InfraPrime is thrilled to kick back off our webinar series in 2021 with our Power 100 webinar series! We look forward to everyone joining us again.

Join Susanna Kass on April 24 as she speaks at ISCEA’s Sustainable Supply Chain Pledge with Susanna Kass!

The Sustainable Supply Chain Pledge Day will be a virtual event to connect ISCEA Sustainable Supply Chain Global Ambassadors from around the world. The event is open to all who are interested in pledging to sustainable supply chain, meeting peers with similar interests, or learning about how to further commit to sustainability by becoming an ISCEA Global Ambassador. This event serves as an event to connect passionate planet guardians who aim to transform the world of supply chain for a better, stronger, more sustainable future.

April 18, 2021, 6 AM PST / 9 AM EST / 3 PM CET — April 18, 2021, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST / 7 PM EST

Digitization is a chance. But it is also one of the biggest challenges we face. How can we use innovative ways to reduce the impact of our digital infrastructure on the environment?
In this series we present innovators who decide to step up their game and face these challenges. With new policies, technology and - before all - commitment.
We will explore all areas from renewable energy, sustainable supply chains, carbon accounting as well as all other factors that help drive the industry in a more carbon free environment with a more circular economic outlook.

Opening Panel: Policy discussions
Hyperscale Carbon Neutral Fire sidechat - 1
Design & Build Panel
Hyperscale Carbon Neutral Fire sidechat - 2
Energy Efficiency ( Hydro & electric)
Hyperscale Carbon Neutral Fire sidechat - 3
Circular Economy Panel

We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button below and let’s connect!

How do you know how well your cloud and edge data centers are really doing when it comes to sustainability?

March 25, 2021, 8 AM PST / 11 AM EST — March 25, 2021, 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST

As demand for cloud and edge data centers continued its growth during the pandemic, it is not expected to slow down given the expanding scope and complexity of operational pressures. From enterprise to hyperscale, from energy efficiency to sustainability. 

Sustainability for cloud and edge data centers is now a strategic imperative for all their stakeholders and the world beyond. But how is it possible to scope, design, build and plan more effectively towards sustainability? 

Our panel of experts will look at the new thinking and data center lifecycle practices that enable modularity, and data center life cycle practices that enable design modularity and resource efficiency to achieve corporate zero carbon pledge and UN SDG goals. Gain strategic insights from speakers and take actions for cloud and edge data centers in the new era to build a sustainable future.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button below and let’s connect!

March 18, 2021, 9:25 AM PST / 12:25 PM EST — March 18, 2021, 10:25 AM PST / 1:25 PM EST

We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button below and let’s connect!

Feb. 24, 2021, 12 p.m. PST / 3 p.m. EST / 9 p.m. CET — Feb. 24, 2021, 1 p.m. PST / 4 p.m. EST / 10 p.m CET

How will green policy shape the US digital infrastructure sector?

Susanna Kass, Co-founder, Chief Sustainability, Circular Economy Officer, BOD Member, a member of Climate 50 and a Data Center Advisor, UN SDG Program, will lead the panel How will green policy shape the US digital infrastructure sector?

Energy policy can either help or hinder in the implementation of efficient and cost-effective, carbon-neutral infrastructure. With energy usage having drastically increased overnight during the pandemic to support the many changes to society, it continues to be a mammoth portion of the global economy. Most energy infrastructure is built to last for decades, which makes it crucial to get energy policy right. Done wrong, energy policy can waste billions of dollars and lock in dirty, inefficient systems for decades.

In the transition to a low-carbon future, this panel looks at how to get energy policy right. With a new administration in place, how will green policy in the US evolve and what will this mean for the operators of digital infrastructure? What are the imperatives needed to ensure a well-designed and well-implemented energy policy that can improve green capacity and minimize emissions at no additional cost (or even net savings) to the economy?

Net Zero Data Centers are a fundamental key to tackle climate change. Together, we can pave the way that will bring the industry towards a not-so-distant future of truly sustainable data centers. We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button below and let’s connect!

Webinar Co-Hosts:

Susanna Kass InfraPrime BoD, #Climate 50

Uptime Punks

Webinar Speakers:

Susanna Kass InfraPrime BoD, #Climate 50

Michael Terrell Energy Market Strategy Google

Michael Britt President Southern Telecom

Alberto Ravagni InfraPrime co-founder, Clean Energy Architect

Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 10:00am - 11:00am PT / 1:00pm - 2:00pm EST / 7:00pm - 8:00pm CET

Michael Terrell and Susanna Kass will be joined by leading Net Zero Clean Energy and Infrastructure experts from InfraPrime and STI.

At this webinar, we will share our progress on key actions that we are taking, including doubling down on renewable energy purchases in a greater number of regions, implementing on site carbon free energy generation, using net zero site locations with resilient infrastructure —to achieve 24x7 carbon-free energy anytime, anywhere to become Carbon Neutral Data Center Pact.

