Cadmus’ Allison Bard Selected to Speak at VERGE NY 2014
New York, NY, September 11, 2014—The Cadmus Group, Inc. (Cadmus) announced today that Cadmus associate Allison Bard has been selected as a featured speaker at VERGE Salon New York: Next-Gen Buildings and Cities, to be held September 16, 2014. Bard will speak about how commercial facilities owners and managers can cope with the unanticipated energy burden of “accidental” data centers.
VERGE salons are high-energy events focused on unlocking the business opportunities at the convergence of technology and sustainability. VERGE Salon: Next-Gen Buildings and Cities will convene 150 government officials, corporate executives, real estate portfolio owners, facilities managers, and other industry experts to discuss trends and technologies enabling the next generation of solutions that are making cities and buildings more sustainable, prosperous, and resilient.
Bard is a panelist in the session, “How to Tame ‘Accidental’ Data Centers in Commercial Real Estate.” She will discuss the issues that smaller, embedded (“accidental”) data centers encounter with respect to energy use and energy efficiency. “Accidental” data centers, which are created ad hoc, often in storage closets or spare offices that haven’t been designed to house information technology equipment, can consume energy far less efficiently without proper planning. Cadmus has conducted market characterization and research studies to estimate the presence of smaller data centers in energy utility service territories and therefore understands the opportunities and challenges that the organizations running these data centers encounter.
Allison Bard has six years of energy-efficiency program planning, implementation, and analysis experience. She manages data center market research efforts for several program administrators to identify the energy-efficiency market potential of data centers and is a lead author of a paper on how to pursue energy efficiency opportunities in smaller data centers. Bard supports the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) ENERGY STAR® Low Carbon IT campaign, which promotes energy efficiency in the green IT space. She helped produce a series of EPA documents providing implementation strategies for utility energy-efficiency programs targeted toward the data center and IT market sectors.
Produced by media company GreenBiz Group, VERGE NY will also feature Rockefeller Foundation Managing Director for 100 Resilient Cities Michael Berkowitz, WegoWise CTO Barun Singh, White House Senior Advisor for Climate Change Innovation Bina Venkataraman, USGBC VP of Research Chris Pyke, Microsoft Director of Facilities & Energy Darrell Smith, and many more from a wide range of corporations, startups, think tanks, policy groups, and others.
Cadmus has conducted substantial market research and evaluation studies to assess the data-center energy-efficiency market and how data centers consume energy for a variety of federal and utility clients. Learn more at cadmusgroup.com/data-center-ee/.
About The Cadmus Group, Inc.
Cadmus is an employee-owned consultancy committed to helping our clients address complex challenges by applying diverse skills and experiences in a highly collaborative environment. By assisting our clients in achieving their goals, we create social and economic value today and for future generations. Founded in 1983, we leverage exceptional expertise across a staff of more than 400 professionals in the physical and life sciences, engineering, social sciences, strategic communication, architecture and design, law, policy analysis, and the liberal arts who provide an array of research and analytical services in the United States and abroad.
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