ecoCompute Conference 2025

Schedule

Schedules

Our program. Click a talk for details.

Rooms

SOFTWARE & HARDWARE (SO-HA) ➡️ Main stage
DATA CENTERS / INFRASTRUCTURE / MANAGEMENT (DIM) ➡️ Upstairs, bUm Box
COMMUNITY TRACK ➡️ Downstairs on your left

Thursday, 25 Apr Friday, 26 Apr Thursday, 13 Nov Friday, 14 Nov

Thursday, 25 April 2024

Time

Community Track

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

Track 1

Track 2

09:30

Hagen Pfeifer

Linux Power Management Analysis for Embedded Systems 🇬🇧

Hagen Pfeifer
Rohde & Schwarz

Verena Majuntke

Where is the green in the mindset? Improving awareness for green coding in the software development process 🇬🇧

Verena Majuntke
HTW Berlin

10:15

Max Körbächer

Green Cloud Computing - From top to bottom 🇬🇧

Max Körbächer
Liquid Reply GmbH

Ludwig Kürzinger

Energy-Efficient AI and Signal Processing in Embedded Systems 🇬🇧

Ludwig Kürzinger
Ingenics Digital GmbH

11:30

Anna Zagorski

[Cancelled] Reducing hardware obsolescence through target Green IT strategies 🇬🇧

Anna Zagorski
Umweltbundesamt

Max Schulze

The Role of Values in Our Digital Future - What's important to us and how do we embed values in our digital products? 🇬🇧

Max Schulze
SDIA

13:00

Aditya Manglik

Carbon measurement and attribution for processes and hardware devices in the Linux kernel 🇬🇧

Aditya Manglik
ETH Zürich

Jochen Joswig

DevSusOps - integrate sustainability into every step of the DevOps-Cycle 🇬🇧

Jochen Joswig
MaibornWolff GmbH

13:45

Andreas Brunnert

How to measure CO2 emissions for every API call of your microservices 🇬🇧

Andreas Brunnert
RETIT GmbH

Carsten Windler

Navigating the Green Path: Plan A's Journey to Sustainable IT 🇬🇧

Carsten Windler
Plan A

14:30

Petteri Kivimäki

Evaluating the environmental footprint of X-Road 🇬🇧

Petteri Kivimäki
Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions (NIIS)

Arne Tarara

Energy saving techniques for modern cloud and on-prem software 🇬🇧

Arne Tarara
Green Coding Solutions GmbH

15:45

David Kopp

Energieeffizienz verschiedener Backend-Architekturstile: Monolith vs. Microservices 🇩🇪

David Kopp
Msc. student University of Stuttgart

Christian Binder

Carbon Aware Computing – Insights from the UBS project which created the GSF Carbon Aware SDK 🇬🇧

Christian Binder
Ex-Microsoft

16:15

Yelle Lieder

Green AI - Case-Study: Decarbonising an AI system 🇬🇧

Yelle Lieder
Adesso SE

Anita Schüttler

Real projects - real problems to solve 🇬🇧

Anita Schüttler
neuland - Büro für Informatik GmbH

Friday, 26 April 2024

Time

Community Track

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

Track 1

Track 2

09:00

Sascha Böhme

The Fast and the Frugal: Microservices at Race 🇬🇧

Sascha Böhme
QAware GmbH

David Kohnstamm

How to build truly sustainable cloud, the easy way 🇬🇧

David Kohnstamm
Leafcloud

09:45

Ghazal Aakel & Eric Jochum

Optimizing for Sustainability: Demonstrating Advanced Scanning, Energy Consumption Analysis, and AI-Driven Enhancement of IT Applications 🇬🇧

Ghazal Aakel & Eric Jochum
metafinanz Informationssysteme GmbH

Christian Berendt & Max Böttcher

Approaches for Ecological Transparency in Open Source Cloud Infrastructures 🇬🇧

Christian Berendt & Max Böttcher
Cloud&Heat Technologies

10:30

Carolin Rubner & Birthe Böhm

Sustainable Software Engineering 🇬🇧

Carolin Rubner & Birthe Böhm
Siemens AG

Moritz Bölter

Determine software emissions 🇬🇧

Moritz Bölter
Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Thursday, 13 November 2025

Time

Community Track

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

Track 1

Track 2

08:00

Doors Open & Registration

09:00

Welcome & Introduction to the conference 🇬🇧

Arne Tarara | Stefan Ullrich | Friederike Hildebrandt
Green Coding Solutions | Bits & Bäume

Software & Hardware (So-Ha) Introduction

09:20

Arne Tarara

Keynote: State of Green Digital Tech 2025 🇬🇧

Arne Tarara
Green Coding Solutions

Software & Hardware (So-Ha) Keynote - 20 min.

