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Key Benefits From Attending Symposium 2008 |
As
reported by User Delegates, the key benefits from this unique event include:
- Strategic
Insights – Gain executive strategic insights on the economic and management
issues presented by the convergence of IT and Facilities and greenness.
- Day-After
Actions – Acquire actionable information (“News You can Use”) that can be
applied on the Day After that will result in immediate and significant energy
consumption reduction and cost savings with little or no CapEx and fast ROI
payback.
- Global
Awareness and Planning Imperatives -- Understand your company’s place in the
national and global nature of the enterprise computing energy crunch and the
need for and call to global planning and action.
- Long-Term
Trends – Receive high-value strategic planning information on long-term trends
that will have impact on energy efficiency in your data center
- Metrics,
Measurement, Benchmarking, Best Practices – Develop a deep understanding of
what Green Enterprise IT really means and how to begin immediately to achieve
reductions through cross-functional metrics, measurements, benchmarking, best
practices. Symposium will set the bar for your organization to reach and to
measure itself against.
- C-Suite
Buy-in – Get top-down direct involvement, mandate and goal-setting. (Executive buy-in makes things happen faster.
You’ll be more credible in involving your executives to make change happen in
your organization.
- Industry
Technology Development Roadmaps – Participate in agenda-setting and development
roadmap collaboration with manufacturers, IT and Facilities executives,
operators, and consulting engineers that will equip you to move forward on
efficiency initiatives on your organization. Since there is no one right answer,
get the pros and cons of different approaches and technologies so you can
choose the methods and technology that are appropriate for your organization.
- Technologies,
Products and Professional Services Expertise – Delegate selected technology innovation
sessions along with a physically separate Exhibition Hall with the latest
products allows for direct delegate access to the people and companies who can help
you break through the planning and decision-making logjam in your organization
in order to begin reaping the profits and productivity resulting from improving
energy efficiency.
- Improved
Knowledge, Skills, and Political Understanding – Data Centers are highly
complex, whole-systems that require a considerable amount of specific knowledge
and skill across both the IT and Facilities function. Symposium participation
will significantly challenge assumptions and provide an opportunity to test new
communication skills.
- Team Building – The Integrated Critical
Environment (ICE) Team is a practical solution to breaking through the
functional silos of information and collaboratively build the intellectual and
informational foundation necessary to achieve significant energy efficiency
improvement results.
- Knowledge-Sharing
Community – Become part of an on-going knowledge network, and highly
collaborative working groups dedicated to fully exploring opportunities and
solving problems.
- Tested,
workable solutions: Symposium 2008 is highlighting organizations that are the
best in the industry at achieving reductions in energy consumption. They
provide benchmarks your organization can strive for and successful techniques
and practices you can take back to your organization. Plus their success gives
you additional credibility in instituting changes in your organization.
- Green
Enterprise IT Awards – The applications process forces organizations to
concretize and articulate what they have already been doing, often without
internal or industry recognition. Delegates learn practical lessons worth
millions from award winners on what worked for them and what could be done
better.
- Cross
Functional Cross Fertilization – Bring your cross functional team to get the
most out of Symposium 2008. Increase
your back-home credibility, and position yourself for boundary-crossing changes
by immersing your cross-functional team in this industry changing event.
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