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Monday, April 13th


Morning
     
 
7:00AM
Registration Desk Opens
  8:00AM Exposition Hall Move-In & Set-Up
 
8:30AM
Symposium Opening / Welcome
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9:00AM
Game-Changer Keynote
   

The Three Imperatives for Making Data Center Efficiency a C-Suite Priority: Economic, Environmental, and Energy Supply Security

Ken Brill, Founder and Executive Director, Uptime Institute
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10:15AM
Premier Keynote Interviews
    Redesign Your Data Center to Cut Costs and Fuel Business Growth
Steve Sams, Vice-President, Site and Facilities, IBM

Advanced Integration: Using Technology to Manage Risk and Drive Data Center Efficiency
Iain Campbell, Vice-President and General Manager, North America Service and Global Workplace Solutions, Johnson Controls, Inc

Best Practices for Green Data Center Design
Anthony Cataliotti, Data Center Efficiency Consulting Practice Manager, Sun Microsystems with Mark Meche, Co-Founder, & Annette Austraw, Senior Associate, Winter Street Architects
   11:45
 Lunch Break
Afternoon
 

 
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12:30PM
Game-Changer Keynote
    Data Centers: Part of Integrated Real Estate Portfolio Optimization
Lauralee Martin, COO/CFO, Jones Lang LaSalle
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2:00PM
Track Roundtables
    Lean
Enterprise Computing in the Current Economic and Energy Realities

Chair: Steve Bandrowczak, President, Enterprise Sales Americas, Nortel and Former CIO Nortel, DHL Worldwide, AvNet

Green
Can the Current Electrical Utility Infrastructure Grid Meet Large-Scale Data Center Needs?

Chair: Mark Bramfitt, Principal Program Manager Customer Energy Efficiency, PG&E Co.

Clean

Plants, Properties, and Facilities: Enterprise Land Management and Leasing Priorities

Co-Chairs: Bonnie Nixon, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett Packard and Lauralee Martin, CFO, Jones Lange Lasalle, Inc.


Institute
(Uptime Institute with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Company)
Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency v2.0: Benchmarking, Lessons Learned, and Best Practices

Chair: Brent Smolinski, McKinsey & Company
 
3:15PM
Technology/Business Innovation Presentations
(concurrent breakout sessions)

A New Paradigm for Managing the Data Center
Presenter: Steve Yellen, Vice-President of Product and Market Strategy, Aperture Technologies

Using the "I" in Green IT to Drive Business Value
Presenter: Anthony Rydell, Manager, Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Enterprise Risk, Deloitte

Cool Aisle Containment: Rethinking the Data Center Space
Presenter: Herb Villa, Data Center Solutions Specialist, Rittal

Maximum Data Center Cooling Efficiency

Presenter: Ian Seaton, Technology Marketing Manager, Chatsworth Products, Inc.


The Impact of Airflow Circulation in IT Cabinets and Best Practices to  Improve Reliability  and Reduce Energy Costs 
Presenter: Lars Strong, Services Production Manager, Upsite Technologies

A Case Study on Measurement and Monitoring: What You Need to Know
 
Presenter: Jim Smith, CTO, Digital Realty Trust

Practice What You Preach When Eating Your Own Dog Food: Featured IT Cost Savings Using Sustainable SAS Solutions

Presenter: Stephen Sanger, IT Manager, Service Availability Management, SAS Institute


Advances in Power Distribution on Computer Room Floors: NFPA-70E Safety; Selective-Trip Coordination; Risk-Analysis via Monitoring

Presenter: Milind M. Bhanoo, President and Co-Founder, LayerZero Power Systems, Inc.

Energy Gap Analysis - What Comes After You've Done the Obvious?
Presenter: John Stanley, Project Manager, Uptime Institute, Inc.

