Upcoming Events
August 10, 2010
August 10, 2010 Tech Bunch for Lunch
Topic: Piedmont Bioproducts
Piedmont BioProducts, based in Gretna, VA, is a company with a vision of a new business model that employs new technologies to solve the most significant eco¬nomic and environmental issue of the 21st century - our dependence on non-renewable and environmentally damaging foreign energy sources.
Ken Moss, founder and CEO of Piedmont BioProducts, LLC will discuss the research taking place at Piedmont BioProducts and what it means for the community, economy, and environment.
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Location: Golden Corral, 195 Holt Garrison Parkway, Danville, VA 24540 directions
There is no fee to attend. The restaurant’s buffet is approx. $10.50 including beverage & tax..
August 25, 2010
Danville Green IT Economic Summit 2010
August 25, 2010 9:00 AM - 3:45 PM
The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (150 Slayton Avenue, Danville, Virginia 24540)
The Danville Green IT Economic Summit is a landmark event with the latest breakthroughs in energy efficiency from the desktop to the data center. This summit will cover everything from green hardware to green software technology, and the power of the Internet. These promising new innovations will lay the groundwork for an upsurge in profits and sustainability. Welcome to most dynamic and cutting edge conference.
- How can IT, often the largest energy consumer, both directly and with its enormous cooling needs, keep leaping costs within limits?
- How can it contain escalating equipment costs by optimizing business processes through swift consolidation of servers and storage?
- With data center capacity doubling every five years with soaring demand, how can Green IT drastically reduce the need for expansion and demand for space?
- How can business manage carbon emissions with exciting new technologies such as shipping logistics planning coupled with supply chain management?
Keynote: Green IT in Government, Speaker: Jim Cheng, Secretary of Commerce and Trade
Program: What Green IT can do for you?
Corporate IT organizations are going green and looking for help to do so.
They target:
- Improvement in sustaining their IT operations and infrastructure
- Lower operating expenses, particularly for electricity
- Reduction or avoidance of capital expenditures
- Alignment with corporate green initiatives that raise customer perception
- Contemporary appeal to current and prospective employees
- Compliance with existing and prospective regulations.
The Green IT Economic Summit will showcase recent breakthroughs in Green hardware and software technology. It will present state-of-the-art knowhow that is empowering cutting-edge businesses to use resources efficiently, delivering profit and sustainability.
The Green IT Economic Summit event will feature over twenty leading experts and portray the leading Green IT enabling technologies:
- Mapping the Green IT Economics: Keynote Address by Chris Mines
- Enterprise Carbon And Energy Management Systems
- Data center application rationalization.
- Cloud Computing and Green IT Economic Impact
- Infrastructure Virtualization
- Green stimulus spending
- Get Ready for Green IT 2.0
Registration is free
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