Technologies for the environment
Augmented reality and programs that capture environmental information. Augmented reality is probably one of the more known disciplines within information technology. People have already developed several very interesting examples that apply these techniques to the geo-location of tourist resources or infrastructure in urban areas. In this workshop with the Observatory of Sierra Nevada we’ll attempt to lay the groundwork for future implementation of augmented reality programs to monitor the effects of global change.
Conference
Green Building
ECOWEEK is a non-profit non-governmental organization whose purpose is to raise environmental awareness and promote sustainability among young professionals and the general public; such as the use of renewable energy, conservation of biodiversity and natural resources and environmental protection. Among the objectives of the ECOWEEK Founding Chairman architect Elias Messinas, is to create a platform for cooperation among young professionals, including a new reality for Palestinian and Israeli young professionals and students of Architecture in the Middle East, through initiatives such as cross border "green" design workshops that encourage cooperation.
Speaker: Elias Messinas (Greece, Israel) is an architect and the Founding Chairman of ECOWEEK. Green buildings, clean energy, low waste and respect for the environment, are among his organization’s focus. Dr. Messinas is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and a B. Des. with honors in Environmental Design from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem). He received his doctorate in Architecture and Urban Planning from the National Technical University of Athens, he is a research fellow of the Kaufman Fellowship at the Architecture Facutly of the Technion Institute of Technology (Haifa), and a Fellow of the Ford Motor Company International Fellowship for Community Leadership.
Roundtable Sustainability
Sustainable Development
This Campus Party Millennium roundtable analyzes the state of natural systems with the Observatory of Sierra Nevada Global Change and renewable energy, green building with Greek-Israeli architect Elijah Messina and the potential of electric vehicles.
Speakers: Ignacio Henares Civantos (Spain) is a biologist, Master degreed in Environment Management, curator of the Sierra Nevada National and Natural Park, an example of sustainability balance model and compatibility between conservation and development.
José María Muñoz (Spain) is an Industrial Engineering from the University of Malaga and Master in Management and Business Administration from the San Telmo International Institute. He is responsible for Mini / Micro generation and energy storage at the SmartCity Project Malaga. This project searches for optimum integration of the sustainable energies in the electric network, facing the generation to consumption thanks to the creation of new electric microgeneration management models. The final user participation is a necessary process which aims at showing that we can save 20% energy and reduce emissions by 6000 tonnes of CO2 each year.
Gilbert Micallef (Malta) PhD student at Aalborg University working, in collaboration with Nokia Siemens Networks, on identifying methods for reducing the energy consumption in mobile networks. Prior to this position, Gilbert got his masters degree in telecommunications from the University College London (UCL), during which he was selected for a 6 month internship at Orange Labs. His bachelors degree in electrical engineeringap was obtained from the University of Malta, during which he had the opportunity of gaining travel and industrial experience through two separate summer internships abroad.
Elias Messinas (Greece, Israel) is an architect and the Founding Chairman of ECOWEEK. Green buildings, clean energy, low waste and respect for the environment, are among his organization’s focus. Dr. Messinas is a graduate of the Yale School of Architecture and a B. Des. with honors in Environmental Design from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design (Jerusalem). He received his doctorate in Architecture and Urban Planning from the National Technical University of Athens, he is a research fellow of the Kaufman Fellowship at the Architecture Facutly of the Technion Institute of Technology (Haifa), and a Fellow of the Ford Motor Company International Fellowship for Community Leadership.
Workshop Sustainability
Information Management at the Sierra Nevada Observatory
Human activity is causing a multitude of impacts on natural ecosystems: species extinction, climate change, deforestation... We face the challenge of managing ecosystems so that we ensure the persistence over time and at the same time can continue to provide services. An important part of the solution is to improve our understanding of how these services work. This conference will show how to organize all this information in the context of the Observatory of global change monitoring of Sierra Nevada, which aims to promote the adaptation of ecosystems of this reserve of the biosphere to global change. Our speaker will describes the main software used to capture information and to process and obtain knowledge useful for environmental managers.
Speakers: Francisco Javier Bonet García (Spain)Doctor of Science. Biologist, environmentalists and GIS expert with extensive experience in database management and development of GIS data models related to the conservation of biodiversity. He has experience in environmental modeling spatial multicriteria evaluation techniques applied to natural resource management, models of potential distribution of species and design of information systems.
Francisco Javier Bonet García (Spain) Degree in Computer Engineering, he is mainly oriented to software development. He has done consulting work, development, coordination, etc.. Virtually any field related to the software. Currently focused on the development of decentralized information systems and web 2.0 technologies. Application of artificial intelligence techniques such as data warehouse, neural networks, genetic algorithms, etc.