 
4:00PM
Breakout Sessions and Panels
(concurrent breakout sessions)

Lean
Panel: Asset Management and Utilization
Chair: Tony Ulichnie, Senior Faculty, Uptime Institute

Panel: Server Consolidation and Virtualization

Chair: Fred Mapp, President and CEO, Quality Service Solutions


Panel: DC PRO

Chair: Bill Tschudi, Principal Investigator, Applications Team, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory



Green

Panel: California's challenge: Ouside Air, no chillers: Engineering & IT duke it out

Chair: Roger R. Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM


Panel: Update from Standards Groups: Green Grid, EPA, ASHRAE

Chair: John Tuccillo, VP Global Industry and Legislative Initiatives, APCC 




Clean

Panel: LEED for data centers
Chair: Ray Pfeifer, VP Business Development, SynapSense Corporation

Panel: CSR & IT Alliances: where they have evolved?

Chair: Deborah Grove, Principal, Grove Associates and Institute Program Consultant




Institute 
(Uptime Institute with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Company)

Innovation Forum: Why Should Banks Compete with Search Engines on PUE? Different Data Center Types with Different Business Missions Need Different Efficiency Goals

Co-Chairs:  Ken Brill, Founder and Executive Director, Uptime Institute Inc. & Will Forrest, Associate Principal, McKinsey & Company


 
5:00PM
Exhibit Hall Opens


Technology/Business Innovation Presentations
(concurrent breakout sessions)


Intelligent Eco Monitoring: Enabling Facility and ICT Intelligence to Drive Eco Reporting 
Presenter: Christopher Kelley,  Global Consultant and Architect, Datacenter-Efficiency Consulting Practice, Sun Microsystems

Maximize Voltage to the Rack
Presenter: Rajan Battish, Principal, RTKL Associates Inc.

Measuring Power and Efficiency in the "Green" Data Center
Presenter: Calvin Nicholson, Director of Product Marketing, Server Technology, Inc.

Energy-Efficient Data Center Cooling Technologies & Strategies 
Presenter: Joerg Desler, Vice-President of Engineering and Production, Stulz Air Technology Systems, Inc.

Towards a Greener Data Center: Tools & Techniques Used at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Data Center
Presenter: Ray Pfeifer, VP Business Development, Synapsense Corporation, presenting the work of Greg Bell, Acting Chief Technology Architect at Lawrence Berkeley National Labs and David Edgar, IT Manager, Lawrence Berkeley National Labs

Protecting Against Intentional Electromagnetic Interference
Presenter: James Danburg, EMPrimus

"Ultra-Efficient" Optimization of Data Center Chilled Water Systems
Presenter: Marian Vidovic, Armstrong Limited

Efficiency from 380V DC Distribution to sub-1V processors - a Power Conversion Architecture Review

Presenter: Stephen Oliver, VP Marketing & Sales, V•I Chip, Vicor



     
Evening
     
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6:00PM
Grand Welcome Reception & Game-Changer Keynote
   
Lessons from the Sustainability Front Lines
Bill Weihl, Director of Energy Strategy, Google
Co-hosted by Premier Underwriters, Media & Affiliated Knowledge Partners APC, Digital Realty Trust, EDSA, HP, IBM, Johnson Controls, Site Uptime Network, McKinsey
  7:00PM Reception
 
9:00PM
Symposium & Exposition Hall closes for the day

Tuesday, April 14th


Morning
     
 
7:00AM
Registration Desk Opens
 
8:00AM
Symposium Opening / Day One Review
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8:30AM
Game-Changer Keynote
    The Green IT Debate
Larry Quinlan, CIO, Deloitte
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9:45AM
Premier Keynote Interviews
    No Blank Checks: Even Most Uncompromising IT Environments Imaginable are Deploying Energy Management Programs, Using Power Analytics
Mark Ascolese, Chairman and CEO of EDSA with Michael L. Siegele, Chief Engineer, Facilities Engineering Support, VISA International and Edwin Lawless, Director of IT Facilities, National Geospatial Agency

When High Density and High Efficiency Collide
Neil Rasmussen, CIO of APC
with Richard Siedzik, Director of Networking and Telecommunications, Bryant University
 
