Cleanweb Hardware

This month, we’re exploring how folks are making planet friendly services that use connected products, and the impact of IoT on the world of environmental sustainability.

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  Philipp Mahr

  About 18 months ago, we met Hyko, an IoT-enabled toy polar bear, designed to get parents to save energy round the home. Philipp tells us about Hyko’s journey, since meeting a co-founder at one of our first events back in 2014, and the trade-offs manufacturing in both Germany and the Far East.

  • Hyko
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Cleanweb Design

This month we’re going to be exploring the intersection between design and sustainability and ask: what is happening in the worlds of UX and design that can help?

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  Tim Frick Steps you can take today to make greener digital products

  Fresh from finishing his book Designing For Sustainability, author and Mightbyte founder Tim Frick will outline why you might care about the impact of the digital products you use, and what you can do to use and design greener services.

  Tim Frick is Principal of Mightybytes, author of four books and a speaker. He is passionate about B Corporations and sits on the board of Climate Ride
  • Tim Frick
  • Designing For Sustainability
  • Mighty Bytes
  • Sustainable UX
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  Coup Building A Coup

  The lovely folks from @joincoup share their story prototyping a zero emission scooter service for Germany’s capital city, and the service design considerations of scaling a mobility start-up across a country.

  • JoinCoup
  • BCGDV

Thanks

Big thanks to BCGDV for stumping up the drinks and food on the night!

Cleanweb - Machine Learning

Can machine learning help us tread more lightly on the planet?

This month, we’ll be asking a professor of machine learning is, what it is, why it’s important, and hearing from people building businesses around it, to create greener, smarter services.

Next, we’ll be opening up the event to audience participation, with a fishbowl session, to give you a chance to explore the subject, from different angles and have your burning questions answered.

Special thanks to the lovely, lovely people at the German Technology Entrepreneurship Center (GTEC), for providing the space, and helping make the event possible.

Running Order

• Doors open at 19:00

• An introduction to Machine Learning, and how it can help

  Marius Kloft, prof. of Machine Learning from the Humboldt University

• Intelligent Energy Management with Predictive Analytics

  Rolf Behrsing CEO of ÜberEnergy

• Fishbowl Panel - now it’s your turn!

  We’ll be finishing up the event with a fishbowl session. You have a chance to join our experts on panel, to share your experiences, questions, and thoughts on the topic.

• Networking and drinks

Cleanweb Special Stammtisch: Drinks & Crowdinvesting

Hey Cleanwebbers,

Its been a while!

This time we’re doing a cozy Stimmtisch with a special guest - Robert (Uhlich), portfolio manager at Companisto, the leading crowdinvestment companie in Germany, will give us insights into crowdinvestment, success stories and failures; and all while sitting in a bar over drinks.

What should I expect from this meetup?

This is an informal meetup for people interested in sustainability and using the web as a lever for effective environmental change - we’ll have a couple of tables reserved, for everyone to catch up, swap stories and maybe meet someone else to work with on future projects.

Do I have to be an expert in sustainability, or a programmer?

No! We’re a broad church, so if you’re interested, and thinking about dipping your toes in this field, you’re very welcome to join :)

Cleanweb August Stammtisch: Meet, chat, drink, and have fun

Hi Cleanwebbers,

Boy is it hot out! It seems a shame to miss out on the gorgeous weather, so instead of cooping ourselves up indoors, we’re meeting at Birgit and Beer.

What should I expect from this meetup?

This is informal meetup for people interested in sustainability and using the web as a lever to effect environmental change - we’ll have a couple of tables reserved, for everyone to catch up, swap stories and maybe meet someone else to work with on future projects.

Do I have to be an expert in sustainability, or a programmer?

No! We’re a broad church, so if you’re interested, and thinking about dipping your toes in this field, you’re very welcome :)

Cleanweb Stammtisch: Meet, chat, drink, and have fun

Hi Cleanwebbers,

This time we do a Stammtisch to openly discuss climate change, start-ups, technology, sustainability, environmental psychology and all kinds of cleanwebby topics.

