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SUMMARY:Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT
DESCRIPTION:\nSustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT to Showcase IC
 T Solutions for Business Sustainability; Features First-Ever Teleprese
 nce Integration into a Virtual Event.\n\nPresented by a prestigious li
 st of ICT leaders, and supported by the United Nations, BSR and Forres
 ter Research, Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT is the first v
 irtual conference and tradeshow to present the case for a future-orien
 ted ICT industry, to respond quickly to the challenge of sustainabilit
 y. The event kicks off on March 30th, 2010, and is available globally 
 through April 1st with live broadcasts timed for US, European and Asia
 n timezones, and then for a further 90 days on-demand.\n\nSustainabili
 ty Virtual Summits: Smart ICT will summarize the cutting-edge informat
 ion and best practices that corporations of all sizes need to support 
 themselves through their journey toward building a more sustainable an
 d more efficient enterprise. Attendees to the free-of-charge virtual e
 vent will learn about dematerialization - the substitution of high car
 bon products and activities with low carbon alternative, Collaboration
  and unified communication (with an emphasis on telepresence), next ge
 neration data centers and communication, Smart Grid and the business i
 mpact of sustainability on commercial brands.\n\nNotes Georg Kell, Exe
 cutive Director of the United Nations Global Compact, “The Sustainab
 ility Virtual Summit (is) the first meeting of its kind, ever.” Rath
 er than just talking about ICT solutions that businesses can employ to
  reach their sustainability goals, the event employs those technologie
 s itself, from a state-of-the art virtual event software platform, to 
 a unique integration of telepresence technology as a roundtable panel 
 discussion delivery vehicle. ICT Global Leader sponsors Orange Busines
 s Services, Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, Panduit and the Telecommunications 
 Industry Association, along with a host of ICT Smart Leaders, industry
  and analyst speakers, will address ICT and sustainability in 36 keyno
 te, track and panel sessions throughout the 3 live and 90 on-demand da
 ys of the event. In a first for a virtual event, the telepresence enab
 lement of the Sustainability Virtual Summits: Smart ICT event allows r
 oundtable and panel discussions to be broadcast between panelists in r
 emote locations. 35% of the event content has been enabled by telepres
 ence.\n\nTo register to attend the Sustainability Virtual Summits: Sma
 rt ICT event FREE-OF-CHARGE, www.SustainabilityVirtualSummits.com.\n\n
 \n\n\nFor more information visit http://www.virtualedge.org/events/sus
 tainability-virtual-summits
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CATEGORIES:virtual, event, tradeshow, conference, exhibition
LOCATION:Virtual Event
WEBSITE:http://www.sustainabilityvirtualsummits.com
URL:http://www.sustainabilityvirtualsummits.com
CONTACT:+1.970.879.8140
ORGANIZER:G2Events, Inc
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