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(Sydney, Australia) Agenda for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers | Registration Link |
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| Tues 4/20 | 10:00- 11:00 am | Collaboration and Sustainability: Helping Businesses Thrive Hear how collaboration technology can address corporate environmental and sustainability goals, and allow businesses to grow and thrive. |
Speaker:Debra Chrapaty, SVP & General Manager, Collaboration Software Group and member of Cisco’s EcoBoard |
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| Tues 4/20 | 11:00-12:00 p.m. | Climate Change Challenges, Solutions and New Business Models This session will discuss the challenges faced in the Australian environment and review the role of ICT in solving some of these issues and some emerging new business models. |
Moderator: Kevin Bloch, CTO, ANZ, Cisco Australia Panelists: Andrew Lamble, Chief Operating Officer, CarbonSystems |
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| Tues 4/20 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change – The role of ICT India’s rapid economic growth in last several years has brought three issues into focus: it has lifted millions out of poverty, accelerated depletion of natural resources, and caused rapid deterioration in environment quality. The session will dwell on India’s challenges and opportunities, approach of the government and private sector and specifically focus on areas where ICT has the potential to be the transforming force. |
Moderator: Panelists: Dr. Rahul Tongia, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Study of Science, Technology, & Policy |
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(Sydney, Australia) Agenda for Wed 4/21
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers | Registration Link |
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(Sydney, Australia) Agenda for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers | Registration Link |
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| Thurs 4/22 | 1:00 pm -1:30 pm | COP 15 Multimedia Experience Launch
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| Thurs 4/22 | 2:00 -3:00 p.m. | Smart Grid (APJ) |
Speaker:Inbar Lasser-Raab, Director, Market Management, Cisco |
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(Sydney, Australia) Agenda for Fri 4/23
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers | Registration Link |
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| Fri 4/23 | 8:00- 9:00 a.m. | It is estimated that the world’s population will be 9 billion by 2050. How do we support this growing population with increasingly scarce resources? We need to change the way we think about the embedded impact of our products. For example, human beings use a considerable amount of water every day, but even more is used to grow and produce the resources used to make our products. Jason Clay from the World Wildlife Fund will share the realities of water and embedded impacts of many different items we use in our lives. | Speaker: |
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Universal Time (all sessions) for Tues 4/20
| Date | Universal Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 12:00-1:00 a.m. | Collaboration and Sustainability: Helping Businesses Thrive Hear how collaboration technology can not only address corporate environmental and sustainability goals, but can actually still allow businesses to grow and thrive |
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 1:00-2:00 a.m. | Climate Change Challenges, Solutions and New Business Models
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Moderator: |
| Tues 4/20 | 5:30-6:30 a.m. | India's National Action Plan-The Role of ICT
India’s rapid economic growth in last several years has brought three issues into focus: it has lifted millions out of poverty, accelerated depletion of natural resources, and caused rapid deterioration in environment quality. The session will dwell on India’s challenges and opportunities, approach of the government and private sector and specifically focus on areas where ICT has the potential to be the transforming force. |
Moderator: Dr. Rahul Tongia, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Study of Science, Technology, & Policy |
| Tues 4/20 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. | Cisco EnergyWise and Customer Best Practices
Cisco EnergyWise harnesses the network to provide visibility and control of energy usage. This session will provide a brief overview of this key service capability and will include best practices from Cisco customers. |
Panelists: Robert Mackay, London Borough of Hillingdon João Fernandes, Portugal Ministry of Education |
| Tues 4/20 | 3:00-3:45 p.m. | Smart Grid Distributed Intelligence: Enabling Green Energy sources
Hear why the smart grid is "green." Topics discussed:
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Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | A Telework Strategy for Your Agency
Cisco and Teleworx Exchange will host a panel discussion regarding the deployment of a telework solution within your agency. They will discuss their shared vision of collaboration within and across an agency and the technology solutions that promote workforce productivity and contribute to agency carbon reduction goals while maximizing agency operations. |
Cindy Auten, General Manager, |
| Tues 4/20 | 5:00-6:00 p.m. | Green Tech: Regulations, Trends, and Impacts
Join us for a panel discussion of the growing impact of environmental regulations and trends on the electronics industry. |
Introduction:
Donna Young, GM Climate Change & Programme Development, British Telecom |
| Tues 4/20 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Public Sector Innovators Leading Change
Come and learn firsthand how these industry visionaries are leading change through technology and enhanced collaboration within their organization.
