SDIA Green Coding Summit

Registration & Welcome Breakfast

Summit Opening & Political Greeting

Greeting by Dr. Franziska Brantner, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection (BMWK)

Keynote: The State of Green Coding in Europe

A fireside chat with Anna Zagorski (Umweltbundesamt) and Max Schulze (SDIA)

Together they discuss the environmental & political goals for the Green Coding movement and framing for our summit. Anna and Max will cover the State of Green Software, giving context, trends, and key insights as well as outlining a roadmap forward - where do we go next?

Keynote Debate: The way forward for Green Coding in Europe

Participants: Anita Schüttler (neuland), Max Körbacher (Liquid Reply), Atanas Atanasov (Intel) and Janne Kalliola (Exove)

On this panel we discuss two key questions: What are the barriers to the wider adoption of Green Coding practices and what can we do to reduce or remove those barriers?

Morning Break

Launching the Green Coding Wiki & Lessons Learned from the SoftAWERE Project

A fireside chat with Jens Gröger (Öko-Institut e.V.), Anna Zagorski (Umweltbundesamt), and Max Schulze (SDIA) announcing the Green Coding Wiki and discussing the challenges & learnings from measuring the environmental impact of software from the SoftAWERE project.

Keynote Panel: How do organizations implement Green Coding & Sustainable IT practices?

Participants: Laurie Servais (Airbus), Wiebren van der Zee (ABN Amro), Kevin Haase (LHIND)

Hear from leading organizations on how they are implementing Sustainable IT practices, Eco Design principles for their product development as well as training & capacity building in their organizations and the challenges they are facing.

Conference Lunch

Content Track 1 (Main Hall): Tools for Green Coding & Measurements, Case Studies and Inspiration from the thought-leaders of the resource-efficient software movement (see below for a detailed agenda)

Content Track 2 (Ball Room): Perspectives on Sustainable IT practices, sustainable digital infrastructure, international initiatives, the Blue Angel and the State of Academia (see below for a detailed agenda)

Networking, Evening Drinks & Canapés

Introducing the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines (Łukasz Mastalerz, Climate Arc)

From responsibility to taking action & measuring: An introduction to Cloud Carbon Footprint & Responsible Tech (Cameron Casher, ThoughtWorks)

Green Coding in the Frontend: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly (Ines Akrap, Cognizant and Chris Adams, The Green Web Foundation)

Afternoon Break

Charting sustainability in the digital sector: perspective, methodology and case studies (Gillo Alain Malpart, Mavana)

Measuring and reducing carbon emissions in hybrid data centers using Dynatrace’s Carbon Impact and Optimization solution (Isidre Royo)

Exploring the magic of the Firefox Power profiler & energy in browser environments

A Global Perspective on Sustainable Digital Infrastructure: UN Coalition for Digital Environmental Sustainability (CODES) (Marcel Dorsch, German Environmental Agency)

There is no sustainable software without sustainable infrastructure - exploring the economics of regional, green digital infrastructure (Jurg van Vliet, Aknostik & Max Schulze, SDIA)

Sustainable IT Strategies: Organizational and Operational Perspectives from the ISIT Sustainable IT Handbook (Jules Delcon, ISIT, and Simon Uyttendaele from Aenoics)

Afternoon Break

Blue Angel v2: How the eco-label of the German government is evolving to meet the needs of modern software (Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss, KDE, Jens Gröger, Öko-Institut e.V. - moderated by Anna Zagorski, German Environmental Agency)

A sneak peek into outcomes of the "Potentials of Green Coding" study (Prof. Dr. Volker Wohlgemuth, HTW Berlin)

Panel - State of Academia: What is the relevant research that has been done and what are the key questions being investigated going forward?

Registration & Welcome Refreshments

Bootcamp Labs

Lab 1: Green Coding Berlin will introduce its Green Metrics Tool, EcoCI and other methods for measuring environmental impact on the backend

First session: introducing hardware and software concepts to read energy data with further steps to convert it to CO2 metrics. Also indirect energy metrics from network and cloud services are discussed with current approaches to approximate them using linear and non-linear machine learning models.

Second session: the Green Metrics Tool and ECO-CI will be used hands-on to measure container based software as well as a standard Github/Gitlab CI/CD pipeline. The hands-on session will feature setting up these tools, generating measurements, comparing metrics and understanding typical caveats when conducting energy and CO2 measurements of software.

Lab 2: The Green Web Foundation (TGWF) will introduce open-source tools & approaches for Green Web Development

First session: introducing the ways different models for measuring carbon work, and helping developers take their first steps using an existing established open source tool, WebPageTest - which consumes the CO2.js library to provide software carbon calculations. TGWF will share how they see people using these tools in teams, and the alternatives available.

Second session: showing how tools that exist in browsers now offer direct measurement for carbon calculations, and how to use them. TGWF will show developers how to use the profiling tools now built into the open source browser Firefox - which also consumes the CO2.js library to provide these calculations.

Lab 3: Boavizta will introduce its tools for environmental impact monitoring tools & APIs and will host a special session on measuring AI models

First session: General impact assessment with Boavizt API, Scaphandre as well as Energizta and other Boavizta tools to implement general environmental impact monitoring into the operations of software applications.

Second session: For AI Developers - combining BoaviztAPI + CodeCarbon to monitor AI models' environmental impact during development and training, using Scaphandre and the nvidia_gpu_exporter for inference monitoring.

Refreshments Served

Lab 4: Anna Zagorski of the German Environmental Agency will host a Closing Workshop - Recap Green Coding & Lessons Learned

What are the learnings of the last two days? Where do we go from here? Together with Tim Winiarz and Verena Majuntke, Anna will host a World Cafe session where everyone is welcome to participate and conclude the event.

Community Gathering & Lunch

Thank you, Summit Closing