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Symposium 2009 "Game-Changer" Keynotes |
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Symposium 2009 Game-Changer Keynotes are presented by members of the
industry who have produced successful innovations and efficiencies in
enterprise computing. They will share their experiences, successes, and
lessons learned to help move the industry to leaner, greener, and
cleaner enterprise computing.
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Thomas L. Friedman | The New York Times “Foreign Affairs” Columnist
Friedman will discuss the clean-technology breakthroughs the world is going to need to develop and how the ET (Energy Technology) revolution will be both transformative and disruptive as it relates to the data center industry.
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Thomas L. Friedman, a world-renowned author and journalist, joined The New York Times in 1981 as a financial reporter specializing in OPEC- and oil-related news and later served as the chief diplomatic, chief White House, and international economics correspondents. A three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, he has traveled hundreds of thousands of miles reporting the Middle East conflict, the end of the cold war, U.S. domestic politics and foreign policy, international economics, and the worldwide impact of the terrorist threat. His foreign affairs column, which appears twice a week in the Times, is syndicated to one hundred other newspapers worldwide.
Friedman is the author of From Beirut to Jerusalem (FSG, 1989), which won both the National Book Award and the Overseas Press Club Award in 1989 and was on the New York Times bestseller list for nearly twelve months. From Beirut to Jerusalem has been published in more than twenty-seven languages, including Chinese and Japanese, and is now used as a basic textbook on the Middle East in many high schools and universities. Friedman also wrote The Lexus and the Olive Tree (FSG, 1999), one of the best selling business books in 1999, and the winner of the 2000 Overseas Press Club Award for best nonfiction book on foreign policy. It is now available in twenty languages. His last book, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, issued by FSG in 2002, consists of columns Friedman published about September 11 as well as a diary of his private experiences and reflections during his reporting on the post-September world as he traveled from Afghanistan to Israel to Europe to Indonesia to Saudi Arabia. In 2005, The World Is Flat was given the first Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award, and Friedman was named one of America's Best Leaders by U.S. News & World Report.
Friedman graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University with a degree in Mediterranean studies and received a master's degree in modern Middle East studies from Oxford. He has served as a visiting professor at Harvard University and has been awarded honorary degrees from several U.S. universities. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland, with his wife, Ann, and their two daughters.
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Bill Weihl | Green Energy Czar at Google
On Green Technology: How Technology Can Lead Us to Eco-Sustainability
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Bill Weihl, Google’s outspoken champion of green technology and eco-sustainability, will deliver the Uptime Institute Research Symposium’s “Game-Changer” keynote on a broad range of Google's energy efficiency initiatives. Weihl, is also an honorary member of the Institute’s new Energy Czar Advisory Board made up of corporate executives and technologists. Before joining Google in early 2006, he was CTO at Akamai Technologies, where he led efforts to provide customers with more powerful computing capabilities on edge servers. He has also worked on distributed and parallel computing and on cpu architecture, first as a professor at MIT and then as a researcher at DEC's Systems Research Center (SRC).
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Christine Ervin | President, Christine Ervin/Company
On green buildings and sustainability: "Never before have businesses faced such a confluence of market opportunity and compelling need to green their bottom line."
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Christine
Ervin’s
career
as
an
environmental
leader
spans
executive
positions
across
national,
state
and
nonprofit
sectors.
She
is
widely
credited
for
being
a
major
force
in
today’s
vibrant
green
building
markets.
As first
President
and
CEO
of
the
U.S.
Green
Building
Council,
Ervin
led
its
growth
from
200
members
and
three
staff
in
1999
to
become
a
highly
influential
coalition
of
4,500
companies
and
organizations,
50
staff
and
70
local
chapters
and
affiliates.
During
her
five‐year
tenure,
the
Council
launched
the
LEED®
green
building
rating
system,
the
Greenbuild™ Conference
and
Expo
which
drew
12,000
attendees
in
2006,
and
numerous
governance
enhancements
to
help
reach
mainstream
markets.
In
1993,
Christine
was
appointed
by
President
Clinton
to
serve
as
Assistant
Secretary
of
Energy
for
the
nation’s
$1
billion
portfolio
of
clean
energy
technologies
for
transportation,
buildings,
major
industries
and
power
systems.
Initiatives
during
her
tenure
included:
EPA‐DOE
ENERGY
STAR™
partnership;
national
center
on
sustainable
communities;
a
streamlined
appliance
standards
program;
high
performance
buildings;
and
voluntary
market‐based
programs
ranging
from
Million
Solar
Roofs
to
private
sector
financing
for
energy
retrofits.
