
Telepresence to Moscow
When I ran for student body President at Foothill College (where I’m giving this year’s commencement speech), they had each candidate record a video pitch. Even back then I was a pretty good speaker. But in a room with just…

SAP’s Palo Alto energy efficiency and CO2 reductions
As mentioned previously, I was in Santa Clara and Palo Alto last week for a couple of SAP events. At these events SAP shared some of its carbon reduction policies and strategies. According to SAP Chief Sustainability Officer Peter Graf, the greatest bang for buck SAP is achieving comes from the deployment of telepresence suites. […]

A Tale of Two Expectations: On TelePresence vs Skype
We hear a lot from Cisco these days about TelePresence (hey its even a gag in 30 Rock now) vs HP Halo… but what about Skype Video? Expectations are set high with Cisco Telepresence. You have to use one of their offices, so its a managed environment. Quality of service is a given. As chair […]

My “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” presentation
Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices Conference organising company iQuest contacted me last year to ask me to deliver a keynote presentation at their Green IT Summit. The event took place in Dublin yesterday and my keynote talk entitled “Green IT – driving efficiency, sustainability and enabling efficient working practices” […]

Volcanoes and Videoconferencing
You’d think that not being able to fly to meetings across Europe the past week would have given the webconferencing and telepresence industry a big boost. But although there has, out of necessity, been an increase in remote meetings, there’s…