Live chat about green-tech trends this Thursday

Update: Here’s a recap of the live chat, and here’s the transcript in its entirety.

Not long ago, The Green Grid — a consortium of IT-industry biggies united toward tackling issues of developing energy-efficient practices, standard, and technologies — officially announced itself.

The roster of founding companies is pretty impressive, too, including AMD, APC, Dell, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Rackable Systems, SprayCool, Sun, and VMware. And the group is determined to work together, taking a holistic view of the entire data-center ecosystem in an effort to address an impending power crisis.

With all that the group’s doing, not too mention all the other action taking place in the blooming field of green technology, I’ve invited a couple of members of The Green Grid to join me in a live chat this coming Thursday, March 22 at 11:00 a.m. Pacific — and guess what? You’re invited!

To participate, you’ll simply need to log in to IT Exec-Connect (which is free) and join the chat. I’ll start with some questions for our guests (whom I’ll tell you about in a moment), then I’ll open the floor to participants. So come ready with your own pressing questions about clean, green technology. (If you’d rather, feel free to leave questions in the comment section below.)

Now then, our guests for the chat will be two boardmembers of The Green Grid: Roger Tipley, from HP, and Colette LaForce, from Rackable Systems.

LaForce oversees marketing communications, field marketing and product marketing at Rackable Systems, where she’s worked since 2003. Prior to that, she her own marketing consultancy for several years, launching products, brands and strategic communications for a range of enterprise software, hardware, and e-commerce clients. _uacct = “UA-1608482-1”; urchinTracker();