Series Overview

In the first of a four-part web seminar programme, we examine the business case for green IT. Companies are becoming increasingly aware of their responsibility to improving the environment. Shareholders are demanding corporate social responsibility plans and evidence of environmental awareness has become an indicator of a well-run organisation. As a major source of energy use, IT has a critical role to play.

Best practice tools and technologies are available to reduce energy consumption, improve operations, and cut costs too. There are simple steps that IT managers can take to make their team and their technology use more environmentally-friendly, which have been encapsulated in the Green Computing Charter. More than 130 organisations have already signed up, including HSBC, LloydsTSB, Centrica and Virgin Atlantic.

In this web seminar, hosted by Computing, we discuss the reasons why environmentalism has become so important to business, and introduce the seven-step plan to improving your green credentials.



Meet the Speakers

Francis Rottenburg

Francis Rottenburg has worked for the Carbon Trust for four years, initially developing their regional network and latterly working with telecoms, financial services and a number of other large companies to develop their carbon management strategies. Previously he has worked for Scottish Enterprise - the development agency - and started his career in oil exploration and development both on and off shore after gaining an engineering degree from Loughborough University.

Lewis Gee
Senior Regional Director, Northern EMEA, VMware

Lewis Gee is currently the Senior Regional Director for Northern EMEA at VMware. Within this role, Lewis has overall responsibility for the UK and Ireland, Benelux and Nordic regions and Southern Africa, managing a large team focused on sales, pre-sales and channel partners, as well as all customer engagements.

Prior to joining VMware in early 2006, Lewis held various sales and management positions in a number of IT organisations, most recently as an Area Vice President for Citrix, but also at IBM and ICL.