Name: Montreal - Green Software Foundation Meetup - Hybrid
Start: 2023-10-04T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-10-04T20:00:00-04:00

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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/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](https://www.alexcustodio.com/about), 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**

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