Green Tech

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.


From this track

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.

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Lisa McNally

Head of Cleantech & Sustainability @Thoughtworks

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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.

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Hector Veiga Ortiz

Staff Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform

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Natalie DellaMaria

Senior Distributed Systems Engineer @Tesla Energy Cloud Platform

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Panel: DevSusOps

Tuesday Oct 25 / 04:10PM PDT

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.

Speaker image - Marco Valtas

Marco Valtas

Technical Lead for Cleantech and Sustainability @Thoughtworks

Speaker image - Esteban Küber

Esteban Küber

Principal Software Engineer @Amazon

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Unconference: Green Tech

Tuesday Oct 25 / 05:25PM PDT

What is an unconference? At QCon SF, we’ll have unconferences in most of our tracks.

Speaker image - Shane Hastie

Shane Hastie

Global Delivery Lead for SoftEd and Lead Editor for Culture & Methods at InfoQ.com

Track Host

Adrian Cockcroft

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

Adrian Cockcroft is a technologist and strategist with broad experience from the bits to the boardroom, in both enterprise and consumer-oriented businesses, from startups to some of the largest companies in the world, equally at home with hardware and software, development and operations. He’s best known as the cloud architect for Netflix during their trailblazing migration to AWS and was a very early practitioner and advocate of DevOps, microservices, and chaos engineering, helping bring these concepts to the wider audience they have today. 

Adrian spent the last few years as a VP at Amazon deeply immersed in the dual challenges of helping Amazon itself – one of the largest companies in the world – become more sustainable, and via AWS – one of the largest technology suppliers in the world – helping its enterprise and public sector customers become more sustainable. 

Adrian has a BSc in Applied Physics and Electronics from The City University, London, UK. He’s a frequent speaker and has keynoted many events for AWS including many of the AWS Global Summit series, and has presented at many events such as the Monitorama, GOTO, YOW, QCon and DevOps Days conferences. He’s held past advisory positions at the following companies (acquired by): DeepDyve, Liquid Robotics (Boeing), Apcera (Ericsson), Ayla Networks, NGINX (F5), Docker, Instana (IBM), and Gremlin. He currently advises Nubank, Netai.ai, and a few stealth startups. 

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