Green Tech

Session Green Tech

DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations

Tuesday Oct 25 / 10:35AM PDT

Introducing the track, this talk will define terminology and introduce the mental models needed to make sense of sustainability as a non-functional requirement for developing and operating systems.

Speaker image - Adrian Cockcroft

Adrian Cockcroft

Technology Advisor and Consultant @OrionX.net, Previously VP Open Source and Sustainability @Amazon, Cloud Architect @Netflix, Distinguished Engineer @eBay

Session Green Tech

The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey

Tuesday Oct 25 / 11:50AM PDT

As businesses continue to evolve their operations to meet consumer demands and remain profitable, reliance on the IT sector will only grow. Today, it’s estimated that this sector contributes around 3% of global CO2 emissions, on par with the aviation industry.

Speaker image - Lisa McNally

Lisa McNally

Head of Cleantech & Sustainability @Thoughtworks

Speaker image - Marco Valtas

Marco Valtas

Technical Lead for Cleantech and Sustainability @Thoughtworks

Session Green Tech

Efficient Language and Library Use to Reduce Carbon

Tuesday Oct 25 / 01:40PM PDT

Rust is a younger systems programming language that can have small memory footprint, low CPU utilization, offer low latencies and have small application sizes.

Speaker image - Esteban Küber

Esteban Küber

Principal Software Engineer @Amazon

Session Green Tech

Tesla's Virtual Power Plant

Tuesday Oct 25 / 02:55PM PDT

The Tesla Energy Platform uses software to give control to customers and utilities when unexpected events happen, such as grid outages, severe weather events, or energy demand peaks.

Speaker image - Hector Veiga Ortiz

Hector Veiga Ortiz

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform

Speaker image - Natalie DellaMaria

Natalie DellaMaria

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform