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Event Details:
Date: June 11-13, 2013
Venue: The Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus
Location: Oak Brook, Illinois
The 2013 Process Development Symposium is expected to gather more than one hundred chemical engineers in Oak Brook, IL, for a content-driven symposium to exchange ideas, develop professional knowledge, and network.
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Since 2007, startup Opower has quickly become a leader in energy efficiency - growing from offering simple paper-based energy reports into a full-spectrum, SAAS (software as a service) residential efficiency player, according to greentechmedia.
With mobile apps, a big data business and a thermostat partnership with Honeywell, Opower's got the residential energy landscape covered. How has the company persuaded consumers to reduce their energy use and save $250 million since 2007?
Alex Laskey, Opower's co-founder, explains the simple idea: behavioral science used to created peer pressure. In this TED2013 talk, he explains that “For the last five years, we’ve been running the largest behavioral science experiment in the world.” It's worked. In January, the company achieved a milestone: achieving two terawatt hours of energy savings — enough to take all the homes in a city the size of Sacramento off the electric grid for a year.