11:00AM
Exposition Hall Opens
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10:45AM
Game-Changer Keynote
    Heads Up!  Your Carbon Footprint is Under Scrutiny!  HP's Approach to Sustainability
Bonnie Nixon, Vice-President, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard
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12:00PM
Game-Changer Keynote
    Google's Data Center Energy Efficiency Innovations

Christopher G. Malone, PhD, Data Center Research and Development, Google


Afternoon
     
 
12:45PM
Lunch Break
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1:30PM
Track Roundtables
    Lean
Collaboratively Managing the Inefficiencies of the Data Center

Chair: Chuck Vermillion, CEO, OneNeck

Green
Enterprise IT Executives and Data Center Owners: Tell Your Electric Utilities What They Need From Them

Chair: Mark Bramfitt, Principal Program Manager Customer Energy Efficiency, PG&E Co.

Clean

Global Perspectives: What Do We Hear from EMEA, Asia-Pacific?

Chair: Bonnie Nixon, Vice-President, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard


Institute
(Uptime Institute with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Company)
Progress Report: Industry Progress on Implementing '08 Recommendations for Revolutionizing Efficiency

Presenters: Ken Brill, Founder and Executive Director, Uptime Institute and John Stanley, Project Manager, Uptime Institute
 
2:45PM
Technology/Business Innovation Presentations
(concurrent breakout sessions)


A Major Advancement in AC Power Distribution
Presenter: Neil Rasmussen, CIO, APC with
Richard Siedzik. Director of Networking and Telecommunications, Bryant University

Going Green with a Flexible, Economical and Modular Computing Solution
Presenter: John Lee, Vice-President of Advanced Technology Solutions, Appro

Using Simulation to Maximize Cooling System Efficiency without Compromising IT Equipment Resilience in Today's Mission Critical Facilities 
Presenter: Sherman Ikemoto, General Manager, North America, Future Facilities

Save Up to 45 Percent in Total Cost of Ownership with Modular Power and Cooling Infrastructure
Presenter: Gary Rackow, Vice-President of Sales, Americas, Active Power, Inc.

The Path to Best Practices: Using ITIL v3 to Integrate IT and FM Core Processes
Presenter: John Richard, Customer Business Director, Global Critical Environments - CSC, Johnson Controls with Greg Clark, Global Portfolio Director, Data Center Services, CSC and Tony Ulichnie, Senior Faculty, Uptime Institute

Three Steps to Perfectly Green 
Presenter: Wouter Kok, Senior Consultant, Department of Laboratories, Industry & Telecom, Deerns Consulting Engineers

Power Analytics, the model based approach to availability, energy and resource management

Presenter: Kevin Meagher, CTO, EDSA 


The Shape of Things to Come   (Apologies to H.G. Wells)

Presenter: Chris Johnston, PE, SVP, National Critical Facilities Chief Engineer, Syska Hennessy Group


 
3:30PM
Breakout Sessions and Panels
(concurrent breakout sessions)

Lean

Panel: Measurement and benchmarking technology to reduce power consumption

Chair: Jim Smith, CTO, Digital Realty Trust


Panel: High density computer room power capacity planning

Chair: Kevin Meagher, CTO, EDSA


Panel: Configuration management and change management (ITIL and energy efficiency)
Chair: Tony Ulichnie, Senior Faculty, Uptime Institute



Green

Presentation: DOE Save Energy Now, EPA Energy Star
Presenters: Paul Scheihing, Technology Manager, Industrial Technologies Program, US DOE and Andrew Fanara, Team Leader, ENERGY STAR Product Specifications, US EPA

Presentation: Chips slim down energy requirements
Presenters: Mohamed M. Zahran, Assistant Professor Department of Electrical Engineering, City College of New York and Simha Sethumadhavan, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Columbia University


Clean
Presentation: Can you get leaner, cleaner & greener?
An underground data center case study for Salt Union Ltd.

