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Communications Goes Green
www.commgoesgreen.com
Produced by iHollywood Forum
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June 19, 2008

9:00 am - 9:15 am

Welcoming Remarks

9:15 am - 9:45 am

Keynote: Building a Sustainable Business is Good Business

9:50 am - 10:40 am

The New Green Tech Economy

10:45 am - 11:35 am

Global Warming: Tech Strategies to Reduce Carbon Footprints

Information technology (IT) supports nearly all aspects of business in all industries and is one of the fastest growing energy consumers and carbon emitters, representing around 2 percent of global emissions. Consumer electronic devices use energy to operate devices. However, IT can be made dramatically more efficient and play a leading role in driving eco-responsibility through energy efficiency supporting economic, operational, and social and environmental issues. What's more, IT can help address the "other 98 percent" of the problem through overall business efficiency and 'system level' improvements. What steps can manufacturers take to support green design and development?

11:40 am - 12:30 pm

Green Data Center Challenges: Reducing Heat Production and Increasing Efficiency

The Kyoto Climate Change Accord created a market for carbon emissions credits. Now there is both federal and state regulation designed to impose a cap on all greenhouse gas emissions. Information technology (IT) has been a large source of carbon emissions and now develops solutions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Learn how IT services can promote energy efficient hardware and software from manufacturers, and increased energy-management on the part of individual users and IT managers to reduce their carbon footprint. How can computing and tech providers help meet those goals? What are new technologies being developed to reduce energy costs? Learn about the Climate Savers Computing Initiative formed by June 2007 by tech companies such as, Dell, EDS, Google, HP, Intel, Lenovo and Microsoft, Pacific Gas & Electric, the World Wildlife Fund and others to reduce the power consumption of computer hardware by 50 percent by the year 2010. These companies are advocating advances in technology that will reduce energy consumptions and improve energy efficiency. If successful, the result is to the Initiative meets its goal of achieving energy efficiency by 2010, its success will result in dropping global CO2 emissions by 54 million tons per year, equal to the annual output of 11 million cars. Another industry standard is the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct: Creating a Global Standard. In 2004, a handful of OEMs and EMS providers, including IBM and HP, developed the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct (EICC). The goal is to create a standard set of audits for the entire electronics supply chain covering labor and employment practices, health and safety, business ethics, and protection of the environment. Learn how the each of these initiatives can help make your business more sustainable

12:30 pm - 1:15 pm

Lunch

1:15 pm - 1:45 pm

Keynote: How Information Technology Can Improve Climate Change

2:00 pm -2:50 pm

Green Data Center Challenges: Reducing Heat Production and Increasing Efficiency

The six million servers in America’s data centers, when factoring in the energy needed to run and cool the servers, consume more energy than the 300+ million televisions in the United States. Green computing—IT equipment, data centers, and servers -- consume huge amounts of energy and produce heat requiring energy for cooling. But now IT service providers and manufacturers must offer solutions to enterprise users that reduce energy consumption, maintain security, maximize productivity, and still operate at peak efficiency. What are the latest trends and developments in computer and IT data centers? How can computer manufacturers meet enterprise needs, reduce energy costs, and provide better value. Government regulation also may require that IT equipment meet energy efficiency requirements. Experts address the new technology trends being deployed in the IT industry to reduce energy consumption. What type of savings can companies expect from energy efficiency? What is the impact on security and productivity? Learn how suppliers, manufacturers, and distributors can reduce data center energy consumption.

2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

Green Sourcing: Building a Sustainable Supply Chain

Explore strategies for managing supply chain risk and capturing often overlooked opportunities to effectively partner with your suppliers to maximize value and achieve a greener supply chain. Individual companies can take steps to minimize their direct carbon emissions, and ensure that your vendors and suppliers comply with the same standards. Explore strategies for managing the supply chain—including production, transportation, distribution, energy usage, waste disposal, and manufacturing. Hear new approaches on how to reduce the carbon offset across your partners to achieve a greener supply chain and case studies of how companies have incorporated best practices to comply with environmental regulation and implement standards for their suppliers . We address managing energy efficiency, hazardous materials handling, contamination with toxins, recyclability, and raw materials.

