Rebooting the green software agenda for Scotland

Green Software Foundation (GSF) Scotland welcomes you to this new series of events to kickstart a new era for the Scottish community.

We welcome all green software, Green IT, digital sustainability and sustainability practitioners, enthusiasts and advocates.

This event will be hosted by your new Co-Leads of GSF Scotland: Joanna Masraff and Sathpal Singh.

The proposed current agenda for this event is:

- Welcome
- An Introduction and reintroduce from GSF Scotland. Who are we and what are our aims and ambitions.
- A little more about Green Software Foundation from our special guest, Gosia Fricze, Community Manager at GSF.
- Lightning talk from guest speaker, Wilco Burggraaf, internationally renowned Green Software Champion and Practitioner.
- An interactive exploration of how we best serve the community. What would you like to see from us? [More on format closer to the event]
- Q&A segment
- Close

Here's a little more about your hosts and guest speakers:

Joanna Masraff:

Founder & Chief Product Officer at Green PO.
Jo is an Agile and Sustainability Coach with over 20 years in tech. Jo is a Conference organiser, an International speaker, and Co-organiser of Meetup and LinkedIn group Agilists4Sustainability. Certifications in Systems &Life Coaching, Certified Scrum Master, United Nations Digital4Sustainability, Green Software for Practitioners, Sustainable Design & Regenerative Change.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joanna-masraff/

Sathpal Singh:

Chief Value Officer & Advisor at Green PO, strategist, trainer, and community builder.

Sath has a 25+ year journey in the tech industry. He operates at the intersection of software, product development, agile practices and community development. With a strategic focus, he loves to solve customers’ problems. Alongside his role at Green PO, Sath is also the Chair of the British Computer Society’s Agile Methods group, Organiser of the Future of Work Scotland meetup, an international keynote speaker and Professional Kanban Trainer with Prokanban.org.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/

Wilco Burggraaf:

Wilco Burggraaf helps teams measure and reduce the environmental impact of software and infrastructure. He turns metrics into actionable choices in architecture, CI/CD, and product decisions, advocating an evidence-first approach that links energy use, carbon intensity, and efficiency to concrete engineering outcomes.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wilco-burggraaf-a6b15517/

Gosia Fricze:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gosia-fricze-23362070/