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Full Steam Ahead: CIO Kopal Raj of WABTEC on staying ‘on-track’ with AI, IoT and sustainability goals

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In this conversation with Foundry, Kopal dives deep into her career progression, the challenges of marrying manufacturing with digitization and WABTEC’s commitment to sustainability. What does sustainability look like for WABTEC ? Kopal, tell us about your journey.

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Novi is building a B2B marketplace for brands that care about sustainability

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It’s that old chestnut: You are a fancy-pants brand wanting to make a product that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside because you only use fair-trade, sustainably grown ingredients and materials, but you don’t know where to turn. “Early in my career, I joined the Air Force and I wanted to work on hard problems.

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Aramco’s Prosperity7 powers AI drug firm Insilico’s $95M round

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. “Prosperity7 inspired us to look into sustainable chemistry,” said Zhavoronkov. The same technology can also be applied to find novel and useful molecules for sustainable chemistry, an emerging area to which Aramco has devoted much effort, the founder explained. while hardware production happened in China.

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Manufacturing CIOs see bright future for the industry, thanks to IT

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Chris Nardecchia, SVP and chief digital and information officer, Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation Chris Nardecchia: I started as a chemical engineer doing chemical engineering things, building and operating chemical and nuclear processes, producing polymers and nuclear fuel, etc. Now, software eats hardware for lunch.

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Announcing the Startup Battlefield companies pitching at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021

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From lithium battery chemical recycling to smart media, blockchain infrastructure to student-centric educational software, and Sub-Saharan African fintech to cultured-meat production, this batch of companies is sure to wow the investors and the audience. With just over a 1.5% TC aims to pick companies from a range of industries.

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Can carbon capture startup Carbon Clean deliver on its cost claims?

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But there are still many smaller sites, from cement kilns to chemical plants, that are currently wedded to fossil fuels but still need to be decarbonized. After all, the world needs to eliminate emissions on a vast scale, and the technology benefits from a certain amount of scale.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

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” As part of the package that directly impacts startups, there’s a proposal for a $27 billion Clean Energy and Sustainability Accelerator to mobilize private investment, according to the White House. Part of the money frm the Biden plan will aim to redevelop brownfields and turn them into more sustainable businesses.