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What struck me most was Peter Buca's keynote in which he quoted Peter Senge:
"Today's problems are yesterday's solutions."
An amazingly trenchant observationâ€"the problems we face today with water and air quality, for example, are all the result of technology solutions to other problems we faced 25, 50, even 100 or more years ago.
Pete is Vice President of Innovation and Technology for Parker Hannifin.
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Pete works mostly with the Fluid Connectors Group, one of Parker's oldest lines of business.Hoses, seals, and other fluid connectors may seem boring to some people, but as Pete reminded the audience, more often than not, the fluids those hoses carry would be extremely harmful if they were to leak out into the environment, and so both the hoses and the seals are critically important.
He also pointed out that today, hoses and seals do leak.
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Pete also noted in his talk the UN Millennium Project study, which highlighted the fact that access to clean, potable water is the number one problem we face globally, something several of the presenting companies, including local start-up MemPro, are working to address.