We meet at a nice Biergarten close to Schlesisches Tor in the center of Berlin.

What should expect from this meetup?

Experts, open discussions, inspiring people and drinks.

What is The Cleanweb?

Cleanweb is about how we can use the web and connecting technologies to save the planet.

Cleanweb Berlin hosting Rockstart Accelerator 2015

Hey Cleanwebbers,

On the day before Ecosummit, THE cleantech event in Europe, we’re showcasing some of Europes’s finest cleanweb startups. After last year’s success, we’ll be hearing this year’s batch of startups from Rockstart’s Smart Energy Accelerator in Amsterdam.

Programme

• 6:30 Doors open
• 7:00 Introduction
• 7:15 First talks
• 7:45 Break for drinks and networking
• 8:00 Community announcements
• 8:05 Final talks 
• 8:30 Drinks and networking
• 9:00 Wrap up, and head to the nearest drinking establishment

How the talks work

This time round we’re doing the interactive Rockstart Answers format for our talks, to make the most of the knowledge in the room:

• each startup has 3 minutes to tell their story
• they have 1 minute to field questions from the audience
• you, the audience have a minute to reflect, and jot down your feedback for them.

Who’s speaking?

All nine startups from Rockstart’s current batch of smart energy startups will pitch at the event.

• Swuto:

  Swuto is a next generation price comparison platform. Swuto automatically compares and switches your energy supplier so you are always on the cheapest energy tariff. 

• Zenodys:

  Zenodys platform is the easiest way to build and automate the Internet of Things (IoT). Just connect, drag and drop and innovate new IoT products, services and prototypes. Our mission is to make the automation of the world around us ridiculously simple. And to push the limits of human innovation to the completely new level.

• Finch Buildings:

  We create a world with buildings that make you healthy, where beautiful architecture is immensly sustainable and in which your real estate is as flexible as lego. We’re Finch Buildings and we develop and build modular buildings which can be adapted to surroundings and circumstances. The modular system enables us to construct different kinds of buildings all based on one particular module.

• Bleeve:

  Bleeve is a social internet platform that connects people on the topic of saving and producing energy at home. We help home owners to stop paying money for energy they don’t need. Users get tips on how to use less energy, and they’re able to connect with others to undertake joint initiatives such as the purchasing of solar panels. We partner with (local) suppliers to close the loop.

• Capacity Energy:

  Capacity Energy Storage is an energy service provider around flexibility management. Our focus lies on providing solutions for unbalance issues, frequency control and congestion management. Our company has a background in smart storage and has capabilities in both delivering services as well as hardware (batteries and flywheels). Additionally, CES is looking to develop storage and aggregation solutions for households to allow them to benefit from dynamic market prices for power, as well as optimization of own use of self generated power, if and when market conditions allow.

• VIRIDOM:

  VIRIDOM serves as the bridge between the electricity user and the power utility. More specifically, VIRIDOM puts electricity users in real-time control of their consumption, production and storage, while at the same time it facilitates true automated demand-side management and fuels customer engagement for the utility companies. In this way, VIRIDOM provides the basis over which utilities could rebuild trust with their consumers.

• Masar:

  Masar is a smart energy company primarily focusing on the Middle East & North Africa. The company’s solar power installations rely on network-based participation of property owners (by means of long-term rental agreements) to use their otherwise unutilized land/rooftops for solar power generation. The company’s first target market is Egypt, where the company will sell its power to the Egyptian state. The property owners then receive a share of the revenue generated from installations on their properties. The company completed its first installations in Cairo during Q1 2015.

• Wirewatt:

  Wirewatt is a B2B online marketplace that connects residential solar projects in emerging economies with the capital markets. Wirewatt makes solar distributors and installers sell more projects through software tools that help them design, quote and create automated technical and financial investor-­grade project proposals. Also, Wirewatt helps institutional investors set up funds, manage distributed solar assets and market it’s capital through its network of affiliated solar companies.

