InnoTech Keynote – Mapping the Green IT Landscape: Keynote Address by Chris Mines

[Bryce Yonker]

The IT industry must raise its sights to leverage information technology across the full spectrum of green business opportunities. Improving the energy efficiency and sustainability of computing operations is an important start, but there is a broader horizon coming into view that encompasses IT’s role in making business processes, strategy, and infrastructure more sustainable. What is the role of IT professionals in pursuing these broader goals? Which vendor solutions will make a difference? What kind of organizational structures and processes are companies using to put “IT for green” solutions into practice? Forrester’s research and data will illuminate answers for both IT practitioners and allied business professionals.

Introduction: Michael Phillips, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine

Moderator: Tom Sedory, IT Director of Corporate Responsibility, Nike

Keynote Speaker: Christopher Mines, Sr. VP focused on Green IT, Forrester Research

Christopher Mines Bio:

Chris works with strategists and marketers at global technology suppliers, illuminating enterprise requirements for more sustainable computing operations, and helping them design, market, and position hardware, software, and services to meet those enterprise requirements.

Since publishing seminal research on "The Greening of IT" in 2007, Chris has become one of the leading analysts of the trend toward more environmentally responsible computing.

Chris has been with Forrester for 12 years an analyst and research director. He led Forrester's overall US research organization from 2002 to 2006.

Earlier in his career, Chris was a strategy consultant, investment analyst, and systems programmer. He holds degrees from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the University of Pennsylvania.

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