Speakers

Speakers

• Feb 08 - Ron Miglini, President, Sealco - Data Center Best Practices, Critical Facilities Care and Maintenance

• Feb 08 - Christian Belady, Principal Power and Cooling Architect, Microsoft - Getting the Most out of your Data Center

• May 08 - Andrew Fanara, US EPA - Navigating our Environmental Future

• May 08 - Panel Discussion Andrew Fanara, US EPA; Christian Belady, Microsoft; Bill Hunter, Walt Disney Internet Group

• May 08 - Don Denning, Lee Technologies, Advancements in Facilities Management

• Aug 08 - Tom Langran, Washington Mutual, The Art and Science of Data Center Capacity Planning

• Nov 08 - Roy Zeighami, Hewlett Packard

• Nov 08 - David Ezer, ABB, Offline UPS Systems

• Feb 09 - James Hamilton, Amazon, Data Center Efficiency and Trends

• Feb 09 - Jean-Michel Christopher - JT Packard; IT & Facilities:Working as One Team in the Data Center

• May 09 - Andrew Fanara, U.S. EPA - Updates on the Energy Star Specification for Servers

• May 09 - John Schmidt, Product Manager for Structured Cabling at ADC - Determining the Right Media

• May 09 - Kevin Baldwin, Data Center Experts - Outlet Level Metering for Optimizing Capacity planning Energy Efficiency & Uptime.

• May 09 - Avichal Singh, Microsoft - Data Visualization and Interpretation

• May 09 - Scott Wehba, Server Technology Inc.- Intelligent Power Systems

• May 09 - Jordon Schroeder, APCON - Optimizing Monitoring in the Data Center

• Aug 09 - Eric Jones - C&D Battery Systems; Current Battery Technologies

• Aug 09 - Lucie Huang - Seattle City Light; Seattle City Light Energy Smart Program

• Aug 09 - John Sasser - Sabey DataCenters; SDC 52 Airside Economizer System; Data Center Environmental Compliance

• Nov 09 - Carrie Higbie - Siemon - The Benefits of End to End Decision Making in a Data Center

• Nov 09 - Christian Belady - Microsoft - Infrastructure & Data Centers of the Future

• Feb 10 - Dennis DeCoster - Mission Critical West - UPS DC Storage

• Feb 10 - Mark Guymon - McKinstry - Outsourced Facility Management

Call for Presentations

AFCOM Western Washington State Chapter is always looking for guest speakers to present at our quarterly meetings. Our members especially appreciate end user presentations from those in data center management and informational (product-neutral) sessions from our expert vendor community. If you are interested in presenting, please submit the web form below, or contact a board member.

Please consider the following presentation criteria:

-Educational, free from any commercial or sales content.

-Not a case study about or from a vendor/supplier/exhibitor.

-Include a presentation description of no more than 150 words.

-Session title is creative, short and descriptive.

-Session topic is original and can be applied to real-life situations in the data center.

-Session topic is of current importance.

-Include examples, solutions and success stories in description and the presentation.

-I am aware that I am required to provide a PowerPoint presentation by a specific deadline so that the Western Washington State Chapter of AFCOM will review the content for compliance with attached guidelines.

-I understand that my presentation will be posted to the password protected area of the Western Washington State Chapter of AFCOM website.

-Build in approximately 10 minutes at the end of the session for Q&A time.

Presenters are listed on the Western Washington State Chapter web site and presented with a thank you gift.

Chapter Presentation Guidelines

Topics considered will fall under categories such as: