February 2022 Webinar 1: From Green & Sustainable IT to Net Zero- What IT / IS professionals should

When:  Feb 3, 2022 from 18:00 to 19:00 (PT)
Associated with  Silicon Valley Chapter
From Green & Sustainable IT to Net Zero- What IT / IS professionals should know and contribute
Summary:

GREEN AND SUSTAINABLE IT

Climate change is the biggest threat to the humankind and is considered as one of the top 5 risks that the world is facing today. Information Technology (IT) has come of the age in last several years with massive disruption of IT and Digitization at global level. IT today accounts for around 2 to 3% of the global carbon emissions. Hence, reducing carbon emissions at global level by IT sector has become a priority and Green or Sustainable IT has become a new mantra.

Green IT is not a new concept as Cloud Computing has already proved that how IT can be made more sustainable. Many of the clever ideas connected with Green IT and sustainability involve the joint use of purely virtual space. ‘Digital sharing’ would be another way of putting it. Green IT encompasses all aspects of sustainability that includes interalia the following:

1) Green Data Center

2) Energy management

3) Sustainable Materials

4) eWaste Management

5) Role of new technologies like AI, ML, edge computing etc. in making IT operations sustainable This presentation provides the comprehensive overview of Green and Sustainable IT, Green Data Center, Best practices for Sustainable IT, Energy Management, eWaste Management which every IT and Assurance professional may be interested to know and implement in his / her respective organization. The presentation would cover some good examples from the real world as to how some of the major companies adopted Green IT / Sustainable strategy to garner long term sustainable advantage. The presentation would also briefly cover audit and certification aspects for Green IT and Green Data Center along with some real-world case studies followed by Q and A and brief discussion on next steps. Screen reader support enabled.

Agenda:
6:00 - 6:05 - Welcome and Introduction
6:05 - 6:45 - Session: From Green & Sustainable IT to Net Zero- What IT / IS professionals should know and contribute
6:45 - 6:55 - Q & A
6:55 - 7:00 - Wrap-up
Speaker:
Ashit Dalal
Lead Assessor and Consultant
eDelta Consulting & CPA Services

Ashit is a well-known Cybersecurity (both IT and OT / ICS), Data Privacy, Risk Management, Governance, Compliance, EHS, Process and Functional Safety professional with more than 30 years Manufacturing, Operations, Strategy Leadership, Consulting, Audit, Assurance, Training, Pre-sales and Program Management experience with Fortune 500 companies like Unilever, Reliance, IBM, Shell and so on in India and the USA.

With an illustrious educational background with B.S. in Chemical Engineering and MBA in Finance (University First Rank holder), Ashit is also a Platinum member of ISACA with CISA, CISM, CRISC, CGEIT and CDPSE certifications. Ashit is an Exemplar-Global certified Master Auditor for ISO 14001, ISO 45001, and ISO 50001 Management Systems. He is also a Lead auditor for ISO 9001, ISO 27001, ISO 20001:2018, ISO 27701: 2019, Responsible Care, R2: 2013 and RIOS standards, IEC 62443 Lead Assessor and TUV SUD Certified Functional Safety Engineer.

Ashit currently works as an Independent Principal Consultant and Director for IT / OT Cybersecurity with eDelta Consulting & CPA Services, a New York based Consulting and CPA Firm. His clients include some of the best known and Fortune -500 companies in the areas of Oil and Gas, Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Pharmaceuticals, Energy, Utilities, Banking and Financial Services, Software and IT, Telecom, Healthcare, Life Sciences and so on. Ashit is the Senior member of American Inst. Of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), Platinum Member of ISACA and member of Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) owned by DHS / CISA. He is also the member of ISA 99 committee. He is the Internationally known speaker of ISACA as also several ISACA Chapters in the USA and India. He is the adjunct faculty for Cybersecurity and Privacy and Sustainability for part time and full time MBA programs of one of the top Management School in Mumbai, India.

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