7 - 8 AM  Registration / Exhibitors open

Randy Mott, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer, HP, "HP: Lean, Mean & Green"

Mott was behind HP's amazingly-successful 2006-2008 bid to triple data bandwidth, collapse 85 datacenters to just six, cut through legacy tech and application complexity, shift procedures so that 70% of IT time is spent on innovation (while cutting IT spending in half), and save HP over $1 billion annually in energy costs.

Track 1: 

Sean McKeown, IT Director of Service Operations, Oracle “"Sustainability to Drive Operational Efficiency".  

Discover best practices for enabling an eco-enterprise and learn how you can reduce your environmental footprint while reducing costs as well. 

Track 2: 

William Haman,  Industrial Program Manager, Iowa Energy Center
Tom Budler, General Manager - Wind Development, MidAmerican Energy Company
“The Nuts and Bolts of Wind Energy”

You'll walk away with windmills on your mind and a full plate of practical info on how wind-power works, where it's going, and how your organization can cost-project, finance, engineer and profitably deploy wind generation projects at scales small and large.

Track 3: 

Jim Borendame, Executive Vice President Head of Enterprise Hosting Services, Wells Fargo “Reducing Wells Fargo’s Carbon Footprint through Efficient Data Centers ”

Datacenter re-engineering, server virtualization, storage and power management work hand-in-glove with enterprise-wide energy culture-change in Borendame's master plan.

Track 4:  

Erik van Ommeren, Director of Innovation, Sogeti  “Future of IT with a sky full of Clouds”

Cloud Computing is on everybody’s minds these days. But how will it change the IT industry? How will it change business? Are we really ready for a ‘big switch’ or is this merely the latest in a series of developments? In this presentation we will discuss the future of IT, how Cloud computing relates to doing business and what will change with the role of the IT department.

Track 1:  

Toby J. Velte, Ph.D., international best-selling author, Microsoft Corporation “Green IT: Environmental Sustainability - The New Imperative”

Track 2: 

William A. Johnson, Manager, Biofuels development, Alliant Energy “Biomass and the Emerging Bio Energy Economy”

You'll learn how biomass, biofuels, and the bioenergy supply chain work, and get a line on latest results of Alliant's burn-testing and coal-substitution experiments, using biomass as fuel.

Track 3:  

Kevin Monson, President of Neuman Monson
Tom Struve,  Assistant VP of Central Services at ACT
“ACT Data Center: First LEED® Platinum Level Certification in the U.S.”

A detailed presentation on LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) concepts and energy conservation techniques used in constructing ACT's new datacenter -- the only LEED Platinum rated facility in the world.

Track 4:   

Mark VanderWiele, Distinguished Engineer, Cloud Computing, IBM Corporation
Mark Wagner, Program Director, Cloud Computing Initiatives, IBM Corporation
(Panel) “Cloud Computing:  Responding to changes and expanding business flexibility”

Get the numbers on how virtualization and cloud technologies can help you 'dematerialize' your DC and reap huge benefits in efficiency by every measure.

Simon Mingay, VP of Research, Gartner Research  “Gartner’s Sustainability Scenario”

Use Mingay's common-sense discipline around 'dematerialization,' analytics and process control to start measuring and making changes today, so your organization can profit tomorrow.

Una Song, Energy Star Program Manager, US Environmental Protection Agency

Get an advance peek at contemplated changes in that widely-trusted consumer-product specification, and implications to business, organizations, manufacturers and the economy at large.

Track 1: 

Doug Oathout, Green IT Vice President, HP
Mark Stewart, Co-Founder and COO, TEAM Companies
Diane Munns, VPof Regulatory Relations and Energy Efficiency, MidAmerican Energy
Peter Beniaris, INSIGHT
(Panel) “The Evolution of Green IT: Powering Data Center Efficiency”

Track 2: 

Nicolas Lennsen, Senior Specialist, Market & Customer Intelligence, Vestas Americas Wind Technologies "Wind Power: Leading the Energy Revolution" 

Track 3: 

Kevin Nordmeyer, AIA, LEED AP, Director, Iowa Energy Center "The Iowa Energy Center: Assisting Iowans in Assessing Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies   - Integrated Design for High Performance Building"

Track 4: 

Micheal Austin, Vice President, BYD America “Driving Green Trends over the next 10 years”

Bill Weihl, Green Energy Czar, Google “Inventing a Clean Energy Future: Lessons from the Sustainability Front Lines”

If you're involved in goal-setting for IT, or contemplating a datacenter-reengineering process, you owe it to your career and your company's future to learn how Bill and Google are helping invent a clean energy future.