Tom Raftery

Tom Raftery

Greater Sevilla Metropolitan Area
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I am a sustainability and technology professional, podcast host, and keynote speaker with…

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Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • it@cork Graphic

    Conference chair

    it@cork

    - 2 years

    Science and Technology

    Chair of the Conference committee, the organisation's main money and headline generating event

  • Ambassador

    The Future City of Africa Conference

    - Present 8 years 3 months

    Economic Empowerment

    The Future City of Africa conference will bring together the brightest minds of Africa. Up and coming thought leaders that are already starting to shape the future. Visionary architects, brave entrepreneurs, mad innovators and critical authors. Mayors that care about the future of their city and the prosperity of their people. Investors and business people that are ready to think out of the box and seize the opportunity of building the businesses of tomorrow.

    Join us in Nairobi June…

    The Future City of Africa conference will bring together the brightest minds of Africa. Up and coming thought leaders that are already starting to shape the future. Visionary architects, brave entrepreneurs, mad innovators and critical authors. Mayors that care about the future of their city and the prosperity of their people. Investors and business people that are ready to think out of the box and seize the opportunity of building the businesses of tomorrow.

    Join us in Nairobi June 9th-10th 2016 to shape the future city.

  • Association for Supply Chain Management Graphic

    Volunteer member of the ASCM European Advisory Committee

    Association for Supply Chain Management

    - Present 1 year 7 months

    Education

    Helping with the organisation of the ASCM European conference

Publications

  • Internet of Things and Energy

    SlideShare

    The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has profound implications for all kinds of businesses.

    But in the Energy vertical specifically, the potential changes that will occur will be momentous.

    This talk, delivered at SAP's D-Code and TechEd event in Berlin, investigates some of the possibilities.

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Courses

  • The data scientist's toolkit

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Projects

  • Design and build of CIX - hyper energy efficient data center

    Cork Internet eXchange is a hyper energy-efficient data center based in Cork, Ireland.

    It was co-founded between 2006-2008 and during that time, as well as helping with the design, with my background in social media, I led the open-sourcing of the design, using blogs, Flickr, video etc.

    This was unique, because, not only we we using leading edge techniques to make the data center hyper energy-efficient, we were telling everyone how we were doing this. No-one had open-sourced a…

    Cork Internet eXchange is a hyper energy-efficient data center based in Cork, Ireland.

    It was co-founded between 2006-2008 and during that time, as well as helping with the design, with my background in social media, I led the open-sourcing of the design, using blogs, Flickr, video etc.

    This was unique, because, not only we we using leading edge techniques to make the data center hyper energy-efficient, we were telling everyone how we were doing this. No-one had open-sourced a data center's design previously.

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  • Singularity University - GLOBAL IMPACT COMPETITIONS - 2012

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    MEMBER of the Jury for Call To Innovation Challenge 2012 Spain:

    How to affect positively the lives of 10 million people in Spain in 5 years, through the use of technology? www.calltoinnovation.org

    Singularity University's GLOBAL IMPACT COMPETITIONS:
    http://singularityu.org/impact/competitions/

    All projects will aim to solve some of Spain’s most pressing challenges (unemployment, education, financial crisis, energy dependency, etc.) and to change for the good the lives…

    MEMBER of the Jury for Call To Innovation Challenge 2012 Spain:

    How to affect positively the lives of 10 million people in Spain in 5 years, through the use of technology? www.calltoinnovation.org

    Singularity University's GLOBAL IMPACT COMPETITIONS:
    http://singularityu.org/impact/competitions/

    All projects will aim to solve some of Spain’s most pressing challenges (unemployment, education, financial crisis, energy dependency, etc.) and to change for the good the lives of 10 million people in Spain in a time period of no more than 5 years from the project commencement's date.

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Languages

  • Spanish

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Organizations

  • European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the Future (ETP SG)

    Participant and contributor

    - Present

    The European Technology Platform for the Electricity Networks of the Future (aka the ETP Smart Grids) is an organisation of the EU Commission, with over 100 stakeholders in the Electricity Networks sector, whose aim is "to formulate and promote a vision for the development of European electricity networks looking towards 2020 and beyond."

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