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Moderator: Leo Donnelly, Senior Network Architect, Emerging Technologies, University Information Systems, Harvard University |
| Tues 4/20 | 7:00-8:00 p.m. | Cisco On Cisco: Using Information Technology to Meet Cisco"s Green Goals
Hear the Cisco Green Story about how IT is being used to create efficiency, reduce energy, and cut down global greenhouse gas (GHG) and costs. |
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 8:00-9:00 p.m. | Sustainability As a Driver For Innovation This session will discuss why sustainability is a driver for innovation and how global companies are responding. The fundamental shift in resource use, stakeholder engagement and corporate transparency is driving companies to reduce their environmental footprint to develop new products and services. |
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 9:00-9:30 p.m. | X PRIZE & Cisco: An Energy & Environmental Innovation Partnership Innovation at the intersection of audacity and achievement. Learn about the nature and potential of our partnership to stem the harmful effects of climate change and promote environmental sustainability. |
Speaker: |
Universal Time (all sessions) for Wednesday 4/21
| Date | Universal Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 4/21 | 2:00- 3:00 p.m. | Sustainable Value Chain Hear from a panel of expert guests, including one of our manufacturing partners on how Cisco is ensuring that all products can be sourced, manufactured, and sold anywhere, any time in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
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Moderator: Panelists: Carl Albers, Manager, Documentation, Cisco Oleg Kolosov, Manager, Packaging, Cisco |
| Wed 4/21 | 3:00- 4:00 p.m. | Lessons Learned from Copenhagen and the Road to Mexico (COP16): Do We Need a Renewed Climate Change Dialogue Between the U.S., the EU, and China?
Panelists will provide an overview of the U.N. international climate conference (COP15), their views on a renewed climate change dialogue, and lessons learned. |
Panelists: Moderator: |
| Wed 4/21 | 5:00-6:00 p.m. | ICT as Part of the Solution: Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
Greenpeace has challenged the biggest names in the IT industry to put forward climate solutions that help us use energy more wisely, to reduce their own carbon footprint, and to become strong advocates for government policies that tackle climate change. Greenpeace, in collaboration with Cisco is bringing together a panel of experts from leading IT companies who are part of Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge to discuss the importance leadership among lT companies to tackle the challenge and the business opportunities associated with addressing climate change. |
Panelists: Gary Cook, Climate Policy Advisor, Greenpeace Cool IT Campaign Steve Lippman, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Microsoft
Moderator: Martin LaMonica, Senior Writer, CNET News |
| Wed 4/21 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Cisco EnergyWise and Customer Best Practices
Cisco EnergyWise harnesses the network to provide visibility and control of energy usage. This session will provide a brief overview of this key service capability and will include best practices from Cisco customers. |
Moderator: Panelists: |
| Wed 4/21 | 8:00-9:00 p.m. | AB 32: Fact vs. Fiction
Learn how AB 32, California"s Cap & Trade program could impact California"s economy. |
Moderator: Panelists: Virgil Welch, Special Assistant to the Chairman, California Air Resource Board (CARB) Bruce Klafter, Senior Director, Environmental, Health and Safety, Applied Materials
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Universal Time (all sessions) for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Universal Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs 4/22 | 3:00-3:30 a.m. | COP15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year"s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 4:00-5:00 a.m. | Smart Grid
This session discusses Cisco"s Smart Grid strategy and what this opportunity will mean for the environment. |
Speaker: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 4:00-4:30 p.m. | COP15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year"s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 5:00- 6:00 p.m. | Green Innovations in Education: Working Toward Sustainability (K-12)
Learn how schools and campuses can lower their carbon footprints and serve as role models of sustainability in our communities. Panelists represent members of the Green Schools Alliance, a network of schools in the U.S. and Canada committed to helping the environment. |
Panelists:
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| Thurs 4/22 | 7:00- 8:00 p.m. | Making the Case for Sustainability in a Downturn
