Sustainability Upfront – Green RE & Web Design | hybrid

1st meetup in 2024: We are very happy to announce the next meeting of the Green Software Development Community.

Last time we focused on “Cloud meets Sustainability”. This time we go bigger and have a look at the whole picture of the software development process and the direct and indirect impact on the environment.

This hybrid meetup will take place on Jan 18th, 2024 at the office of MaibornWolff GmbH at Drygalski-Allee 25, 81477 München and remote. Teams Link to be found here

*** AGENDA ***
6.30 PM | Doors open. Grab some snacks & drinks.
7.00 PM | Welcome & Intro - Start of hybrid meetup part
7.15 PM | Green Requirements in software development – How and why should you take the environment into account (Yelle Lieder, IT-Consultant, adesso SE)
Update: Talk will be remote
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Sustainable Web Design – Digital products and their impact on the environment (Claire Thornewill, Product Manager & Sustainable Web Designer, Cognizant Netcentric)
Note: This talk is unfortunately canceled due to illness
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7:45 PM | Q&A with speaker
8:15 PM | End of official part - End of hybrid meetup part

afterwards: More snacks & drinks, and a lot of time for networking with all attendees and speakers.

*** ABSTRACTS ***

Green Requirements in software development – How and why should you take the environment into account (Yelle Lieder, IT-Consultant, adesso SE)
Currently the software development process is still very much fragmented. Often project leads and product managers don’t take the whole lifecycle of their product into account.
This results in over engineered products which incorporate bloated features which sometimes neither anyone uses, nor anyone needs. But at the end of the day those features and digital products as a whole have an impact on the environment. Digital products require resources to get produced, to operate and finally disposed or recycled. In this talk Yelle Lieder will talk about the best way to avoid those pitfalls from developing the right strategy, how important it is that digital solutions solve real problems and what crucial role green requirements play in this.
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Note: This talk is unfortunately canceled due to illness
Sustainable Web Design – Digital products and their impact on the environment (Claire Thornewill, Product Manager & Sustainable Web Designer, Cognizant Netcentric)
At the moment the sustainability of digital products is often still left to IT-Experts. Even though digitalization concerns whole organizations from core and non-core departments the holistic view is often missing. That creates not only fragile business processes, but it also means environmental impact considerations are often siloed.
Taking a holistic view on the matter and understanding that digital products are at the core of extraction is important. We extract raw materials from the earth to create all our devices that run our software, which often runs on data that is extracted from people and their behaviour.
Claire will highlight in her talk that digitalization might result in efficiency gains, but not necessarily in overall decarbonization what we might know at the Jevons paradox or the rebound effect. If Digitalization & Ecological Sustainability should create any meaningful impact it is crucial that not only a small minority of IT Experts occupy that topic, it needs to be taken into account from organizations as a whole.
Note: This talk is unfortunately canceled due to illness
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Directions Description:
Please take the elevator to the 7th floor and enter the code 6161.

By public transportation:
From the main station, take the subway lines U1 and U2 to Sendlinger Tor, or the U4 and U5 to Odeonsplatz

Change to the U3 in the direction of Fürstenried West
get off at the Forstenrieder Allee stop
350 meters on foot

or by car:

Take the A96 München-Laim exit
Follow Fürstenrieder Straße, continue on Boschetsrieder Straße
Turn right onto Drygalski-Allee

We have limited parking spaces in the underground parking garage (U2/U3) - please validate your tickets at our reception.