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Upcoming Events

The Uptime Institute's Annual Sumposium: Green Enterprise Computing
April 27-30, 2008
Orlando, Florida

Event Description: Symposium 2008 is designed to be educational, interactive and collaborative, offering a range of sometimes controversial industry viewpoints—both strategic and operational—with an emphasis on end user experiences. The symposium is comprised of major keynote addresses, interviews of trend leaders, The 2008 Green Enterprise IT Awards, plenary and break-out sessions, panel discussions, roundtable discussions designed to explore the short-term opportunities and long-term trends of green enterprise computing and other activities.

IDC Enterprise Data Center East 2008
May 6, 2008
New York, NY

Event Description: The Enterprise Data Center Forum is designed for senior IT, facilities and operations executives seeking practical tools and strategies for transforming their data center to meet the needs of the changing business climate. Featuring end user case studies, IDC analysts and industry experts, this one-day interactive forum offers actionable advice for creating a denser, hotter, more consolidated, highly utilized, better designed, fully redundant and very dynamic data center. The agenda will explore the impacts of emerging technology, spiking energy costs and internet-based applications on the data center, as well as address key topics including virtualization, blades, real estate, power and cooling, staffing and business processes.

BladeSystems Insight '08
May 12-14, 2008
Tucson, Arizona

Event Description: An invitation-only summit, BladeSystems Insight is focused on the technologies and business processes that are transforming the data center. Over two and a half business-intensive days, a pre-qualified audience of IT and business executives from across North America will converge to hold pre-scheduled case study and one-on-one meetings with technology vendors to hear the latest research and cutting-edge content from leading analysts and to build critical collaborative relationships with peers, thought leaders and current and future vendor partners.

7x24 Exchange
June 1-4, 2008
Boca Raton, Florida

Event Description: 7x24 Exchange is a not-for-profit organization seeking to improve end-to-end reliability by promoting dialogue between those who design, build, use and maintain mission-critical enterprise information infrastructures. The conference was founded on the assumption that often professionals involved with data center uptime issues work in isolation when dealing with technical, budget, political, and career issues. This conference is designed for anyone involved with 7x24 infrastructures — IT, data center, disaster recovery and network/telecommunication managers; computer technologists; facility or building managers, supervisors and engineers.

Business Goes Green
June 6, 2008
San Jose, California

Event Description: Climate change, renewable resources, carbon footprint, energy consumption, water conservation, responsible investing, global supply chain and alternative fuels -- terms that once were used only by environmental activists are now considered essential to global business strategy. Forward-thinking speakers and decision makers in green business -- including experts in corporate governance, consumer electronics, building and construction, venture capital, and other fields will explore how companies can create a sustainable future, develop environmentally friendly practices, adopt green policies and deploy energy saving technologies, while still keeping their competitive edge.

Burton Group's Catalyst Conference
June 23-27, 2008
San Diego, California

Event Description: Burton Group Catalyst Conference is for enterprise technologists and executives working to drive change within their organizations. The conference brings IT leaders together to learn about and discuss today’s most significant technology topics and complex issues faced by enterprise organizations. The five-day conference explores cutting-edge ideas, current challenges as well as emerging technologies shaping today’s and tomorrow’s enterprise.

IT Green
June 25, 2008
San Francisco, California

Event Description: The mission of IT Green is to foster greater awareness of the benefits of adopting green IT policies and to help large organizations map a sound strategy. The need for information in this segment of the market is anticipated to grow significantly, and IT Green is a forum for promoting the adoption of green strategies within the corporate IT user community. A broad range of like-minded groups will attend the IT Green conference.

Data Center Dynamics
July 18, 2008
San Francisco, California

Event Description: Data center and IT infrastructure end-users, operators, consulting engineers and solution providers are expected to attend the DataCenter Dynamics Conference & Expo, which is advertised as The West Coast's largest gathering of professionals involved in the design, build and operational management of 24/7 mission critical IT facilities, from the data center to the LAN closet. The audience will consist of senior representatives of the financial, medical, media, service provider, outsourcing/managed services and other Fortune 500 companies operating throughout the Bay Area, Silicon Valley and the Western US.

Previous Events

IEECB '08: International Conference on Improving Energy Efficiency in Commercial Buildings
April 10-11, 2008
Frankfurt, Germany

Event Description: The IEECB conference seeks to bring together commercial buildings’ investors and property managers, energy efficiency experts, equipment manufacturers, service providers (ESCOs, utilities, facilities management companies) and policy makers, with a view to exchange information, to learn from each other and to network. At the conference key representatives of leading organizations and companies, institutions and equipment industry will present the overall picture and give details of policies, recent advancements and examples of best practice.

Data Center Excellence
April 4, 2008
London Stock Exchange

Event Description: DCE3 will consider the elements of the ideal datacentre, with an emphasis on the use of new technology, likely legislation and environmental issues. In particular this summit will consider virtualisation, human factors and carbon accounting alongside state of the art case studies to demonstrate the practical steps the datacentre community must be familiar with as they strive to create centres fit for the twenty-first century.

Event Description: Data Center World is the premier educational resource for data center professionals. This bi-annual event was launched in 1981 with the goal of providing a hands-on, educational program to enable data center professionals to better balance the key components of running a data center including management, business and technology.

Session: The Green Grid’s Work in the Development of Standards, Metrics and Technologies for Energy Efficiency Center
Speakers: John Tuccillo, a director of The Green Grid

DMTF 2008 Alliance Partner Technical Symposium
March 25-28, 2008
Dolce Hayes Mansion, San Jose, CA

Event Description: Hosted by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) and jointly sponsored by the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), the third annual Alliance Partner Technical Symposium is Tuesday, March 25 through Friday, March 28, 2008. Led by DMTF's vice president of Alliances, Mark Carlson, this year's event offers meetings focused on technical topics and addressing the technical work of interest to each of the DMTF’s Alliance Partners.

IDC Green IT Forum East
February 28, 2008
New York Marriott Financial Center, New York, NY

Event Description: The IDC Green IT Forum is designed for senior IT, technology, procurement and strategic planning executives tasked with managing the role of Green IT to effectively measure and capture market opportunities for energy efficient systems. The program will take a holistic view of IT asset disposal and power and cooling in light of fast evolving security and environmental legislation.

Session: The Green Grid Assessment of Energy Efficiency in the Data Center
Speakers: John Pflueger and Tom Bradicich, directors of The Green Grid

The Green Grid Technical Forum
February 5-6, 2008
San Francisco, CA

The Positive Impact of Information and Communications Technology on the Environment and Climate Change
November 27-28, 2007
United Nations Headquarters, New York, NY

Session: Expert Panel: A Look at Technology’s Role in Environmental Change
Speaker: Bruce Shaw, a director of The Green Grid

Gartner Symposium/ITxpo
November 20-23, 2007
Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Sydney, Australia

Session: Data Center Energy: Going Forward
Speaker: Paul Harapin, a member of The Green Grid
Booth: Green IT Area