Hear from a multi-industry panel on how perspective on sustainability changes or doesn’t depending on the industry. Topics of discussion:
|
Moderator: Ted Reichelt, Principal Environmental Engineer, Intel John Rego, Director of Sustainability, Sony Pictures Darrel Stickler, Sustainable Business Practices, Cisco Yalmaz Siddiqui, Director, Environmental Strategy, Office Depot |
| Thurs 4/22 | 8:00- 8:30 p.m. | Cisco Foundation and Water.org: Leveraging Technology to Make a Difference Hear from Charu Adesnik of the Cisco Foundation and Mike McCamon of Water.org to learn how this partnership will fund the use of technology to empower communities to track and report solutions to providing safe drinking water to people in developing countries. |
Speakers:
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| Thurs 4/22 | 10:00- 11:00 p.m | Laptops, Lattes, and Lunch: Making More From Less
It is estimated that the world’s population will be 9 billion by 2050. How do we support this growing population with increasingly scarce resources? We need to change the way we think about the embedded impact of our products. For example, human beings use a considerable amount of water every day, but even more is used to grow and produce the resources used to make our products. Jason Clay from the World Wildlife Fund will share the realities of water and embedded impacts of many different items we use in our lives. |
Speaker: |
Tokyo, Japan (Universal Time + 9 hours) for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 9:00– 10:00 a.m. | Collaboration and Sustainability: Helping Businesses Thrive Hear how collaboration technology can address corporate environmental and sustainability goals, and allow businesses to grow and thrive. |
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| Tues 4/20 | 10:00– 11:00 a.m. | Climate Change Challenges, Solutions and New Business Models
This session will discuss the challenges faced in the Australian environment and review the role of ICT in solving some of these issues and some emerging new business models. |
Moderator: |
| Tues 4/20 | 2:30-3:30 p.m. | India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change – The role of ICT India's rapid economic growth in last several years has brought three issues into focus: it has lifted millions out of poverty, accelerated depletion of natural resources, and caused rapid deterioration in environment quality. The session will dwell on India’s challenges and opportunities, approach of the government and private sector and specifically focus on areas where ICT has the potential to be the transforming force. |
Moderator: Speakers: Dr. Rahul Tongia, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Study of Science, Technology, & Policy |
Tokyo, Japan (Universal Time + 9 hours) for Wed 4/21
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
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| No sessions |
Tokyo, Japan (Universal Time + 9 hours) for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs 4/22 | 12:00 -12:30 a.m. | COP15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 1:00 -2:00 p.m. | Smart Grid This session discusses Cisco's Smart Grid Strategy and how improvements to the electric system can impact the environment. |
Speaker: |
Beijing, China and Singapore (Universal Time + 8 hours) for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Collaboration and Sustainability: Helping Businesses Thrive Hear how collaboration technology can address corporate environmental and sustainability goals, and allow businesses to grow and thrive. |
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| Tues 4/20 | 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Climate Change Challenges, Solutions and New Business Models
This session will discuss the challenges faced in the Australian environment and review the role of ICT in solving some of these issues and some emerging new business models. |
Moderator: |
| Tues 4/20 | 3:30-4:30 p.m. | India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change – The role of ICT India's rapid economic growth in last several years has brought three issues into focus: it has lifted millions out of poverty, accelerated depletion of natural resources, and caused rapid deterioration in environment quality. The session will dwell on India’s challenges and opportunities, approach of the government and private sector and specifically focus on areas where ICT has the potential to be the transforming force. |
Moderator: Dr. Rahul Tongia, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Study of Science, Technology, & Policy |
Beijing, China and Singapore (Universal Time + 8 hours) for Wed 4/21
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| No sessions |
Beijing, China and Singapore (Universal Time + 8 hours) for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs 4/22 | 11:00 -11:30 a.m. | COP15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/22 | 12:00 -1:00 p.m. | Smart Grid
