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Speakers at the Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit 2008 include:
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Dr. Hugh Beedie
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
CARDIFF UNIVERSITY |
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Dr Hugh Beedie is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Information Services (INSRV) as well as ARCCA.
He has been working in Cardiff University for over 25 years, carrying out a range of technology related roles in the computing service, He was responsible for developing Cardiff's Local and Wide area networks from the early days of dumb terminals and no Internet, through to the more recent period of Gigabit ethernet networking and a ubiquitous Internet. Along with the development of the underlying network, he has also led the teams responsible for developing many workstation and server-based IT services for the entire campus.
He has been CTO of INSRV and ARCCA since September 2006, and since that time has been working on three main areas; the creation of ARCCA and the project for the ARCCA SRIF3-funded tender for HPC equipment, the University's Modern Working Environment (MWE) programme, and an energy saving programme for all IT services.
His major role as Technical Design Authority in the MWE Programme is to ensure that all University IT Services are designed to interoperate with maximum functionality and minimum complexity, according to well defined IT Standards.
His ARCCA responsibilities are to ensure that, although separate from INSRV, ARCCA's services will seamlessly integrate with those of INSRV. He has also played a major role in, and was the original INSRV sponsor of the Condor Compute service.
His energy saving remit is supported by his membership of the University's Energy Management initiative, and is being satisfied by technical workstation and server design changes, investigation and change of the cooling systems used in the University's data centres, and advice on purchasing policies and user education to minimise energy consumption of PCs.
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Dave Carter
HEAD
MANCHESTER DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (MDDA)
MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL |
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Dave Carter is Head of the Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) at Manchester City Council. MDDA coordinates information society initiatives across the Greater Manchester city-region including community-based broadband initiatives and the ONE-Manchester Partnership Digital Challenge initiative. MDDA focuses on how digital technologies can support economic regeneration and social inclusion. The ONE-Manchester Partnership takes the lead within the Digital Challenge 10 (DC10) network on the Next Generation Connectivity workstream. He was one of the founder members of the Telecities network (part of Eurocities) and first President of Telecities (1994-96) and is currently involved in a range of EU funded projects including through the Interreg, Seventh Framework (FP7) and Intelligent Energy Europe (IEE) Programmes.
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Richard Clark
COUNTRY MANAGER
RARITAN |
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Richard Clark is the Country Manager for Raritan in the UK and Ireland. Raritan has been designing and manufacturing world leading remote data centre management and intelligent power control systems for nearly 23 years.
Originally working in the broadcast industry, he has worked in the IT industry for nearly 12 years at various senior design, operational and sales leading roles. He obtained his 1st degree in Electrical Engineering and a Masters in Engineering Design.
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Steve Clarke
SYSTEMS & OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
AOL BROADBAND (PART OF THE CARPHONE WAREHOUSE GROUP) |
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Steve Clarke is the current Systems & Operations Director at AOL Broadband, Top 6 UK ISP with 2.4+million UK customers, part of the FTSE100 Carphone Warehouse Group.
Steve joined AOL Time-Warner UK from the Wellcome Trust in 2004 where he became Head of Internal Computing at AOL UK. In this role, he was responsible for leading the corporate technology function supporting thousands of users located throughout the UK and Ireland. He has held various technical and management positions in support, programme management, and information technology service delivery.
Steve’s operational responsibility is to keep AOL Broadband systems running and growing by delivering such critical information capabilities as business applications, productivity solutions, voice and data networking, data centre operations, and custom information solutions.
As Systems & Operations Director at AOL Broadband his most recent major achievement has been innovating and driving the new service delivery programme resulting from one of the worlds largest ISP transition programs (AOL-Time Warner, CPW, AOL Broadband UK – a £354 Million investment )
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Jim Craig
PRACTICE MARKETING MANAGER - SOFTWARE
SUN MICROSYSTEMS |
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Jim Craig will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint Energy Efficient IT Summit 2008.
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Bob Crooks
HEAD OF BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
DEFRA |
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Bob has worked in the public IT sector since starting his career back in 1975. A Project Manager by trade he is currently the lead for Defra’s Green ICT programme on which he reports to the Defra CIO. This is evolving practices and use of technologies that seek to reduce energy consumption and improve the sustainability of ICT and move towards changing employee behaviours by encouraging more intelligent use of ICT eg to reduce paper and the need for office presence. He is working with Defra Estates to exploit synergies with Defra’s future Facilities Management contractor to provide workplace services that support greater mobility and use of virtual spaces. He also represents Defra on the HMG CIO/CTO Green ICT Development Unit that is developing the HMG Green ICT strategy.
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Ashley Davis
MANAGING DIRECTOR
JPMorgan Chase |
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Ashley Davis is a Managing Director with JPMorgan Chase. Ashley is responsible for the firms Data Centre strategy and their global Technology Sustainability program. Ashley has a MSc in Intelligent Building Design awarded in 2005. Prior to joining JPMC in 2005, Ashley was Managing Director with CS Technology, a specialist consultancy in the design and operation of Mission Critical Facilities. Ashley has held senior management positions with Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley.
