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Chief of Staff, Executive Office, City of Stockholm
Stockholm - Europe's first Green Capital 
Stockholm has been appointed the Green Capital of Europe 2010. This is because of long term work on reducing negative climate effects in the city and the integrated approach of using modern technology to reach that goal. In 2009 Stockholm will produce a policy for Green ICT to take its enviromental work in to the future.
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Climate Change & Built Environment Co-ordinator, Environment and Sustainability Unit, Bristol City Council
Dr Lorraine Hudson job-shares the position of Climate Change and Built Environment Co-ordinator for Bristol City Council. Leading Bristol’s work on climate change, co-ordinating actions both within the council and citywide. She recently led Bristol’s involvement in the Low Carbon City Programme, engaging the public sector, business and the community/voluntary sectors in carbon reduction actions. This continues as part of Bristol’s Green Capital programme. She has also worked with Connecting Bristol to undertake a Carbon Footprint of ICT in Bristol (funded by the Carbon Trust) and is helping to engage organisations in action on Green ICT.
Lorraine also works part time for Metroeconomica as a Senior Environmental Consultant specialising in climate change, sustainable energy, environmental management and Life Cycle Assessment. She has also worked in industry and has a PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Bristol.
Bristol's ICT Carbon Footprint
An overview of how the City of Bristol has calculated its citywide carbon footprint of ICT and the approaches it is taking to engage businesses in action on Green ICT.
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Verne Global Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Office
Isaac Kato is responsible for the company’s finances, Icelandic governmental affairs and corporate development. Before joining Verne Global as a full-time employee, Mr. Kato was part of the team at General Catalyst Partners and Novator that initially conceived of and formed the venture. Prior to Verne Global, Mr. Kato was a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm based in Cambridge, Massachussetts, with over $2 billion USD under management. At GCP, he led the firm’s investments in a number of technology-enabled services companies.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Kato worked as an investor at Summit Partners, a global private equity fund, and Shamrock Holdings, Inc., the Roy E. Disney family’s private equity firm. Mr. Kato also co-founded, led, and served as Chief Operating Officer of Sven Technologies, a 3D graphics software firm which was acquired by Spatial Technology, Inc. (now a division of Dassault Systemes). Following the acquisition of Sven Technologies, he was general manager and vice president of Spatial’s online division.
Mr. Kato holds an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School, as well as an M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics, both from Stanford University.
Turning your Carbon Footprint to a Toeprint
With the growing focus on carbon footprint reduction, data centers worldwide are beginning to take major steps to minimize their environmental impact. Data centers are beginning to recognize that fossil fuel energy resources they have historically depended on are finite in their short-term supply, subject to short-run price increases and are built upon old, inefficient energy infrastructures. As a result, efforts are underway within the industry ranging from conducting basic energy assessment programs to enacting green design initiatives to searching for green power sources. However, with today’s economic crisis, businesses have to balance these green initiatives without negatively impacting profitability.
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Edison Project Leader, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory.
Dieter Gantenbein is a research staff member in the Systems Management group of the Computer Science department at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory. Born in Switzerland, he received the Diploma in E.E. from the ETH in Zurich in 1981. In 1983 he received the M.S. degree in Computer Science from Rutgers University, USA. He joined the IBM Zurich lab in 1983 to implement OSI network and transport protocols on top of the IBM Tokenring. From 2000-2008 he managed the Research AIDA Advanced Infrastructure Discovery and Analysis project with IDD and AURORA technologies being transferred to Tivoli Systems Management products and used in customer solutions world-wide. He currently represents IBM in the Danish EDISON consortium on 'Electric vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated market using Sustainable energy and Open Networks'.
The Green Agenda - From Policy to Practice
The EDISON consortium (Electric Vehicles in a Distributed and Integrated Market using Sustainable Energy and Open Networks) is partially funded by the Danish Ministry for Climate and Energy and is a joint project with partners , DONG Energy. The purpose of the project is to supply electrical balancing power for wind-generated electricity through the use of electrical vehicles (EV) and their batteries. Governmental incentives and utility bonus programs are expected to boost green transport and electricity.
The green agenda calls for cooperation and synergy between policy makers and a variety of operators and stakeholders. the presentation will give an overview of different categories of issues within the Green Agenda as seen from the ICT research point of view and in particSenior Government advisorular discuss lessons learned from a major project in Denmark focusing on optimizing the use of wind energy and promoting electric vehicles.
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Managing Director Reykjavik Fiber Network
Birgir Rafn has been the Managing Director of Reykjavik Fiber Network from 2007. Before that he was Head of Fiber Network for Reykjavik Energy 2006-2007, Technical Manager of Fiber Network for Reykjavik Energy 2005-2006, Managing Director of Infra ehf., 2002-2005, VP of Software Development, 1996-2002 OZ / OZ Interactive / OZ.com, Data Administrator and Project Manager for Icelandic Banks Data Centre 1991-1996. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Penn State University 1991, and a BSc in Computer Science from University of Iceland, 1988
Fiber Optics & Green Energy - A Match for Reconstruction
This presentation will not be available.
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