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Green Initiatives and Programs at Interop Las Vegas 2012

For the very first time, UBM TechWeb and Interop Las Vegas 2011 have chosen to purchase carbon offsets in order to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions from transportation, electricity use and other sources at the conference. UBM TechWeb is working with Bonneville Environmental Foundation, an entrepreneurial nonprofit, to achieve the ultimate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions for all domestic Interop conferences moving forward.

"UBM TechWeb's support of BEF Renewable Energy Certificates will create enough clean, wind energy to power an average US home for over 9 years. UBM TechWeb's purchase of BEF Water Restoration Certificates will restore over 130,000 gallons of water to critically dewatered streams." - Margie Gardner, Chief Executive Officer, BEF

Please join us in our efforts by offsetting your travel to and from Interop Las Vegas when you register for the conference.

About the Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF)

An entrepreneurial nonprofit, Bonneville Environmental Foundation (BEF) is creating a more sustainable future by investing now in clean energy and fresh water. Customers who buy independently certified BEF Carbon Offsets and Renewable Energy Certificates support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and the development of new renewable energy facilities, while customers who buy BEF's Water Restoration CertificatesTM support the return of water to critically dewatered streams and rivers. All BEF customers and donors support long-term watershed restoration and renewable energy education for students and communities nationwide because BEF reinvests its net revenues to fund its Model Watershed and Solar 4R Schools programs. Since it was established in Portland, Ore. in 1998, BEF has been a pioneer in helping people and companies become better stewards of the environment. Learn more at www.b-e-f.org.

For the second consecutive year, Interop Las Vegas 2011 and its exhibitors are donating all surplus materials used at the Conference and Expo to the Teacher EXCHANGE. Surplus materials will be re-used and/or recycled to support local public school education and protect the environment.

About The Teacher EXCHANGE

In 2002, The Public Education Foundation of Southern Nevada created a green initiative dedicated to bringing resources to public classrooms and helping the environment. Since then, the Teacher EXCHANGE™ has provided thousands of Clark County teachers with reusable, recycled and gently used materials and equipment.

The Teacher EXCHANGE™ is a re-use and recycle resource center for all Southern Nevada public school teachers offering learning tools to teachers to enhance projects and curriculum. Donations of new and reusable materials, office supplies, surplus materials, computers, office equipment and furniture are collected from community businesses and individuals and provided at no charge to teachers for use in the classroom.

Through the Teacher EXCHANGE™, The Public Education Foundation has taken a leadership role in workplace sustainability to assist Nevada in reducing the amount of solid waste generated. Each year, the Teacher EXCHANGE™ collects and recycles approximately 50,000 pounds of electronic hardware, paper and other scrap materials that would have been disposed of in local landfills.

Onsite Green Initiatives

UBM TechWeb is committed to fostering sustainability within business communities by preventing and reducing waste our events and educating participants and exhibitors about green technology and practices.

For example, Interop's on-site initiatives to prevent and reduce waste:

Water coolers will be used for all meal functions rather than individual bottles.
All workshop course material are distributed electronically, rather than printed.
Together with Show Manangement's National General Service Contractor, Champion Exposition Services, Interop has taken the following steps to reduce waste of onsite materials:
- 85% of non-banner show management signage printed on recycled material and will be donated to a local school for use in art projects after the event.
- Amost all of show management produced banners are produced on biodegradable material.
- Aisle carpet made of 60% recycled material, with backing made of 100% recycled material. After the lifetime of the carpet, it is shipped to a mill and melted into a reusable composite used for production of liquid tanks.
- Recycle bins are placed the lobby areas
- Champion's national floor covering inventory and recycling programs are managed through its carpet depots in Atlanta and Las Vegas. Champion has selected recycling partners that participate in the joint industry-government Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) program in order to help increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet, and to reduce the amount of waste carpet being sent to landfills. Champion Recycling in Kentucky, recycles the worn carpeting and manufactures the raw goods into PVC piping and septic tanks.
- Their carpet padding is made from 95% recycled urethane (material from chairs and car seats). It is CRI "Green Label" certified, meeting LEED low emission requirements. They use 20-30 times then continue to use as packing material.