This session discusses Cisco’s Smart Grid Strategy and how improvements to the electric system can impact the environment. |
Speaker: |
Bangalore, India (Universal Time + 5:30 hours) for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | India’s National Action Plan on Climate Change – The role of ICT India's rapid economic growth in last several years has brought three issues into focus: it has lifted millions out of poverty, accelerated depletion of natural resources, and caused rapid deterioration in environment quality. The session will dwell on India’s challenges and opportunities, approach of the government and private sector and specifically focus on areas where ICT has the potential to be the transforming force. |
Moderator: Panelists: Dr. Rahul Tongia, Principal Research Scientist, Center for Study of Science, Technology, & Policy |
| Tues 4/20 | 8:30-9:15 p.m. | Smart Grid Distributed Intelligence: Enabling Green Energy sources
Hear why the smart grid is "green." Topics discussed:
|
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 9:30-10:30 p.m. | A Telework Strategy for Your Agency Cisco and Teleworx Exchange will host a panel discussion regarding the deployment of a telework solution within your agency. They will discuss their shared vision of collaboration within and across an agency and the technology solutions that promote workforce productivity and contribute to agency carbon reduction goals while maximizing agency operations |
Cindy Auten, General Manager, |
Bangalore, India (Universal Time + 5:30 hours) for Wed 4/21
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 4/21 | 9:30-10:30 p.m. | Lessons Learned from Copenhagen and the Road to Mexico (COP16): Do We Need a Renewed Climate Change Dialogue Between the U.S., the EU, and China?
Panelists will provide an overview of the U.N. international climate conference (COP15), their views on a renewed climate change dialogue, and lessons learned. |
Panelists: Moderator:
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Bangalore, India (Universal Time + 5:30 hours) for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs 4/22 | 8:30 -9:00 a.m. | COP 15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year's U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 9:30-10:30 a.m. | Smart Grid This session discusses Cisco’s Smart Grid strategy and what this opportunity will mean for the environment. |
Speaker: |
London, United Kingdom for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | Cisco EnergyWise and Customer Best Practices
Cisco EnergyWise harnesses the network to provide visibility and control of energy usage. This session will provide a brief overview of this key service capability and will include best practices from Cisco customers. |
Panelists: Robert Mackay, London Borough of Hillingdon Moderator: Vivian Clark, Marketing Manager, CMO Routing & Switching Solutions, Cisco |
| Tues 4/20 | 4:00-4:45 p.m. | Smart Grid Distributed Intelligence: Enabling Green Energy Sources
Hear why the smart grid is "green." Topics discussed:
|
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 5:00-6:00 p.m. | A Telework Strategy for Your Agency Cisco and Teleworx Exchange will host a panel discussion regarding the deployment of a telework solution within your agency. They will discuss their shared vision of collaboration within and across an agency and the technology solutions that promote workforce productivity and contribute to agency carbon reduction goals while maximizing agency operations |
Cindy Auten, General Manager, |
| Tues 4/20 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Green Tech: Regulations, Trends, and Impacts
Join us for a panel discussion of the growing impact of environmental regulations and trends on the electronics industry. |
Introductoin:
Panelists: Donna Young, GM Climate Change & Programme Development, British Telecom Darren Beck, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sprint
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| Tues 4/20 | 8:00-9:00 p.m. | Cisco On Cisco: Using Information Technology to Meet Cisco’s Green Goals
Hear the Cisco Green Story about how IT is being used to create efficiency, reduce energy, and cut down global GHG and costs. |
Speaker: |
London, United Kingdom for Wed 4/21
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 4/21 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | Sustainable Value Chain
Hear from a panel of expert guests, including one of our manufacturing partners on how Cisco is ensuring that all products can be sourced, manufactured, and sold anywhere, any time in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
|
Moderator: |
| Wed 4/21 | 5:00-6:00 p.m. | Lessons Learned from Copenhagen and the Road to Mexico (COP16): Do We Need a Renewed Climate Change Dialogue Between the U.S., the EU, and China?
