Bath seminar focuses on future of low-carbon IT

Greenbang founder and editor Dan Ilett today chairs a programme titled “IT’s Getting Hot In Here: Meeting the Energy Challenge of Information Communications Technology (ICT).”

Organised by Low Carbon South West, the seminar is set to start at 9:30 am at the Bath Ventures Innovation Centre at Broad Quay, Bath. Lunch and networking are scheduled to follow the presentations.

Other speakers include Eamonn ONeill, a computer scientist from the University of Bath; David Critchley, Cisco’s UK Green Ambassador; Steve O’Donnell of Hotaisle.com (formerly BT’s head of global infrastructure; Tracey Rawling Church, head of sustainability for Kyocera-Mita; Ivan Harris, chief marketing officer for Power Oasis; and Alex Rabbetts of Migration Solutions.

According to the seminar’s organisers, “Information and communications technology is responsible for 2 per cent of the world’s carbon emissions — equal to that of the aviation industry. Business growth is being constrained by the availability of power for Internet computing and data centres in key UK cities. This seminar will showcase the emerging research and technology solutions in this area and explore how they can be applied to meet the low-carbon challenge in ICT systems.”