Schedule 2025

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Schedule

Schedule 2025

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Rooms

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

Thursday, 13 Nov Friday, 14 Nov

Thursday, 13 November 2025

Time

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Community Track

08:00
Doors Open & Registration
09:00
Arne Tarara
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
Kay Makowsky
Green your Code: Oaklean’s vision for sustainable Node.js projects 🇬🇧
Kay Makowsky
Hitabis
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Arne Tarara
CarbonDB - Real Time carbon emissions mapping to heterogenous IT infrastructure 🇬🇧
Arne Tarara
Green Coding Solutions
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Hannah Herbst
Grundlagen von IT-Nachhaltigkeit 🇩🇪
Hannah Herbst
Rewion
Community Track
10:15
Moritz Bölter
Coding Smarter for a Greener Future | A comparison between Go & Java 🇬🇧
Moritz Bölter
Lufthansa Industry Solutions
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
ELISE AUVRAY
Empowering Devs to Act: Bringing Environmental Metrics into Infrastructure Decisions 🇬🇧
ELISE AUVRAY
Scaleway
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Danijel Soldo
Paint It Green – How Open Source Helps Reduce the Environmental Impact of AI 🇬🇧
Danijel Soldo
Red Hat
Community Track
10:40
Coffee Break (15 min)
10:55
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)
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)
Paloma Oliveira
Open Source as Sustainable Infrastructure: From Shared Code to Greener Compute 🇬🇧
Paloma Oliveira
Sovereign Tech Agency
Community Track
11:50
Björn Ganslandt
Fighting hardware obsolescence with greener frontend code 🇬🇧
Björn Ganslandt
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Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Dryden Williams
Rerouting the Cloud: Cutting 90% CO₂ and Cloud Costs with Smarter Workload Shifting 🇬🇧
Dryden Williams
CarbonRunner
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Philipp Kersting
Open Source im Vorteil: Zertifizierung mit dem Blauen Engel 🇩🇪
Philipp Kersting
Oktobit
Community Track
12:20
Anna Zagorski
Blauer Engel für Software - Award Ceremony - by Umweltbundesamt 🇬🇧/🇩🇪
Anna Zagorski
Umweltbundesamt
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Matthias Haymoz
Flying Blind: Why Datacenter Sustainability Needs Real Data, Not Marketing Claims 🇬🇧
Matthias Haymoz
SDEA
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
12:50
Lunch (60 min)
13:50
Robert Keus
Cas Burggraaf
How to build a sustainable AI infrastructure 🇬🇧
Robert Keus | Cas Burggraaf
GreenPT / Brthrs Agency
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
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)
Valeria Salis
From shy contributor to (kinda) confident community leader 🇬🇧
Valeria Salis
Freelance Tech Sustainability Consultant
Community Track
14:20
Martin Michalitsch
GreenWeb Showcase WienIT 🇩🇪
Martin Michalitsch
Wien IT
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Oliver Winks
Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Reduce the Impact of Website Images 🇬🇧
Oliver Winks
Cardamon
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
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
14:50
Dr. Oleksiy Kozlov
One-pedal green computing: no (workload) shifting required 🇬🇧
Dr. Oleksiy Kozlov
HITS gGmbH
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Edouard Guégain
Ecodesign in mobile development with DevGreenOps 🇬🇧
Edouard Guégain
Greenspector
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Bits & Bäume
Bits & Bäume Community Meetup - Open for Everyone ❤️ 🇬🇧/🇩🇪
Bits & Bäume
Bits & Bäume
Community Track
15:15
Longer Coffee break (30 min)
15:45
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
cat /proc/energy: Power and Carbon Awareness Made Simple 🇬🇧
Geerd-Dietger Hoffmann
Green Coding Solutions
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
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)
Julian Bothe
Data centers and their energy consumption: public opinion vs. politics 🇬🇧
Julian Bothe
AlgorithmWatch
Community Track
16:15
Marco Liess
Linux Power Management
Marco Liess
TU Munich
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Richard Kenny
Understanding Data Centre IT efficiency - The Hidden Power Source 🇬🇧
Richard Kenny
Interact DC
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Dr. Anne Mollen
Beware of green AI – or what Big Tech likes to make of it
Dr. Anne Mollen
University of Münster
Community Track
17:10
Max Weber
Green Configuration: Reducing Software Energy Consumption Through Configuration 🇬🇧
Max Weber
Leipzig University
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Anita Schüttler
Making spot instances work for sustainability 🇬🇧
Anita Schüttler
Neuland - Büro für Informatik
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
David Mahoney
Place-conscious-poetic: Grounding the Cloud 🇬🇧
David Mahoney
University of Edinburgh
Community Track
18:00
Networking & End of Program
19:00
Conference Dinner

Friday, 14 November 2025

Time

Software & Hardware (So-Ha)

Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)

Community Track

08:00
Doors Open & Registration
09:00
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)
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)
Stefan Kruijer
Let's be honest. A reality check on sustainability in digitalization 🇬🇧
Stefan Kruijer
SustyDigi
Community Track
09:55
Frank Karlitschek
Software Sustainability through Green Gates @ Nextcloud
Frank Karlitschek
Nextcloud
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Amael Parreaux-Ey
Scaling the ability to experiment with digital product eco-design 🇬🇧
Amael Parreaux-Ey
Resilio
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Sarah-Indra Jungblut
Deutschlands Rechenzentren boomen – und damit auch ihre Energieprobleme 🇩🇪
Sarah-Indra Jungblut
RESET - Digital for Good
Community Track
10:25
Josefine Kipke
Measure what you manage: Transparent Energy consumption of cloud infrastructure 🇬🇧
Josefine Kipke
Open Source Business Alliance
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
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)
10:50
Coffee Break (15 min)
11:05
Wilco Burggraaf
Built to Last: The Art of Sustainable Software Design 🇬🇧
Wilco Burggraaf
Hightech Innovators
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Aydin Mir Mohammadi
One year of the CO2-challenge – insights and lessons learned 🇬🇧
Aydin Mir Mohammadi
Bluehands
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Jo Walton
Who Owns The Future of Green AI? 🇬🇧
Jo Walton
Digital Humanities Lab / University of Sussex
Community Track
11:35
Antonia Buß
A look inside the engine room: Measuring sustainability in software systems 🇬🇧
Antonia Buß
Adesso SE
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Thomas Fricke
Datacenter Degrowth and Decentralization as a Chance for Europe 🇬🇧
Thomas Fricke
Freelance Cloud Security Architect
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
Paul Robben
Small Seeds: Software nachhaltig entwickeln & fördern 🇩🇪
Paul Robben
Prototype Fund
Community Track
12:05
Bundesverband Green Software
Bundesverband Green Software - Green Software Initiative Award 🇩🇪
Bundesverband Green Software
Bundesverband Green Software
Software & Hardware (So-Ha)
Chris Adams
Connect, not collect - making digital sustainability standards discoverable with carbon.txt 🇬🇧
Chris Adams
The Green Web Foundation
Data Centers / Infrastructure / Management (DIM)
12:35
Lunch Break (60 min)
13:35
➡️ Workshops (3h)
16:35
Networking & End of conference (2h)

Archived content

This page documents a past ecoCompute conference. It is kept online for reference and is not being updated.
The archive of all previous conferences is at Previous years. Our current venue is ecoCompute Science.

Workshops

Workshops 2025

Bits & Bäume Community Workshop / Meetup

Held by Bits & Bäume
Room: Community Space
Bits & Bäume Community Workshop / Meetup

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Bits & Bäume Community Workshop / Meetup

Blue Angel Certification - Workshop

Held by Arne Tarara
Room: Seminar Room 1 - Downstairs
A workshop to understand, the impact of digital technologies on the environment and how to reduce it.

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Blue Angel Certification - Workshop

Deep Sleep by Design - Building Linux Products that truly Sleep - Workshop

Held by Hagen Pfeifer
Room: bUm Box, Upstairs
A workshop to engineer low power linux systems to be used in mobile or embedded systems

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Deep Sleep by Design - Building Linux Products that truly Sleep - Workshop

Green Mindshift in Software Development - Workshop

Held by Prof. Dr. Verena Majuntke / Anita Schüttler
Room: Community Track Room, Downstairs
A workshop to evaluate how to integrate sustainability in software design and development processes

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Green Mindshift in Software Development - Workshop

How to start with Green AI - Workshop

Held by Florian Bartling / Philipp Dressler
Room: Seminar Room 2 - Downstairs
Discuss and evaluate hands-on sustainability and efficiency criteria of off-the-shelf AI products

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How to start with Green AI - Workshop

Innovation & Connection Café

Held by Didi Hoffmann
Room: Main Room
A workshop to connect and learn from peers to solve current engineering challenges around green software.

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Innovation & Connection Café