Datacentre Transformation Conference

The third Datacentre Transformation Conference (DTC13) to be held on 9th July 2013 in the aql datacentre conference centre in the United Kingdom at Leeds is drawing near. With a full day of presentations from professionals, industrialists and academics, the agenda will draw to a close with a panel session on the birth, within the aql datacentre, of the Leeds Internet Exchange, IXLeeds, and its significance to the local economy of Leeds. The panel will consist of the important stakeholders for this not-for-profit activity, namely from local government, commerce and industry.

During the day there will be two topical keynote presentations; one by Dr Robert Tozer from Operational Intelligence on operational improvements of datacentres to meet the economic and government policy pressures; and the second on Climate Change Policy for the Datacentre Industry by Emma Fryer of Intellect, UK.
This year there will be two parallel tracks of international contributions, each with a different focus. One track will have a research and development theme with academic and industrial presentations looking at progress in the physical and virtual layers of the datacentre.

The second track will focus on technical developments within the datacentre, comprising of short talks from the many conference sponsors.

Delegates are encouraged to join the evening networking event that will include a banquet in the Royal Armouries, which is situated very close to the aql conference venue and the many centrally located hotels. There are limited places at this evening networking event so to avoid any disappointment, book early on the conference website at www.dtconference.com

FULL AGENDA
08:30 09:00 Registration
09:00 09:05 Welcome speech by Dr Jon Summers
09:05 09:10 AQL Welcome speech by Adam Beaumont
09:10 09:40 Keynote – Data Centre Energy Efficiency Analysis. Presented by Dr Robert Tozer, Operational Intelligence
09:40 10:20 Session 1: Energy-efficiency at the virtual layer
09:40 10:00 An Approach for Characterizing Workloads in Google Cloud to Derive Realistic Resource Utilization Models.
Presented by Peter Garraghan, University of Leeds
10:00 10:20 Pilot Result Monitoring Energy Usage by Software. Presented by Frank Van Bokoven and Jarno Bloem, Energy Software Solutions
10:20 10:40 COFFEE BREAK IN FOYER
10:40 12:20 Session 2: Datacentre Research and Development
10:40 11:00 Overview of the Profile of Sustainable IT initiatives within UK Government and the general view of policy makers of data centres
industry alignment - DEFRA and DECC. Presented by Mike Walker, DEFRA
11:00 11:20 Standards and Certifications. Presented by Prof Hassan Abdalla - Rabih Bashroush, University of East London (PEDCA)
11:20 11:40 VTAS: A One-Dimensional Flow Network Modelling Tool for Thermodynamic Analysis of Data Centre Cooling Systems from Chip to
Cooling Tower. Presented by Alfonso Ortega, University of Villanova ES2, US NSF Funded Project
11:40 12:00 Presentation to be confirmed
12:00 12:20 Presentation to be confirmed
12:20 13:30 LUNCH IN FOYER
13:30 14:10 Keynote - Energy efficiency and climate change policy for data centre industry. Presented by Emma Fryer, Intellect UK
14:10 15:10 Session 3: Controlling the physical with the demands of the virtual
14:10 14:30 Energy Efficient Vs. Unavailability Risks in Data Centres. Presented by tba
14:30 14:50 Demystifying DCIM. Presented by tba
14:50 15:10 Presentation to be confirmed
15:10 15:30 AFTERNOON TEA IN FOYER
15:30 16:50 Session 4: Building and operating energy-efficient datacentres
15:30 15:50 Presentation to be confirmed
15:50 16:10 Building Infrastructure Modelling. Presented by John Sands, DCA
16:10 16:30 CFD Modelling. Presented by Mike Leaford, ARUP
16:30 16:50 Standards. Presented by Simon Campbell-Whyte, DCA
16:50 17:20 Panel Session – IX Leeds and Local Economy – Dr Adam Beaumont (aql)– Andy Davidson (IX Leeds) – Tom Rierdon
(Chief Executive of Leeds City Council) – George Hannah (Airedale Product Development Manager)
17:20 17:30 Close