| Programme - Thursday, April 22nd |
| 8:40 |
Welcome From The Chair |
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Paul O'Riordan, Chair, ICT Ireland |
| 8:45 |
MINISTERIAL ADDRESS:
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Eamon Ryan, Minister for Communications, Energy & Natural Resources |
GOING GREEN: IS IT WORTH IT?
For many, the words "green" and "environment" have a negative connotation. However, the Green IT debate has moved on from 'saving the planet' to 'saving the organisation money', with the common denominator: use less energy.
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| 9:00 |
OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS:
The environmental and business benefits of Green IT |
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The steps needed to achieve a greener operating model are mostly identical to those you need to take to improve efficiency and profitability - for "green", read "lean". Our opening keynote speaker explains how "going green" is the same as increasing your organisation's efficiency and how IT can help you achieve both. |
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Jonathan Steel, CEO & Leader of Sustainability Research, Bathwick Group, UK
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| 9:30 |
Making Green IT a cost-effective reality |
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Our speaker will present how EU regulation is changing Ireland's approach to business strategy. Backed up by practical examples of how companies have used Green IT to reduce costs, you'll hear how adopting a sustainable IT strategy can help your business reduce energy consumption, cut costs and at the same time improve your business competitiveness.
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Robert McCarthy, Manager, Innovative Environmental Solutions & Big Green Innovations, IBM |
| 9.55 |
Unlocking business value from Green IT |
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IT is an enabler for many technologies that can help reduce costs, improve efficiency and have a positive environmental impact. How can IT enable your organisation to grow sustainably while reducing your carbon emissions and the costs to your bottom-line?
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Dr. Benoit Hudzia, Senior Researcher, SAP Research CEC Belfast, SAP (UK) ltd. Belfast |
| 10:20 |
Q&A |
| 10:35 |
Morning break |
| 11.05 |
Why IT should lead a company's sustainability agenda |
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Organisations cannot ignore the significant environmental pressures that face them today. Now is the perfect opportunity for IT to play a critical role in helping shape a businesses' response to these challenges. IT can do this by working in concert with business units and by utilising technology across the enterprise to help reduce cost, mitigate risk, and also seize opportunities.
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Sonny Masero, VP, ecoSoftware EMEA, CA |
| 11.35 |
PANEL DISCUSSION: Developing and executing a Green IT strategy |
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Chaired by Prof. Brian Donnellan, Chair of Information System Innovation,
Co-Director of Innovation Value Institute, NUI Maynooth.
Brian will give a short introduction to the discussion on how CIOs can develop a Green IT strategy for their company and provide CIOs with an IT management framework that will help them diagnose their current situation and plan a continuous improvement plan for the future.
Our panel of experts will discuss:
- Getting board level sponsorship
- Crafting an Action Plan that communicates the business benefits and project goals
- Communicating IT's role in driving existing green strategy
- What are the quick wins to make an immediate impact on IT energy consumption
- Legal/compliance issues to consider
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John Shaw, CIO, Mainstream Renewable Power
Martin Morgan, ICT Manager, IT Services, Health Research Board
Mark Rasdale, Technology and Commercial Contracts Group, Matheson Ormsby Prentice
Brian O'Kennedy, Managing Director, Clearstream Solutions
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INCENTIVES TO INVEST IN GREEN ICT SOLUTIONS
ICT now falls under the Accelerated Capital Allowances (ACA) tax incentive scheme as one of the categories that can benefit from purchasing energy-efficient equipment. Find out how your business can benefit from the scheme.
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| 12:30 |
Accelerated Capital Allowances (ACA) – more Cash, less Tax |
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The innovation tax incentive scheme was introduced by the government to encourage companies to invest in highly energy efficient equipment. Hear practical advice on how you can avail of the ACA to reduce your tax burden, increase your cash flow with the resulting saving in energy costs. |
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Hannes MacNulty, Programme Manager, Sustainable Energy Ireland |
| 1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 2:00 |
Welcome back from the Chair |
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Sean Baker, Chair, Irish Software Association |
| 2:05 |
AFTERNOON KEYNOTE ADDRESS – Green IT:
Driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices |
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By making better use of existing IT assets, changing the IT procurement model and reducing power consumption, organizations can make a positive impact on the environment whilst actually reducing their IT costs and increasing infrastructure flexibility. |
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Tom Raftery, Lead Analyst, Energy and Sustainability Practice, RedMonk, Speaker, Blogger, Podcaster |
CASE STUDIES - THE BOTTOM-LINE IMPACT OF GREEN IT
Many green-technology investments positively affect the bottom lines of the companies that make them. For our closing sessions, you'll hear practical examples from organisations who have experienced the benefits of Green IT.
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| 2:35 |
The Sustainable CIO – Reaping the benefits of Green IT |
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Not only can greening IT reduce costs, carbon emissions and waste generation, but, it can also be the engine of innovation that drives overall sustainability performance improvements in organisations. Our speaker will describe the experiences of organisations that have implemented and reaped the benefits of Green IT solutions. |
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Dr. Pall Rikhardsson, Business Advisor, SAS Institute |
| 3:00 |
Q&A |
| 3:15 |
Afternoon break |
| 3:45 |
Why Green IT and Virtualisation should be top of the Financial Director's
agenda
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Virtualisation is at the heart of any successful green IT plan helping businesses to lower energy bills whilst enabling greater corporate environmental responsibility. You'll hear the experiences of two organisations, Lakeland Dairies & the Health Research Board and how these organisations reduced the operating costs of their IT environment, simplified their environment and reduced administration overhead substantially. |
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Rowan O'Donoghue, Director of Innovation & Development, Origina
Martin Morgan, ICT Manager, Health Research Board
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| 4:25 |
Making savings in the data centre: best practices in reducing energy
consumption and costs in the data centre
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CIX is a hyper energy-efficient data centre operating since March 2008. Environmentally conscious and financially smart, we'll hear how this level of energy efficiency can be achieved through:
- Real-time price electricity and load shifting.
- Free cooling which is optimised using cold aisle containment.
- And, ultimately moving to 'follow the moon' computing.
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Jerry Sweeney, Director of Operations at CIX and CEO of Chip eServices
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| 4:50 |
Q & A |
| 5:00 |
Closing remarks and summit close |