How a Passion for Oceans Can Utilize Synergies of Technology • Signe Simonsen • GOTO 2024

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Amsterdam 2024. #GOTOcon #GOTOams https://gotoams.nl Signe Simonsen - Founder of Race for Oceans @RaceforOceans RESOURCES https://twitter.com/signe_simonsen https://www.linkedin.com/in/signe-simonsen https://www.instagram.com/signessimonsen Links https://raceforoceans.org/en https://raceforoceans.org/en/support-us https://www.instagram.com/raceforoceans ABSTRACT For many years, hundreds of tonnes of plastic pellets have been released into the environment in the EU due to mishandling. Although regulations are ending this, we still need to clean-up decades worth of trash from land that we can't collect manually. In this presentation Signe will showcase how the Race for Oceans program is addressing this by developing custom robots that will clean the Danish beaches! [...] TIMECODES 00:00 Intro 00:23 Agenda 00:44 Background 03:58 Race for Oceans 06:10 The challenge: what are plastic pellets? 17:17 The solution 19:52 Demo 25:38 The future 27:49 Take action 28:24 Outro Read the full abstract here: https://gotoams.nl/2024/sessions/3154 RECOMMENDED BOOKS Victor Vasques Ribeiro • Plastic pellets on sandy beaches Volume I • https://amzn.to/4crhYEC Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu • Microplastic Pollution • https://amzn.to/4cnijIt Ioannis Kolaxis • 101 Green Software • https://www.kolaxis.dev/book-green-software Lässig, Kersting & Morik • Computational Sustainability • https://amzn.to/3APBW8r Carola Lilienthal • Sustainable Software Architecture • https://amzn.to/3yFXxoS https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #RaceForOceans #PlasticPellets #Sustainability #CleanOceans #HowToCleanOceans #PlasticWaste #TechForGood #SigneSimonsen Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1