WHAT’S HOT wor ld news
Louise Fairley gives a round up on the latest DCA events
We’ve certainly ramped up the events calendar for 2012. On the 12th/13th June we will be in Frankfurt for the Gartner IT Infrastructure and IT Operations Management Summit. On the 26th/27th
June the DCA is co-ordinating the Data Centre Transformation Convention, a two day
Conference hosted by the University of Leeds.
September we will be in London for two events, The Green Data Centre Conference on the 18th-20th and Big Data World Europe on the 19th/20th plus partnering for The Data Centre Management Forum in Amsterdam on the 24th-26th. For more details on all events including registration, please visit www.
datacentrealliance.org/events.php
The agenda for the Datacentre Transformation Conference has been announced! Are you going to be there?
The Datacentre Transformation Conference in Leeds will be held on the 26-27 June at the University of Leeds. The modern datacentre is transforming, impacted by efficiency demands, new design concepts, legislation and IT innovation, where solutions that worked yesterday can soon be rendered uncompetitive or even obsolete. This educational event will be supported by members of the DCA and other leading vendors in the industry and be coordinated by senior members from the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Leeds.
The agenda
Speakers at the event will be drawn from a wide cross section of IT professional bodies, associations and the academic community and themed sessions will include a mix of thought- provoking keynote presentations, educational master classes and sponsoring vendor updates. Targeted at a technically biased audience drawn from the public, private and academic sectors (with associated delegate rates) delegates will hear talks on the current thinking from a broad base of speakers including renowned data centre professionals and leading suppliers.
Keynote presentations include: £ Grand Project? Presented by Professor Dennis Kehoe, Aimes Grid CIC Professor Dennis Kehoe is the Chief Executive Officer of AIMES Grid Services Ltd based in Liverpool, where he was previously the Saxby Professor and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Professor at the University of Liverpool. He has specific interest in the creation of new high growth, high technology businesses emanating from cloud computing and is a non- executive director of a number of technology start-up and spin-out businesses created from the AIMES Centre at the University and was formerly a director of the North Liverpool Academy Trust and Chairman of the Board of Aerogistics Holdings Ltd. He is currently Chairman of Opticare Ltd and Chairman of Containerport Ltd and has led a number of major research and development projects funded by the UK Government and the EU. £ The Future of Data Centres. Presented by Dr Ian Bitterlin, Ark Continuity With a BA Mathematics, a First Class BSc(Hons) Technology, a postgraduate Diploma in Design & Innovation and an Honorary Doctorate in Management, Ian’s long engineering career has taken him from the design office through site installation, design, service and sales to management. Since 2001 appointments include VP EMEA and AsiaPac for Active Power, International Sales Director for Chloride, CTO of Prism Power and in 2011 CTO of Ark Continuity, a developer of low-carbon critical infrastructure data-facilities. Ian is an active author of technical papers on critical power and cooling with presentations and keynote speeches made in numerous European and conferences worldwide. He is also the co-author for the CIBSE publication Guide K, Electricity in Buildings, in two chapters, UPS Systems and HV Switchgear, sits on the expert panel for the new data-centre standard, EN50600, the Data Centre Council of the UK ICT Trade Association, Intellect, and is a Member of several UK Engineering Institutions, including CIBSE, IET, BCS and the BIFM as well as the IEEE and DCA Technical Director covering Power Distribution for The Data Centre Alliance.
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