09:45

Hannah Herbst

Grundlagen von IT-Nachhaltigkeit 🇩🇪

Hannah Herbst
Rewion

Community Track

Arne Tarara

CarbonDB - Real Time carbon emissions mapping to heterogenous IT infrastructure 🇬🇧

Arne Tarara
Green Coding Solutions

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Kay Makowsky

Green your Code: Oaklean’s vision for sustainable Node.js projects 🇬🇧

Kay Makowsky
Hitabis

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

10:15

Danijel Soldo

Paint It Green – How Open Source Helps Reduce the Environmental Impact of AI 🇬🇧

Danijel Soldo
Red Hat

Community Track

ELISE AUVRAY

Empowering Devs to Act: Bringing Environmental Metrics into Infrastructure Decisions 🇬🇧

ELISE AUVRAY
Scaleway

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Moritz Bölter

Coding Smarter for a Greener Future | A comparison between Go & Java 🇬🇧

Moritz Bölter
Lufthansa Industry Solutions

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

10:40

Coffee Break (15 min)

10:55

Paloma Oliveira

Open Source as Sustainable Infrastructure: From Shared Code to Greener Compute 🇬🇧

Paloma Oliveira
Sovereign Tech Agency

Community Track

Holger Smolinski

Jens Gröger

Methods to determine the environmental footprint of software – on the way to standardisation 🇬🇧

Holger Smolinski | Jens Gröger
Bosch | Öko-Institut

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

David Kopp

Jan Kirchner

Green Frontend - Measuring and understanding the environmental impact of web applications 🇬🇧

David Kopp | Jan Kirchner
envite consulting

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

11:50

Philipp Kersting

Open Source im Vorteil: Zertifizierung mit dem Blauen Engel 🇩🇪

Philipp Kersting
Oktobit

Community Track

Dryden Williams

Rerouting the Cloud: Cutting 90% CO₂ and Cloud Costs with Smarter Workload Shifting 🇬🇧

Dryden Williams
CarbonRunner

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Björn Ganslandt

Fighting hardware obsolescence with greener frontend code 🇬🇧

Björn Ganslandt
-

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

12:20

Matthias Haymoz

Flying Blind: Why Datacenter Sustainability Needs Real Data, Not Marketing Claims 🇬🇧

Matthias Haymoz
SDEA

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Anna Zagorski

Blauer Engel für Software - Award Ceremony - by Umweltbundesamt 🇬🇧/🇩🇪

Anna Zagorski
Umweltbundesamt

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

12:50

Lunch (60 min)

13:50

Valeria Salis

From shy contributor to (kinda) confident community leader 🇬🇧

Valeria Salis
Freelance Tech Sustainability Consultant

Community Track

Rainer Karcher

Prof. Dr. Henning Klaffke

The "missing middle" of green IT: Why twin transformation fails without skills development 🇬🇧

Rainer Karcher | Prof. Dr. Henning Klaffke
Heartprint | Berufliche Hochschule Hamburg

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Robert Keus

Cas Burggraaf

How to build a sustainable AI infrastructure 🇬🇧

Robert Keus | Cas Burggraaf
GreenPT / Brthrs Agency

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

14:20

Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss

Bettina Louis

Carolina Silva Rodé

End Of 10”: How the FOSS Community is Combatting Software-Driven Resource and Energy Consumption 🇬🇧

Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss | Bettina Louis | Carolina Silva Rodé
KDE Eco | End of 10 Team

Community Track

Oliver Winks

Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Reduce the Impact of Website Images 🇬🇧

Oliver Winks
Cardamon

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Martin Michalitsch

GreenWeb Showcase WienIT 🇩🇪

Martin Michalitsch
Wien IT

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

14:50

Bits & Bäume

Bits & Bäume Community Meetup - Open for Everyone ❤️ 🇬🇧/🇩🇪

Bits & Bäume
Bits & Bäume

Community Track

Edouard Guégain

Ecodesign in mobile development with DevGreenOps 🇬🇧

Edouard Guégain
Greenspector

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Dr. Oleksiy Kozlov

One-pedal green computing: no (workload) shifting required 🇬🇧

Dr. Oleksiy Kozlov
HITS gGmbH

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

15:15

Longer Coffee break (30 min)

