Events:

Achieving Greater Productivity and Environmental Sustainability - Sustainability, IT, and resource efficiency related business decisions are key priorities for many companies. Resource efficiency directly impacts your company’s bottom line. As IT drives towards increased resource efficiency, you are faced with a number of questions. In what ways can data center efficiency impact my company? What is the business impact as we increase our business’s IT resource efficiency? How can we calculate my business’s carbon and water usage? These questions and more will be answered at The Green Grid Forum 2012.

Come celebrate The Green Grid's 5th anniversary, as experts from across the industry discuss global issues on policy, technology, business value, and trends that will affect business computing environments now and in the future.

Registration Pricing
Members: $250 ~ Non-Members: $500**

**Non-members can attend both days of the event if a Non-Disclosure Agreement is signed. Please email admin@lists.thegreengrid.org for more information.  

The Forum will include 30+ business, IT, and sustainability focused sessions with the overall theme of Moving to Resource Efficient IT. Keynote speakers include Bob Cashner (Sr. VP, Corporate Properties Group, Wells Fargo), Aaron Davis (Chief Marketing Officer, Schneider Electric), and Chandrakant Patel (Sr. Fellow and Director, Sustainable Ecosystems Research Group, HP).

The full agenda with session abstracts and speaker bios is available here.

The 2012 TGG Forum features a number of ways to engage with attendees, customers, and industry representatives.

Member/Board Networking Opportunities
TGG members will have the opportunity meet 1:1 with members of the Board of Directors during the Forum to discuss topics such as involvement in The Green Grid, ideas for technical projects, improving member value, etc. Members can sign up for a 1:1 meeting with a TGG Board member during the Forum registration process.

Members Networking Reception
Be sure to join TGG Forum attendees for an evening reception on Tuesday, March 6th where members will be able to network with their peers and celebrate The Green Grid's 5th anniversary.

Roundtable Lunch Discusions
Join representatives from the following organizations for roundtable discussions during lunch on Wednesday, March 7th. Additional details about the rountables and the corresponding discussion topics are available within the TGG Forum online registration

Data Center Pulse Summit
End users are invited to attend the fourth annual Data Center Pulse Summit on March 5, 2012 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, in conjunction with The Green Grid Forum. This is a forum exclusively for end users to discuss the issues that actively effect them on a dialy basis. This is a free, but exclusive event for end users. To register, please contact Data Center Pulse.

ITS39 IT Sustainability Meeting
Forum attendees are invited to attend the InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards’ (INCITS) inaugural meeting of ITS39 IT Sustainability on March 8 at the DoubleTree Hotel in San Jose, CA. ITS39 is the designated U.S. Technical Advisory Group (TAG) to the newly formed JTC 1 Sub-Committee 39 Sustainability for and by IT. The initial work scope for ITS39 will include standards for energy efficient data centers.

The committee will operate under the ANSI-accredited procedures of the INCITS. Membership on INCITS/ITS39 is open to all directly and materially affected parties but only U.S.-based companies can vote to establish a U.S. position on TAG matters. All organizations that attend the first or second meeting and request voting membership will attain voting rights immediately. To register, email John.Calhoon@microsoft.com or lbarra@itic.org. 

         
 

 
Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Course
Following the Forum, you can participate in the DCEP Practitioner course on March 8-9 at the Embassy Suites in San Jose, CA. The U.S. DOE and its industry collaborators developed this training curriculum, test, and set of supporting manuals to train and certify Practitioners in performing energy assessments in data centers and transferring knowledge to the staff for implementation. Participants can be trained at Level 1 or Level 2 knowledge levels, including demonstration of proficiency in the use of selected tools in the DC Pro tool suite. Visit the DCEP course web page to learn more. 

DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel San Jose
2050 Gateway Place, San Jose, CA 95110, United States
Tel: 1-408-453-4000 Fax: 1-408-437-2898