Seminar

ACS Leadership: An Earth Day initiative - War on carbon [Virtual]

Winning the War on Carbon With the impacts of climate change becoming more apparent, and the modelling showing worse to come, communities around the world are looking for increasingly effective ways to lower their carbon emissions. Can technology come to the rescue once again? Or will we find energy dense data centres and power hungry compute infrastructure will only add to our emissions and troubles? Steven Craddock – a Cloud Developer Advocate and Java Veteran from Oracle joins Kirsty Linehan – Oracle’s Chief Public Sector Advisor for a discussion of the trials and triumphs of technology in the War on Carbon. Learn what the opportunities for change are at a global and local scale and how you can make a positive impact by yourself or within your organisation.

Virtual
CPD Hours: 2
Skills Level: -

About this event

What is Earth Day?
Earth Day is an annual event celebrated around the world when people take time to appreciate humankind's connection to the Earth and to raise awareness of our environmental challenges. 

What can you do for Earth Day?
This event aims to show how simple changes that will significantly impact society in the fight against global climate change that ACS members can make.

War on carbon – defending against the threat of climate change, IT impact on the environment, security and more...

Basic premises are picking the least energy consuming language for runtime (Java & GraalVM have great stats), switching services off or going serverless and autoscaling as demand changes. 

The presentation will cover the discussion relates to the war on carbon as actions on infrastructure and cloud utilisation lower power consumption and cooling requirements reducing the need for toxic refrigerants, as well as the other elements of infrastructure and system management. 

Our guest speakers:
  • Steven Craddock, Principal Cloud Specialist Engineer, Oracle Australia
*This is a fairly technical presentation, but easily digestible by most IT enthusiasts.

To support the Earth Day Initiative, we offer VIP registration for members and BEC to bring a friend:
  • Members to bring a friend (non-member) free of charge 
  • BEC members can bring two friends (non-member) free of charge
*Please email us your friend's full name, phone number and email address to acs.canb@acs.org.au, and we will register them.

Event run sheet (Virtual):
5:30 PM – 5:45 PM (15 min): Arrival & registration. QR code scanning
5:45 PM – 5:50 PM (5 min): MC and introduction
5:50 PM – 6:05 PM (20 min): presentation by presenter and panel discussion or audience 
6:05 PM – 6:40 PM (35min): Q&A session
6.40 PM – 6:50 PM (10 min): Wrap up and introduction to ACS
6:45 PM - 7.30 PM Networking opportunity and refreshments

[IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR VIRTUAL ATTENDEES]
Please follow the below instructions to join the Teams webinar.

Step 1: You will receive an email from ACS (Member.Services@acs.org.au) with a subject line (Webinar Event Reminder) 2 hours before the event commences, which includes a “Watch now” button.
Step 2: Once you receive the “Webinar Event Reminder” email, please click the “Watch now” button. A pop-up window will open, asking you to complete the Registration Form (Yes, again). Please enter your full name and email address (You must use the same email you use for your ACS Membership) and click “Register now”.
Step 3: You will receive a new email confirmation sent from ACS Teams events with a “Join event” link, and you can also add it to your calendar by “Accept”.
Step 4: You can click the “Join event” link from your email or go to your calendar (if you have accepted the webinar via Outlook 15-20 minutes before the virtual event starts) and join the Teams webinar.

In addition, please also note that:
1) To ensure you have a good experience in attending Teams webinar, we highly recommend you download the Desktop version of MS Teams because the web browser version of the Teams have limitations.
2) If you are joining the webinar via your phone or iPad, you might not be able to see the chat. If that is the case, if you have any questions, please put your hand ✋ up at the Q&A session, and we will unmute your audio so you can speak.
3) Also, if you are joining the webinar via your phone or iPad, you can choose to see the slides or speakers, but you will not be able to see both.
4) For support, please get in touch with our event coordinator via email. 
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