Future Forum 2008 Part II

Second Panel Session- Energy in the Environment

This panel session featured professionals from Exelon Corporation, the MIT Lincoln Lab and Lockheed Martin.  This was sort of a spontaneous choice for me, as I had originally planned on going to another panel session.  I figured this might be interesting considering my interest in the environment and technology.  The speakers covered a huge variety of topics which covered a mixture of tech and environmental knowledge.

Heinz Lange from Exelon Corp gave us some insight about Exelon as a company and the things they are pioneering to incorporate the green initiative into their company.  Exelon is the biggest nuclear power provider in the country- with 19 total reactors.  Nuclear energy is a terrific carbon friendly way to generate electricity.  He didn’t talk about the possible drawbacks of nuclear energy, but the turning point for most people is the fact that they represent a possible safety threat.

IST Future Forum 2008 Part I

On Friday April 18th, 2008 the College of Information Sciences and Technology held its annual Future Forum. This event brings together the IST community- students, faculty and staff and businesses of all sizes. It is a full day of exciting showcases, and fantastic panel sessions. Additionally, demonstrations of emerging technologies and a keynote speech are also offered. Over 75 companies and representatives of the College of IST will be present to exhibit the latest in high tech products, services and research projects.  This post is the first of two related to the IST Future Forum.

Keynote Address by Larry Kittelberger

Larry Kittelberger is the Senior Vice President of technology and operations at Honeywell International.  He served as the Keynote Speaker for this years Future Forum.  He had a great deal of things to say and covered a lot of ground.  First, he introduced Honeywell as a Corporation.  It turns out they do an incredible amount of things and have sectors in Specialty Materials, Aerospace, Transportation Systems, and Automative and Control Solutions.  They have 122,000 employees in 100 countries.  Honeywell is such a global company that they were knocked off the Dow Jones Industrial because they were no longer able to be an indicator of just the U.S. economy.