Ottawa Green Software Foundation Meetup (Hybrid Event) - Feb 2024

This is the 3rd Green Software Foundation meetup in Ottawa. The event will be hybrid (in-person or online).

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

9:00am - Welcome and What's New in Green Software - Marc-Andre Groulx, Customer Success Account Manager at Microsoft Canada

9:15am - 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.

10:00am - Driving the Government of Canada’s Information Technology towards a measurable, low-carbon, circular future - David Alloggia, Senior Environmental Policy Analyst

A discussion of the environmental impact of the Government of Canada’s purchase of IT hardware, software, and services, as well as updates on several ongoing projects to quantify and standardize monitoring of IT’s GHG emissions, and possible policy steps to reduce it.

10:45am - Close and networking