Montreal - Green Software Foundation Meetup - Hybrid

The event is being hosted by the Independent Video Game Design program at Dawson College -- it will be the first Green Software Foundation meetup in Montreal. We'll have insightful talks on the Principles of Sustainable Green Software as well Low-Carbon Game Design.

Don't miss out on this opportunity to learn, connect, and engage; mark your calendars and prepare for an exciting evening of discussions, and connections!

The event will be hybrid. The hybrid link will be made available in the Green Software - Canada (https://www.meetup.com/gsf-canada/) page.

Join in person at Dawson College, 4001 Maisonneuve Blvd W, Room 5B.16

5:30pm - Welcome and networking - Marc-Andre Groulx, Customer Success Account Manager, Microsoft

6:15pm - Principles of Green Software Engineering - Marc-Andre Groulx, Customer Success Account Manager, Microsoft and Janna Frenzel, Researcher, Concordia University.

The Principles of Sustainable Green Software Engineering are a core set of competencies needed to define, build and run green software applications.

7:00pm - Greening the Game Boy: Low-Carbon Game Design for Solar Powered Platforms - Alex Custodio, Researcher, Concordia University.

This presentation addresses the social, technical, and ecological protocols embedded within residual videogame platforms. Drawing on work conducted with the Solar Media Collective at Concordia University, it discusses how eco-critical modding practices have emerged in riposte to the regime of planned obsolescence and looks at how low-carbon game design for energy efficient hardware intersects with larger conversations around greener software practices.

7:45pm - Close and networking - Marc-Andre Groulx, Customer Success Account Manager, Microsoft