Paint IT Green Conference
A Guide to Lowering Your ICT Carbon from Data Centre to Desktop
8 September 2010
The University is recognised as a sector leader in environmental management, being placed in the top 5 Universities on the People and Planet Green League over the last 3 years, shortlisted for two Datacenter Dynamics awards in 2009 and Finalist in the Green Gown awards 2010.
For more information please contact the Information Hertfordshire SBU Office at ihsbuoffice@herts.ac.uk
The conference has come about because of the University’s JISC-sponsored project to Reduce and Re-Use Energy in Institutional Data Centres (RARE-IDC). From the start the RARE-IDC project sought to incorporate low carbon sustainable solutions but also further establish the University as a national leader in sustainable ICT. The grant funding from JISC has a number of dissemination objectives to achieve.
- To identify, evaluate and disseminate transferable good practice models in respect of the above.
- To work with the JISC community to share the experiences and approaches to assist other institutions to meet their goals
- To provide a detailed guide for other institutions to follow to achieve the same levels of cooling, power and waste heat management efficiency.
- To collaborate generally with other green computing projects and specifically with the other institutions involved with the ‘environmental sustainability’ strand.
The conference will be held at the University’s Fielder Centre on the 8th September 2010, and the agenda is as follows:
Agenda
| Time | Programme |
|---|---|
| 09:00 | Registration / Refreshments |
| 09:40 | Welcome Address Speaker: Professor Di Martin, CIO University of Hertfordshire Introduction to the day |
| 10:00 | Keynote: 'Shared services': increased energy efficiency via consolidation in larger facilities Speaker: Dr Ian Bitterlin, Chief Technology Officer, Prism Power Ltd. |
| 10:30 | Break & Refreshments |
| 11:00 | A Best Practice Guide to Greening the Micro Data Centre Speaker: Steve Phipps, Data Centres Manager, University of Hertfordshire. The University of Hertfordshire is committed to “Green IT” and this case study is an exemplar of environmental best practice within the sector. Part-funded by JISC, this became a national success story in the UK public sector under the initiative to Reduce and Re-use Energy in Institutional Data Centres (RARE-IDC), the core aim of which was to demonstrate innovation in both sustainable service provision and energy efficient solutions, while contributing to the national “Green Agenda”. |
| 11:40 | Useful Strategies for Improving Environmental Performance Speaker: Katherine O'Brien, Environmental Coordinator, University of Hertfordshire. Improving environmental performance is high on the public sector agenda. The University of Hertfordshire has been committed to a sustainability strategy for several years - this commitment combined with careful planning and pioneering initiatives have led to the University’s outstanding third place ranking in the People and Planet Green League. Find out how UH is working towards a more sustainable future and how you can improve your own organisation’s environmental performance. |
| 12:00 | The Cost of Data Centre Ownership Speaker: Pete Sands, Lead Data Centre Design Consultant, Future-Tech SCI
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| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 | "When Should I Do My Bit” (Workshop) Speaker: Howard Noble, Principle Investigator, Oxford University Making IT systems more efficient is worthy but only a small part of the green IT problem. To meet greenhouse gas emission targets people need to behave more efficiently too. In this workshop we will discuss ways of using the Internet to encourage people to do their bit. |
| 14:00 | Providing a Green Benchmark Speaker: Steve Phipps, Data Centres Manager, University of Hertfordshire. A Sustainable ICT Maturity Model (SIMM). Providing guidance on ROI and carbon reduction |
| 14:30 | What CRC means for HE/FE/Public Sector and what to do about it. Speaker: Mark Johnson, Consultant, AEA Group |
| 15:00 | Break & Refreshments |
| 15:30 | Panel Discussion Chair: Professor Andrew Starr, Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities, University of Hertfordshire Topic: How can ICT be used to improve sustainability, and what contribution is it currently making and can continue to make in the future? Panel: TBC |
| 16:00-16:30 | Wrap Up of the Day Speaker: Richard Smeeton, Chief Technology Officer, University of Hertfordshire |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Networking / Refreshments |
Target
I.T. Directors, CTOs, Data Centre Managers, Data Centre Project Managers, and Energy Managers.
