Creating a sustainable future

Wai Chung Ngai

Speaker's bio

Ngai, Wai Chung is a seasoned business and technology leader in Hypersclae, Cloud Service Providers (CSP) and the Enterprise space across Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ). Wai Chung has over 25 years of IT industry experience serving these markets and offering technology solutions including Compute, Storage, Networking & Data Center to solve customers’ business and technical problems.

Wai Chung currently serves as the Director of Lenovo’s CSP & Hyperscale, APJ, leading a team of Business Development Managers and Architects to offer optimal infrastructure solutions and custom data center products and services for CSP & Hyperscale customers.

Moreover, Wai Chung actively contributes to the Open Compute Project Foundation as the APAC Project Lead. He fosters collaboration within the APAC community and contributes to the development of innovative open solutions that cater to market needs and shape the future of the industry.

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Session detail

Creating a Sustainable Future presentation explores the OCP Sustainability Project, an initiative within the Open Compute Project focused on achieving net carbon zero goals in the data center industry. It introduces sustainability as the 5th tenet of OCP and provides an open framework and resources for promoting reusability and circularity.
Key topics include metrics and reporting, circular economy, efficiency, and call to action. The presentation highlights the importance of standardized metrics, offers guidelines and examples for sustainable design and resource consumption, and discusses the impact of data center efficiency. The presentation concludes by urging participation in the OCP sustainability workstreams and promoting sustainability within organizations.