Speakers at the Carbon Footprint IT Summit include:
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Gareth Ash
GLOBAL HEAD OF IT SERVICE DELIVERY
ALLEN & OVERY LLP |
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Gareth Ash has been Head of Service Delivery at Allen & Overy LLP, a leading international law firm, since November 2006. Gareth started his career in systems and business analyst at BUPA before moving on to computer programming and then project management. In the mid nineties, Gareth joined Prudential Insurance where he spent nine years, initially as a project manager before progressing to programme management delivering a wide variety of initiatives from; application development to outsourcing and acquisitions. Since joining Allen & Overy LLP in December 2003 Gareth has been responsible for the migration of its in-house hosted data centre to a third party and the fit-out and move of the London office to its new premises at Bishops Square.
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Richard Barrington
HEAD OF PUBLIC POLICY
SUN MICROSYSTEMS UK |
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Richard Barrington is head of Public Policy for Sun UK and Ireland. He represents Sun on the UK's Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change; the DTI's Information Age Partnership; is a board member of PITCOM, the UK Parliamentary IT Committee and has just been asked to join the UK Government's 'Business Task force on Sustainable Consumption and Production'. Richard has also recently accepted a position on the CBI Environmental Affairs Committee and will be active in setting the organisations strategy on environmental and sustainability issues. He is also an active alumni of the Business and the Environment programme and is an independent trustee of eduserv
Prior to joining Sun, Richard spend three years seconded to the Office of the E-Envoy, part of the Cabinet Office, as it's director for industry.
Richard has substantial media experience and has recently provided comment on the UK Government's budget announcement with regard to sustainable computing. Richard has also spoken recently at the Westminster eForum as well as Sun Microsystems' Forum for the Future event and SunLIVE 06.
Richard's area of expertise is Sun's sustainable computing strategy and the political issues surrounding this topic.
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Steve Bowden
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER - GREEN COMPUTING
IBM |
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Steve's 19 years of experience in the IT industry, working with many large and medium sized companies on their IT strategy, means he has experience of all types of server and storage technology, and how to use it optimally. His focus has always been on how to make IT work for the business. In that time he's seen both centralised, and distributed systems grow in importance at different times, driven by differing business pressures.
With the large energy cost rises, awareness of Carbon footprints, or just lack of space, his recent focus has been working with companies to understand how their differing server technologies deliver the business needs yet minimise their energy requirements and Carbon footprints. This typically starts with a review of their current environment, highlighting where potential savings can be made
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John Carey
IT DIRECTOR
SCOTTISH WIDOWS |
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John Carey will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint IT Summit.
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Dave Carter
MANCHESTER DIGITAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (MDDA)
MANCHESTER CITY COUNCIL |
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Dave Carter is Head of the Manchester Digital Development Agency (MDDA) at Manchester City Council. MDDA coordinates information society initiatives across the city-region including community-based broadband initiatives and the ONE-Manchester Digital Challenge initiative. MDDA focuses on how digital technologies can support economic regeneration and social inclusion (for more information see www.manchesterdda.com ).
He was European Project Coordinator of the IntelCities – ‘Intelligent Cities’ – Project, a €11M project funded under the EU’s FP6 IST programme (2002-2006) in partnership with the University of Salford, Nokia, Cisco, Telecities/Eurocities and 20 other European Cities. In 1999 he was seconded for two years to Government Office for the North West (GONW) where he was responsible for ICT/New Media issues in relation to the implementation of the new European Structural Funds Objective 2 programme for North West England for 2000-2006. In terms of European networking his work includes supporting Manchester City Council's membership of the Eurocities and Telecities networks. He was one of the founder members and the first President of the Telecities network (1994-96) and a core member of the European Digital Cities project, a major Support Action under the Fourth Framework Programme of the European Union (1996-2000), and of the INFOCITIES Consortium (TEN-Telecom) 1996-98.
