Sep 16th, 2008 |
The Jacob Javits Center is a maze. If you ever come here for an event, get here early, walk around and make sure you know where you’re going to be. Very few people who work here actually know where the rooms 4D, 1E and 2F actually are. With that said, the first session of Energy Camp started a few minutes late because EVERYONE had a hard time finding the meeting room.
The day began with introductions from David Berlind, General Manager of the Alternative Events Group in the Live Events Group of TechWeb and James Governor, a principal analyst of RedMonk, the first analyst firm built on open source methods. Governor is also an editor for Greenmonk, a blog that discusses how to improve environmental outcomes through the convergence of social media, open data, and grassroots efforts.
This is the second Energy Camp collocated with Interop because IT is a cost area for most companies and the energy costs of a company’s overall IT budget are going up. The goal of this unconference is to get the dialogue going about saving energy costs. Not just within the room but also across the Energy Camp Wiki. There’s already tons of great energy saving information on the wiki thanks to The Green Grid, which focuses on savings in the datacenter and Climate Savers Computing which focuses on energy savings with each individual PC. Fostering user-to-user advice, Energy Camp aims to fill in the gaps in between.
Governor realizes that energy costs is something we don’t have control of. People who have jobs in sustainability created their job themselves and it’s all because from the bottom up adoption. It doesn’t come from the top down. Governor also advises anyone interested in learning more should read the Smart2020 report.
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