This document outlines the agenda for the annual forum of ICT Professionals on Green ICT and Cloud Computing to be held on December 5, 2011 at Aigli Zappeion in Athens, Greece. The agenda includes keynote speeches, panel discussions and presentations on topics such as the digital agenda perspective on cloud computing and green ICT, cloud computing's green potentials, reducing costs through green ICT, business factors for adopting cloud computing, and certification on cloud computing skills. Panel discussions will focus on how green cloud computing is and cloud computing as a priority for Greece's government digital strategy.
"Digital trends 2011.Green ICT and Cloud Computing" agenda
1. The annual forum of ICT Professionals
Green ICT + Cloud Computing
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08:30-09:15 Registration and Coffee
09:15-09:20 Welcome Remarks
09:20-09:50 CEPIS Address Vasile Baltac, President, CEPIS
HePIS Address Nikos Faldamis, President, HePIS
09:50-10:05
Keynote Address
Pantelis Tzortzakis, Deputy Minister for Administrative Reform
and e-Government Greece*
10:05-10:25 The Digital Agenda Perspective over the Cloud Computing and Green ICT
Nancy Pascall, Policy Officer, European Commission, DGINFSO
10:25-11:15
Cloud Computing’s Green Potentials
Tom Raftery, Lead Analyst, Green Monk
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-12:00 CEPIS Green ICT Taskforce/Green ICT Pan-European Survey Findings
A. Byron Nicolaides, Honorary Secretary, CEPIS /Vice-President, HePIS
12:00-12:30
Reducing the costs of your enterprise through Green ICT
Νiklaus Meyer, President Green IT Special Interest Group,
Swiss Informatics Society
Dr. Laura Georg, Team Head Information Security Management, Detecon
12:30-12:50 Green IT certification –The industry requirement for a new skill set
Chris Wallace, Product Manager Green IT, BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
12:50-13:20
Business factors for the adoption of Cloud Computing
John Rhoton, Cloud Computing Strategist & Author
13:20-13:35
The adoption of Cloud Computing by the public bodies
Prof. Panayiotis Tsanakas, President, GRNET
13:35-13:45 Focus on Cloud Computing & Big Data
Agathi Galani, Indirect District Manager, EMC, Greece, Cyprus and Malta
13:45-14:15
Certification on Cloud Computing Skills
Sukhbir Jasuja, Cloud Credential Council
14:15-15:15 Lunch Break
15:15-16:00
Panel Discussion- How Green is Cloud Computing
• Tom Raftery
• John Rhoton
• Dr. Laura Georg
Moderator: A. Byron Nicolaides
16:00-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:10
Panel Discussion- Cloud Computing as a priority for Government Digital
Strategy in Greece
• Prof. Panayiotis Tsanakas, President, GRNET
• Prof. Theodoros Karounos, Chairman, Greek Free / Open Source Software Society (GFOSS)
• Harry Theoharis, Secretary General of Information Systems at Ministry of Finance
Moderator: Prof. Panayiotis Georgiadis, General Secretary HePIS
17:10-17:30 Closing Remarks