Whether in New Delhi or New York, Sao Paulo or Abu Dhabi, staying competitive in today’s building environment means keeping pace with rapid advancements in building trends and environmental issues.

Carrier, the world’s leader in high technology heating, ventilation, air-conditioning and refrigeration (HVACR) solutions and a part of United Technologies is making it easy to learn the latest in green building technologies, sustainable design and engineering practices, bringing some of the world’s experts together under one roof for its 11th Global Engineering Conference, themed ”20/20 the Future in Focus: Rethink. Restore. Regenerate.”

Scheduled for March 18-20, 2012 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the event features more than 20 workshops and presentations by a distinguished slate of international speakers, such as:

• George Berbari, CEO and founder of DC Pro Engineering, who will talk about accelerating citywide efficiency improvement based on his expertise from the Middle East.
• Markus Dochantschi, founder and principal of New York’s studioMDA, who will share his experience from around the globe, through his implementation of new building technologies and design of passive sustainability strategies for buildings in Japan, England, Switzerland and Austria.
• Ahmed Abdul Ganhi, chairman, Allied Consultants, from Egypt, who will review practices in the district cooling systems and pumping schemes to manage the impact on energy.
• Rohan Parikh from Infosys, one of India’s leading software companies, who will highlight what it takes to create a low-energy building.
• Rajan Rajendran, vice president, Engineering Services and Sustainability for Emerson Climate Technologies, who will speak on refrigerants of the future and how these choices can impact our industry through examples of his work with alternate refrigerants in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
• Vincent Tse, managing director, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Building MEP, China Region, who will discuss sustainable design in mega-large entertainment resorts and venues in Singapore andMacau.

In addition, keynote speakers such as Rick Fedrizzi, president, CEO and founding chair of the U.S. Green Building Council, and David Gottfried, founder of the U.S. Green Building Council  and World Green Building Council, will help create a vision for the future, focusing on rethinking current practices, restoring natural resources and developing regenerative initiatives.

Speakers will also spotlight new technology and engineering topics in the HVAC industry, as well as a variety of technical, multi-disciplinary, case study and sustainability topics. As a result of these workshops, attendees of the Global Engineering Conference will leave with immediate actionable practices and clarity on the future of buildings in our industry.

“At Carrier, we never rest on our accomplishments, but instead seek ways to continuously improve our products, our environment and the world,” said Geraud Darnis, president & CEO, UTC Climate, Controls & Security, and president of Carrier. “The Global Engineering Conference is another way we can create dialogue and share ideas on how we can rethink, restore and regenerate our resources.”

Continuing Education Units and Professional Development Hours will be awarded. To review the complete agenda for the event or to register, visit www.2012GEC.com.

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Deloitte has announced the research findings from its 3rd annual “Tech Trends 2012″ report, which identifies and predicts the top 10 emerging and disruptive technologies that are expected to play a crucial role in how businesses are anticipated to operate globally in 2012 and beyond.

“As we head into 2012, many CIOs are evaluating the various aspects of IT, looking ahead to the new technologies that can help them drive business growth in the years ahead,” said Mark White, principal and chief technology officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP and co-author of the report. “Mobility, social, analytics, cloud and cyber are technology forces each impacting business today. The intersection of these represents an opportunity for new business technology value and innovation.”

Deloitte’s “Tech Trends 2012″ distinguished the technologies in two categories: “(Re)emerging Enablers” and “Disruptive Deployments.” (Re)emerging Enablers are five technologies that many CIOs have spent time, thought and resources on in the past, but deserve another look this year. Disruptive Deployments are five additional technologies that showcase new business models and transformative ways to operate. The 10 predicted technologies identified for 2012 are:

(Re)Emerging Enablers:

• Geo-spatial Visualization: Within the world of visualization, geospatial takes advantage of an explosion of geographical, location-aware data. Sources feeding this growth include new semi-structured data from mobile devices, geo-tagging of existing enterprise structured data and tapping into new streams of location-aware unstructured data.

• Digital Identities: The digital expression of identity is growing more complex every day. Digital identities should be unique, verifiable, able to be federated and non-repudiable. As individuals take a more active hand in managing their own digital identities, organizations are attempting to create single digital identities that retain the appropriate context across the range of credentials that an individual carries. Digital persona protection is becoming a strong area of cyber focus.

• Data Goes to Work: Organizations are finding ways to turn the explosion in size, volume and complexity of data into insight and value. This is occurring across structured and unstructured content from internal and external sources. This is expected to complement but not replace long-standing information management programs and investments in data warehouses, business intelligence suites, reporting platforms and relational database experience.

• Measured Innovation: CIOs can help facilitate the discovery of the next wave of true disruption — and continuously improve the business of IT and the business of the business. Measured innovation offers an approach to managing both disciplines by providing a pragmatic way to identify, evaluate and launch potential innovations with a focus on aligning opportunities to areas that can fuel disruption and create measurable, attributable value.

• Outside-in Architecture: Flexibility in operating and business models is proving more important. As a result, need to share is colliding with need to know and shifting solution architectures away from a siloed, enterprise-out design pattern and into an outside-in approach to delivering business through rapidly evolving ecosystems.

Disruptive Deployments:

• Social Business: The emergence of boomers as digital natives and the rise of social media in daily life have paved the way for social business in the enterprise. This is leading organizations to apply social technologies on social networks, amplified by social media, to fundamentally reshape how business gets done. Some of the initial successful use cases are consumer-centric, but business value is available — and should be realized – across the enterprise.

• Hyper-hybrid Cloud: Cloud-based and cloud-aware integration offerings are expected to continue to evolve, and many organizations face a hybrid reality with a mix of on-premise solutions and multiple cloud offerings. The challenge becomes integration, identity management and data translation between the core and multitenant public cloud offerings, and offering lightweight orchestration for processes traversing enterprise and cloud assets.

• Enterprise Mobility Unleashed: Mobility is helping many organizations rethink their business models. Consumer-facing mobile applications are only the beginning. With the explosion of mobile use cases, organizations should make sure solutions are enterprise class – secure, reliable, maintainable and integrated to critical back-off systems and data.

• Gamification: Serious gaming simulations and game mechanics such as leaderboards, achievements and skill-based learning are becoming embedded in day-to-day business processes, driving adoption, performance and engagement.

• User Empowerment: User engagement remains a key doctrine for enterprise IT with consumerization setting expectations for solutions built from the user-down, not the system-up. Compounding the need, IT is becoming increasingly democratized, with empowered end-users able to directly source solutions from the cloud or app stores — on a mobile device and increasingly on the desktop.

“The next 12 months will see several technologies including the cloud, big data and mobility continue to grow, while a topic like gamification is just starting to emerge at the enterprise level,” said Bill Briggs, director, Deloitte Consulting LLP and co-author of the report.

“It will be important for CIOs to help lead their organizations in these areas, as they can redefine the role that IT plays within an organization and place them in a position to positively disrupt their operating models, business models, or even their industries.”

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