Her
office
played
a
key
role
in
the
President’s
Climate
Change
Action
Partnership.
In
1991,
Christine
was
appointed
by
Governor
Barbara
Roberts
to
direct
the
Oregon
Department
of
Energy
and
to
lead
a
state
task
force
o
livable
communities.
Her
portfolio
included
state
programs
to
advance
energy
efficiency
and
renewable
energy,
oversight
of
the
Trojan
nuclear
power
plant,
Hanford
Waste
Reservation
policy
and
siting
of
new
energy
facilities.
Christine’s
interest
in
market‐based
programs
took
root
at
the
World
Wildlife
Fund/ Conservation
Foundation
in
1989‐91
where
she
focused
on
eco‐labeling,
life
cycle
assessments
and
consensus
recommendations
for
pollution
prevention.
Previously,
she
directed
budget
policy
for
the
State
of
Missouri,
advising
Governors
and
the
legislature
on
statewide
program
and
policy
issues.
Christine’s
Portland‐based
firm,
Christine
Ervin/Company,
focuses
on
speech
engagements
for
a
wide
range
of
audiences
on
green
markets,
climate
change
and
strategies
for
ushering
in
a
new
industrial
economy. She
also
consults
on
selective
projects,
serves
as
an
Editor‐at‐Large
with
GreenerWorld
Media
and
serves
on
numerous
public
and
private
Boards
including
the
American
Council
for
Renewable
Energy
(ACORE), Turner
Construction’s
Sustainability
Advisory
Board
and
Oregon’s
Climate
Change
Integration
Group.
Her
upcoming
book,
Certified
Green,
explores
the
dynamic
world
of
green
market
transformation.
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Lauralee Martin | Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Jones Lang LaSalle Inc.
On environmental sustainability: Interest in, and concern about, environmental sustainability continues to gain momentum...
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Ms. Martin is Chief Financial and Operating Officer of Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, the leading integrated global real estate services and money management firm with approximately 13,600 professional employees located in corporate offices in more than 160 major cities, and operations in more than 450 cities in 50 countries. She is responsible for all global finance functions including accounting, tax, treasury, internal audit and investor relations together with information technology and all aspects of the firm’s operational platform.
She recently contributed to a report published by Jones Lang LaSalle, titled "The Role of Finance in Environmental Sustainability Efforts." According to the report, "A variety of pressures have elevated sustainability’s prominence in recent years: competition, globalization, regulation, energy costs, climate change, and other factors. These pressures promise to change the role and responsibilities of all senior executives." In the report, Martin says, "...sustainability presents a tremendous revenue growth opportunity for companies that incorporate the right practices and innovative thinking into their business models."
Jones Lang LaSalle recently announced that is launching a Sustainability University in the real estate services industry. According to Martin, "Interest in, and concern about, environmental sustainability continues to gain momentum with our clients, prospects, investors and the professionals who take pride in working for Jones Lang LaSalle. Our service capabilities and industry-leading position allow us to deliver real value and drive change that minimizes the environmental impact of commercial real estate while serving the economic requirements of successful businesses."
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Bonnie Nixon | Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett Packard
On supply chain and social and environmental responsibility:
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"At HP we have...always prioritized corporate citizenship, high standards of ethics and the importance of treating people with dignity and respect, and formalized these values in what we call the 'HP Way.'"
Bonnie Nixon and her green team of dedicated sustainability experts are responsible for the short and long term vision, strategy, marketing, messaging and stakeholder relations program for Hewlett Packard.
Over the last decade at HP, Ms. Nixon has worked with top level management on environmental, health, safety and social polices and procedures and designed and implemented a world class supplier relationship management program.
She has played a strong lead in an effort of major competitors and suppliers on a common industry code of conduct that helps raise the bar in the electronics industry.
Prior to joining HP, as Vice President of an Environmental Planning and Communications Firm, Bonnie Nixon managed more than 200 public and private sector projects with business, community and agencies.
Her experience spans across several industries including technology, biotech, hazardous waste, financial, infrastructure and utilities, food processing and transportation.
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Amy Wohl | President, Wohl Associates; Editor and Publisher of Amy Wohl's Opinions
On the Cloud: Will the global economy and growing energy
requirements quicken SaaS adoption? |
To respected analyst and blogger Amy Wohl grid and cloud computing and
Software as a Service are arguably the same thing. Increasingly, she
claims, cloud computing will become the solution of choice for all
kinds of users and data—including data and applications once considered
sacrosanct as “mission critical.” It presents a way of offering
budget-pressured corporations an alternative way to obtain software,
processing, storage and infrastructure capacity without the need to pay
for implementation and skilled employees to manage it. The economies of
SaaS will be “very appealing in a time of tight budgets,” says Wohl
(see: “Serving the SMB Market,” Amy Wohl’s Opinions on SAAS). Ms.
