Center for Sustainability and Excellence to Hold Workshops at ‘TIA 2011: Inside the Network’
Life Cycle Assessment for Carbon Footprint and Sustainability Supply Chain for the IT Sector Are Focus of CSE Training
ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- How should the information and communications technology industry plan for reducing power consumption in their products and networks?
By 2015, the worldwide consumers of wired broadband will top 647 million and use a massive 3 gigawatts to fuel the delivery of bandwidth. This power consumption will swamp the world’s electrical infrastructure. To keep pace with this demand, the industry has one of two choices: either build hundreds of additional power plants or reduce the power consumption of the enabling broadband devices, central office and customer premises equipment.
In their efforts to educate and work with the manufacturers and suppliers of communications devices and networks on sustainable solutions, the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) and the Center for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) announced today that CSE will conduct two workshops at TIA 2011: Inside the Network, TIA’s annual event, May 17-20 at the Gaylord Texan Hotel in Dallas.
The workshops, both scheduled for May 17, will address:
- Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) – Carbon Footprint
- Sustainability Supply Chain – IT Sector
The workshops augment TIA 2011’s Sustainable Network education track, which is designed to meet information needs of communications industry managers and directors who are responsible for strategy and tactical implementation of programs and policies to reduce energy consumption and improve carbon footprint in network and corporate operations.
CSE contributes to the formation of Sustainability trends worldwide, with active projects and activities in over 20 countries.
“We’re pleased to welcome CSE to the TIA 2011 educational lineup,” said TIA President Grant Seiffert. “TIA and its member companies have been working on sustainable solutions for our products and networks that are scalable to the mushrooming growth in consumption of the devices and services. The applicable knowledge that CSE brings to TIA 2011 will give us fresh insight and help us to spark new ways to innovate to achieve our sustainability goals.”
Other featured TIA 2011 Sustainable Network sessions include:
- Standards Review and Compliance: Ensuring Product Compliance with RoHS Requirements, Energy Efficiency Mandates and Green Procurement Standards
- Roundtable: 50 Billion Connected Devices – Meeting Demand in an Energy Efficient Way
- Roundtable: Business Opportunities and the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age
- How a Reliable Smart Grid & High Efficiency UPS Improves Data Center Efficiency
- Conducting a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- The Green Data Center
- Eco-Efficient Wireless Base Stations: Making the Case for Mainstream Deployment of Alternative Energies
Other featured speakers on the Sustainability educational track include:
- Nikos Avlonas Founder and President of CSE
- Susanne Lundberg, Director, Environmental Product Management, Ericsson AB
- Rich Garafola, Senior Director, Sustainable Power Solutions, Alcatel-Lucent
- Creighton Bilstein, ATNI
- Mark Ansboury, CEA, Gigabit Squared, LLC
- Wael Diab, Senior Technical Director in the Office of the CTO, Broadcom
- Mark Szalkus, Marketing Manager, GE Digital Energy-Power Quality
The TIA 2011 Keynote Lineup includes industry visionaries such as:
- Randall Stephenson, Chairman, CEO and President, AT&T
- Anthony J. Melone, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Verizon
- Jeff Gardner, CEO and President, Windstream Corp.
- Robert Vrij, Executive Vice President, Alcatel-Lucent, President of Americas Region
- FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski
- The Hon. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas )
- Charles Vogt, CEO and President, GENBAND
- Martin Lowery, Executive Vice President External Affairs of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA)
- Sandy Vandevender, President, National Telecommunications Cooperative Association (NTCA)
- FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker
- FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell
- Tim Harden, President, Supply Chain & Fleet Operations, AT&T
- Rose Schooler, GM, Communications Infrastructure Division, Embedded Computing Group, Intel Corp.
- Milo Mendin, VP, Fiber to the Communities, Google
- Kittur Nagesh, EVP, Juniper Networks
Virtual Attendee Brochure
Interested in learning more about the Keynotes & Programming at TIA 2011: Inside the Network? View the TIA 2011 Virtual Attendee Brochure or download a PDF (8 MB).
Early Bird Registration for TIA 2011: Inside the Network runs through April 15. Register today.
About TIA
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) represents the global information and communications technology (ICT) industry through standards development, advocacy, tradeshows, business opportunities, market intelligence and worldwide environmental regulatory analysis. Since 1924, TIA has been enhancing the business environment for broadband, mobile wireless, information technology, networks, cable, satellite and unified communications. Members’ products and services empower communications in every industry and market, including healthcare, education, security, public safety, transportation, government, the military, the environment and entertainment.
TIA is accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). Visit tiaonline.org.
About CSE
The Centre for Sustainability and Excellence (CSE) is a global strategic advisory and training organization specialized in Sustainability S with offices in Chicago, Athens and Brussels and activities in more than 18 countries
As an international network of specialists and consultants, CSE provides Organizations, Governments, and Institutions unique and advanced services to achieve Stakeholder Value across Operational and Organizational Frameworks. CSE offers to its FT1000 clients highly specialized sustainability consulting services in the areas of Carbon and Water FootprintLCAs, Carbon Footprint Strategy, Sustainable Supply Chain Index, GRI Reporting and Verification,Sustainability Assessment and Strategy.
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Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA)
Mike Snyder, +1-703-907-7723
msnyder@tiaonline.org
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