Things Kate can speak about / present on
- High-tech, low-carbon: How ICT is part of the solution to climate change
- Green data centres: Energy efficiency and the EU Code of Conduct for data centres.
- Cloud & Utility Computing (generally).
- Virtualisation: Optimal virtualisation infrastructures using commodity hardware.
- G-Cloud: The proposed technical architecture of the UK G-Cloud and Applications Store.Secure Cloud: Why Cloud services can be as secure as you want.Innovation: Trends in innovation and the future of network and computer services
- Gender: The view of (IT/business) from both sides of the gender divide
Feel free to use the following biographies on conference Web sites etc where Kate is speaking, or if you need something fine-tuned to a particular audience, just contact Katie Olver.
Kate's bio - long
After completing her MSc is in Biomedical science, Kate joined Arthur Andersen business consulting as IT consultant. She went on to head business development for Easyspace Ltd and subsequently formed Memset Dedicated Hosting with her brother, Nick, in late 2002 with the UK's first main-stream virtual dedicated server product. Since inception Memset has been a leader in the field of virtualisation, and openly shares their experiences and methodologies.
Memset became Britain's first Carbon Neutral ISP in August 2006 and has won many awards for innovation, environmentalism and quality of service, including being voted best UK Web host for the last four years running by PCPro magazine readers. Memset is debt free and growing fast, thanks to cost-driven IT outsourcing, and is among the Deloitte EU Tech Fast 500.
Kate is also passionate about green IT personally as well as through Memset. She chairs of Intellect UK's Climate Change group, as well as sitting on their main and operations boards, providing important linkage between activity and governance. Kate is also the external communications officer of BCS's influential Data Centre Specialist Group. Recently she has also been co-leading the technical strand of the Cabinet Office's G-Cloud and App Store project.
Kate presents regularly and is frequently quoted in the technical press on the topic of energy-efficient ICT, and is a strong voice in Intellect's "technology is part of the solution to climate change" campaign.
Kate's bio - short
Kate is a multi-award-winning technology entrepreneur, owner-manager of Memset and a nationally renowned advocate of green ICT and Cloud Computing. She is an officer of BCS's influential Data Centre Specialist Group and is the youngest-ever main board member of Intellect UK, Britain's high-tech trade association. Kate also chairs Intellect's Climate Change Group, and currently co-leads the technical strand of the Cabinet Office's G-Cloud and App Store project.
Her company, Memset, is a nationally leading managed hosting and Cloud Computing provider. Memset was is Britain's first Carbon Neutral ISP, and has pioneered virtual machine technology since 2002.