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Dai Davis
PARTNER
BROOKE NORTH LLP |
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Dai Davis is a Technology Lawyer. He has degrees in both Physics and Computing Science. As well as being a solicitor, he is a qualified Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is now a partner at Brooke North LLP, having previously held the posts of National Head of IT law and National Head of IP law at Eversheds. Dai advises clients on intellectual property, computer and technology law subjects including such topical matters as E-Commerce issues. He is primarily a non-contentious lawyer, specialising in advising on information technology partnering agreements, outsourcing and intellectual property licences. He also has considerable experience advising businesses on product liability and product safety issues relating to Technology products.
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Gary Hird
TECHNICAL STRATEGY MANAGER
JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP |
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Gary is responsible for making sure that JLP has the right strategy for its IT infrastructure and that this is fully aligned with business strategy. His team identify and track emerging technologies and properly assess their likely impact on the Partnership, maintaining a “roadmap” of developments in that technology area over the next three to five years, and progressing initiatives from identification of candidate technologies through to trials and successful delivery. Since Autumn 2006 Gary has taken responsibility for progressing "Green IT" initiatives for John Lewis and Waitrose.
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Peter Hopton
MANAGING DIRECTOR
VeryPC |
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An electronic engineering graduate from the University of Sheffield, Peter started an IT consultancy specialising in ethical services to the voluntary sector. During the running of this consultancy, Peter supplied equipment from large IT manufacturers and was struck by the increased amount of power, heat and noise being generated by these big brand computers. He encouraged greener models, but found power consumption just kept increasing.
In February 2004, Peter founded VeryPC, a company formed to produce more energy efficient and ethical IT equipment, the first GreenPC was launched in 2005 and featured an AMD turion laptop processor and passive cooling.
Since the release of the first GreenPC, further innovations have been developed, the 29W treeton, the 9W per user GreenHive, and the incredibly energy efficient GreenServers.
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John Killey
HEAD OF EMEA
CITIGROUP REALTY SERVICES |
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John Killey is Head of EMEA for Citi Realty Services (CRS) responsible for over 13.2 million sq. feet of real estate in over 1,651 properties across 52 countries in EMEA. In addition he is co head of the CRS Sustainability Group whose vision is to guide CRS into becoming the recognized industry leader in sustainable real estate management.
John is a Chartered Engineer with over 25 years’ experience in the design, operation and maintenance of corporate, retail and commercial premises. Prior to joining Citi in 1995, John was a director of an engineering consultancy practice providing facilities management and design services to numerous blue chip clients in the financial services and associated industries in both the UK and Europe.
John’s initial role in Citi was as the Chief Engineer and Senior Asset Manager for the UK region of CRS and since then he has held several roles across Europe and EMEA. In these roles John has taken an active involvement in the design and operation of several of Citi’s landmark buildings in EMEA and has always taken a particular interest in the issues of sustainability in building design and operation.
John was born in London and holds an engineering degree from the University of Aston In Birmingham. He is a Chartered Building Service Engineer.
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James (Jim) A. Miller
ASSISTANT VICE PRESIDENT, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT
ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR |
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Jim is an Assistant Vice President of the Information Technology department of Enterprise Rent-A-Car. In this capacity Jim has responsibilities for many of the IT infrastructure processes, including the oversight of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car data centers. Jim has had the opportunity to provide executive management leadership with the construction of a new data center and three data center expansion projects. The most recent expansion was completed in 2006 and has been designed and constructed to accommodate high density servers.
Prior to Jim’s fifteen year career with Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Jim worked with IBM for over 20 years.
Jim earned his Bachelor of Science degree from St. Mary’s University of San Antonio Texas and completed his Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Missouri – Rolla.
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Phil Nail
FOUNDER AND CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
AFFORDABLE INTERNET SERVICES ONLINE, INC. (AISO) |
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Phil Nail, founder and chief technology officer for Affordable Internet Services Online, Inc. (AISO), conceived the company out of an inspired “What if” moment. In the mid 1990s, Nail began brainstorming to create a “green” web hosting and network environment that would use the power of the California sun, in lieu of energy produced through traditional fuel sources. To implement his vision, he moved his family 50 miles from the sun-drenched coast of Dana Point to the arid desert of Romoland, Calif. where, ironically, the nearest town is called Sun City.