Presenter: Ian F Bitterlin,PhD BSc(Hons), DipDesInn MCIBSE MIET MIEEE


Panel: Sustainable computing in the news
Chair: Matt Stansberry, Executive Editor, SearchDataCenter.com

Presentation: A blast of fresh air - direct cooling in data center design
Presenters: John Mullan, Managing Director, Househam Henderson Architects and Brian Waddell, Director, Norman Disney & Young


Institute
(Uptime Institute with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Company)

Innovation Forum: 

Executive-level Strategic Discussion of Free Outside Air Cooling - Risks and Benefits

Chair: Roger Schmidt, ASHRAE TC9.9 Chair and IBM Distinguished Engineer
 
4:30PM
Technology/Business Innovation Presentations
(concurrent breakout sessions)


On-Site Combined Heating and Power (CHP) For Data Centers

Presenter: Cliff Braddock, Director of On-Site Energy Services, Turbine Air Systems

Measuring Power in the Data Center: The Roadmap to Your PUE and Carbon Footprint
Presenters: Herman Chan, Director of Power Solutions Business Unit, Raritan with John Fouke, IT Manager, Unit 7 (a division of Omnicom Group)

Achieving a "Green" Power Protection System for High Density Data Centers 
Presenter: Brad Roberts, Director of Power Quality Systems, S&C Electric Company

Air Conditioning Retrofit at a Major Petrochemical Data Center in Texas
Presenters: Joseph "Nick" Gangemi
Mike Lawler, Regional Managers, DataAire, Inc. 

Efficient Computing: Practical Solutions for Lean, Clean & Green
Presenter: Bob Summers, CEO, Energyware

Performance Management for the Green Data Center 
Presenter: Donald Klein, Vice-President of Marketing & Business Development, Modius

Applying Lessons Learned from Manufacturing Plants to the Data Center
Presenter: Martin Otterson, Managing Director, Data Center & IT Solutions Group, OSIsoft, Inc.

The Evolution of Access Flooring: Greening ITʼs Physical Platform Through Recovery and Reinvestment

Presenter: Robert Boyle, Founder and President, Access Floors Online


     
Evening
     
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5:30PM
Energy Czar Roundtable
  6:30PM Symposium & Exposition Networking Reception
to recognize and honor Site Uptime Members
 
9:00PM
Symposium & Exposition Hall closes for the day

Wednesday, April 15th


Morning
     
 
7:00AM
Registration Desk Opens
 
8:00AM
Plenary
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8:30AM
Global Update: Cisco TelePresence
   

The International View of Revolutionizing Data Center Efficiency: Government, NGO, Private Sector Policy- and Thought-leaders from North America, EMEA and Asia-Pacific open discussion

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9:30AM
Global "Open-Mike" Discussion
   

Response and reaction to the global videoconference

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10:45AM
Game-Changer Keynote
   

Greening IT: Stories from the Green Building Front

Christine Ervin, Consultant, U.S. Green Building Council's first President & CEO; U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy, Clinton Administration

 
11:00AM
Exposition Hall Opens
   11:45AM Lunch Break
     
Afternoon
     
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12:30PM
Premier Keynote Interviews
   

Energy Investment Strategies for Challenging Times

Kathleen Hogan, Director of Climate Protection Partnerships Division, US EPA


Understanding Power Requirements, the Key to Energy Efficiency: A Customer Case Study

Chris Crosby, Senior Vice-President, Digital Realty Trust
with Chad Parris, Vice-President of Technical Operations, Currenex
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2:00PM
Track Roundtables
   

Lean

Is Cloud Computing, Outsourcing and/or Co-Location the Lever to Efficiency?

Chair: Amy Wohl, President, Wohl Associates


Clean

Expanding Green IT: From Cradle to Cradle (No More Landfills)

Chair: Bonnie Nixon, Vice-President, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard

Green

The Near-Future of Data Center Energy 

Chair: Mark Bramfitt, Principal Program Manager Customer Energy Efficiency, PG&E Co.


