accepting the katakana characters.

Economic Crisis? Do the Innovative and International ITEXPO

The ITEXPO team draws you in from around the world to mix, network, partner, buy, sell, innovate! It's magnetic.

Listen (at our ITEXPO Youtube channel) to participants speak in English, Russian, and Swahili. Eavesdrop on TW Telecom, Digium, D2 Technologies, an Angel Investor, FaxSipIT, GotVoice, Fonality, Celtrek, Global Roaming enjoying the heck out of the ITEXPO experience of professional education, socializing and developing business simultaneously.

Be a part of this on Feb. 2-4, 2009 in Miami Florida for ITEXPO East 2009. Sign up at http://www.itexpo.com. Be ready to buy, sell, and develop business with companies from most of the 190+ nations of the world! Need a visa to visit to the USA to attend this conference? See http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1286.html.


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Communications via Neural Interface

... Jacked in?