In Romoland, Nail turned his “what if” vision and commitment to an ecologically-friendly IT infrastructure into a highly respected, successful business thousands of clients worldwide and hosted the worldwide event held on July 7th www.liveearth.org. The AISO data center began as a steel framed building with 12” thick walls filled with recycled materials. Approximately 120 solar panels were thoughtfully positioned on the property to supply the power source for both the business and the family’s home. Natural sunlight and solar tubes replaced the need for conventional lighting. A water-cooled system provides the cooling systems essential to the data center. Nail had a series of custom-built “white box” servers installed and word of its environmentally-friendly web hosting capabilities spread. Nail now has converted his complete network to use IBM x series servers and IBM Blade Center servers, VMWare for virtualization and Netapp clustered San for data. This virtualization made his hosting service even more energy efficient. Satisfied customers who valued the ecologically sound IT environment, as well as, business, technology and environmental media touted the highly-reliable “green” web hosting and networking resources of AISO.
Nail has ensured AISO is one of the few truly “green” hosting environments that relies exclusively on clean energy--power generated by solar panels. While many companies purchase green energy credits and claim to be “green,” they actually use traditional power. Nail has also been closely involved in implementing the virtual terminal (thin client) into a hosted solution for small to medium businesses worldwide.
Today, Nail continues to test other innovative ways to continue down the green path. The current project is to power the cooling systems using a generator powered by wvo (waste vegetable oil). This will to further his calling for the use of clean energy and environmentally-friendly solutions for the industry.
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Feidhlim O’Neill
SNR. DIRECTOR OF INTERNATIONAL OPERATIONS
Yahoo! |
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Feidhlim O’Neill has worked for Yahoo! both in New York and in London in various engineering and operations roles since 2002. Feidhlim was appointed Snr. Director of International Operations at Yahoo! in April 2008 and is responsible for Yahoo!’s extensive technology infrastructure outside the United States. Prior to Yahoo! Feidhlim held senior management roles in Internet (Hotjobs.com) and Retail (Barnes and Noble Inc.) organizations and started his career in the New York Stock Exchange in the client-server production operations team.
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David Reilly
MANAGING DIRECTOR AND HEAD OF TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES
CREDIT SUISSE |
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David Reilly is a Managing Director of Credit Suisse and the Head of Technology Infrastructure Services, based in New York. He has responsibility for the Data Centers and all other technology infrastructure that supports applications and end users for the Bank globally. Previously, he was responsible for global technology infrastructure for the Investment Bank.
Mr. Reilly joined Credit Suisse First Boston in July 2004 from Goldman Sachs where he was a Managing Director in Global Technology Operations. Prior to that, Mr. Reilly worked in Enterprise Technology Services at Merrill Lynch in several capacities, including director of engineering infrastructure services and head of debt site and account management.
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Andy Smale
SENIOR IT CONSULTANT
HAMPSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL |
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Andy is a Senior IT Consultant with Hampshire County Council’s IT Services department. A physics graduate from Sheffield University, Andy has 11 years’ experience with the county working on various technical and management roles with Oracle, SAP, Windows and Citrix technology, and is now taking a lead role in the department’s Green IT Task Force.
The Green IT Task Force is reviewing the majority of IT operations across the county, with a view to understanding how sustainable its services are, identifying areas where the department can improve its green credentials, and measuring progress against targets. A particular area of focus is schools, which collectively have an estimated 60,000 desktop machines – a number which is rapidly growing, and presenting a challenge in respect of controlling corporate electricity consumption.
The Task Force is coordinating its work with other departments including Environment and Property Services, and is increasingly working with external organisations that can offer expertise in aspects such as culture change. Its work will tie in closely with other corporate projects to reduce the county’s carbon footprint, rationalise the building estate, and promote flexible and mobile working across the 37,000-strong workforce.
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| LBC is pleased to announce this groundbreaking summit . . More |
Ashley Davis, Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase
David Reilly, Managing Director and Head of Technology Infrastructure Services, Credit Suisse
Jim Miller, Assistant Vice-President of IT, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
Feidlhim O’Neill, Snr. Director of International Operations, Yahoo!
Gary Hird, Technical Strategy Manager, John Lewis Partnership
Steve Clarke, Systems & Operations Director, AOL
John Killey, Head of EMEA, Citigroup Realty Services
Simon Palinkas, Green IT Programme Manager, Tesco
Dai Davis, Partner, Brooke North LLP
Phil Nail, Founder and CTO, AISO.net
Paolo Bertoldi , Programme Manager, European Commission DG JRC, Institute for Environment and Sustainability
Andrew Fanara, Product Specifications Team Leader, US EPA Energy Star Program
Dave Carter, Manchester Digital Development
Agency (MDDA), Manchester City Council
Bob Crooks, Head of Business Relationship Management, Defra
Andy Smale, Senior IT Consultant, Hampshire County Council
Gerard Leahy, Director, Distributed Platform Modernisation, Credit Suisse
Victor C. Smith, Enterprise Technologist, EMEA Technology Team, Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, Server Platforms, The Green Grid
Senior Representative From, Unilever
Dr. Hugh Beedie, Chief Technology Officer, Cardiff University
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