Sustainability Days 2021
This conference is organised by the EPFL EcoCloud Center for sustainable cloud technologies, with the participation of the EPFL Energy Center, the FUSTIC association, members of EPFL Faculty, and industrial partners.
The program will cover sustainability in cloud infrastructure with focus on IT infrastructure efficiency and emissions (servers, storage, network), and DC infrastructure efficiency and emissions (electricity, cooling, heat recycling).
16—17.09.2021
9:20 – 9:30 Welcome message from EcoCloud
Session 1 – Next-Generation Datacenter Technologies
9:30 – 9:55 Speaker 1 – Bruno Michel, Manager of Smart System Integration, IBM Zurich
How to become Physically Net Zero by 2030
9:55 – 10:20 Speaker 2 – Utz-Uwe Haus Head of EMEA Research Lab, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Facets of Green HPC: between carbon-neutral site operations and data-aware middlewares
10:20 – 10:45 Speaker 3 –François Marechal, Head of IPESE, EPFL
10:45 – 11:10 Speaker 4 – Jussi Vihersalo (Eaton) and Mark Monroe (Microsoft) Grid-interactive data centers: enabling decarbonization and system stability
11:10 – 11:25 Coffee break
Session 2 – Panel on Future Technologies
11:25 – 11:30 Panel introduction and position statements
11:30 – 12:30 Panel Q&A session
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
Session 3 –Efficiency & Emissions in Datacenters: Metrics, Standards and the Economics
13:30 – 13:55 Panel introduction – 5 min spotlight per speaker
Roger Sueess, CEO, green.ch
Martin Casaulta, Chief Technologist, HPE
Vincent Barro, VP Secure Power & DC Business, Schneider Electric
Mihaela Grigorie, Electrical Efficiency Specialist, Swiss Federal Office of Energy
13:55 – 14:25 Panel discussion
14:25 – 14:45 Panel Q&A session
14:45 – 15:00 Coffee break
Session 4 – Best Practices Workshop
15:00 – 16:00 Workshop
16:00 – 17:30 Cocktail organized by SDEA
Session 5 – IT Infrastructure & Circular Economy
9:00 – 9:25 Speaker 1 –Holger Frauenrath Associate Dean for Industry and Innovation, EPFL
The future of material sustainability
9:25 – 9:50 Speaker 2 – Nicola Farronato, Head of Innovation Team, Torino City Lab, Sustainable IT for Cities
9:50 – 10:15 Speaker 3 – Marc-Elian Bégin, CEO, SixSq, Sustainable edge-to-cloud solutions
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee break
Session 6 – Use cases requirements workshop
10:30 – 10:40 Speaker 4 – Patrick Montier Smart City, Geneva
10:40 – 10:50 Speaker 5 – Maxim Interbrick, COO, Sparrow Analytics
10:50 – 11:00 Speaker 6 – Monique Calisti, President, Digital for Planet
11:00 – 12:00 Panel introduction and Q&A Session
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break – Standing lunch
13:00 End of the EcoCloud Sustainability Days
