Learn how businesses increased profitability and improved efficiency with green technology
WHAT: Week-long Green Week Summit Series hosted by BrightTALK™
“Streamlined business processes reduce material waste from enterprise operations and increase the efficiency of bringing goods to market,” stated Oracle Corporation. “Collecting and analysing data from across the enterprise is essential to managing, executing and measuring enterprise green initiatives.”
Oracle is just one of the many companies presenting at BrightTALK’s third annual Green Week Summit, which addresses the best ways to capitalise on this movement toward sustainable business practices. Not only does corporate sustainability enable companies to further increase profitability and improve efficiency in business operations but these practices benefit the environment as well.
“Many [companies] have a general CSR strategy, and choose to implement greener technologies and practices in order to meet the targets they’ve set themselves,” observed Zahl Limbuwala, Chairman of the British Computer Society (BCS) Data Centre Specialist Group. “Others simply see it as a way to cut energy and equipment costs. Sustainability, however, goes beyond simply power consumption and also means companies can address factors like reducing their carbon footprint, extending equipment lifecycles, and better managing assets and their disposal. This, in turn, offers the dual benefit of complying with the latest environmental directives, whilst also reducing power, cooling and space requirements.”
The free, interactive webcast series gives you the opportunity to gain valuable insights from leaders in business, government, academia and law on the “green” challenges businesses are facing today and options available to help professionals make smarter decisions. Each day will focus on a particular topic such as corporate social responsibility, sustainable IT, green building, data centre efficiency and water management.
The global presenter line-up will include case studies, roundtable panel presentations and best practice advice from leading organisations including AkzoNobel, AltaTerra Research, Autodesk, Citi Global Operations & Technology, Data Centre Pulse, Forrester Research, KPMG, Oracle, Greenpeace, NASA, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, PMI New Media Council, SNIA Europe, State Street Corporation, The 451 Group, The Green Grid, Uptime Institute and many more.
“If we can use technology, creativity and good management to deliver more IT service to customers with less energy,” stated John Stanley from The 451 Group, “a lot of the industry's CSR - and financial - challenges start to solve themselves.”
WHEN: Monday 18th April – Thursday 21st April 2011 - see the schedule for specific times, topics, and speakers by clicking on the links below. (After being presented live, all webcasts will also be immediately recorded and available for on-demand viewing at the same links.)
WHERE: The webcasts are available to be viewed free on BrightTALK:
http://www.brighttalk.com/r/gGSPRESENTATIONS:
April 18th: Opening roundtable: Enterprise Carbon, Energy & Sustainability Management
April 19th: [urlhttp://www.brighttalk.com/r/xGS]Sustainable IT[/url] (
http://www.brighttalk.com/r/xGS) — Presentations include: The Carbon and Energy Efficient Client; Introducing the Green Grid’s Data Centre Maturity Model; Priorities: Where IT Leaders Are Placing Their Green IT Bets; How State Street Became a Leader in Green IT; Invisible Opportunity: Tapping IT Expertise for Green Leadership; The Solution to Avoiding e-Waste Recycling Shame and Sham
April 20th:
Efficient Data Center (
http://www.brighttalk.com/r/cGS) — Green Storage – The Big Picture; Want to Build an Efficient Data Centre? Where Do You Start? Decoding Data Centre Efficiency Metrics; CEEDA – The Road to Certification; Capacity Management: Keeping Pace with Business Needs; Cloud Strategy & Implementation Lessons Learned
April 21st:
Green Building (
http://www.brighttalk.com/r/GGS) — 2012 London Olympics – Every Colour is Green; Plants: The Secret Weapon in Building; Grounding the Green Movement: What’s Underground Really Matters; An Operational Framework for Business Engagement with Water Policy; Emerging Green Building Technologies; How Going Green Impacts Project Management; New Advanced Intelligence – Smart Buildings, Smart Grids; Large Scale ZEB: The Research Support Facility at NREL
April 21st:
Water Management (
http://www.brighttalk.com/r/SfX) — An Operational Framework for Business Engagement with Water Policy; Why Water Is a Critical Business Issue
