To find your way through the storm, watch the clip and follow the tracks for clues to Breakaway Breakout. Next stop: http://bit.ly/ibmbreakaway
Check out Livestream’s new channel makover for the IBM Global Business Services Video Studio.
We’re putting the platform to work for live events, webcasts and new kinds of online video programming, and also collecting clips into libraries such as Smarter Healthcare, Smarter Cities, Smarter Energy and of course the new intelligence of Smarter Analytics.
You can embed or share the channel, libraries and clips in many new ways, so stop by. We planning more exciting live webcasts and events, so stay tuned!
IBM - Truck 2020: Transcending turbulence
Truck 2020: Overcoming turbulent times for sustainable prosperity. In the face of multidimensional challenges, the truck industry finds itself in need of immediate transformation.
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Featured Speakers:
Guy Blissett
Senior Managing Consultant, Global Consumer Products Industry, IBM
Phil Lempert
The Supermarket Guru®
David Acheson, M.D., F.R.C.P.
Former FDA Associate Commissioner
Moderator: Elliot Markowitz
Editorial Director, Nielsen Business Media Webcasts/Digital Events
Beef. Peanut butter. Baby food. Cookie dough. These are just some of the high profile recalls we’ve seen in the last year. Consumers worldwide are worried—and rightly so. Is their food safe? And where did it come from?
IBM’s IdeaWatch Food
deaWatchFood explores the future of food and the pursuit of a smarter and safer food system, including - quality, global availability, manufacturing, retailing, distribution, sourcing and sustainability. If you have a business interest in food - then you have a stake in a smarter food system. ![]()
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Smarter Planet |Tumblr : September Roundup
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Data Visualization of the Day: The contiguous United States, visualized by distance to the nearest McDonald’s.
Stephen Von Worley @ Weather Sealed compiled this rather spectacular infographic using a list of all 13,000+ US locations of McDonald’s (the “barometer of cookie-cutter commercialism creep”) in order to determine where true wilderness lies within the lower 48.
The result?
Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!
ClimateMinder is a wireless climate monitoring and control system for agriculture. It utilizes machine-to-machine mobile network technology to transmit data from the field directly to growers’ mobile phones, computers and control systems.
The mobile technology enables farmers to receive alerts to conditions that may threaten crops and to take timely action - even when located at great distances from fields and greenhouses.
Window Farms is a project that helps people grow food in urban windows through crowdsourced research and development of DIY hydroponic vertical gardening. windowfarms.org
Window Farms Introduction (via RBandBR)