Sustainable IT Action NL: Sustainable AI
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📣 Welcome to our second meetup in 2026! Missed last meetup? Then its important you know that the Green Software Foundation and Sustainable IT Netherlands meetups, merged into one: Sustainable IT Action NL!
Our mission is still to build connections around sustainable IT, exchanging ideas in a space for learning - and from there inspiring our members to take action.
🌿 We’re excited to gather peers who care about green, efficient, and responsible cloud practices on April 23rd, kindly hosted by GreenPT in Utrecht.
⏳ Time schedule
17:30 – 18:00 Welcome
18:00 – 18:30 Vegetarian bites & networking
18:30 – 18:45 Kick-off & community introductions
18:45 – 19:15 Measuring the environmental impact of Google's AI - interactive explainer – Ozan Ogreden
19:15 – 19:45 Maryse Meinen– Holistic Digital Sustainability
19:45 – 20:00 Pitches
20:00 – 20:45 Drinks & networking
📍 📍 Location:
Plompetorengracht 4, Utrecht.
GreenPT
❗ Capacity is limited to 50 participants, so please register early.
✏️ Title: Measuring the environmental impact of Google's AI - interactive explainer
💡 Speaker: Ozan Ogreden
🍃 Abstract:
I built an "interactive explainer" that reproduces Google's methodology from Elsworth et al. (Measuring the environmental impact of delivering AI at Google Scale, Aug 2025, https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15734).
I'd like to share the explainer and my observations with the community. What stands out to me is a striking analytical (or rhetorical?) choice by Google team, which seems to be leading to a downward bias in headline-reported figures of their work.
With the community, I'd like to attempt at two goals. One of them is a "narrow-minded goal", trying to find a charitable interpretation of what may have motivated Google's choices (specifically in the discussion related to measuring environmental impact of LLMs). The second is a goal with a more important perspective: Given our discussion, what's the best use of our time to move the needle in sustainable IT?
Ozan works at GreenPT:
GreenPT is a GPT-powered chat platform, and robust API, trusted by governments, businesses, privacy-focused organizations, and developers. Running on renewable energy and hosted in Europe for strict data protection, GreenPT gives you and your team the answers you need with a clear conscience and total transparency.
✏️ Title: Holistic Digital Sustainability
💡 Speaker: Maryse Meinen
🍃 Abstract:
Less is More! This interactive session brings you inspiration and practical tips for embedding more sustainability all throughout your digital Product Development Cycle! Of interest for any role in the whole cycle of our process, from Product Owner to Agile coach and from business analist to tester!
📖 About the speaker:
Maryse works at the Rabobank improving our way of working and inspiring people to embed more sustainability in how we do Product Development. She is also a Stoic Practitioner.
🎤 Pitches
Our goal is connect people around Sustainable IT. In order to build more connections, we would like to offer the stage to everyone who wants to share something. We will timebox each pitch on 2 minutes exactly!
Please note that this session is intended as a community gathering, so commercial pitches are to be avoided :)
🔎 Looking forward to seeing you there!
👥 Organizing team
Tim van Bergenhenegouwen, Nick Batenburg (GreenPT, host)
Wilco Burggraaf, Chris Stapper, Corina Milosoiu, Sabrina Hsieh (Sustainable IT Action NL)