Institute

(Uptime Institute with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Company)  

Is There a Business Case for Cloud Computing?

Presenter: Will Forrest, Partner, McKinsey & Company 

 
3:15PM
Technology/Business Innovation Presentations
(concurrent breakout sessions)

Kyoto Cooling: A Convenient Truth?
Presenter: Mees Lodder, Director of Sales, Kyoto Cooling

Data Center Power Integration with Renewable Energy Sources
Presenter: Rudy Kraus, CEO, Validus

Total Cost of Ownership Savings Through Green Battery Technology
Presenter: Ken Sabo, Product Manager, UPS Products, C&D Technologies, Inc.

Energy Saving Opportunities

Presenter: Roger Schmidt, Distinguished Engineer, IBM Systems and Technology Group, IBM

Enabling the Data Center of the Future Utilizing Green IT
Presenter: Dave Driggers, CTO and Co-Founder, Verari Systems 

Using Airflow Simulation to Meet Cooling Challenges in Data Centers 
Presenter: Amir Radmehr, Director of Sales and Marketing, Tile Flow

Data Center Effectiveness - A Demand Driven Approach to Green IT

Presenter: Tony Bishop, CEO and Co-Founder, Adaptivity Inc.


 
4:00PM
Lean, Clean, & Green – Panels
(concurrent breakout sessions by Track)

Lean
Panel: Cloud Computing & Software as a Service (SaaS)

Chair: James Houghton, CTO, Adaptivity


Panel: Outsourcing and Colocation Decision-Making Process

Chair: Fred Mapp, President and CEO, Quality Service Solutions; and Senior Faculty, Uptime Instititue Inc.


Panel: Negotiating the Outsourcing Deal
Presenter: Mark Grossman, Esq., Grossman Law Group

Panel: Collaboration Between IT, Facilities, & Finance

Chair: Lynda Pak, Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP



Green
Presentation: Modular Data Center Deployment
Presenters: Peter Kangas, Program Executive, Global Critical Facilities, Turner Logistics; Mike Sweeney, Project Manager, Process IMprovement / Lean, Turner Logistics; and Ben Kaplan, VP / General Manager, Turner Logistics


Presentation: Optimizing Chilled Water Production - An Overlooked Opportunity to Reduce Datacenter Energy Usage and Extend Operating Life

Presenter: Mike Flaherty, General Manager, TekWorx


Clean
Panel: Whole IT Ecosystem Novel Innovative Collaboration Works!

Chair: Deborah Grove, Principal, Grove Associates and Institute Program Consultant


Panel: The Urban Real Estate Crunch: Issues with Siting in Urban Areas
Chair: Shally Bansal Stanley, Managing Director, Acumen Solutions, Inc.

Institute
(Uptime Institute with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Company)
Tier Certification: Program Update and Benefit

Presenters: Julian Kudritzki, UIPS VP Operations and Development and Certification Manager and W.Pitt Turner IV PE, Managing Partner of UIPS and Senior Certification Authority for Uptime Institute
 
5:00PM

Technology/Business Innovation Presentations
(concurrent breakout sessions)

Maximum Data Center Cooling Efficiency

Presenter: Ian Seaton, Technology Marketing Manager, Chatsworth Products, Inc.

Data Center Wide Managed Cooling Distribution

Presenter: Mark Germagian, President, Opengate Data Systems

Don't be Left Stranded: How to Remove the Risk from Load Migration without Breaking the Bank  

Presenter: Carl Cottuli, Vice-President of Product Development and Services, Wright Line

Cell Computing

Presenter: Simon Rohrich, Founding Member and Chief Technologist, Elliptical Mobile Solutions 

Raise Your PDI Q with High Efficiency Transformers and Load Monitoring 

Presenter: Dave Mulholland, Vice-President of Marketing and Service, Power Distribution Incorporated (PDI)