15:45

Julian Bothe

Data centers and their energy consumption: public opinion vs. politics 🇬🇧

Julian Bothe
AlgorithmWatch

Community Track

Marvin Hötger

Olaf Quade

Sustainable hosting & data center insights: experiences & challenges of a web hoster 🇬🇧🇩🇪

Marvin Hötger | Olaf Quade
Mittwald

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann

cat /proc/energy: Power and Carbon Awareness Made Simple 🇬🇧

Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Green Coding Solutions

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

16:15

Dr. Anne Mollen

Beware of green AI – or what Big Tech likes to make of it

Dr. Anne Mollen
University of Münster

Community Track

Richard Kenny

Understanding Data Centre IT efficiency - The Hidden Power Source 🇬🇧

Richard Kenny
Interact DC

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Marco Liess

Linux Power Management

Marco Liess
TU Munich

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

17:10

David Mahoney

Place-conscious-poetic: Grounding the Cloud 🇬🇧

David Mahoney
University of Edinburgh

Community Track

Anita Schüttler

Making spot instances work for sustainability 🇬🇧

Anita Schüttler
Neuland - Büro für Informatik

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Max Weber

Green Configuration: Reducing Software Energy Consumption Through Configuration 🇬🇧

Max Weber
Leipzig University

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

18:00

Networking & End of Program

19:00

➡️ Conference Dinner

Friday, 14 November 2025

Time

Community Track

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

Track 1

Track 2

08:00

Doors Open & Registration

09:00

Stefan Kruijer

Let's be honest. A reality check on sustainability in digitalization 🇬🇧

Stefan Kruijer
SustyDigi

Community Track

From Carbon Footprint to Cost Savings: Sustainable Optimization of AI Systems with GAISSA-Optimizer 🇬🇧

Joel Castaño Fernández, Alexandra González Álvarez, Violeta Bonet Vila
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Prof. Dr. Andreas Brunnert

How accurate are current tools and models for estimating software energy consumption? 🇬🇧

Prof. Dr. Andreas Brunnert
RETIT GmbH / Hochschule München

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

09:55

Sarah-Indra Jungblut

Deutschlands Rechenzentren boomen – und damit auch ihre Energieprobleme 🇩🇪

Sarah-Indra Jungblut
RESET - Digital for Good

Community Track

Amael Parreaux-Ey

Scaling the ability to experiment with digital product eco-design 🇬🇧

Amael Parreaux-Ey
Resilio

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Frank Karlitschek

Software Sustainability through Green Gates @ Nextcloud

Frank Karlitschek
Nextcloud

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

10:25

Prof. Dr. Anne Schwerk

XAI: Fairness, Robustness, and Sustainability 🇬🇧

Prof. Dr. Anne Schwerk
IU International University of Applied Sciences / Accenture

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Josefine Kipke

Measure what you manage: Transparent Energy consumption of cloud infrastructure 🇬🇧

Josefine Kipke
Open Source Business Alliance

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

10:50

Coffee Break (15 min)

11:05

Jo Walton

Who Owns The Future of Green AI? 🇬🇧

Jo Walton
Digital Humanities Lab / University of Sussex

Community Track

Aydin Mir Mohammadi

One year of the CO2-challenge – insights and lessons learned 🇬🇧

Aydin Mir Mohammadi
Bluehands

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Wilco Burggraaf

Built to Last: The Art of Sustainable Software Design 🇬🇧

Wilco Burggraaf
Hightech Innovators

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

11:35

Paul Robben

Small Seeds: Software nachhaltig entwickeln & fördern 🇩🇪

Paul Robben
Prototype Fund

Community Track

Thomas Fricke

Datacenter Degrowth and Decentralization as a Chance for Europe 🇬🇧

Thomas Fricke
Freelance Cloud Security Architect

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Antonia Buß

A look inside the engine room: Measuring sustainability in software systems 🇬🇧

Antonia Buß
Adesso SE

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

12:05

Chris Adams

Connect, not collect - making digital sustainability standards discoverable with carbon.txt 🇬🇧

Chris Adams
The Green Web Foundation

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Bundesverband Green Software

Bundesverband Green Software - Green Software Initiative Award 🇩🇪

Bundesverband Green Software
Bundesverband Green Software

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

12:35

Lunch Break (60 min)

13:35

➡️ Workshops (3h)

16:35

Networking & End of conference (2h)