🌱 Cloud Native Sustainability Month 2026 - Barcelona Edition 🌱
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This year we are co-organizing with our friends at Cloud Native Barcelona the fourth edition of Cloud Native Sustainability Month 🌱
CNCF Sustainability Month is an annual event organized by the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Community Group. The event's primary goal is to promote environmental sustainability in the cloud native industry and open-source space. Find out more in this post.
🎙️ Call for Speakers (Open until October 26th)
We do not have a set roster yet because we want to hear from YOU!
We are looking for community members to give a 10-min Lightning Talk (LT) at CNCF Sustainability Month Barcelona 2026.
You can share:
- A new idea or experiment
- A challenge or lesson learned
- A topic you'd like to spark discussion around
No finished project is required — new ideas and open questions are welcome!
👉 Submit your proposal here: https://bit.ly/cnsm-bcn
Have questions or want to bounce an idea before submitting? Drop the organizers a note at hello@cloudnative.barcelona or ping us on the CNCF Slack (#cncf-barcelona-org).
📅 Agenda
- 18:30-18:45. Doors Open.
- 18:45-19:45. Community Talks (Lineup announced soon!)
- 19:45-20:30. Mingling and food.
🗣️ Talks
1️⃣ Make Software part of the Solution
🎙️ Thibault Schnellbach, Consulting and QA Lead at Schwarz Digits Spain
An introduction to the Green Software Foundation learning and SCI Self-Certification.
2️⃣ Monitoring Power at Planet Scale with Kepler
🎙️Niki Manoledaki, Staff Software Engineer at Grafana Labs
Kepler is a CNCF Sandbox project that monitors power usage and attributes it to Pods and other resources in Kubernetes clusters. Adoption is growing: leading Linux Foundation Project Sylva telco carriers use it to optimize CNFs on bare metal, and CERN uses it to reduce the environmental impact of their MLOps against their sustainability KPIs. Yet while Kepler took a step forward in accuracy during the rewrite, we had to take a big step backward for the virtual machine use case, since we lost the trained model server (hint: we're solving this). What challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the project?
3️⃣ Optimize AI Workflows to Save Energy
🎙️ Obaid ur Rehman, CEO at CapInDev Technologies
Obaid will share how they optimize workflows and AI usage to reduce consumption, which affects energy usage and the environment.
📍Location:
c/ Bergara 13, Barcelona | https://maps.app.goo.gl/zd6h3BGzHNxgAgjT6
Huge thanks to Schwarz Digits Spain for hosting us again! 💚