• Entelligo:

  Entelligo is a mobile app to assist the sales professionals of renewable energy systems in the residential market. Starting from few questions to the customer, Entelligo provides a fast and easy way to generate an optimized commercial proposal, ready to be signed.

What should I expect from this meetup?

Expert talks, open discussions, inspiring people and drinks. 

P.S.: Like us on facebook

Curious about giving a talk?

Drop us a line and/or check our speaker’s page here.

Cleanweb Meetup 9: Smart City Grids

Hey Cleanwebbers,

This time round, its the first part of our smart cities series of events. We will kick this off by looking at how energy production and consumption in a ‘smart city’ can look like.

So, why should you get energy from a power plant kilometers away, when your neighbour generates more energy with his roof-top solar, CHP or heat pump than he can use?

• 6:30 Doors open

• 7:00 Welcome and introductions

• 7:10 1st Speaker: Micro girds in urban and industrial environment

  We’re lucky enough to have environmental economist Christian Huder speaking about his work on  micro grids.

• 7:35 Lightning Talks

  Short, fun talks about tech and sustainability. 3-5 mins each.

  We’re still looking for speakers, and have two slots going! Curious about giving a talk? Check our speaker’s page here

• 7:45 Break for drinks and networking

• 8:10 Community announcements

• 8:15 Fishbowl

After the talks, we’ll be opening the conversation to the room, with a fishbowl discussion. A fishbowl is like a panel discussion, but open for anyone in the audience to join the stage, to make the most of the knowledge in the room.

We will go to a nearby bar afterwards.

What should I expect from this meetup?

Expert talks, open discussions, inspiring people and drinks. 

Looking forward to meet you in person!

P.S.: Like us on facebook or share our facebook event.

Cleanweb Heat: Warm homes, cool planet

Hello Cleanwebbers,

As temperatures plunge around Berlin, we have two speakers talking about how they’re using the web to help Germany stay cozy without cooking the planet.

7:00 Introduction and welcome

7:10 1st Speaker - The Possibilities of Online Energy Consulting (@co2online)

Sebastian Metzger - co2online gGmbH

CO2online is a non-profit organization campaigning for climate protection, and in 2014 it ran half a million people online energy consulting sessions to help consumers on how to save energy and reduce CO2 emissions. 

7:30 2nd Speaker - Disrupting the heating industry?

Krisofer Fichtner - thermondo GmbH (@thermondo)

What does a Berlin startup have to do with German private household heating, master craftsmen and the energy transition?

7:45 Break for drinks and networking

8:10 Community announcements

8:15 Fishbowl

After the talks, we’ll be opening the conversation to the room, with a fishbowl discussion. A fishbowl is like a panel discussion, but open for anyone in the audience to join the stage, to make the most of the knowledge in the room.

What to expect from this meetup?

Expert talks, open discussions, inspiring people and drinks. 

Looking forward to meet you in person!

Cleanweb Stammtisch: Meet, chat, drink, and have fun

Hey Cleanwebbers,

We’re trying out a social meetup this month, while we all recover from the new year, before starting our meetups in earnest in January.

Come to Kaschk to meet some like-minded people with an interest in sustainability, mobility, cleanweb, energy, tech (or all of the above) and chat, catch up, network and work out what do with 2015.

We’ll have a couple of tables reserved for Berlin - come by for a drink or stay the whole evening!

Cleanweb UX - the psychology of behaviour change

Hey Cleanwebbers,

This time round, we’re looking at how you can apply psychology to service and web design, to make it easier for user to Do The Right Thing.

Big thanks for Climate KIC for the drinks, food and space!

• 6:30 Doors open

• 7:00 Welcome and introductions

• 7:10 1st Speaker

  We’re lucky enough to have environmental psychologist Christian Hoffman speaking about his work on  service design and environmental sustainability.

• 7:35 Lightning Talks

  Short, fun talks about tech and sustainability. 3-5 mins each.

  Changers.com - Rewarding sustainable behaviour

  Daniela is co-founder and COO of Changers.com. She has a background in media arts and is deeply involved into encouraging women to go into tech.

