Applications of IT to Water Management

• January 27, 2010: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Location: Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Peter Williams [CTO, “Big Green” Innovations at IBM]

As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast the day and time of the event. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents. Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.

The schedule for the spring semester is at http://www.citris-uc.org/events/RE-spring2010. 

Abstract:
The talk will look at information and information technology developments that enable dramatically improved decision-making in the management of water resources and water infrastructures.  It will include specific examples from IBM's activities in the area and will situate these improvements in the context of technology trends generally.  It will also examine the services opportunities that arise from improved sensing, data availability, data integration and processing, and decision-making tools in water management.

Biography:
Dr Peter Williams is the Chief Technology Officer for IBM's Big Green Innovations incubator, whose role is to create environmentally focused businesses for IBM.  He is responsible for assembling, maintaining and developing the portfolio of businesses included, and technologies used. His particular focus areas have been PV technologies; developing green house gas reduction solutions and services; and most intensively, water management solutions, covering entire water resources (for example entire rivers or aquifers), utility infrastructures, and enterprise water management.  Dr Williams holds the title of IBM Distinguished Engineer.  By background, he is a management consultant with well over 20 years experience of bringing technology and business issues together to develop novel solutions and business models. 

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