Spherical Analytics (SA) is working with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST’s) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in their Securing the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) project to develop practical, interoperable cybersecurity approaches that address real-world needs of distributed energy resource (DER) environments. By accelerating dissemination and use of these integrated tools and technologies for protecting IIoT in and among DERs, the NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) communications, data, and storage systems; reduce risk for companies and individuals using IT/OT systems; and encourage development of innovative, job-creating cybersecurity products and services.
Context Labs and Spherical Analytics Chief Operating Officer, Mark McDivitt, was recently featured on a CoinDesk episode of Money Reimagined, entitled: “Crypto, Climate Change and the ESG Debate: Kevin O’Leary, Massamba Thioye, Martin Wainstein Tackle the Issues and More.”
Spherical Analytics’ Chief Business Officer, Chris Rezendes, will be participating in a panel on infrastructure entitled, “The Economic Payoffs of Infrastructure Investment” on Wednesday, May 12th at 11:00 AM ET.
The panel will address the debate over the cost of infrastructure investment in the context of the expected results and impact on the competitiveness of the economy. Chris will be joining moderator Hank Torbert from The Frontier along with panelists Yuri Estrada from Carlyle Group, Max Wolf from Systematic Ventures, and Chris Bonanti from RWV Consulting and former Chief of Staff of the US Railroad Administration.
On World Oceans Day 2020, Spherical | Analytics (a Context Labs company) was featured in “A Sustainable Ocean Economy in 2030: Opportunities and Challenges” as part of The Economist Group’s World Ocean Initiative.
CEO and Founder, Dan Harple, discussed our deployment of the Immutably™ for Maritime platform and its implementation: The Marine Databank. Part of Chapter 3, “Welcome to the Blue Data Revolution,” Dan highlights the numerous challenges with aggregating and synthesizing massive amounts of data. “It’s about how you integrate increasingly exploding amounts of data across disparate locations and make sense of it,” Dan stated.
The Marine Databank, powered by Immutably™, was developed in collaboration with the New Bedford Port Authority and the UMass Dartmouth School of Marine Science and Technology to drive actionable intelligence for the fishing fleet, academic research, and other related members of the community. By ingesting, securing, and analyzing public and private data, the Marine Databank provides actionable intelligence for industry stakeholders to better target fish biomass, reduce operating expense, and conduct more sustainable operations.
The Economist Group’s newest report highlights challenges facing key sectors in the ocean economy including seafood, shipping, tourism and renewable energy. The nine-chapter report covers a myriad of solutions to protect our oceans’ health while continuing to enjoy the bountiful economic activity it supports.
We are honored to be featured in this important report and we remind everyone to support ocean sustainability not just on World Oceans Day, but every day.
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Last year, we at Spherical | Analytics (S|A) announced our first public partnership and project. Collaborating with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), we launched the Environmental Data Initiative to monitor and report out on methane emissions from frack gas and shale oil operations occurring within the state of Pennsylvania.
Today, S|A and EDF are excited to announce the next phase of this project: the Environmental Data Initiative (EDI) 2.0 for the state of New Mexico. The New Mexico expansion has many of the same features and functionality that the initial work in PA contained:
Spherical | Analytics (S|A) is pleased to announce that our partnership with the New Bedford Port Authority (NBPA) has been awarded the Seaport Economic Council (SEC) Grand Challenge Grant to seed the launch of the Marine Databank.
The Marine Databank (MBD) will act as a data coop, or on a mutual company model. Those sharing data, analytics and other digital tools to contribute to science, sustainable fisheries, oceans health, costal community resilience and other pressing challenges include fishing boat/ fleet owners, shellfish harvesters, researchers, conversation groups and other public and private enterprises. Privacy and data ownership rights will be protected as they explore sharing, trading or licensing of their data, analytics and models.
