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SAVING THE WORLD: THE GREENING OF IT
Tuesday, November 4
10:45 am - 12 pm

Increasingly it is being recognized that Climate Change is an issue that we all have a responsibility to address. It is not a problem solely restricted to coal-burning power plants or drivers of SUVs. It will also have a major impact on how we carry out research and teaching at our universities. Most significantly, cyber-infrastructure and IT may now be one of the major contributors to Green House Gas (GHG) emissions at our universities, colleges and research centers. Fortunately, although cyber-infrastructure and IT may be part of the problem, it is also part of the solution.

Many universities throughout North America are adopting carbon neutral strategies either on a voluntary basis, or as part of a government mandate. This workshop/seminar will help inform university/college IT departments, CIOs and researchers the necessary steps on how to reduce the institution’s carbon footprint.

This workshop will show how to collect GHG lifecycle data (ISO 14062) for their respective cyber-infrastructure and IT hardware vendors and how to establish ISO 14064 baseline data as soon as possible for their respective campus and wide area networks and IT equipment, from which future GHG reductions will be measured (and this potentially eligible for carbon offset dollars). Finally new network and distributed computing architectures will be discussed that may allow institutions to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of their current cyber-infrastructure and networks.

Session Chair: Bill St. Arnaud, Chief Research Officer, CANARIE

Panelists:

Ron Dembo, Founder and CEO, Zerofootprint
Tom Johnson, Vice President, GHG Management Solutions, ClimateCHECK
David Wright, Full Professor, Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa
David Wright combines an Engineering PhD from Cambridge University, UK, with his current position as Full Professor in The University of Ottawa, Telfer School of Management to provide a business perspective on the ICT Industry. Dr. Wright researches and provides undergraduate and graduate courses in Corporate Social Responsibility and Electronic Commerce. He has worked with telecommunications equipment vendors and network operators on network evolution and the strategic impact of new technology on business.

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