Iceland:  Chillers Cost a Fortune.  Good Thing You Won't Need Them 

Presenter: Thordur Hilmarsson, Managing Director, Invest in Iceland with Valdi Sigurdsson MD of Verne Global

Breakthrough Density and Energy-Efficiency for Clustering Computing 

Presenter: Geoffrey Noer, Vice President of Product Management, Rackable

Maximizing Energy Efficiency and Reliability 

Presenter: Christopher Kurkjian, Manager and Practice Leader, Mission Critical Design Services, HP Critical Facilities Services and Peter Gross, Vice President and General Manager, HP Critical Facilities Services
     
Special Green Enterprise IT Awards Evening
     
 
5:45PM
Awards Ceremony
    Green Enterprise IT Awards
U.S. Department of Energy Awards
Global Green 100 Corporate Nominee Recognition
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Pultizer-Prize-winner, New York Times Foreign Affairs Columnist, Author of No. 1 best-seller,

"Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America"



  8:00PM Green Enterprise IT Awards Reception in Exposition Hall
 
9:30PM
Symposium & Exposition Hall closes for the day

Thursday, April 16th


 
Morning
     
 
7:00AM
Registration Desk Opens
 
8:00AM
Plenary
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8:30AM
Game-Changer Keynote
    Will the Global Recession Speed Enterprise IT into the Cloud?
Amy Wohl, new and emerging technology consultant and author of Succeeding at Saas: Computing in the Cloud
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9:45AM
Premier Keynote Interviews
    What Can Power Utilities Do to Incentivize Energy Efficiency?
Will Forrest of McKinsey & Company interviews Mark Bramfitt, Principal Program Manager, Customer Energy Efficiency, Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Ralph Renne, Site Operations Manager, NetApp

   10:30AM Plenary Roundtable
    Carrot & Stick: Can the Government Make Energy Efficiency Improvement More Economically Viable for Utilities & Rate Payers? Should it?

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11:30AM
Game-Changer Keynote
   

Building a Smarter Planet: Sustainability and the Role of IT

Rich Lechner, Vice-President for Energy and the Environment, IBM 
Afternoon
     
 
12:30PM
Lunch Break

Lunch Session: Institute
(with Knowledge Partner McKinsey & Co.)

Utilizing the Full Range of the ASHRAE Environmental Guidelines to Increase Cooling Efficiency
Chair: Dr. Robert Sullivan
 
2:00PM
Green Enterprise IT Awards Case Brief
(7 concurrent sessions)

Integrated Design of Green High Density Data Center
Presenter: eNation

Free Air-Conditioning POC

Presenter: Intel

Green IT Initiatives

Presenter: Mass Mutual Financial Group

US Postal Service Cuts Centers' Power Losses Through Improved Power Conversion Technology

Presenter: Powersmiths International

Verdiem SURVEYOR Increases Business Profitability and Sustainability

Presenter: Verdiem

Grid Heating Clusters: Transforming Cooling Constraints into Thermal Benefits 

Presenter: University of Notre Dame Center for Research Computing

5NINES New MegaGreen Data Campus 

Presenter: 5NINES Data Centres
 

2:45PM

Green Enterprise IT Awards Case Brief
(7 concurrent sessions)

The World's First LEED Gold-Certified Data Center for New Constrution

Presenter: Citigroup with HP

AOL Enterprise-Wide Data Center Optimization Project

Presenter: AOL

The Evolutionary Process Toward Efficiency

Presenter: NetApp

Containerized Green Data Center Technology

Presenter: Verari Systems

InRow Products with Active Response Controls & Integrated Thermal Containment

Presenter: APC by Schneider Electric

Utility IT Energy Efficiency Coalition 

Presenter: Pacific Gas and Electric

Free Cooling in Munich Data Center 

Presenter: UniCredit Group
 
3:30PM
Plenary Closing Session

An Industry Call to Action:  What Will You Do Differently Tomorrow?
     
Evening
     
  6:00PM Symposium 2009 Officially Ends