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Bob Crooks
HEAD OF BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
DEFRA |
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With a long career in government computing, since obtaining his Masters in the Analysis and Design of Information Management Systems at the LSE in 1981, Bob has been involved in all aspects of the IT profession from writing programs, through Systems Analysis and Project Management to setting out departmental technical strategies and leading the procurement for the UK Fisheries Departments and Agencies of satellite communication systems for tracking fishing vessels and to support the upcoming introduction of electronic logbooks
His main role now is that of building the relationship and engagement between Defra's core Climate Change and Science and Evidence directorates, and the department's strategic IT supplier, IBM. He has also recently been appointed by the Defra CIO to take the lead on driving forward an IT Sustainable Operations programme for the core Department and its agencies. He is currently working with IBM on establishing methods to assess and reduce the carbon footprint of distributed IT environments for organisational units as one strand of a basis for attributing carbon budgets across the organisation and subsequently reducing them.
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Geraint Davies
DIRECTOR
NSCGLOBAL LTD. |
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Geraint Davies runs Marketing, IT and partnerships, with a particular focus on growing services and the 'delivery' part of the company. He brings over twenty years of experience to nscglobal, half in integration and half in services. Geraint has always worked in entrepreneurial environments, launching new markets, setting up new business divisions for large companies, running a business unit setting up entrepreneurs in new services and now working directly within a private company.
As marketing manager in BT he launched the first managed data, stock location and credit card verification services and then went on to Case Communications for many years to run the product and marketing teams for Wide Area Network products and solution integration, growing it to a £250m business across 50 countries. After a period with 3Com in Silicon Valley running SuperStack and OfficeConnect brand and product programmes globally Geraint returned to the UK. He was latterly director, Data and IP Services, at Cable and Wireless for eight years where he initially ran product development and marketing, driving the growth of a £200m portfolio from scratch. He then took over the sales and general management of a £250m business unit focused on content, applications, Internet and telephony virtual services, supporting the launch of private entrepreneurs into new service markets and a range of new ‘brand’ service providers such as AOL UK, Centrica One.Tel, TheNumber 118118, Caudwell Communications and Tesco Telecom.
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Ciaran Flanagan
DATACENTRE SOLUTIONS MANAGER, EMEA
INTEL |
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Since 2004 Ciaran has been running the Datacentre Solutions team for Intel® Solution Services across EMEA. This team engages with Intel’s customers who are working to improve Datacentre utilisation and refine their IT Infrastructure strategies. The charter is to help Enterprise customers optimise their Datacentre Assets with a portfolio of services based on a supply and demand approach. Specifically the team supports customers in Datacentre selection, design and risk planning, energy efficient computing strategies and asset efficiency through virtualisation, automation and service orientation.
Prior to this role Ciaran spent 6 years running various parts of Intel’s core IT business in EMEA with specific responsibility for Datacentre design and operations. Additionally Ciaran spent several years as an Infrastructure systems engineer supporting Unix, Windows, Network and Storage implementations where he was responsible for strategic IT vendor selection for Intel’s multi billion dollar manufacturing capability. Before working for Intel Corporation Ciaran worked for several Ireland based VAR’s specialising in retail automation and EPOS technologies.
Ciaran holds a Computer Science Degree from Trinity College, Dublin
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Steve Gediking
HEAD OF IT & FACILITIES
INDEPENDENT POLICE COMPLAINTS COMMISSION |
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Steve Gediking, Head of IT & Facilities at the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Steve has worked in IT for nearly 30 years and has significant experience in both the public and private sectors. Specialising in IT service delivery, previous jobs include managing large secure and administrative data centres within the police service and working for a global investment bank in both the UK and New York. Other roles include Global IT Change Manager, Head of Applications and a period spent running his own successful consultancy business. Steve currently heads up the IT function in the IPCC as well as looking after the organisation's challenging security requirements and its estate management.
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Peter Hambling
CIO
LLOYDS OF LONDON |
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Peter Hambling was appointed Chief Information Officer at Lloyd’s in May 2007 and is responsible for technology-led business programmes across the Lloyd's market and Corporation. Prior to joining Lloyd’s, Peter was head of sales delivery for HSBC's UK retail network, where he led a team creating a next-generation retail banking model for the group.
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Gary Hird
TECHNICAL STRATEGY MANAGER
JOHN LEWIS PARTNERSHIP |
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Gary is responsible for making sure that JLP has the right strategy for its IT infrastructure and that this is fully aligned with business strategy. His team identify and track emerging technologies and properly assess their likely impact on the Partnership, maintaining a “roadmap” of developments in that technology area over the next three to five years, and progressing initiatives from identification of candidate technologies through to trials and successful delivery. Since Autumn 2006 Gary has taken responsibility for progressing "Green IT" initiatives for John Lewis and Waitrose.
