Abstract
Sustainability has been deemed the greatest challenge of all time for many generations, yet, we have reached any substantial progress to defeat it. This is true across many industries, including the software sector. This panel invites experts and thought leaders across industries to discuss and explore strategies to measure, reduce and prevent harmful environmental effects of software, specifically how we could accelerate net zero progress across the board.
76%
senior dev or higher
1:11
speaker ratio
60+
practitioners
QCon London 2023 is a three day conference for senior software engineers, architects and team leads. An international program committee of working engineers selects every session. Patterns and practices, not products and pitches.
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Wednesday 29 March
10:35 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session climate Can Green Software Engineering Solve the Climate Crisis? Sara Bergman Senior Software Engineer @Microsoft Software has a large carbon footprint and impacts our global commitment to keep global warming to no more than 1.5°C – as called for in the Paris Agreement. To reach this goal, emissions need to be reduced by 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050. 11:50 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session climate Why Cloud Zombies Are Destroying the Planet and How You Can Stop Them Holly Cummins Senior Technical Staff Member, Quarkus Team @IBM, Java Champion, Previously Senior Principal Software Engineer, Quarkus @Red Hat Wait, zombies? Really? Zombies are servers which aren’t doing useful work. They’re everywhere, costing money, eating electricity, and belching carbon. And they’re useless! So how do we get rid of them? 13:40 Windsor (5th Fl.) Session cloud Cloud Provider Sustainability, Current Status and Future Directions Adrian Cockcroft Former VP Amazon Sustainability Architecture @Amazon Cloud providers are large, growing rapidly, and leading sustainable development of datacenters, although their total capacity is still a small proportion of the global datacenter footprint. 14:55 Westminster (4th Fl.) Panel Panel: What’s next? Net-Zero Commitments? Holly Cummins, Sara Bergman, Adrian Cockcroft, Sarah (Chun-Wei) Hsu, Asim Hussain Sustainability has been deemed the greatest challenge of all time for many generations, yet, we have reached any substantial progress to defeat it. This is true across many industries, including the software sector. 16:10 Churchill (Ground Fl.) Session language From Runtime Efficiency to Carbon Efficiency Michal Dorko Software Engineer @GoldmanSachs Goldman Sachs’s proprietary language, Slang, is a core technology responsible for booking trades, quoting prices and analysing risk, among many other use cases. Therefore, Slang requires a lot of computing power to support GS’s Global Markets Business.