Panelists will provide an overview of the U.N. international climate conference (COP15), their views on a renewed climate change dialogue, and lessons learned. |
Panelists: Moderator: Monique Meche, Director Global Environmental Policy, Cisco |
| Wed 4/21 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. | ICT as Part of the Solution: Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
Greenpeace has challenged the biggest names in the IT industry to put forward climate solutions that help us use energy more wisely, to reduce their own carbon footprint, and to become strong advocates for government policies that tackle climate change. Greenpeace, in collaboration with Cisco is bringing together a panel of experts from leading IT companies who are part of Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge to discuss the importance leadership among lT companies to tackle the challenge and the business opportunities associated with addressing climate change. |
Panelist: Gary Cook, Climate Policy Advisor, Greenpeace Cool IT Campaign
Moderator: |
London, United Kingdom for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs 4/22 | 5:00-5:30 p.m. | COP15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
U.S. East - EDT for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Cisco EnergyWise and Customer Best Practices
Cisco EnergyWise harnesses the network to provide visibility and control of energy usage. This session will provide a brief overview of this key service capability and will include best practices from Cisco customers. |
Panelists: Robert Mackay, London Borough of Hillingdon Moderator: |
| Tues 4/20 | 11:00-11:45 a.m. | Smart Grid Distributed Intelligence: Enabling Green Energy Sources
Hear why the smart grid is "green." Topics discussed:
|
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | A Telework Strategy for Your Agency Cisco and Teleworx Exchange will host a panel discussion regarding the deployment of a telework solution within your agency. They will discuss their shared vision of collaboration within and across an agency and the technology solutions that promote workforce productivity and contribute to agency carbon reduction goals while maximizing agency operations |
Cindy Auten, General Manager, |
| Tues 4/20 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | Green Tech: Regulations, Trends, and Impacts
Join us for a panel discussion of the growing impact of environmental regulations and trends on the electronics industry. |
Introduction: Panelists: Donna Young, GM Climate Change & Programme Development, British Telecom Darren Beck, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sprint |
| Tues 4/20 | 2:00- 3:00 p.m. | Public Sector Innovators Leading Change Come and learn firsthand how these industry visionaries are leading change through technology and enhanced collaboration within their organization.
|
Moderator: Leo Donnelly, Senior Network Architect, Emerging Technologies, University Information Systems, Harvard University |
| Tues 4/20 | 3:00– 4:00 p.m. | Cisco On Cisco: Using Information Technology to Meet Cisco’s Green Goals
Hear the Cisco Green Story about how IT is being used to create efficiency, reduce energy, and cut down global GHG and costs. |
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 4:00– 5:00 p.m. | Sustainability As a Driver For Innovation This session will discuss why sustainability is a driver for innovation and how global companies are responding. The fundamental shift in resource use, stakeholder engagement and corporate transparency is driving companies to reduce their environmental footprint to develop new products and services. |
Speaker: |
| Tues 4/20 | 5:00– 5:30 p.m. | X PRIZE & Cisco: An Energy & Environmental Innovation Partnership Innovation at the intersection of audacity and achievement. Learn about the nature and potential of our partnership to stem the harmful effects of climate change and promote environmental sustainability. |
Speaker: |
U.S. East - EDT for Wed 4/21
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 4/21 | 11:00 – 12:00 p.m. | Sustainable Value Chain Hear from a panel of expert guests, including one of our manufacturing partners on how Cisco is ensuring that all products can be sourced, manufactured, and sold anywhere, any time in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
|
Moderator: |
| Wed 4/21 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. | Lessons Learned from Copenhagen and the Road to Mexico (COP16): Do We Need a Renewed Climate Change Dialogue Between the U.S., the EU, and China?
