Susanna Kass is a member of the Climate 50 consecutively since 2009, the World's Top Most Influential Climate Leaders in Data Centers and Cloud. Kass is a Data Center Advisor to the United Nations Sustainable Development Program to tackle Climate Change. Kass was recognized for her Net Zero Positive Impact results as a member of the Power 100 during the pandemic year in 2020. Come and join her session at GCDCS21!

Tune into two of National Engineers Day 2021 Webinars and listen to Susanna Kass give insight on how Woman can build towards a career in Data Center Engineering and Global Sustainability. Not long after that, come join Susanna and learn how Singapore can enhance quality education for girls and provide equitable career opportunities for women!

Tune into National Engineers Day 2021 and listen to Alberto Ravagni give his insight on the next generator net zero design for Singapore!

Were excited to hear Susanna Kass’ thoughts on unpicking the journey to carbon negative.

Panel Details

The latest IPCC report and Global Climate experts show scientific evidence that if we can't drastically reduce carbon emissions, our planet shall face more catastrophic consequences. We must take responsible actions as global citizens and cloud infrastructure pioneers to deliver on the carbon neutral pledge. Microsoft has led the charge and operated as a carbon neutral company since 2012, and in January, their President, Brad Smith announced the company’s commitment to going carbon negative by 2030.

The journey to carbon negative takes ambition and actions, it requires thought leadership and industry collaboration in each step. In this fireside chat, Jim Collins, Head of Energy Markets, Microsoft, and Susanna Kass, Energy Fellow, BOD of InfraPrime, a net zero cloud infrastructure inventor will share insights and experience of a pragmatic approach of achieving cloud business growth in hyperscale; working around a grid is not green all the time and on resilience of the energy grid that is not at 99.999% uptime performance on how to achieve simultaneous energy resiliency and clean energy sustainability.

Join Susanna Kass — a member of the Climate 50 and Power 100 — on June 23rd for this exciting panel! She will be joined by industry voices from DatacenterDynamics, VMware, and CIRKLA.

Panel Description

The concept of the circular economy is based on the principles of designing out waste and pollution, keeping efficient products and materials in use, and an opposite model to the ‘take-make-dispose’ system currently in place across the data center and ICT sector.

With hyperscalers closely wedded to the sustainable path of IT and hardware reuse, what are the challenges for enterprise developers and operators who wish to partake in sustainability innovation, resource efficiency and recycling? And, are there any enterprise developers and data center operators who have managed to reduce resource waste?

This panel will outline whether the enterprise developers and data center can play a larger role in a restorative and regenerative economic model through innovation and show how the results can be measured by sustainability metrics.

InfraPrime is thrilled to kick back off our webinar series in 2021 with our Power 100 webinar series! We look forward to everyone joining us again.

Join InfraPrime and Susanna Kass on May 19th for her session “Simultaneously resilient and sustainable net-zero data centers” at this years United Nation Sustainable Development Goal Data Center Summit.

To view the entire agenda for the event, click here.

Join InfraPrime and Susanna Kass on May 19th as she discusses “The impact of digital infrastructure on the Sustainable Development Goals” with Joe Kava of Google, Douglas Mouton of Microsoft, and Susanne Pedersen of the UNEP-DTU Partnership. It’s sure to be a fascinating conversation at this years United Nation Sustainable Development Goal Data Center Summit.

Joe Kava is Vice President, Global Data Centers at Google.

Douglas Mouton is Vice President, Global Data Center Build and Procurement, cloud + Infrastructure at Microsoft.

Susanne Pedersen is the Director of the UNEP-DTU Partnership.

To view the entire agenda for the event, click here.

Join InfraPrime and Alberto Ravagni on May 18th for his session “Science-based targets and the climate-positive data center” at this years United Nation Sustainable Development Goal Data Center Summit.

To view the entire agenda for the event, click here.

Join InfraPrime and Susanna Kass on May 19th as she discusses “Building and constructing sustainable cloud across the globe” with Joe Kava of Google and Douglas Mouton of Microsoft. It’s sure to be a fascinating conversation at this years United Nation Sustainable Development Goal Data Center Summit.

Joe Kava is Vice President, Global Data Centers at Google.

Douglas Mouton is Vice President, Global Data Center Build and Procurement, cloud + Infrastructure at Microsoft.

To view the entire agenda for the event, click here.

Join Susanna Kass on April 24 as she speaks at ISCEA’s Sustainable Supply Chain Pledge with Susanna Kass!

The Sustainable Supply Chain Pledge Day will be a virtual event to connect ISCEA Sustainable Supply Chain Global Ambassadors from around the world. The event is open to all who are interested in pledging to sustainable supply chain, meeting peers with similar interests, or learning about how to further commit to sustainability by becoming an ISCEA Global Ambassador. This event serves as an event to connect passionate planet guardians who aim to transform the world of supply chain for a better, stronger, more sustainable future.