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Monday, May 9
8:30 AM–4:30 PM CIO Bootcamp: IT Emergent: High Value Leadership in a Low Tolerance World- Day Two Location: South Seas D As the world of information technology changes, the skill set required to lead your IT organization continually evolves. Attend Day Two of this intensive two-day CIO Boot Camp to learn firsthand from successful CIOs. Hear about common mistakes, how to avoid making them and how to apply their lessons to your world. Topics include: Vendor Management Managing the Next Technology Portfolio Green IT/Sustainability Managing Social Media IT Leadership For more information click here. Instructor - Thornton May, Futurist Executive Director, IT Leadership Academy Thornton May is America's leading CIO career doctor, tirelessly researching the environmental and psychological diseases that destroy IT leadership careers. On the road over 250 days a year making 'house calls' with leading CIOs, Thornton has assembled one of the world's most respected medicine chests of empirically tested job-saving, business-growing remedies in the IT business today. In addition to career doctoring, Thornton teaches Executive Education at four major universities, writes columns on technology for two leading publications, advises major organizations and government agencies on how to think differently about the future, all the while conducting seminal anthropological field research into technology use behaviors of the various tribes comprising modern society. Thornton brings a scholar's patience for empirical research, a second-to-none gift for storytelling and a scathingly honest sense of humor to his audiences. His exuberance is infectious. After prolonged exposure you go home and wring the personality out of your clothes. Most importantly you will be refreshed, revitalized and re-armed to win the career wars in front of you. Thornton was recently voted one of the world's 100 most influential leaders in IT. Speaker - Robert Rennie, CIO & VP, Technology, Florida State College at Jacksonville Speaker - Cheryl Smith, CIO, WestJet Ms. Smith is an experienced business leader and information technology (IT) expert. She has senior executive experience as a CEO and CIO, and has worked in the energy, health care, telecommunications, manufacturing, and consulting industries, and with federal agencies. Career Summary: Cheryl Smith is a principal at an expert IT consulting firm that offers services in IT Crisis Management. The firm specializes in providing support to companies facing an IT crisis or major “one-time” IT-related event (www.smithandassociates.us.com). She has been responsible for the successful turnaround and completion of critical IT projects and ventures throughout the world. Prior to her work in IT crisis management, Ms. Smith was the CEO of a technology startup company, utility.net. utility.net offered Broadband over Power Line (BPL) networks to the major US electric companies for commercial sale of broadband to customers in their rural territories, and SmartGrid applications for utility use. She was the global CIO for McKesson Corp—a Fortune 15 health care company; the CIO for KeySpan (now National Grid)—one of the largest energy companies in the US; the VP for Strategic Systems at Verizon; and the MIS Director for Honeywell Federal Systems. She was a Principal at Ernst & Young, one of the “Big 6” consulting firms, for 7 years, successfully managing major IT efforts for a number of Fortune 100 companies in the US and around the world. Her initial years in the industry were spent building 3 core systems that remain in use on Capitol Hill (the electronic voting system on the House floor, the House publication system, the cable communication system used by both the House and the Senate) at the U.S. House of Representatives. She is the co-founder of the CIO Institute, a certificate program for IT leaders at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business. In addition to teaching and international speaking engagements, her articles on IT problems, issues and challenges—with ‘insider information’ on how to resolve—have been published worldwide. Smith holds both Bachelor and Master degrees from Penn State. Speaker - Bruce Barnes, President and CEO, Bold Vision LLC Mr. Bruce Barnes has over thirty-six years of experience as a senior level officer in the technology arena, including very influential roles in Fortune 100 companies. He has received numerous industry accolades, including having been recognized by the industry press as one of this country's most noted CIOs. He is a recognized voice at national industry events and in major industry publications. He is an ongoing advisor and retained coach for a number of successful senior level corporate leaders. Currently, Mr. Barnes is the founder and CEO of BOLD VISION®, a senior management consulting consortium comprised of "C