Panelists will provide an overview of the U.N. international climate conference (COP15), their views on a renewed climate change dialogue, and lessons learned. |
Panelists: Moderator: |
| Wed 4/21 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. | ICT as Part of the Solution: Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
Greenpeace has challenged the biggest names in the IT industry to put forward climate solutions that help us use energy more wisely, to reduce their own carbon footprint, and to become strong advocates for government policies that tackle climate change. Greenpeace, in collaboration with Cisco is bringing together a panel of experts from leading IT companies who are part of Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge to discuss the importance leadership among lT companies to tackle the challenge and the business opportunities associated with addressing climate change. |
Panelist:
Gary Cook, Climate Policy Advisor, Greenpeace Cool IT Campaign
Moderator: Martin LaMonica, Senior Writer, CNET News |
| Wed 4/21 | 2:00- 3:00 p.m. | Cisco EnergyWise and Customer Best Practices
Cisco EnergyWise harnesses the network to provide visibility and control of energy usage. This session will provide a brief overview of this key service capability and will include best practices from Cisco customers. |
Panelists: Moderator: |
| Wed 4/21 | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | AB 32: Fact vs. Fiction
Learn how AB 32, California’s Cap & Trade program could impact California’s economy. |
Moderator: Panelists: Virgil Welch, Special Assistant to the Chairman, California Air Resource Board (CARB) Bruce Klafter, Senior Director, Environmental, Health and Safety, Applied Materials |
U.S. East - EDT for Thurs 4/22
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurs 4/22 | 12:00-12:30 p.m. | COP15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speaker: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Green Innovations in Education: Working Toward Sustainability (K-12) Learn how schools and campuses can lower their carbon footprints and serve as role models of sustainability in our communities. Panelists represent members of the Green Schools Alliance, a network of schools in the U.S. and Canada committed to helping the environment.
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Panelists: Moderator: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 3:00-4:00 p.m. | Making the Case for Sustainability in a Downturn Hear from a multi-industry panel on how perspective on sustainability changes or doesn’t depending on the industry. Topics of discussion:
|
Moderator: Panelists: Ted Reichelt, Principal Environmental Engineer, Intel John Rego, Director of Sustainability, Sony Pictures Darrel Stickler, Sustainable Business Practices, Cisco Yalmaz Siddiqui, Director, Environmental Strategy, Office Depot |
| Thurs 4/22 | 4:00-4:30 p.m. | Cisco Foundation and Water.org: Leveraging Technology to Make a Difference Hear from Charu Adesnik of the Cisco Foundation and Mike McCamon of Water.org to learn how this partnership will fund the use of technology to empower communities to track and report solutions to providing safe drinking water to people in developing countries. |
Speakers: |
| Thurs 4/22 | 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Laptops, Lattes, and Lunch: Making More From Less
It is estimated that the world’s population will be 9 billion by 2050. How do we support this growing population with increasingly scarce resources? We need to change the way we think about the embedded impact of our products. For example, human beings use a considerable amount of water every day, but even more is used to grow and produce the resources used to make our products. Jason Clay from the World Wildlife Fund will share the realities of water and embedded impacts of many different items we use in our lives. |
Speakers: |
U.S. Pacific - PDT for Tues 4/20
| Date | Local Time | Session | Speakers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tues 4/20 | 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Smart Grid Distributed Intelligence: Enabling Green Energy Sources
Hear why the smart grid is "green." Topics discussed:
|
Speakers: Jeffrey Taft, Chief Architect, Smart Grid, Cisco |
| Tues 4/20 | 9:00-10:00 a.m. | A Telework Strategy for Your Agency Cisco and Teleworx Exchange will host a panel discussion regarding the deployment of a telework solution within your agency. They will discuss their shared vision of collaboration within and across an agency and the technology solutions that promote workforce productivity and contribute to agency carbon reduction goals while maximizing agency operations |
Cindy Auten, General Manager, |
| Tues 4/20 | 10:00-11:00 a.m. | Green Tech: Regulations, Trends, and Impacts Join us for a panel discussion of the growing impact of environmental regulations and trends on the electronics industry. |
Introduction: Co-Moderators: Panelists: Donna Young, GM Climate Change & Programme Development, British Telecom Darren Beck, Manager, Corporate Social Responsibility, Sprint |
| Tues 4/20 | 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m. | Public Sector Innovators Leading Change Come and learn firsthand how these industry visionaries are leading change through technology and enhanced collaboration within their organization.
