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The Green Grid will be holding its annual forum in March, along with two other key events – the Data Center Pulse Summit and the Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Course.

All events will be held San Jose, California, on the week from March 5 to 9.

The Green Grid Forum 2012, running from March 6 to 7 at the double Tree Hotel, will host more than 30 business, IT and sustainability sessions following the theme: Moving to resource efficient IT.

The keynote will be presented by Wells Fargo SVP of Corporate Properties Bob Cashner, who has more than 30-years of data center design and operation experience. A panel discussion later that day will look at how cloud computing and other technological advances will shape the industry moving towards 2025.

ASHRAE air and water environmental classes, IT recycling metrics, free cooling, data center storage and more will also be discussed, as well as the role IT will have in a new global currency focussed on sustainability – HP Senior Fellow and Director for Sustainable Ecosystems Research Chandrakant Patel will provide this keynote.

There will also be a number of opportunities for one-on-one meetings and a keynote on day two by Schneider Electric’s CMO Aaron Davis as well as an analysis on Japan’s management of data centers following the earthquake and Tsunami in March 2011.

The Data Center Pulse Summit is being held on March 5, also at the Double Tree in San Jose. Like the Green Grid Forum, this event is open to members only.

At the event, data center operators will discuss issues affecting them on a daily basis. Data Center Pulse has more than 2,200 members from 68 countries around the world.

The Data Center Energy Practitioner (DCEP) Course follows the forum. It will be held at Embassy Suites in San Jose on March 8 and 9 and will feature curriculum set out by the US Department of Energy for performing energy assessments in the data center, as well as ways to transfer these skills to other data center staff for implementation. To find out more about this course, you can contact Patrick.odum@dc-professional.com.

To find out more about the Green Grid Forum 2012, email admin@lists.thegreengrid.or, and to find out more about the Data Center Pulse Summit and to register, contact membership@datacenterpulse.org.