Level" executives, which operates as a trusted advisor and consultant to a number of noted CIOs and other I/T leaders, as well as to several large I/T product providers. Prior to this current role, Mr. Barnes served as the Vice President of I/T Strategy and Planning for the Nationwide Enterprise, a $200B international insurance and financial services company. There, he was responsible for the overall technology strategy, I/T architecture, information security, and I/T governance processes for the global enterprise. Prior to that, Mr. Barnes served as VP and Chief Information Officer for Nationwide Financial Services, a $100B international financial services company, where he oversaw all facets of technology services and operations within that publicly-held organization. Prior to that, he served as Chief Information Officer for Ohio's largest privately owned HMO, and he also held various management positions with an international library/information services company, the Washington (DC) office of a major technology vendor, and as an officer in the United States Army. He is a co-founder for the nationally acclaimed "CIO Solutions Gallery" at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business. He is a graduate in five sciences from The Ohio State University. Speaker - Christopher Barber, Former Senior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy and CIO, WesCorp Chris Barber is the Former Senior Vice President of Enterprise Strategy and Chief Information Officer at WesCorp, a corporate credit union headquartered in San Dimas, California managing more than $30 billion in assets. WesCorp provides Electronic Payment Services, Liquidity and Investment Services to Retail Credit Unions across the US and Guam. At WesCorp Mr. Barber lead the organization to pursue a paradigm shift in how it leveraged technology. During time there he led his team to implement several new ground breaking technologies enabling them to be the dominate player in their market, 3X the size of their closest competitor. Prior to joining WesCorp, Mr. Barber served as SVP and CIO for GlobeNet Capital Corporation in Orlando Florida (that eventually became part of the NYSE), an innovative company that built and operated electronic trading systems. He also held leadership positions with Vector Securities as Senior Technology Officer and with Mercer Investment Consulting as the Director of Software Development for their Global Resource Group. Mr. Barber is an entrepreneurial and visionary leader accomplished at strategic planning, product development, process improvement, and reengineering of key business processes. He is an advocate of leveraging enabling technologies to gain a competitive advantage, a skilled communicator, team builder and collaborator who maximizes efficiencies and productivity through boosting employee morale and performance. He has over 20 years of assisting organizations exceed their performance goals through the use of enabling technologies, a wide background in many areas of information technology including Software/Product Development, E-commerce, Business Intelligence and Analytics, Check Image Warehousing and Delivery Systems and Mobile Technologies to name a few. Mr. Barber received his Doctorate degree in eCommerce from Trinity College, his M. B. A. in Finance from DePaul University and his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Central Michigan University. Speaker - Alan Cullop, Chief Information Officer, Senior Vice President, The TriZetto Group Alan S. Cullop is currently serving as chief information officer and senior vice president with The TriZetto Group, the leader in healthcare ERP technology solutions touching half of the U.S. insured population. He joined the company in January 2010 and is implementing a business-focused strategy that maximizes the return on IT investments while focusing on operational excellence and improved cost structure. Mr. Cullop’s strategy focuses IT resources on projects that provide competitive advantage. Mr. Cullop brings over 20 years of global information technology and business experience to his current role. Prior to joining TriZetto, Mr. Cullop served as chief information officer and executive vice president with Berkshire Hathaway’s NetJets, a multi-billion dollar company. He joined the company in 2005 and rapidly positioned technology as a strategic enabler for the business. Through collaboration with business leaders, the IT and business teams collectively delivered projects utilizing advanced analytics, business process reengineering and internal process optimization. The company grew revenues by more than 300% and scaled by 2.5 times effectively during Mr. Cullop’s tenure. Mr. Cullop was ranked as one of the top 10 CIO/CTO’s in the United States by leading IT Futurist, Thornton May and was recognized by Information Week as 2010 Masters of Technology. Mr. Cullop currently