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Moderator: Leo Donnelly, Senior Network Architect, Emerging Technologies, University Information Systems, Harvard University |
| Tues 4/20 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Cisco On Cisco: Using Information Technology to Meet Cisco’s Green Goals
Hear the Cisco Green Story about how IT is being used to create efficiency, reduce energy, and cut down global GHG and costs. |
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| Tues 4/20 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. | Sustainability As a Driver For Innovation This session will discuss why sustainability is a driver for innovation and how global companies are responding. The fundamental shift in resource use, stakeholder engagement and corporate transparency is driving companies to reduce their environmental footprint to develop new products and services. |
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| Tues 4/20 | 2:00-2:30 p.m. | X PRIZE & Cisco: An Energy & Environmental Innovation Partnership Innovation at the intersection of audacity and achievement. Learn about the nature and potential of our partnership to stem the harmful effects of climate change and promote environmental sustainability. |
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| Wed 4/21 | 8:00-9:00 a.m. | Sustainable Value Chain Hear from a panel of expert guests, including one of our manufacturing partners on how Cisco is ensuring that all products can be sourced, manufactured, and sold anywhere, any time in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.
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| Wed 4/21 | 9:00-10:00 a.m. | Lessons Learned from Copenhagen and the Road to Mexico (COP16): Do We Need a Renewed Climate Change Dialogue Between the U.S., the EU, and China?
Panelists will provide an overview of the U.N. international climate conference (COP15), their views on a renewed climate change dialogue, and lessons learned. |
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| Wed 4/21 | 10:00-11:00 a.m. | ICT as Part of the Solution: Greenpeace Cool IT Challenge
Greenpeace has challenged the biggest names in the IT industry to put forward climate solutions that help us use energy more wisely, to reduce their own carbon footprint, and to become strong advocates for government policies that tackle climate change. Greenpeace, in collaboration with Cisco is bringing together a panel of experts from leading IT companies who are part of Greenpeace’s Cool IT Challenge to discuss the importance leadership among lT companies to tackle the challenge and the business opportunities associated with addressing climate change. |
Panelist: Gary Cook, Climate Policy Advisor, Greenpeace Cool IT Campaign
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| Wed 4/21 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 pm | Cisco EnergyWise and Customer Best Practices
Cisco EnergyWise harnesses the network to provide visibility and control of energy usage. This session will provide a brief overview of this key service capability and will include best practices from Cisco customers. |
Panelists: Robert Mackay, London Borough of Hillingdon João Fernandes, Portugal Ministry of Education Moderator: Vivian Clark, Marketing Manager, CMO Routing & Switching Solutions, Cisco |
| Wed 4/21 | 1:00-2:00 p.m. | AB 32: Fact vs. Fiction Learn how AB 32, California’s Cap & Trade program could impact California’s economy. |
Moderator: Panelists: Virgil Welch, Special Assistant to the Chairman, California Air Resource Board (CARB) Bruce Klafter, Senior Director, Environmental, Health and Safety, Applied Materials |
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| Thurs 4/22 | 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. | COP 15 Multimedia Experience Launch
The COP15 Video Experience chronicles the creation and impact of the Global Climate Change Meeting Platform, a network of Cisco TelePresence units that has fundamentally changed the way nations communicate with each other. Go behind the scenes of last year’s U.N. Climate Change Conference where Cisco was selected as the exclusive technology sponsor. |
