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EDUCAUSE Live! April 3, 2009 1:00 p.m. ET (12:00 p.m. CT, 11:00 a.m. MT, 10:00 a.m. PT); runs one hour

From Desktops to Data Centers: Sustainable IT at Stanford

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Joyce DickersonView Event ArchivesJoyce Dickerson
Director, Sustainable IT
Stanford University

Joyce Dickerson is director of sustainable IT at Stanford University. A joint appointment of the facilities and IT services departments, the position enables her to bring resources from both organizations to identify and lead projects that reduce carbon emissions for the university. Her initial projects are focused on saving energy, which directly ties in to reducing costs for the university overall. Sustainable IT at Stanford is currently reviewing PCs, office equipment, and data centers (both administrative and research computing) and enabling energy savings through IT itself. Dickerson also meets with faculty across the campus in an effort to identify areas where faculty and staff can work together to tackle some of the most challenging issues related to global warming and energy usage reduction.

Prior to taking on her current role, Dickerson was director of project management for IT services at Stanford, where she created and spearheaded the Project Management Office and led the team that rolled out new technology services across the university. Before joining Stanford, she spent 15 years in new business development for technology firms in the Silicon Valley. Dickerson holds an MBA and a BS in industrial engineering, both from Stanford University.

Summary

Your host, Steve Worona, will be joined by Joyce Dickerson, and the topic will be "From Desktops to Data Centers: Sustainable IT at Stanford."

Stanford has created the position of sustainable IT, a dual report to the facilities and IT services department. By pulling resources from both of these areas, Stanford has been able to develop energy- and cost-saving programs that address desktop computing, administrative computing, and research computing. In addition, Stanford is using the IT infrastructure to enable energy savings for the rest of campus through innovative "work anywhere" programs and is building a bridge between faculty conducting research on IT energy savings and staff seeking innovative solutions to their energy-saving efforts. Learn how Stanford has framed these efforts, what specific projects it is embarking on, and how it calculates both ROI and payback for each initiative it deploys.

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