IT and the environment in action – how businesses are proving their green credentials

Please register for our four part series of live interactive web seminars
(If you registered for the previous Business Green Webinar then you will be automatically registered for this event: A reminder email will be sent to you in due course).

Title:	IT and the environment in action – how businesses are proving their green credentials
When:	Wednesday 20th June 2007, 3:00pm BST
Duration:	One Hour

THIS EVENT IS NOW ARCHIVED AND AVAILABLE ON-DEMAND

Series Overview

More than 130 organisations have shown their commitment to green IT by signing up to Computing’s seven-step green charter. In this web seminar, hosted by Computing, we discuss the real-life case studies of companies that have put environmental IT into action.

Senior IT executives will explain the processes and technologies they have introduced to reduce their impact on the environment, outlining the lessons they have learned and the benefits to the organisation.

The expert panel will also answer your questions on how to make the IT department more environmentally friendly, and how technology can help the whole organisation meet its green objectives.

Meet the Speakers

Ian Exton, Network Manager, WWF-UK

Ian Exton came to WWF in 1990 from a background in Novell support and consultancy and was responsible for installing WWF-UK's first LAN. Following another brief spell as a consultant to government, education and commercial companies from 1997 to 2001, he returned to WWF working for the international secretariat, setting standards and raising the quality of IT across WWF's many offices around the world. He returned to WWF-UK in early 2006 and took the Network Manager, managing a small team of network professionals. In the last two years, his team has expanded and improved WWF-UK's Storage Area Network, paving the way for a production VMware ESX environment. They are now implementing MPLS and improving WWF's business continuity utilising servers in a Co-Location facility, again with VMware ESX. His aim is to achieve enterprise quality systems but with an eye on environmental impact and cost of ownership, important factors to a global environmental charity.

Patrick Fogarty

Patrick Fogarty is a Director of Norman Disney & Young, a successful international consulting engineering firm with a long track record of designing high specification facilities. He currently leads NDY’s London office after a successful career in Australia that included roles in government, contracting and consulting organisations. Patrick’s multi-discipline skills have been utilised on a range of projects but especially on those requiring high resilience or complex services. He has held key positions on various projects such as the JPL Deep Space Communications Facility in Tidbinbilla, Australia, Level (3) Communications European rollout and the LPN metro network in London.

Patrick’s forte is well-engineered buildable design with an emphasis on user operability and energy efficiency. He is currently leading NDY teams on a variety of local and international data centre projects.

John Hegarty

John Hegarty is newly appointed as Service Quality Director at Betfair where he led the IS team, since joining in March 2006.

John is charity trustee and non-executive Vice Chairman of The Communications Management Association.

John was previously an IT Director for 6 years at GlaxoSmithKline, an IT Vice President at Citibank with earlier management roles at Reuters, C&W and BT.

John Hegarty is a Chartered Electrical Engineer and holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Finance and International Business.
John is married with 2 teenage children and his sporting interests include golf (mainly badly with occasional flashes of genius) and cricket (as chauffer to his son and as a member of Middlesex CC, MCC and Lord’s Taverners).