serves on the board of TechColumbus, a leading technology incubator and on the executive advisory committee for the Groundworks Group, a non-profit technology provider for the United Way. Mr. Cullop has served on the Board of Directors of SITA, a diversified global company that provides technology services including applications development and networking in over 200 countries. Mr. Cullop also served on the Board of Directors for Tripeze.com, a Canadian e-commerce company, which was successfully acquired by Sears Corporation. Mr. Cullop also serves on several Technology groups across the country. Mr. Cullop earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville in 1987 and was a member of the Leadership Forum at The DuPree College of Management at Georgia Tech in Atlanta from 1998 - 2000. Speaker - Ben Bailey, Director of IT Services, Applied Voice and Speech Technologies, Inc. Ben Bailey is Director of IT Services at Applied Voice and Speech Technology, a leader in providing Unified Communications solutions through its flagship product, CallXpress. CallXpress is a Unified Communications platform that transforms productivity through applications like call processing, voicemail, unified messaging, personal assistant, fax, speech, and notification. Ben manages a diverse team that maintains the IT infrastructure across the company’s locations both in the US and abroad. Prior to joining AVST, Mr. Bailey held senior IT Management positions at Saflink Corporation (NASDAQ: SFLK), a publicly traded biometric security software firm. Speaker - Thomas Bakewell, CIO, Riverbed Thomas Bakewell has been Chief Information Officer and Vice President of Information Technology for Riverbed Technology, Inc since joining the Company in January of 2008. In his role, Mr. Bakewell is responsible for shaping the company's worldwide IT strategy to support the continued growth and the need for real-time collaboration and data access for Riverbed's globally distributed workforce and corporation. Under his leadership, the IT team has achieved new levels of business agility, productivity, and customer service through innovative, adaptive technology solutions that accommodate business priorities. Prior to joining Riverbed, Bakewell held a number of executive IT leadership roles at Coherent, Inc., Brocade Systems and Sun Microsystems. Speaker - Paul Barrett, CTO, Psytechnics, a NetScout company Paul Barrett works for NetScout Systems, Inc., which acquired Psytechnics Ltd. in April 2011. His role at NetScout includes responsibility for their voice and video quality assessment technology. Paul was CTO at Psytechnics prior to its acquisition by NetScout and was responsible for all research, development and standards activities at Psytechnics. He joined Psytechnics shortly after its creation in 2001 and worked for ten years at BT Laboratories before that. Paul has more than 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and has been actively involved in international standardization for most of that time. His standards work has encompassed many aspects of voice and video communications, including four generations of GSM and 3G codecs. Paul is currently a Vice Chairman of the ITU Study Group responsible for "Performance, QoS and QoE" and is the UK Head of Delegation for this group. He is a Chartered Engineer, Member of the IET and IEEE, and holds a Masters Degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.
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Tuesday, May 10
11:15 AM–12:00 PM Gain Control of Your Infrastructure so it Doesn’t Control Your Business - Sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric Location: Mandalay Bay K While power, cooling and cost control remain top concerns in the data center, new questions including Green IT, energy efficiency, PUE, utility negotiations and return on investment are highlighting the need for a new business orientation to the management of data center physical infrastructure (DCPIM). Holistic management of the data center ecosystem lets you achieve efficient operations, forecast capacity, plan for business growth and streamline workflow management. Learn how Data Center Infrastructure Management software enables a healthy, efficient data center by integration with virtualization platforms, enterprise and Building Management Systems. Speaker - Steven Carlini, Sr Director, Data Center Global Solution Offer Management, APC by Schneider Electric
