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Clean Technology Track at InnoTech
presented by SAO's Clean Technology Alliance
Clean Technology Conference:
The Enabling IT & Computer Technologies
that Drive Business Efficiency and Profitability
April 23, 2009 8:00am - 5:30pm Presented by Over 30 leading professionals will address how high-tech can help your business run cleaner, more efficiently and more profitably. Technologies covered include remote communications, carbon tracking, and SmartGrid. Also learn about the policies and resources that are aggressively supporting this sector as well as the latest and greatest green computing technologies. Chris Mines, Sr. VP focused on Green IT for Forrester Research, will deliver the keynote address about how IT can make business processes, strategy, and infrastructure more sustainable.
Portland, Oregon Convention Center
Part of InnoTech Conference
8:00am-9:00am
The Stimulus Package and Other Incentives Your Business Can Leverage
Room E147
Hear from the leading professionals regarding clean technology policy and resources that your company can leverage. They will share about how to best make use of the benefits that are available. Topics covered will include the Federal Stimulus package (ARRA), State Energy Tax Credit (BETC), local programs, key organizations ...MORE
Moderator: William Holmes, Partner and Chair of the Energy and Telecommunications Practice, Stoel Rives
Panelists:
David Kenney, President and Executive Director, Oregon BEST
Lisa Adatto, Oregon Director, Climate Solutions
Corban Lester, Program Development for Efficient DataCenter Initiative, Energy Trust of Oregon
9:15am-10:30am
Real-time Remote Collaboration: Delivering the Triple Bottom Line
Room E147
Increase your company's productivity, decrease the amount of time and money your employees spend traveling, and lower your carbon footprint, using today's remote collaboration tools. Whether it's immersive telepresence, high-definition video conferencing, web collaboration, instant messaging, or voice-over-IP (VOIP), you'll see and learn about just a few of the many new offerings ...MORE
Moderator: Ann Bamesberger, Vice President of Open Work Service Group, Sun Microsystems
Panelists:
George Illig, Tandberg
Janelle Etchepare, GM of Portland, Clearwire
Neal Schilling, VP Business Development, VideoPresense
Ann Swenson, Senior Marketing Manager, Cisco / Webex
Pam Gottlieb, Regional Director, PAETEC
10:45am-11:45am
Mapping the Green IT Landscape: Keynote Address by Chris Mines
E147
The IT industry must raise its sights to leverage information technology across the full spectrum of green business opportunities. Improving the energy efficiency and sustainability of computing operations is an important start, but there is a broader horizon coming into view that encompasses IT's role in making business processes, strategy, and infrastructure more sustainable. What is the role of IT professionals in pursuing these broader goals?...MORE
Introduction by:
Introduction: Ted Bernhard, David Wright Tremaine
Moderator: Tom Sedory, IT Director of Corporate Responsibility, Nike
Keynote Speaker: Christopher Mines, Sr. VP focused on Green IT, Forrester Research
1:45pm-3:00pm
Carbon Tracking Technology
Scores of vendors are offering carbon tracking / management tools. Companies use these to capture, analyze, and report their carbon footprint. The likely forthcoming regulatory reporting will make this industry explode, so let's be on the forefront....MORE
Moderator: Neal M. Dikeman, CEO, CarbonFlow
Panelists:
Michael Meehan, CEO, Carbonetworks
Lori Duvall, Corporate Sustainability Manager, Sun
Mark Trexler, Director, Climate Strategies and Markets, DNV Consulting
Aaron Berg, Founder, BlueTree Strategies
3:15pm-4:30pm
SmartGrid the Next Platform Opportunity
A whole new way of thinking about energy is rapidly emerging. Opportunities abound for entrepreneurs to develop hardware, software, and services as the development of a smart energy system will be quickly deployed. In addition, state and federal government is locked and loaded for serious build out of everything from the electric car infrastructure to our homes' and businesses' interaction with the system to a serious overhaul of the electrical delivery platform itself...MORE
Moderator: Patrick Mazza, Research Director, Climate Solutions
Panelists:
Saul Zambrano, Director of Clean Air Transportation, Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E)
Steven Blaine, Automation Engineer, Green Building, CH2M Hill
Steve Jennings, Chief Marketing Officer, BPL Global
Jeff Hammarlund, Portland State University
Richard Wunderlich, VP Business Development Energy, Information Systems, Siemens
4:45am-5:30pm
Green Computing Pitches
Some of the tech industry's biggest players and new comers to the market will tout their clean and green product and services. Whether it's mini notebooks, LED laptop screens, computer virtualization, or packaging reduction, the manufacturers and other services companies are doing all they can to keep up with market demand. These presentations will only be 5 minutes long and slides automatically advance every 15 seconds, so it will be a fun, fast-paced end for the day.
Moderator: Jeff Omelchuck, EPEAT Executive Director, Green Electronics Council
Panelists:
Scot Heath, Business Development, HP
Tom Atwood, Chip Multi Threading, Sun
Sandy Hawke, CISSP, Director of Product Marketing, BigFix
Deb Kohler, Director, Solid Ink Sustainability, Xerox
Michael Poorman, Sr. Account Manager, EMC
Jon Haas, Director Eco-Technologies, Intel
Rich Bader, President & CEO, EasyStreet
Vance Peterson, Territory Manager, APC, Schneider Electric Company
Register for the Clean Technology Conference (included with your General InnoTech registration)
Clean Technology Alliance Information at: http://www.cleantechnologyalliance.org/
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