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Christopher Linfoot
IT DIRECTOR
LDV GROUP |
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Christopher Linfoot is the IT Director at LDV Group, part of the Russian owned GAZ Group of companies. LDV Group is a well known manufacturer of vans and light commercial vehicles. Prior to working with LDV Group, Christopher was a divisional CIO at APV plc.
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Finlay MacLeod
HEAD OF DATA CENTRE TRANSFORMATION
BT |
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Finlay J MacLeod is Head of Data Centre Transformation at BT looking after an estate of 70 major sites globally. Prior to joining BT Steve was with Cable & Wireless, AOL, Vizzavi, BNP Paribas and Reuters. Finlay is considered an expert in energy efficient data centre design, delivery and implementation, and server consolidation.
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Angela Morrison
IT DIRECTOR
SAINSBURY'S |
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Angela is IT Director for Sainsbury's, since joining two years ago Angela has insourced the Division from Accenture and is now working on developing a fully functional internal IT Division. Prior to working for Sainsbury's Angela spent 10 years working for ASDA/Wal-Mart where she had a nunber of roles including, IT Director, creating and running ASDA@home and latterly European Strategy for Wal-Mart. Angela started her career as a consultant working in both the private and public sector, where she focussed on business analysis and project management.
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Jamie Shaw
ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEER
HONDA F1 TEAM |
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Jamie holds a BA (Hons) degree in Environmental Management and is an Associate Member of the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment. Following a two year graduate traineeship, Jamie was the Environmental Manager of MBDA UK, which is the world leader and the largest European missile systems company, for 4 years.
He now holds the position of Environmental Engineer within the Honda Formula One Team where he is responsible for implementing a robust environmental plan for the team and its Brackley site which forms a key element of the business and marketing strategy of the team.
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Peter Pedersen
CTO
RANK GROUP |
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Dane Peter Pedersen is something of an internet entrepreneur and visionary and in the 1990s was a key player in building up a digital agency that delivered web technologies for some major UK brands.
Pedersen went on to work for TV station Channel 4 where he led the successful delivery of the channel's interactive offering online and on TV, and he managed the technical build of the infrastructure and websites for Big Brother, E4, FilmFour and channel4.com.
More recently, as CTO of online gaming firm Blue Square Pedersen was instrumental in facilitating information sharing between rival companies during the denial of service blackmail attacks targeting the UK industry in 2004.
Last year Pedersen was promoted from his role at Blue Square to CTO of its parent Rank Group, where he has been tasked with putting IT at the heart of some major and rapid change at the organisation.
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Mark Popolano
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
REED ELSEVIER |
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Mark Popolano will be speaking at the Carbon Footprint IT Summit.
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Alex Rabbetts
MANAGING DIRECTOR
MIGRATION SOLUTIONS |
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Alex Rabbetts is co-founder and Managing Director of Migration Solutions. A member of the Institute of Directors and the Project Management Institute, Alex has considerable experience of managing projects with budgets ranging from £20,000 to £200 million, employing formal project methodologies including PRINCE and Perform. Well known in the industry, Alex has over 20 years of experience in the data centre business and has been involved in the design and the project management of over 1,000,000 square feet of data centre space across Europe. Uniquely, Alex has also operated a number of data centres and has a wealth of experience in the challenges that face companies in operating data centres after the project team have moved on. Through Migration Solutions, Alex and his colleagues bring valuable expertise and experience to all aspects of a data centre, from initial design through to ‘Business As Usual’ operation.
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Dan Sutherland
PRESIDENT
GREEN TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE |
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Dan is serving as the founding president of the Green Technology Initiative and is focused on building the initiative’s membership and educating the marketplace about “Being green now, not just tomorrow”. As well as being the Green Technology Initiative's president, Dan Sutherland founded Carrenza, a leading hosting and data centre service provider (www.carrenza.com), and has served as its CEO since 2001.
Driven throughout by a belief that efficiency and great design coupled with providing real customer service are the cornerstones for success for any business, Dan combines these passions in the Green Technology Initiative under the principle of “green by design” to educate and share IT best practice to minimise its environmental impact.