11:30 AM–12:30 PM What’s Next in Data Center Servers Location: Lagoon D Server architectures are both changing in response to application deployment models as well as changing how applications are deployed. Everything from multi-core CPU, cache strategies, hardware virtualization support, IO management, and interconnects have an impact on how you deploy applications and has an impact on power consumption and cooling. In this session, you will learn about new technologies in servers and how to integrate them into your data center. You will will be able to differentiate the advantages of blade chassis from rack mount systems and determine when to use them. Lastly, you will understand how IO options impact overall performance and connectivity to the rest of the data center. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Panelist - Kurt Marko, Contributor, IT Journalist, Information Week Analytics, Network Computing Kurt Marko is an InformationWeek Analytics and Network Computing contributor and IT industry veteran, pursuing his passion for communications after a varied career that has spanned virtually the entire high-tech food chain from chips to systems. Upon graduating from Stanford University with a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, Kurt spent several years as a semiconductor device physicist, doing process design, modeling and testing. He then joined AT&T Bell Laboratories as a memory chip designer and CAD and simulation developer. Moving to Hewlett-Packard, Kurt started in the laser printer R&D lab doing electrophotography development, for which he earned a patent, but his love of computers eventually led him to join HP’s nascent technical IT group. He spent 15 years as an IT engineer and was a lead architect for several enterprisewide infrastructure projects at HP, including the Windows domain infrastructure, remote access service, Exchange e-mail infrastructure and managed Web services. Panelist - Brian Payne, Executive Director, PowerEdge Server Business, Dell Brian Payne is the Executive Director of Platform Marketing for Dell’s PowerEdge Server portfolio. The platform marketing organization is focused on developing and delivering innovative servers that help customers ranging from small businesses to multi-national corporations efficiently deploy and maintain a server infrastructure that address critical business objectives. Brian has twelve years of experience as a part of Dell’s server development organization; he holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. Panelist - Brent Kerby, Power Efficiency Strategist & Senior Product Manager, AMD Brent Kerby, Power Efficiency Strategist & Senior Product Manager, AMD Brent Kerby has over 25 years experience spanning both technical and marketing positions in consumer and commercial computing products. During the last 15 years of employment with AMD Kerby has managed AMD’s performance labs, launched AMD’s first server based processor, AMD Athlon MP processor, and now is a Sr. Product Manager for the AMD Opteron™ processor. His primary focus is on defining and delivering platforms that help contribute to increased efficiencies and lower TCO in the data center.
2:15 PM–3:00 PM Adopting a Dual Vendor Network to Reduce Costs and Improve Operations - Sponsored by Alcatel Lucent Location: Mandalay Bay J Gartner reports indicate a single vendor network costs, can be reduced between 15 percent to 25 percent, by adopting a dual vendor network strategy. Hear about best practices of implementing a dual vendor network solution and how Alcatel-Lucent’s Application Fluent Network approach can deliver increased resiliency and security, streamlined operations, lower power demands and an enhanced user experience. Speaker - David Fortini, Product Solutions Manager, Alcatel-Lucent David Fortini’s experience in telecom, engineering, programming and business development spans over 25 years, with separate stints at several multinationals and Fortune 500 companies, including IBM, Science Applications International, Motorola and Alcatel-Lucent. He is currently Director of Business Development for North America (West) promoting Alcatel_Lucent’s recently acquired Enterprise Security Portfolio from Bell Labs. His new position will leverage his experience at his last job as President of Forval International, a subsidiary of Forval Corporation based in Tokyo, Japan. Forval International offered data security products and services for small to mid-size businesses. He began his technical career as a senior system engineer with IBM and Lockheed Martin, where he had a lead role in modernizing the FAA’s traffic control system, NASA's onboard space shuttle system, GPS satellite launching, and the DoD’s defense messaging. He then worked in Motorola’s Satellite Operations and Product Marketing divisions as a Senior Staff engineer where he architected a global state of the art billing and financial system. He then took on a challenging task as the Vice President of IT for B-Digital USA which was one of the first resellers of Verizon Wireless Services. He successfully staffed and built a complete ERP, CRM and billing system from scratch and oversaw the deployment and integration with a remote call center within six months of the startup of the organization. His next assignment was Director of IT Operations at Wingcast, where he implemented and supervised all aspects of its ERP, billing and CRM operations. He was then recruited by j2global Inc., provider of eFax services and solutions, as the Director of OSS where he implemented and deployed the current ERP, CRM, Billing and Payment Processing systems. He is a computer science graduate of Pennsylvania State University and also possesses a Masters in computer science at George Mason University. He also has a Master Certificate in Information Technology Project Management from George Washington University.