Breakout Sessions:

3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

Public/Private Partnerships: Can Government Be Your Friend?

Public-private partnerships are now taking off and offer lucrative business opportunities. Both the federal government, states and cities are offering incentives to vendors. Learn about new energy code requirements, procurement policies, and financial incentives that are creating a growing public sector for sustainable goods. The federal government also purchases approximately $66 billion of information technology equipment and services annually, and is taking a leadership role in the environmentally sound and cost effective management of electronic assets throughout their life-cycle. Purchasing or leasing new equipment provides the opportunity to obtain environmentally preferable electronics Learn about partnerships programs with government facilities and agencies to: (1) purchase greener electronic products; (2) reduce impacts of electronic products during use; and (3) Manage obsolete electronics in an environmentally safe way.

3:00 pm - 3:50 pm

Consumer Electronics and Other Power Hungry Gadgets: Are Customers Seeing Green?

Now that environmental awareness has gone mainstream, consumer electronics manufacturers must design devices with improved energy efficiency, using less toxic materials and offering better recycling options. How will green design and innovation create new markets for products? We address environmentally sensitive materials, and design for sustainability, and innovations in renewable energy technologies.

4:00 pm - 4:50 pm

Energy Conservation: Innovative Strategies to Shift Reliance to Renewable Resources such as Solar, Wind, and Geothermal Energy

Tech manufacturers have traditionally relied on public utility companies to supply electricity. They spend millions of dollars in energy costs to power the energy needs of offices including climate, servers, cooling, and auxiliary infrastructure equipment in massive data centers. The energy consumed in the U.S. was equivalent to five 1000MW power plants. Increasingly computer manufacturers and suppliers are offering energy efficient servers with lower heat production. Can solar energy be used to power high usage commercial enterprise operations? The energy consumed in the U.S. was equivalent to five 1000MW power plants. We explain the latest business, technical and engineering options to shift from nonrenewable energy to renewable energy resources, and offer short-term strategies on how to implement these policies.

4:00 pm - 4:50 pm

Selling Networked Technologies : Using Environmental Benefits to Sell Video Conferences, Collaboration, and Virtual Meetings

There are many telecom services which foster virtual collaboration and reduce travel. How should companies be developing these new technologies such as video and audio conferencing ? How can conferences provide more efficient and cost effective strategies for corporate meetings. What response can you make when customers inquire about your green initiatives?

5:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Reception

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COMMUNICATIONS GOES GREEN WILL SHOW YOU HOW TO GO GREEN AND DEVELOP SUSTAINABLE PRACTICES FOR THE TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND MEDIA INDUSTRIES
Join the first serious business summit to explore how telecommunications manufacturers, developers, applications, services and technologies can create a sustainable future, develop environmentally friendly practices, adopt green policies and deploy energy saving technologies while still keeping their competitive edge.

We are now accepting speakers for presentations, keynotes and panels; and sponsors for demonstrations.

DISCOVER HOW FORWARD THINKING COMPANIES CAN GO GREEN AND MAKE MONEY

Your company must attend Communications Goes Green if

• Your CIO and IT advisers need to recommend plans to reduce heat emissions and conserve energy with servers, data centers and IT operations

 •  Your stakeholders and board members demand you implement a thoughtful environmental plan as part of responsible corporate governance

•  Your product managers design and market environmentally innovative products, service or technologies and need to reach customers whom are green-minded decision makers

•  Your brand managers need to develop brand campaigns to incorporate green strategies for marketing and advertising in an authentic way

•  Your operation managers need to purchase products, services and technologies to implement environmentally sound practices and operations

•  Your customers demand that you incorporate sustainable practices in your global supply chain and manufacturing processes

•  Your finance managers and investors need a macro look at how sustainable practices and technologies will affect costs and revenue

 YOUR COMPANY BELIEVES IT'S THE RIGHT THING TO DO!

Hear forward-thinking speakers and decision makers in green telecom and communications sectors — including corporate governance, telecom, consumer electronics, building and construction, venture capital, banking, labor, automotive technology, clean tech, environmental resources and much more.