  Ecotastic - the loyalty program for the environment

  Co-founder of ecotastic, Anna Yukiko Bickenbach believes in real behavior change with spice :D, pushing the environmental movement one step at a time and taking risks for humanity with dignity.

  We’re looking for speakers, and have one more slot going! Curious about giving a talk? Check our speaker’s page here.

• 7:45 Break for chat and networking

• 8:00 Community announcements

• 8:10 Fishbowl Conversation

After the talks, we’ll be opening the conversation to the room, with a fishbowl discussion. Fishbowl is like a panel discussion, but open for anyone in the audience to join the stage, to make the most of the knowledge in the room.

It worked great last time, so we’re giving it another go!

Hack4good, and the cleanweb social

Our friends at Hack4good are running a cleanwebby Hackday on the weekend of Sept 12th, and we’re working together to host a pre-event social at the Baumhaus.

Come along, and chat with other environmentally-minded designers, makers, developers and people with a shared interest in the web, and in sustainability.

Schedule:

• 6:45 - Doors open
• 7:15 - Welcome and introduction
• 7:20 - Community announcements

Working on an event or project and looking for help? Or wanting to make that elusive hire? Here’s your chance.

• 7:25 - Using the web to solve environmental problems - Hack4good
• 8:00 - Drinks, chat, and networking
• 8:30 - Fishbowl session - life beyond hackathons

This month we’ll be talking about what options are available to early stage projects, beyond hackathons. How do you keep momentum after an event, and what support is out there to help you?

Curious? Come along and join the discussion.

If you’re thinking of going to hack4good, or mentoring there, this is a good place to meet others in person, and some of the organising team, to get an idea of how the weekend will go.

If you’re just interested in meeting other-like minded people, thinking of giving a talk at a future cleanweb event, come along and help build a community of using the web to make the world a better place.

See you there!

Cleanweb Meetup 4

Hello Cleanwebers,

Join us at the Green Garage Incubator to enjoy two talks, a few drinks, and food.

Programme

• 18:30 Doors open. Say hello, have a drink
• 19:00 Welcome and community announcements
• 19:15 First Speaker - Transitionlab (Jon Richter)
• 19:30 Second Speaker - Open Oil Corporate Structure Navigator (Jun Matsushita)
• 20:00: Networking, Food & Drinks

Who’s speaking?

Transition lab / MMM : Mapping socio-ecologic innovation

Collaborative efforts are thriving everywhere, but still lack visibility. Where cartographic visualizations exist, they are limited in scope, scattered and under-used. This process aims at collecting, linking and visualizing existing groups, projects and initiatives of the collaborative economy.

OpenOil

How do you compare spending on fossil fuels subsidies to renewables if you can’t follow the funding? How can you see who benefits from poor environmental standards when you can’t track how they’re made. See how OpenOil is using open data and crowd sourcing to make this visible for the first time, See how OpenOil is using open data and crowd sourcing to make this visible for the first time, and how iilab is building the technology for it.

Interested in speaking? Get in touch!

This community event is supported by Climate-KIC who provide the venue, food & drinks for free. Thanks!

If you’re tweeting tonight, use the #cleanweb tag to keep conversations connected!

Cleanweb Berlin hosting Rockstart Accelerator

Hey Cleanwebbers,

On the day before Ecosummit, THE cleantech event in Europe, we’re showcasing some of Europes’s finest cleanweb startups. We’ll be hearing from Rockstart’s Smart Energy Accelerator in Amsterdam, as well as a few home grown Berlin startups, whilst sampling some of Berlins’ finest beers.

Tips for getting here

The venue can be pretty hard to find if this is your first time. This map should help you make your way to the meetup, if you’re not familar with the Rainmaking Loft.

Programme

• 6:30 Doors open
• 7:00pm Introduction
• 7:10 First talks
• 7:40 break for drinks and networking
• 8:00 Final talks
• 8:30 Wrap up, and head to the nearest drinking establishment

How the night works

This time round we’re trying out the interactiveRockstart Answers format for our talks, to make the most of the knowledge in the room:

• each startup has 3 minutes to tell their story
• they have 1 minute to field questions from the audience
• you, the audience have a minute to reflect, and jot down your feedback for them.