3:15 PM–4:00 PM The Cloud Ready Data Center - Sponsored by Alcatel Lucent Location: Mandalay Bay J Successful consolidation in the data center means introducing a high performance two-layer L2 switching mesh that is resilient, low latency, low power and follows an application fluent approach with automated controls for high quality application delivery. Support for future convergence of data and storage networks with loss-less Ethernets and FCoE is also a must. Hear about how this can be achieved while including a true services-based architecture enabling seamless private and public cloud application delivery as well as providing for interconnect of data centers over a WAN. Speaker - Khurram Khawaja, Data Networking Product Management, Alcatel-Lucent Khurram Khawaja is responsible for the modular chassis data products at Alcatel-Lucent's networking group. With Alcatel-Lucent for more than ten years, he has held positions of progressive responsibility in the customer support and product management. Prior to his current position he was the Director of Service & Support Americas for Enterprise products at Alcatel-Lucent. He holds Masters Degrees in Global Business Management and Computer Science with bachelors in Computer Systems Engineering. Khurram recently presented at Interop NY 2010.
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Wednesday, May 11
11:15 AM–12:00 PM The Economics of Close-Coupled Cooling in the Data Center - Sponsored by APC by Schneider Electric Location: Mandalay Bay K There are now multiple proven and effective methods for close-coupled cooling at the IT rack or row level. With the install base of these products on the rise solution costs are decreasing, but how do these products and technologies stack up against more conventional approaches such as perimeter room based cooling? This presentation will detail the economics involved with each solution, CAPEX, OPEX, Total Cost of Ownership and payback to help make a complex challenge fundamentally easier to solve. Speaker - Joe Capes, Development Director - Cooling Line of Business, Americas
3:15 PM–4:15 PM Maximizing Data Center Efficiency Location: Lagoon D A well designed data center is inherently as energy efficient as it can be when it is designed and built, but new technologies and techniques evolve that can significantly improve efficiency. The question that IT struggles with is how to determine which improvements will have the best bang for the buck. Measuring and trending data center power and cooling usage provides a management context to make decisions on where to focus improvements and provides a way to measure the success. In this session, we will discuss new technologies and strategies to measure, trend, and optimize data center power and cooling, and articulate which technologies and strategies work for new or existing data centers. Moderator - Mike Fratto, Editor, Network Computing Mike is Editor of Network Computing. He has been with TechWeb for over 11 years and has extensive experience evaluating enterprise remote access, security, and network infrastructure products. He previously was Lead Analyst with InformationWeek Analytics, Senior Technology Editor with Network Computing and Executive Editor for Secure Enterprise. He has spoken at several conferences including Interop, MISTI, the Internet Security Conference, as well as to local groups. He also teaches a network security graduate course at Syracuse University. Prior to Network Computing, Mike was an independent consultant. Panelist - Jeff Rose, Technology Strategist, Vantage Data Centers As Technology Strategist Jeff architects and engineers all electrical and controls solutions. Jeff has worked to consultatively engineer, optimize, and troubleshoot numerous mission critical data center projects over the last ten years for numerous Fortune 100 businesses. Jeff constantly strives to create architectures simplifying the service delivery to a data center while improving overall performance efficiency. Coupling his electrical engineering expertise with a programming background, Jeff’s insight to the system performance benefits of a tightly integrated controls solution optimizes our data centers to achieve industry?leading PUE. Jeff worked previously in an architecture and engineering capacity on projects for Digital Realty Trust, Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, and