Dan brings to the Green Technology Initiative a wealth of operational experience in both start-ups and more established businesses in a range of sectors from high profile public sector management consultancy through to the cutting edge of the music industry
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Frank Tudor
DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT FOR WORK AND PENSIONS |
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Frank has been with the Department for Work and Pensions since September 2005. Frank started his career working in procurement at BAe Systems after graduating with a degree in International Politics. Since then he has worked in a number of high profile roles most recently at Barclays where he was responsible for Supplier Relationship Management within their CIO organisation and managed amongst others EDS, IBM and Microsoft. Franks’ previous roles also include leading the development of the sourced element of the Westland Helicopters successful proposal for the UK Attack Helicopter programme and a spell in the mid 1990’s with Corel, the Canadian software developer.
Within DWP Strategic Sourcing, Frank leads the team developing their Supplier Relationship Management framework, which has been implemented with the Department’s key IT suppliers and is being rolled out across the rest of DWP. A significant part of this role involves driving the Departments sustainable development agenda with their IS/IT suppliers. Frank has also been instrumental in working with the Office of Government Commerce to develop their cross government supplier management tools and processes.
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Terry Walby
DIRECTOR
DATACENTRE AND STORAGE SOLUTIONS
COMPUTACENTER SERVICES
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With over 15 years experience in the IT Services industry, Walby's career spans technology solutions, professional and support services, consulting and business management, from the era of the highly disciplined and centralised datacentre, through the rise of highly distributed and commodity computing, to the current environment of centralisation and standardisation of technology and processes.
Terry is responsible for Computacenter's Datacentre Technology Solutions business in the UK, where he and his team work with corporate and government clients to provide advice and guidance on the optimisation of infrastructure in the datacentre. This includes the delivery of solutions to consolidate, migrate, upgrade, standardise and virtualise datacentre technology and tools. His team's unique perspective on the datacentre comes from in depth understanding of technology and its future, of the demands that business places on IT, and of the opportunities IT represents to drive business benefit.
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Chris Walker
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
SAATCHI & SAATCHI INTERACTIVE |
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Chris is the Chief Technical Officer for Saatchi & Saatchi Interactive Europe and has responsibility for all technical development, innovation, compliance and processes.
He has been passionately involved in the interactive space since early 1994, and has been actively pursuing technical excellence in this arena ever since. In 1998 he ran a series of internet based projects for the Anglo-French disease surveillance department of the National Health Executive, and followed that a year later by starting his own company in Ireland which specialised in developing systems that interfaced with online multiplayer computer games and worked with companies such as Dynamix, Vivendi Universal and Sierra Studios.
Chris moved back to London in 2000 and joined DDB as Technical Director where he worked across clients as varied as Hasbro, Volkswagen, Philips, Dell, Deutsche Bank, Oxfam and TUI Group.
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Angela Morrison, IT Director, Sainsbury's
Chris Walker, CTO,
Saatchi & Saatchi Interactive
Finlay McLeod, Head of
Data Centre Transformation, BT
Mark Popolano, CTO, Reed Elsevier
Paul Cattrell, European
Data Centre Manager, Unilever
Ciaran Flanagan, Head of Data Centres, Intel
John Carey, IT Director, Scottish Widows
Steve Bowden, CTO Green Computing, IBM
Frank Tudor, Director of Supplier Relationship and Performance, Department
of Work and Pensions
Dave Carter, Head of
Digital Development, Manchester City Council
Richard Barrington,
Head of Government and Public Policy,
Sun Microsystems
Jonathan Clark, Head Of Business Design, British Energy
Ricky Higgins, IT Director
For Products and Markets, Lloyds TSB
Peter Hambling, CIO,
Lloyds of London
Jamie Shaw,
Environmental Engineer,
Honda F1 Racing
Gary Hird, Technical
Strategy Systems Manager, John Lewis Partnership
Bob Crook, Head of Business Relationship Management & Sustainability, DEFRA
Dan Sutherland, Founder, Green Technology Initiative
Peter Pedersen, CIO, Rank Group
Christopher Linfoot, IT Director, LDV Group
Paul Cattrell, European
Data Centre Manager, Unilever
Ricky Higgins, IT Director for Products and Markets, Lloyds TSB
Jonathan Clark, Head of Business Design, British Energy
Steve Gediking, Head of IT and Facilities, The Independent Police Complaints Commission
Terry Walby, Director, Datacentre and Storage Solutions, Computacenter Services
Andrew Bray, Head of Energy Services, Johnson Controls
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