Al Gore Coming (Virtually) to VoiceCon
Hey this is pretty cool: Al Gore is joining John Chambers and Sue Bostrom in the VoiceCon Orlando keynote session Wednesday, March 18, 11 a.m. Eastern. Gore and Chambers will be speaking from remote locations while Bostrom will be on the VoiceCon stage at the Gaylord Palms hotel.
Naturally, we on the VoiceCon team are pretty pumped about this. By any measure, this is a big deal for our industry as well as for the show. I get the sense that Al Gore is a pretty busy guy, so the fact that he's decided to take time to address an audience of IT professionals is significant. Clearly we've reached critical mass with the idea that communications technology has a significant role to play in improving the condition of our environment, and in bringing many other societal benefits to all parts of the world.
We've had quite a bit on Green IT here at No Jitter, courtesy mostly of our resident environmentalist Matt Brunk, and we've also got a session at VoiceCon called "Saving Money with Green VOIP," which No Jitter's own Gary Audin is presenting. The Gore/Chambers/Bostrom session will take us beyond the idea of doing IT's job in a more environmentally-conscious way, into the ways that communications itself can help.
Here's the planned topics of the keynote discussion with Al Gore, John Chambers and Sue Bostrom:
the latest observations of the effects of global warming and the impact of information technology how businesses can reduce greenhouse gas emissions through innovation how the technology industry can help create the most sustainable model for addressing global climate change
Cisco has also opened up a channel for the public to submit questions for discussion.
Chambers and Cisco have been in the forefront of this discussion, and they've got our kudos and thanks for bringing it to the VoiceCon stage.
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