eBay. Panelist - Martin Olsen, VP Global Sales, Active Power Martin Olsen serves as the company’s vice president and general manager, leading all multi-channel sales strategies to drive growth and market penetration within Active Power’s 13 trading markets around the globe. In addition to his sales responsibilities, Olsen oversees all global business development efforts to diversify sales channels and expand new revenue streams for the company. A holder of three U.S. patents, Olsen is a seasoned professional in the datacenter infrastructure markets with more than 13 years of global marketing, product development and business development experience. Olsen previously served as vice president of Global Channels and Business Development for Active Power. Before joining the company in 2007, Olsen was director of the Data Center Group for Wright Line LLC, a Worcester, Mass. based datacenter infrastructure firm. Prior to that, Olsen worked in the United States and several years overseas in Munich and Singapore, where he led the product marketing and business development charter for APC by Schneider Electric. He has conducted extensive research in computer room and datacenter power/cooling infrastructure and his research, white papers and interviews have regularly been featured in Computerworld, Information Week, Consulting Specifying Engineer and other top tier industry publications. A regular speaker at some of the more prominent domestic and international tradeshows and events, Olsen has presented on containerized power/cooling infrastructure; datacenter power/cooling inefficiencies; datacenter power quality and reliability; modular power and cooling; and datacenter thermal runaway. A member of several well-respected professional organizations, Olsen is involved with the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE), AFCOM, the Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI) and 7x24 Exchange. He is also a certified Six Sigma Green Belt. Olsen received his bachelor’s of Science in Marketing from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark. He also earned diplomas in Logistics and International Business Law from the International Business College at Kolding, Denmark. Panelist - Mike Higgins, Sr. Vice President, Data Center Services, Internap Mr. Higgins leads the Product Management, Business Development and Data Center Services Design and Site Selection functions for Internap’s Data Center Services business. He brings to Internap a deep knowledge and 20+ years of extensive financial, product planning and leadership experience in the telecommunications industry. Mr. Higgins came to Internap in January 2004 as Internap’s Vice President of Financial Planning and Analysis. At Internap, he has also served as a board member for the Company’s joint venture with NTT of Japan. In late 2006, Mr. Higgins assumed the responsibility for growing and expanding Internap’s Colocation product offering. Prior to Internap, Mr. Higgins held numerous leadership roles in Finance, Business Operations and Business Development over an 18-year career span while at MCI. His most recent role at MCI was Vice President of Business Operations. In this role he directed the Sales planning efforts for each of the business market segments. This included product planning, customer acquisition efforts, product line profitability and product integration efforts. Mr. Higgins holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Bridgeport and a B.S. in Accounting from Villanova University.
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Thursday, May 12
1:00 PM–1:45 PM EEPoE: Smart Power for a Greener Enterprise - Sponsored by Microsemi Location: Mandalay Bay L Power over Ethernet has been used since its inception as a technology to deliver power to devices over Ethernet cables. The original IEEE802.3af-2003 standard allowed only delivery of power over 2-pairs of wires. In this session, learn how the new IEEE802.3at-2009 standard allows IT managers to use PoE as a smart energy efficient power distribution system. Speaker - Daniel Feldman, Business Unit Manager, Communications Power, Microsemi Daniel Feldman serves as Communications Power Business Unit Manager at Microsemi, responsible for PoE, Networking Power and Solar products. He chairs the Ethernet Alliance PoE Technical Committee and was an active member of the IEEE802.3at Task Force. Previously, Mr. Feldman worked at Microsemi in several Marketing roles, for PowerDsine as Senior Product Manager responsible for Outbound Marketing activities in the Americas, at IC4IC as System Architecture Group Manager, as a VHDL Engineer at NICE Systems and as VLSI Engineer at RAFAEL. Mr. Feldman holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a B.Sc. (Cum Laude) in Computer Engineering from the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel.
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