Senior Vice President of Engineering, Sesame rack-scale solutions at ITRenew - long-time engineer and engineering leader in scalable computing

John supports various not for profit foundations that promote open collaboration and decarbonisation: Open Compute; OpenUK; SDIA.
He loves books and has an insatiable curiosity which had resulted in a varied life to date: Gardener; Metallurgist; Stock Exchange Network Specialist; Jungle Explorer; Traveler; Rock Singer; Data Centre Architect; Teacher; Maker; Story Teller......
John dislikes the words "Expert" & "Professional" & "Sir" with a vengeance because those people stifle change.
John's favorite colour this decade is purple, having spent the previous decade being very fond of green and wash.
John is always questioning the status quo because he believes that things can always be improved and done better through open source tech in the collaborative commons.....but he also thinks he could be wrong about this?

Deborah has 20+ years expertise in sustainable design and manufacture and is proud to be a Chartered Environmentalist. In addition to teaching on under and post-graduate students on design and engineering courses, Deborah carries out enterprise and consultancy work for external clients. She is also actively involved in research and supervises industry and EPSRC-funded PhD projects with particular emphasis on design for sustainability, Life Cycle Assessment and the Circular Economy.

Kass is an Uptime Punk member! Kass is a co-founder and Board member to InfraPrime, a startup (leading the clean energy standard for the EU 2021 E2P2 project for cloud, edge and colocation) company focused on providing Sustainable Data Center design that supports the UN SDG goals, Net Zero Carbon Free locations in US, Nordics, EMEA of 200-400 Megawatts, green renewable energy capacity, sustainability and emissions monitoring and decarbonization controls to provide sustainable clean energy offerings for the data center industry to reach Carbon Neutral goals. Kass is the Data Center advisor for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Program working with the hyperscalers like Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and colocation providers and with the Head of States of zero emission pledge.

Techbuyer, a sustainable IT solutions provider with offices in the UK, US, France, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. She represents the company on international research projects relating to the circular economy and also chairs the Sustainability Special Interest Group at the Data Centre Alliance. In 2021, Astrid joined the Consensus Body at the Remanufacturing Industries Council in the US and the board of Free ICT Europe. She and other Techbuyer staff work to develop standards around refurbishment and remanufacturing and prove the performance of secondary market equipment. In 2020, she co-authored an IEEE paper with other Techbuyer staff and the University of East London to demonstrate the energy efficiency case for the circular economy. The research has led to a new company, Interact, with a machine learning tool to optimise server efficiency and reduce data centre carbon emissions