Reaching the Light at the End of the Tunnel: The Coming Resurgence of the Solar Industry

Date: Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Time: 11:00 am EDT

The era of the feed-in tariff is coming to an end, and with it a forced transition for solar energy – from an investment vehicle to a mainstream electricity source. Luckily for manufacturers, there’s also an end in sight to the massive manufacturing oversupply that has plagued module pricing and crushed investor sentiment. However, the flux within the industry also provides a window of opportunity for innovators seeking a spot in the supply chain. With the installation market set to nearly double to 61 GW in 2018, solar stakeholders will have plenty of dollars at their disposal – should they recognize the changing face of the market and strategize accordingly.

This webinar will:

Examine how to harness the increasingly diverse demand market
Clarify the continued solar shakeout and shift of competitive power
Identify technologies and strategies that offer the biggest competitive advantage for stakeholders

Building the Future: Assessing 3D Printing’s Opportunities and Challenges

Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Time: 11:00 am EDT

From personalized medicine to personal drones, 3D printing – the additive fabrication of objects by depositing and patterning successive layers of material – has been touted as an enabling platform for applications ranging from the universally desirable to the inevitably controversial. Among all the hype, the true impact of 3D printing is uncertain: Some believe the technology will eventually be more disruptive than the Internet and printing press combined, while others consider its impact to go little beyond hobbyists and artists with too much free time. Regardless, 3D printing is clearly a compelling technology area, and comes with a palette of tools that have potential to influence everything from making incrementally cheaper prototype parts to revolutionizing the entire framework of the manufacturing industry as we know it.

This webinar will:

Analyze the forecasted market opportunity for material suppliers, printer developers, and OEMs across the 3D printing value chain
Assess the space’s key established and top emerging players
Explore the interplay between challenges and opportunities, and examine the potential for 3D printing to reshape the entire manufacturing landscape and enable novel business models

Big Money in Construction’s Big Data – the Convergence of Systems Integration & Performance in Buildings

Date: Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Time: 11:00 am EDT

Despite consuming over 40% of the world’s primary energy, the heating, cooling, and lighting systems that make buildings habitable often operate in silos. Even worse, the performance of these systems remains largely untracked. New sensors and controls can integrate these and other systems in a building, producing a stream of “big data” that enables building owners to measure energy in real-time, and demonstrate continuous performance. High capital costs have significantly hindered the adoption to date, but these energy efficiency technologies have still generated more than $5 billion in market value in the U.S. market alone.

This webinar will:

Demonstrate the value proposition of building systems integration (BSI) for building operators and the case for data analytics
Define why current performance tracking methods are dated, how BSI solves this problem and enables accelerated growth in the broader green construction segment
Identify technologies and strategies which have strong potential for bringing real-time performance management to buildings and how companies should position to win