Steven Sams,
Vice President
Site and Facilities
IBM

Mr. Sams is responsible for a worldwide organization that is dedicated to helping clients identify their requirements, current capabilities, and best options for data centers and other specialized facilities like green buildings and clean rooms. This includes building new facilities, and optimizing, relocating or consolidating existing facilities. The Site and Facilities Services organization that Steve oversees includes 500 specialists around the globe that have built over 30 million square feet of customer raised floor for clients from Boston to Bangalore.

Prior to this role, Mr. Sams was vice president, IBM Corporate Strategy, where he was responsible for the identification and development of key profitable growth opportunities across IBM. He was also vice president of strategy for Server Group; Vice President IBM Americas Intel-based server (Netfinity) business; Director of IBM Sales Incentive Strategy; Director of Business Strategy, IBM Canada; and Assistant General Manager IBM Canada Leasing. In each of these roles, Steven led his team to significant increases in overall world-wide market share and fostered growth.

Mr. Sams has received numerous IBM awards throughout his career. He has also been quoted and published in numerous publications on a range of topics, most notably on the power and cooling issues facing companies today. He's recently been quoted in BusinessWeek, Bloomberg and ComputerWorld and has been published in the Harvard Business Review and Financial Times.

Mr. Sams will be presenting the Keynote Address, Redesign Your Data Center to Cut Costs and Fuel Business Growth. Energy efficiency can comprise up to 60% of the capital costs and 75% of the operational costs of a data center. These costs are quickly becoming critical drivers of change. In this interactive session, you will learn how to redesign your data centers using standard, modular design approaches to align your IT needs to your business requirements. Learn more by visiting http://www.idc.com/greenit09.