Taryn Mead (Marie Curie Early Career Researcher at the Business School of the University of Exeter) and Yael Helfman-Cohen (Biomimicry Israel, ISO member) will be hosting a webinar about the ISO Biomimetic Certification process on March 20th at 08:00 PDT, 09:00 MDT, 10:00 CDT, 11:00 EDT, 15:00 GMT, 16:00 CET and 17:00 IST. Registration at https://business-hangouts.com/register.php?m=NjM0Nnw4NDI0 is required.
Taryn will cover the information she has learned so far, what our options are for participating and with Yael 's help will answer any questions. Additional information from Taryn:
Aside from the documents available on the website describing the purpose and sub-committees, there is very little information publicly available about what this certification will include or what will actually be certified (a process, a company, a product?) Given the other ISO certifications (e.g., 14001, 9000, etc.), I'm assuming that it will be a process, which raises some very interesting questions about who would get certified and why they would want certification. What is the value of such a certification and what does it mean to others in the field? As practitioners in the field, will it at all affect our ability to practice, specifically in consultation with multi-national corporations?
Background Material for March 20th Webinar
Taryn provided two files (attached) containing background material for the ISO Biomimetic Certification webinar tomorrow.
Notes from ISO266 Biomimetic Certification Webinar
The links below take you to the YouTube clip. Clicking on the times will take you to the appropriate place in the clip. A PDF of the charts presented by Taryn and Yael is attached.
B3D Webinar: ISO Biomimetic Certification
00:30 Panel and audience members
01:15 Taryn's background
03:54 Purpose
04:24 ISO structure (break in the recording)
07:18 Participating and observing countries
07:34 Committee progress
10:56 Next steps
12:15 Options and estimated costs
18:18 Considerations
19:36 Yael's background and participation in ISO process
21:01 Rationale (knowledge infrastructure, credibility)
22:25 Participants
23:09 ISO process
25:42 Biomimetic criteria: biological system, abstraction, transfer
26:52 Other topics (able to create new working groups)
28:30 Benefits of participating
31:10 Discussion
Discussion: (times are offsets into webinar)
Actions (53:31)
Target to have a concrete plan by August