Dr. James Truchard shares his thoughts on the future of green engineering – where innovations will happen and what technologies can have the biggest impact. He discussed engaging topics such as smart grids, fusion energy, and advanced control for optimizing efficiency in previous keynotes and panel discussions. In this closing session of the Green Engineering Virtual Event Series, examine the impact of graphical system design in future green engineering applications.

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Entrepreneurial engineers and scientists in Canada and around the world are riding a wave of private and government funding that promises to transform buildings, vehicles, and energy grids to cleaner, smarter, and more sustainable technologies. Attend this webcast to learn where the R&D dollars are going and what cutting-edge tools for test, control, and monitoring are giving innovative companies a competitive edge in delivering their ideas to market. Understand the key engineering challenges that confront the wind, solar, hydropower, and energy storage industries. Learn how leading clean-techs, such as Siemens, and small startups worldwide are using NI graphical system design tools to successfully design, prototype, and deploy their green products. See live demonstrations of key engineering tools for clean technology commercialization. These tools will help you implement your ideas and secure the funding you need to grow your business. Finally, learn about the new NI Green Engineering Grant Program, which is helping to seed promising startups with the NI LabVIEW training and software tools they need to break ahead of the pack.

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Clean energy is one of the largest and fastest growing markets in the world, creating abundant opportunities for entrepreneurial engineers to develop new products and services that help the industry by solving key technical challenges. Learn about 10 clean energy business opportunities that address important industry needs in the smart grid, solar, wind, biomass and energy storage markets. Gain useful tips for creating a prototype and an introduction to specific starter kits, reference designs and other tools you can use to shorten time to market for high-quality products.

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Listen as Bill Kramer from NREL talks about the advancements of the Smart Grid.  NREL is working with NI to develop a concept called modular power electronics. With the NI RIO off-the-shelf platform, NREL can take their new control algorithms from prototype to deployment and create a software reconfigurable, general purpose inverter control platform.

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