Energy Efficient Networks (Gee Rittenhouse: Sep 9)

Gee Rittenhouse is Vice President, Bell Labs Research, overseeing all Bell Labs research centres and research activities for Alcatel-Lucent.
In this role, Gee is responsible for creating new growth opportunities by inventing technologies with disruptive impact. These responsibilities include the overall research portfolio from project inception through transfer to all parts of the Alcatel-Lucent business including the Solutions and Marketing organization, Product/Services groups, Applications Business Group, and internal ventures or technology licensing.
Gee is also actively engaged in green technology research and in generating innovations that promote environmental sustainability and he is the current Chairman of GreenTouchTM, an industry wide consortium whose goal is to improve the energy efficiency of ICT networks by a factor of 1000 from current levels.
Gee also fosters an open innovation model by developing research partnerships to effectively leverage Alcatel-Lucent’s knowledge with external partners. Prior to this, Gee headed the Bell Labs' Technology Integration Group, with the primary mission of taking Bell Labs research assets and innovations and driving them, through development activities and project management, into Alcatel-Lucent products and services. In this position, he was closely connected with all of Alcatel-Lucent's business divisions, interlocking their needs and strategies with Bell Labs' research activities, priorities, and innovations areas.