Speakers: Henrik Michel Kjaer, COP15 Global Project Lead, Cisco |
| Thurs 4/22 | 10:00-11:00 a.m. | Green Innovations in Education: Working Toward Sustainability (K-12)
Learn how schools and campuses can lower their carbon footprints and serve as role models of sustainability in our communities. Panelists represent members of the Green Schools Alliance, a network of schools in the U.S. and Canada committed to helping the environment. |
Panelists: “Education for Sustainability,” Alice Moore, Director of Environmental Sustainability, Marin Country Day School, Marin, California “Green Charter Schools,” Jim McGrath, Green Charter School Network, Madison, Wisconsin Moderated by: David Suzuki, World-renowned environmental activist and educator |
| Thurs 4/22 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. | Making the Case for Sustainability in a Downturn Hear from a multi-industry panel on how perspective on sustainability changes or doesn’t depending on the industry. Topics of discussion:
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Moderator: Panelists: Ted Reichelt, Principal Environmental Engineer, Intel John Rego, Director of Sustainability, Sony Pictures Darrel Stickler, Sustainable Business Practices, Cisco Yalmaz Siddiqui, Director, Environmental Strategy, Office Depot |
| Thurs 4/22 | 1:00 -1:30 p.m. | Cisco Foundation and Water.org: Leveraging Technology to Make a Difference Hear from Charu Adesnik of the Cisco Foundation and Mike McCamon of Water.org to learn how this partnership will fund the use of technology to empower communities to track and report solutions to providing safe drinking water to people in developing countries. |
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| Thurs 4/22 | 3:00. - 4:00 p.m. | Laptops, Lattes, and Lunch: Making More From Less
It is estimated that the world’s population will be 9 billion by 2050. How do we support this growing population with increasingly scarce resources? We need to change the way we think about the embedded impact of our products. For example, human beings use a considerable amount of water every day, but even more is used to grow and produce the resources used to make our products. Jason Clay from the World Wildlife Fund will share the realities of water and embedded impacts of many different items we use in our lives. |
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Virtual Earth Day 2010: See it. Live it. Share it.
Starting April 20, join global discussions about environmental sustainability with industry thought leaders and technology experts. Browse the agenda, find topics of interest, and register for Virtual Earth Day 2010.
You can attend live sessions via Cisco's WebEx platform from wherever you are and during a time that is convenient for you. Or, you can access the recorded sessions that will available on-demand after the event.
Register now by clicking on the drop-down menu and choose your time zone followed by sessions of interest. After following the registration process, be sure to save the details to your Outlook calendar.
Presenters
Hear from experts across the industry, non profits, government agencies and academia. Including:
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Industry Experts: Cisco, AMD, Intel , Sony, Applied Materials, Microsoft, IBM, Flextronics, Google, British Telecom, Sprint, Office Depot
- Non Profit Partners: Greenpeace, World Wildlife Fund, Confederation of Indian Industry, Environmental Defense Fund, David Suzuki Foundation, X Prize Foundation, Water.Org
- Government Agencies: Department of Energy, California Air Resource Board (CARB)
- Technology Associations: TechNet, Information Technology Industry Council, Center for American Progress
- Experts, Researchers and Analysts: : The Climate Group, Domani Consulting, Kanal Consulting Group, Energeia, Energy Australia, CNET News
- Academia: Harvard University, New York City Public Schools, Marin Country Day School, Green Charter School Network, Madison, Wisconsin
