Track host
About the track
The private sector is increasingly investing in green technologies and sustainability. With large infrastructure providers such as Amazon and Google pursuing aggressive sustainability goals, startups providing tools to measure carbon emissions, innovation in clean energy and transportation, and much more, we see technology play an increasingly large role in combating climate change.
In this track, we explore how companies are contributing to sustainability. Key areas of focus include measuring carbon footprint, decarbonizing the products we produce, and how we as software engineers can reduce the overall climate impact of the things we build. Finally, this track looks ahead to how technology can create a better future for the generations to follow.
Sessions in this track
Tuesday 25 October. 6 sessions per track, chosen and introduced by the Track Host.
10:35 Bayview Session Green Tech DevSusOps - Bringing Sustainability Concerns to Development and Operations Adrian Cockcroft Technology Advisor and Consultant @OrionX.net, Previously VP Open Source and Sustainability @Amazon, Cloud Architect @Netflix, Distinguished Engineer @eBay 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. 11:50 Bayview Session Green Tech The Zen of Green Software: Finding Balance in the Sustainable Growth Journey Lisa McNally, Marco Valtas 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. 13:40 Pacific LM Session Green Tech Efficient Language and Library Use to Reduce Carbon Esteban Küber Principal Software Engineer @Amazon Rust is a younger systems programming language that can have small memory footprint, low CPU utilization, offer low latencies and have small application sizes. 14:55 Ballroom A Session Green Tech Tesla's Virtual Power Plant Hector Veiga Ortiz, Natalie DellaMaria 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. 16:10 Seacliff ABC Session Panel: DevSusOps Marco Valtas, Esteban Küber Many have called sustainability the challenge of our lifetime. The DevSusOps Panel pulls together expert practitioners at the very forefront of sustainability thought leadership for a practical conversation about what's happening in the space today. 17:25 Seacliff D Session Unconference: Green Tech Shane Hastie Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.QCon San Francisco 2022 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.