Speakers:

Susanna Kass InfraPrime BoD, #Climate 50

Mark Monroe Datacenter Advanced Development

Lewis E. Shadle Sr. Virginia Beach DigiPorts Managing Director

David Craig CEO Iceotope

Alberto Ravagni InfraPrime co-founder, Clean Energy Architect

Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 8:30am - 9:30am PT / 11:30am - 12:30am EST / 5:30pm - 6:30pm CET

What is a sustainable hyperscale data center?

Together with industry pioneers and experts, we will try to define the design characteristics, energy requirements, and any other relevant aspect necessary for a hyperscale data center to be considered green and sustainable. We will also have some time for a Q&A with Susanna Kass (InfraPrime) and Mark Monroe (Microsoft), following their podcast at Uptime Punks.

Speakers:

Christian Belady, Vice President at Microsoft

Susanna Kass Data Center Advisor to UNSDG

Kenneth Davies-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Birch Infrastructure

Reid Spolek member of the Energy & Location Strategy team at Google

Friday, December 11, 2020, 12pm - 1pm PT / 3pm - 4pm EST

Did you know that Big Tech is responsible for roughly 4% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide? That's twice the emissions of the civil aviation industry! By 2025, the information and communications technology sector could consume 20% of the world’s electricity to power things like internet-connected devices, video streaming, emails, cloud computing, and surveillance cameras, making data centers the planet’s largest energy users. Tech firms talk a lot about their green goals, so how do they plan to make these data centers more environmentally friendly or even carbon neutral?

Throughout December, the Cornell Energy Connection will host a series of virtual events featuring experts sharing their perspectives on key issues impacting the sector, such as the inequitable access to clean energy and the ongoing evolution of energy storage.

This session will focus on the energy challenges for data centers, what is already being done to minimize their emissions, and what energy-saving technologies we can expect to see in the near future.

Susanna Kass is going to speak at Critical Connections: Greening the TMT Sector on Dec 9, 2020 at 14:00 GMT / 21:00 HKT / 15:00 CEST / 09:00 EST. She will be sharing her views on how the ICT industry shall invest in improving their sustainable design.

Summary of the webinar session:

The ICT infrastructure industry has a choice to contribute to carbon emissions or to be part of the solution. Now is the time for business leaders to commit to measurable actions, which will drive personal investment in improving sustainability across the board.

Rising consumer and investor interest (reflecting rises in extreme weather events and temperatures) is causing organizations in all industries to examine emission sources - and this is turning attention to power hungry data centres.

In this session, two of the world's leading experts on sustainability and data centres - Susanna Kass and Mark Monroe - discuss key issues, breakthroughs and strategies that illuminate the path forward for organizations that are balancing burgeoning IT demand and new approaches to low-impact supply.

Click the Speakers below to check their profiles on the event page.

The first APAC Women Conference 2020 held by Microsoft between December 1st and 4th, 2020. Through out the sessions, there are great thought leadership sharing their inspiring stories, words of wisdoms and advices.

Susanna Kass, Data Center Advisor of UN and a member of Climate 50, will also be speaking on the 4th for the “Vision of Leadership” joining other great line-up speakers, Linh Thai, CEO of TVL Group and Lin Nah Tan, CEO of International University & Colleges.

This session is hosted by Yiling Lai, APAC Director, Architect, CSA Lead - Data Center Engineering, Microsoft.

Nov. 11, 2020, 9 a.m. PT / 5 p.m. GMT — Nov. 11, 2020, 9 a.m. PT / 6 p.m. GMT

With Europe's Green Deal, considerable emphasis is being put on the role of ICT and digital infrastructure in the collaborative fight to reach important climate change goals by 2030 and beyond.

The Horizon 2020 projects, which are now coming to a conclusion, have funded a number of data center specific work groups in order to provide solutions to these challenges and will continue to do so with the upcoming Horizon Europe projects.

In this session we will hear from three H2020 projects currently underway, focused on the use of fuel cells and energy and heat reuse, and debate their real world viability.

This session will explore how the circular approach can be applied to the data center industry.

Join this session and find out how you can incorporate sustainable data center design and measurements into your next generation data center design.

The speakers will share their view of the symbiotic relationship of Net Zero Data Centers harmonizing with Circular Economy communities. The social benefits to the communities provide a positive environmental and economic impact to our stakeholders, including our planet, investors, employees, customers, suppliers and the community location with a triple bottom line.

Moderated by: Merima Dzanic, COO, Danish Data Center Industry

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This Net Zero Technical webinar has completed on Oct 21, 2020.

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This session took place on October 6, 2020

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Data centres use an estimated 200 TWh each year, more than the annual energy consumption of some countries. They contribute around 0.3 per cent to overall carbon emissions, while the information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem as a whole accounts for more than two per cent of global emissions. Achieving sustainability means addressing environmental considerations during solution design as well as during the build. Solutions must meet pre-defined and agreed environmental sustainability criteria. The green data centres must be designed to require fewer construction materials whilst delivering industry leading PUE (power usage effectiveness) levels resulting in a smaller carbon footprint when compared to similar data centres. Improvements are also required for water efficiency and cooling technologies as well as pairing facilities with sources of renewable energy.

This session took place on September 15, 2020 at 1pm SGT.

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