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VIA’s CEO Colin Gounden has been selected to speak on the Energy Data Panel during the AFWERX Reimagining Energy Virtual Showcase. Colin’s panel will take place on February 9th at 2:28pm ET. To register for the event and attend his panel, visit: https://reimaginingenergy.afwerx.com/
VIA is proud to have been selected to pitch to a group of government evaluators for the Reimagining Energy Challenge presented by AFWERX. Our solution aims to “help the DoD better leverage data, analytics, and reporting to improve energy strategies.” In addition to our pitch, we will be participating in the virtual showcase on February 9, 2021. To learn more and register for the event, please visit their website: https://reimaginingenergy.afwerx.com/
VIA’s CEO Colin Gounden will be giving the keynote speech at the IF Forum virtual event in Taiwan. The topic of the event is, “The development, boundaries and imagination of privacy technology: Taking the energy transition.” The event will focus on the transition to clean energy. Colin’s presentation will take place on January 22, 2021 at 6:40am ET. Check back for more information on the upcoming event!
VIA is proud to share that for the second consecutive year, we will be sponsoring and participating in the McGill Physics Hackathon. This year’s event is entirely virtual and will take place on November 7-8. We will have various live and recorded workshops, two mini-coding challenges (with some fantastic prizes), a virtual booth to answer questions, mentors to support participants, and a judge of the final project presentations. Follow our social media accounts @solvewithvia for more details on days/times of VIA’s participation.
With the success of its first session, VIA is thrilled to host the second installment of its GDAC™ Virtual Mini-Series on September 30, 2020 at 8:30pm ET. This session will feature presentations from VIA on new GDAC™ portal functionality and a founding member panel discussion on topics like GDAC™’s daily value and solving tomorrow’s challenges with GDAC™.
VIA’s Colin Gounden has been invited to speak on a virtual panel on August 19th hosted by Woodside Capital Partners. The webinar titled, “Smart Sensors and their role in the Digitalization of Energy and Industry” is the first of a three-part series. The panelists will share “their perspectives and insights on the role that Smart Sensors have on the Digitalization of Energy and Industry”.
The Westly Group, a key investor in VIA, has invited CEO Colin Gounden to present during their virtual demo day on July 30th. Colin will present an overview of VIA and progress to date to a group of 100 investors and senior energy executives.
VIA is proud to host the first session of its GDAC™ Virtual Mini-Series on June 24th at 5:oopm ET. Participants in the mini-series include GDAC™ founding members and features a presentation from Andrew Bright, former ABB executive and VIA advisor.
VIA’s Joe Babiec will be co-presenting alongside Ben Bowler and Antonios Papaemmanouil of the Lucerne School of Engineering and Architecture at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU). VIA and HSLU met during the SUEID event in 2019 and have since been working on a collaboration. The virtual event will take place on June 4th beginning at 10:30am ET, with VIA and HSLU’s joint presentation at 11:15am ET.
VIA’s COO, Kate Ravanis and Team Leader, Product Development, Ashley DaSilva have been invited to speak at Brandeis University for the session, “Analyzing data in the energy industry.” Kate will provide students with an overview of VIA and Ashley will discuss the ways we solve problems for our customers. Check out their website for the full agenda: https://www.brandeis.edu/global/events/2020/climate-change/index.html.
VIA was delighted to support Nebraska Public Power District (NPPD) specifically and innovation in Nebraska more generally this past weekend. VIA’s CEO, Colin Gounden traveled to Aurora, Nebraska for the Aurora Open & Innovation Showcase to meet with hundreds of students and local community members to give them a glimpse into working for a technology startup. During the event, there was also a robotics competition, as seen in this local news clip, where the VIA sticker made its TV debut!
The best part of working at VIA? Its people. Twice a year, our Montreal and Somerville offices get together for what we call the “All Hands”. All Hands are essential to our company culture: they offer an uninterrupted time of sharing team wins, solving project challenges, and planning for the next big thing. In a few short weeks, we will be recharging our batteries and getting ready to tackle 2020!
VIA’s Chief Operating Officer, Kate Ravanis, was invited to speak at Greentech Media’s Blockchain in Energy Forum which took place on September 25, 2019 in New York City. Speakers at the GTM event shared use cases and success stories for blockchain in energy applications. Kate’s presentation covered the challenges facing the energy sector and how VIA’s GDAC™ program is currently helping utilities unlock the value of their data through privacy preserving collaboration. For more information on the event, visit GTM’s website.
Earlier this month, VP, Strategic Initiatives, Joe Babiec attended DistribuTECH, the utility industry’s leading conference on electric power transmission and distribution. Hosted in New Orleans, the event featured speakers from Exelon, FERC, and Siemens, among others, and welcomed more than 12,000 attendees over two days.
“Speakers like Paul Hinnenkamp of Entergy, and many vendors emphasized the importance of customer and operational data. A major theme of the conference was the value of gathering and analyzing this data in order to improve current operating efficiency and create new services. I spoke with representatives from a number of utilities about this issue, and I was delighted they felt that VIA’s TAC™ application offers a great solution to the difficult challenge of making customer and operational data more easily available for analysis,” remarked Joe.
For more information on the event, please visit DistribuTECH’s website.
Earlier this week, CEO Colin Gounden and CSO Jeremy Taylor were among a select group invited to the inauguration ceremony for Denmark’s Innovation Center in Kendall Square. VIA has established a presence within Denmark’s innovation community, thanks in large part to the support of Accelerace’s Cleantech program. This center is part of a partnership between the Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Boston now joins Silicon Valley, Shanghai, Tel Aviv, Munich, New Delhi/Bangalore, Sao Paolo, and Seoul on the list of cities home to Danish Innovation Centers.
The new center will create opportunities for Danish researchers and companies to connect with Boston’s universities and cutting-edge start-ups, with a focus on cleantech and sustainable energy solutions.
Jeremy Taylor joined the roundtable discussion led by Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science Tommy Ahlers. “Denmark has established an innovation cluster for artificial intelligence and robotics. One topic we discussed was the challenge with supporting ongoing development of these technologies in a socially and ethically responsible way. Montreal recently released its Declaration for Responsible AI, and I think that could be a great roadmap for Danish researchers and entrepreneurs as well,” said Jeremy.
John is focused on implementing best practices for software development at VIA. He co-invented VIA’s core platform and currently develops, integrates, and quality assurance tests the platform for VIA’s applications.
Before VIA, John was a freelance consultant at the Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG), where he focused on updating their Python Library. Prior to this position, he was a technical sales support engineer at NAG in Oxford, where he developed technical marketing material and provided pre-sales assistance. John was awarded the best thesis in gravitation physics in 2016 by the Institute of Physics (IOP). His research focused on developing new numerical methods that capture the physical behavior of fluid interfaces permeated by high magnetic fields while taking into account relativistic effects.
John earned his master’s degree in physics and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from the University of Southampton.