April 18, 2021, 6 AM PST / 9 AM EST / 3 PM CET — April 18, 2021, 10 AM PST / 1 PM EST / 7 PM EST

Digitization is a chance. But it is also one of the biggest challenges we face. How can we use innovative ways to reduce the impact of our digital infrastructure on the environment?
In this series we present innovators who decide to step up their game and face these challenges. With new policies, technology and - before all - commitment.
We will explore all areas from renewable energy, sustainable supply chains, carbon accounting as well as all other factors that help drive the industry in a more carbon free environment with a more circular economic outlook.

Opening Panel: Policy discussions
Hyperscale Carbon Neutral Fire sidechat - 1
Design & Build Panel
Hyperscale Carbon Neutral Fire sidechat - 2
Energy Efficiency ( Hydro & electric)
Hyperscale Carbon Neutral Fire sidechat - 3
Circular Economy Panel

We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button above and let’s connect!

How do you know how well your cloud and edge data centers are really doing when it comes to sustainability?

March 25, 2021, 8 AM PST / 11 AM EST — March 25, 2021, 9 AM PST / 12 PM EST

As demand for cloud and edge data centers continued its growth during the pandemic, it is not expected to slow down given the expanding scope and complexity of operational pressures. From enterprise to hyperscale, from energy efficiency to sustainability. 

Sustainability for cloud and edge data centers is now a strategic imperative for all their stakeholders and the world beyond. But how is it possible to scope, design, build and plan more effectively towards sustainability? 

Our panel of experts will look at the new thinking and data center lifecycle practices that enable modularity, and data center life cycle practices that enable design modularity and resource efficiency to achieve corporate zero carbon pledge and UN SDG goals. Gain strategic insights from speakers and take actions for cloud and edge data centers in the new era to build a sustainable future.

We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button above and let’s connect!

March 18, 2021, 9:25 AM PST / 12:25 PM EST — March 18, 2021, 10:25 AM PST / 1:25 PM EST

We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button above and let’s connect!

How will green policy shape the US digital infrastructure sector?

Feb. 24, 2021, 12 p.m. PST / 3 p.m. EST / 9 p.m. CET — Feb. 24, 2021, 1 p.m. PST / 4 p.m. EST / 10 p.m CET

Susanna Kass, Co-founder, Chief Sustainability, Circular Economy Officer, BOD Member, a member of Climate 50 and a Data Center Advisor, UN SDG Program, will lead the panel How will green policy shape the US digital infrastructure sector?

Energy policy can either help or hinder in the implementation of efficient and cost-effective, carbon-neutral infrastructure. With energy usage having drastically increased overnight during the pandemic to support the many changes to society, it continues to be a mammoth portion of the global economy. Most energy infrastructure is built to last for decades, which makes it crucial to get energy policy right. Done wrong, energy policy can waste billions of dollars and lock in dirty, inefficient systems for decades.

In the transition to a low-carbon future, this panel looks at how to get energy policy right. With a new administration in place, how will green policy in the US evolve and what will this mean for the operators of digital infrastructure? What are the imperatives needed to ensure a well-designed and well-implemented energy policy that can improve green capacity and minimize emissions at no additional cost (or even net savings) to the economy?

Net Zero Data Centers are a fundamental key to tackle climate change. Together, we can pave the way that will bring the industry towards a not-so-distant future of truly sustainable data centers. We’d love to hear your thoughts and we’d like to share with you our vision. Click on the button above and let’s connect!

Feb. 24, 2021, 10 a.m. PST / 1 p.m. EST / 7 p.m. CET — Feb. 24, 2021, 11 a.m. PST / 2 p.m. EST / 8 p.m CET

Michael Terrell and Susanna Kass will be joined by leading Net Zero Clean Energy and Infrastructure experts from InfraPrime and STI.

At this webinar, we will share our progress on key actions that we are taking, including doubling down on renewable energy purchases in a greater number of regions, implementing on site carbon free energy generation, using net zero site locations with resilient infrastructure —to achieve 24x7 carbon-free energy anytime, anywhere to become Carbon Neutral Data Center Pact.

Webinar Organizer:

Matteo Mezzanotte, Sustainability Media & Community Evangelist at InfraPrime.

Webinar Co-Hosts:

Susanna Kass, a board member of InfraPrime, a member of Climate 50, the topmost influential climate change leader for the Data Center/ICT sector. Energy Fellow, Stanford University

Uptime Punks

Webinar Speakers:

Susanna Kass, a board member of InfraPrime, a member of Climate 50, the topmost influential climate change leader for the Data Center/ICT sector. Energy Fellow, Stanford University

Alberto Ravagni, Clean Energy Architect & Co-founder of InfraPrime

Micheal Terrell, Energy Market Strategy, Google

Micheal Britt, President, Southern Telecom

What is a sustainable hyperscale data center?

Together with industry pioneers and experts, we will try to define the design characteristics, energy requirements, and any other relevant aspect necessary for a hyperscale data center to be considered green and sustainable. We will also have some time for a Q&A with Susanna Kass (InfraPrime) and Mark Monroe (Microsoft), following their podcast at Uptime Punks.