Out with the old, in with the new

All change, all over!

Hi folks, it has been a while since I last sent out a newsletter, and unsurprisingly a lot has happened in the meantime. To respect your time, I’ll keep this short.

  1. One of the first things that happened that you may or may not be aware of is I’m no longer working for SAP. I’m talking to a number of companies at the minute, but nothing is signed just yet, so if you know any organisations looking to hire someone like me, don’t hesitate to send them my way. Thanks.

  2. Between the layoffs, account suspensions, and the hissy fits, there’s been a lot happening over at Twitter, am I right? One relevant change is Twitter is shutting down Revue, the newsletter engine it bought which I was using previously for this newsletter. I’ve now migrated to Substack. What are your thoughts on the change? I’d love to hear. My initial thoughts are that I prefer Revue, but that may change as I use Substack more.

  3. The big news in the AI world is the launch of ChatGPT. This is a chatbot linked to a large GPT language model so that it can give uncannily intelligent seeming answers to the questions you pose it. Check out this mind bending example. I asked it how companies can reduce their carbon emissions and it gave this reasonably good response:

Good climate news:

  1. London-based HSBC, the largest bank in Europe and the 8th largest bank in the world, has announced that it will stop funding any new oil and gas developments globally.

  2. Airbus is readying its first megawatt-class, hydrogen fuel-cell engine flight-test demonstrator. It hopes the new plane will enter service by 2035 and

  3. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has raised its global forecast for renewables growth 76% in what it calls its “largest ever upward revision” for the sector

Podcasts:

  1. In this week’s episode of my Climate 21 podcast, I talked to Ed Bernardon, Vice President, Strategic Automotive Initiatives Siemens Digital Industries Software about the Electrification of Transportation. Check out the episodes here 

  2. And in my Digital Supply Chain podcast this week on Monday I talked to LogicSource’s Chief Procurement Officer Michael Braunschweiger about better buying. Full episode here.And in today’s episode I invited Arkyn's Martin Holm Nielsen, and Nicolai Elmqvist to come on the podcast to talk about their series of field service iOS apps which are persona based, fast, and intuitive, enabling field workers more efficient access to backend systems. The full episode is here.

There is plenty more going on, but I did say at the outset that I was going to keep this short, so I’ll let you get back to your day. Have a great one, and we’ll be in touch soon.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any comments, questions, or suggestions on how to improve things here (I’m new to Substack, remember!).

Thanks, Tom

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