Presenter:  Harkeeret (Harq) Singh, Global Head of Energy & Sustainable Technology, Thomson Reuters

Monday, May 17
2:05-2:35 pm, Morgan

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Harq Singh provides an informative presentation on initiatives that can be implemented across organizations today to provide real business benefit, improve energy efficiency, and reduce carbon footprint. The session will also look at how to engage the business to enable the right behavior and will discuss some of the mechanisms put into practice in Thomson Reuters. The presentation will look into the future and will identify tools needed to further efficiency as well as some of the cutting edge thoughts around efficiency in the industry. Highlights include:

• Efficiency initiatives across the technology stacks including desktop, storage, network, server, data center, utilities
• Management and empowering the business to improve energy performance
• Enabling the right behavior - objectives and incentives
• Holistic monitoring - transparency to enable informed decisions and focus investment
• Future concepts

Containerization: An Evolution in Data Center Efficiency
Wednesday, May 19
10:10-10:40 am Sutton; repeats 11:30-12:00, Morgan

PRESENTERS: Daniel Costello, Director of Datacenter Services Research and Engineering, Global Foundation Services, Microsoft; Sean Farney, Data Center Manager, Microsoft

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Witness monumental advances in agility, scalability, sustainability, and operational efficiency at one of the world's first known and only purpose-built Container Data Centers. Our highly innovative approach to design, construction, and operations allows us to fully deploy thousands of servers within a few hours, with a drastically reduced carbon footprint.

The World's Most Eco-Efficient Computer Hall from Helsingin Energia
Tuesday, May 18
10:05-10:35 am, and 10:40-11:10 am, Bryant

PRESENTERS: Juha Sipilä, Project Manager, Helsingin Energia; Pasi Hurri, Member of the Board of Directors, Academica; Jari Ängeslevä, Senior Business Development Director, Helsingin Energia and Invest in Finland

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Helsingin Energia's new, innovative solution utilizes the recovery of waste heat of computers in the heating of buildings and hot tap water in the City of Helsinki. The first solution has been implemented in cooperation with ICT service provider Academica. Heat can be directed for utility purposes in a controlled way, and the carbon dioxide emissions from cooling are reduced by up to80%. Helsingin Energia is an energy company that delivers an outsourced green facility solution, which enables its customers to focus on their core IT business operations.

In this session, practictioners and suppliers discuss the use and impact of energy saving technologies for IT beyond the data center, such as desktop power management, thin clients, and low power devices.