“The Environment and Sustainability” is one of Stanford’s top initiatives, and reducing our own green house gas emissions is an important element of Stanford’s mission. With Computing and IT equipment using nearly 15% of the campus’ annual electricity needs, focusing on Sustainable IT is an important path to reducing overall green house gas emissions.
Joyce Dickerson, Director of Sustainable IT, will share how Stanford has framed these efforts, what specific projects it is embarking on, and how it calculates green house gas reductions and payback for each initiative it deploys.
For more information and registration info click HERE.
For the first time the CIOs/IT Executives meetup was held outside of the usual venue. This time our host was Cloudera.
Over 30 people from companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Facebook, NEC and many others showed up for the event. Christopher’s presentation has generated lots of great discussions. I hope to have a video of this talk posted shortly.
If you are interested in Hadoop, you should read this great blog post on 5 Common Questions About Hadoop .
“ Loic did a great job to get me a bit more ‘up to speed’ on the newest twitter development and he sold me on seesmic. I really liked his ‘customer service’/professional guidelines which fused through his presentation and the following discussion - maybe a slice of European professionalism could help here in the US to make us all a bit more ‘relationship’ focused rather than just straight business focused ($$$). ”
“ This product will revolutionize consumer marketing. The P&G brand managment model will not work in the future. Business school courses will redone in the light of this. ”
“ Loic is a great speaker to the room and one-on-one. Educational, insightful, and bashful, his expertise in business and technology more than fulfilled what I wanted to get from the presentation. And I had fun! ”
“ The content was excellent, the environment was friendly, the meeting was well organized, and the food and wine was great ”
“ I very much enjoyed the session. I was amazed at the reach of Twitter and Seesmic. It was great to meet Loic. Thanks, Tatyana, for putting on such great events. ”
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