Wohl’s focus on cloud computing is an indication of the importance of
this strategy as the industry seeks solutions that will reduce costs,
energy consumption and carbon footprint. What may work for some
organizations in the SMB marketspace, may not work for large-scale
enterprises and the Uptime Institute remains skeptical that the Cloud
is the answer. Amy Wohl will present a “Game-Changer” Keynote at the
Uptime Institute Symposium, along with a conference session on
computing in the Cloud both of which are sure to spark lively debate.
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Larry Quinlan | Deloitte CIO
On Green IT: Running green IT right results
in a superior IT organization. |
Larry Quinlan, Deloitte’s CIO and a recognized expert on creating green IT and making it succeed, will deliver a “Game-Changer” Keynote at the Uptime Institute’s 2009 Research Symposium. According to Quinlan—who also sits on Deloitte’s Operating Committee and serves in three major enterprise-wide roles: Chief Information Officer, National Managing Principal for Process Excellence, and Diversity Leader for the Shared Services—"If you run green IT right, you will end up with a vastly superior IT organization."
His approach to green encompasses the entire enterprise, ranging from the data center to the user side of the organization. For instance, in their new data center in Dallas, he is implementing several standards to get the building LEED-certified which covers how Deloitte deals with power and the concept of using water-cooling technology to ensure less heat emission. He is also reducing the number of file severs by at least 20 percent compared to existing implementations and also dealing with data-center waste and disposal, partnering with companies that will take e-waste and dispose of it appropriately or recycle it. On the user side, Deloitte has established PDA recycling and laptop virtualization, among other initiatives.
His "Game-Changer" Keynote at Symposium 2009 is bound to provide information that will greatly expand your understanding of how to successfully implement green IT.
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Rich Lechner | VP of Energy and Environment
IBM's sustainability vision within its smarter planet vision
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Rich Lechner was named Vice President for Energy and the Environment in September 2008, where he leads IBM's efforts to help clients address the issues of energy, the environment, and sustainability. He is responsible for defining strategy and managing the broad portfolio of capabilities and offerings that leverage IBM's technology innovation, deep industry insight, and business process strategy. Mr. Lechner has a strong track record for driving key cross IBM initiatives that deliver value to clients of all sizes including virtualization, Project Big Green, and IBM's New Enterprise Data Center Strategy.
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Ken Brill | Executive Director the Uptime Institute, Inc.
"Unprecedented data center construction is severely restricting IT's ability to invest in new software applications placing enterprise profitability and world economic growth at risk."
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"The answer is not new technology. We already know what is needed to radically improve the energy efficiency of a 5 megawatt data center by at least 44 times while reducing CapEx and OpEx by $144 million and reducing green house gas emissions by 112,000 tons over four years while accommodating a 15 percent annual increase in new applications. These accomplishments (which are independent of in-house or outsourced processing) don’t even seriously stretch what is truly possible. These savings can be accomplished by an Energy Czar using the Institute’s CADE (Corporate Average Datacenter Efficiency) and SAVE (Site Analytics Validate Effectiveness) programs."
Kenneth G. Brill is the founder and Executive Director of the Institute and the 100-corporate member Site Uptime Network. He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Many industry innovations trace back to his original conceptual work; dual power and the industry’s Tier system for evaluating data center design level are two examples.
Recently, Mr. Brill has contributed to original research that shows that data centers consumed 1 percent of total US electrical power production in 2000, which grew to 2 percent by 2005, and is predicted (based on a variety of assumptions) to grow to 3-4 percent by 2010. The absolute numbers caused by this growth have raised serious questions about the adequacy of the U.S. electric supply in an era of increasing concern about carbon emissions and have caught the attention of the U.S. Congress. Public Law 109-341 signed on December 21, 2006 required that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) report to Congress by June of 2007 on these issues. Mr. Brill provided technical support and leadership to this process and has been called to testify in front of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. This unique committee was established by Speaker Nancy Pelosi in early 2007 to add urgency and resources to the commitment of Congress to address the challenges of America's oil dependence and the threat of global warming.
Mr. Brill
has authored or contributed to many white papers and is a frequent commentator in the business and technology media on data center and site infrastructure design, engineering, and management issues. His current focus is on the strategic and business impacts of The Economic Meltdown of Moore’s Law.
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