4th April 2008

London Stock Exchange
10 Paternoster Square
London
EC4M 7LS

Geoff Prudence (Conference Chairman)
Chair of CIBSE Facilities Management Group
Chair of BIFM Data Centre Network Group
Head of Facilities Management Services, Essex County Council

Geoff Prudence is Head of Facilities Management Services for Essex County Council. He has an engineering background and experience in building maintenance, operations, facilities management strategy and implementation, working in both private and public sector organisations. He is Chairman of CIBSE Facilities Management Group, and now also chairs the BIFM Data Centre

Ken has been involved in the industry for 25 years, researching, designing and developing optical fibre and high frequency cabling for LAN and Telecom networking. He is actively involved in International Standardisation with BSI, CENELEC and IEC in the cabling sector.

Ken will be talking about infrastructure solutions for the Data Centre environment with an emphasis on providing future proofing for the new, developing, very high speed transmission technologies of tomorrow.

Liam Newcombe
Consultant

Liam comes to our conference with a reputation for short patience with vendor spin. Liam’s main area of skill is in reliability and maintainability analysis of IT systems and using these skills to challenge the way we build and operate Data Centres. Whilst there is no shortage of products and initiatives in the market that claim to ‘green’ your data centre, few have any significant track record and there is little information on how to integrate them into a coherent strategy for IT.

Liam will be taking a look at what a data centre whose operators decide to go for a green strategy now might actually look like in two or three years time. Will it be significantly greener? Can you have green and reliability? Which of the technologies work together? What new skills will you need?

Liam has experience of driving international projects and teams, with an emphasis on lifecycle issues and the total cost of ownership. He is also a leading figure within the BCS.

Owen McKee
Country manager for the UK and Ireland
Avocent

With over ten years experience in the IT industry, Owen has a particular focus on the development of relationships with Avocent partners.

He previously held a similar role at Cyclades, before it was acquired by Avocent in March 2006. At Cyclades, Owen was instrumental in positioning the company as one of the major players in the UK’s infrastructure solutions market. Prior to joining Cyclades, he oversaw strategic global accounts for Fujitsu and IBM at Scantech UK Ltd

Alessandro Pelosi
Enterprise Infrastructure at the London Stock Exchange and Senior
Engineer and Architect at Borsa Italiana.

IAlesssandro was born in Milan in Aug. 1973, gradueted in Civil Engineering at the Politechnic School of Milan in 1997, after working at the construction site of Malpensa Airport (MXP) he made a short service as llieutenant in Italian mountain paratroops (Battaglione Alpini Paracudisti Monte Cervino).

Later he was Service anager at Albacom (BT group), Network Engineer at Swisscom A.G. and began working for the Italian Stock Exchange in early 2001 as a Architect and then as Senior Engineer for network and system architectures.

Besides my working career I also spend my spare time as responsible of a local group of fire engine volunteers, climbing and skiing.

Terry O’Leary
Head of EMEA Technology Infrastructure
Citi

Terry O'Leary is managing director and head of the technology infrastructure division for Citigroup’s businesses in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. This Division is responsible for the design, implementation and support of the technical infrastructure (networks, desktops, data centres, voice communications). The division’s remit also includes business continuity, information security and the delivery of technology infrastructure programmes throughout the region.

Terry joined Salomon Brothers, and whilst there, and with successor companies which evolved into Citigroup, Terry has held a number of senior positions including the management of key business and technology programmes, such as EMU, Y2K and the technology infrastructure buildout of London's Citigroup Centre and regional data centres.

Dr TC Tan
SYSTIMAX Solutions

Dr. T. C. Tan is a distinguished member of Technical Staff of SYSTIMAX® Labs and is based in London. He provides pre- and post-sales support for the SYSTIMAX SolutionsTM business globally, and is responsible for developing several engineering and design documents for SYSTIMAX cabling systems. TC also represents SYSTIMAX Solutions on the British and European standards committees on customer premises cabling. He is a recognized expert on cabling systems, LANs (Local Area Networks), EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility), BAS (Building Automation Systems) and cable fire safety. He has written and published numerous articles and papers on these subjects and is a regular presenter at industry conferences.

TC also played a key role in the introduction of the SYSTIMAX product warranty and application assurance program back in 1989. This program was the first of its kind in the cabling industry and TC pioneered the inclusion of application assurance as part of the program and authored its first performance specification document.

TC has more than 20 years experience in the telecommunications and networking industry. Prior to SYSTIMAX Solutions, TC had a similar role within Avaya Connectivity Solutions and was an EMEA Technology and Solutions Director at Lucent Technologies and a member of Bell Laboratories. He has also worked with the UK Telecommunications Regulator, OFTEL on regulatory issues that resulted in the publication of OFTEL Wiring Code Parts 2 and 3, and various related Apparatus Approval documents in the early 1990s. In 2002, TC was nominated by NCN (Network Cabling News) magazine as one of the key 'Movers and shakers' for the UK network cabling industry.

TC is a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and a Chartered Engineer. TC received his PhD from Imperial College, University of London, after working as a member of the Scientific Research Staff at GEC Hirst Research Center.

Victor Smith
Technologist with the Enterprise Technology Group, Dell

Victor has been with Dell since 1997 Vic is a technologist with the Enterprise Technology Group at Dell Inc. European Headquarters in Bracknell. Vic is responsible for datacentre infrastructure including virtualisation and environmental solutions for EMEA. Dell technologists provide deep technical knowledge, best practices, guidance and pre-sales support to customers throughout EMEA.

With 20+ years experience in the computer industry, Vic is a member
of The Green Grid and The British Computer Society Datacentre Specialist Group and previously worked as a consultant for a number of technologies including Silicon Graphics and Apple Computer.

Andrew Gibson
Consultant – Intelligent Power Technologies, Raritan

Andrew Gibson has worked for Raritan since Spring 2003 when he was responsible for setting up Raritan’s first London office and establishing a team that has grown the UK business five fold since then. Following Raritan’s development of a new generation of Intelligent Power Technologies in 2007 Andrew has taken on the responsibility for developing Raritan’s European power business. Andrew has worked on numerous projects providing business and security reviews on the implementation of Raritan’s IP power strips and IP based secure access technologies. Industry sectors covered include finance, telecoms, legal and oil & gas. Prior to Raritan, Andrew had more than 15 years experience in the IT industry working in automating TV and Radio Newsrooms, computerising production of film and TV, early SAN implementations for film production and some of the first KVM over IP installations in the UK. Andrew holds a BSc from London University.