Who’s speaking?

Bundles

Consumers buy cheaper household equipment that ends up at the scrapheap faster and faster. Investment in more expensive quality machines that are cheaper during use are made less and less. Bundles lowers the hurdle of using quality appliances and supports the optimal use of them.

CareToSave

Smart metering meets gamification to teach kids how to save energy and help reduce the household’s energy bill in a fun way.

Dreamups

Dreamups brings the GitHub collaboration power to hardware engineers and designers, worldwide. They have developed a unique technology for hardware documentation and rapid crowd prototyping that changes how we can work and invent new exciting tech.

GiveO2

Simply put, we believe that the most important asset of a company is its employees as they are the ones that keep it up and running. If they are unhappy, unhealthy or uncommitted, the company loses competitive advantage. That’s why we created GiveO2, a web & mobile platform that helps HR/CSR managers improve their company’s work environment while reducing absenteeism’s cost, through sustainability, fitness & fun.

PowerTags

PowerTags has developed and proven a technology that is high-performance, low-cost, and easily wearable, providing a uniquely effective solution that overcomes the performance limitations and high cost of current solutions. The solution is a combination of hardware (a bracelet and sensors) and cloud-based software that together can send an immediate alert in the event of a fall, as well as identify longer-term mobility-related trends in order to recommend medical attention. This solution offers peace of mind to family members, and enables timely medical intervention when necessary.

QwikSense

QwikSense enables organisations to create healthy, productive and energy efficient work environments by generating actionable sensor data and analytics. Companies lose a huge amount of money on a yearly basis due to poor work environments. The quality of work environments directly affects employee health and productivity: the better the working environment, the lower the frequency of employee absence and the higher the productivity rate.

WeShareSolar

We are a crowdfunding platform for solar energy projects.
We open up our platform for site owners/ initiatives & project developers to successfully raise money from a community to build and manage commercial scale solar power plants.

Changers

Changers makes the world’s first solar charger with its own community, designed and built here in Germany. The solar charger has smart technology that enables you to track your renewable energy production and CO2 savings. We help you fight climate change, one gadget at a time. Get in touch with us @Changerscom

Pedl

Pedl makes cycling even more rewarding to support riding habits and to build routines for everyday cycling. The smartphone app which is available both for iPhone and Android, automatically records your riding activities to reward every mile with beautiful products from our partners. Tracking everyday rides will also support improving local riding conditions as researchers and decision makers get anonymous aggregated data. More at @gopedl.

CleanWeb Lightning Talks

Hey Cleanwebbers,

This month, we’re trying to get as good an overview of what’s happening in Cleanweb in Berlin. As such, we’re doing a round of lightning talks which will give us good insight into how diverse the Cleanweb community really is.

We’ve already confirmed Talks from

• Thomas Grigoleit - Germany Trade and Invest (@GTAI_de)

• Adam Woolway - plugsurfing (@plugsurfingDE)

• Maurice Stanszus - WeGreen (@We_Green)

• Shannon Smith - Ecosia (@Ecosia)

• Fabian Lindenberg - ecotastic (@ecotasticde)

• Kristofer Fichtner - thermondo (@thermondo)

• Philipp Mahr - Climate-KIC Accelerator (@ClimateKIC)

If you want to do a talk and present your project or company, just ping us.

Looking forward to see you all!

Cleanweb Berlin - Intro Meetup!

We’re bringing Cleanweb to Berlin, and want to start with a nice little get-together to see what happens in Berlin in the first place and what you are interested in.

Schedule

• 7:00 - Doors open
• 7:15 - Introductions
• 7:25 - What is cleanweb?

Chris Adams from Cleanweb London give an overview of what the term refers to, what the cleanweb community is doing around the world.

• 7:40 - Working out the format for future events
• 8:00 - Generate list of possible speakers, ideas, themes for future events in Berlin
• 8:15 - Break for drinks and networking