Earth Day!

Hi everyone! Join us for an exciting Earth Day themed event 🌎⚡️🌳

We'll be joined by Anne Currie and Ravi Sarkar, Enterprise CTO - Technology Strategy, Microsoft. Anne is the author of the new book from O'Reilly, "Building Green Software." Ravi will present on environmental sustainability as a Green Software Foundation Champion. We will also present updates from the CNCF Environmental Sustainability Technical Advisory Group (TAG ENV).

Attendees are encouraged to listen, ask questions, and/or participate in a lively discussion about how we as technologists can meaningfully contribute to environmental sustainability in our industry.

Hope to see you there!

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AGENDA
6:00 - 6:15 - Community Announcements
6:15 - 6:45 - Anne Currie
6:45 - 7:15 - TAG ENV updates
7:30 - 8:00 - Ravi Sarkar
8:00 - 8:30 - Social / Wrap-up

BUILDING ACCESS
Note you must bring a government-issued photo ID to be allowed in the building.

CODE OF CONDUCT
We follow the Kubernetes community Code of Conduct.

SPEAKER BIOs

Anne Currie
Anne is the community co-chair of the Green Software Foundation as well as lead of the GSF's Green Software Maturity Matrix project. In addition, she is co-author of O'Reilly's new book on the actions the tech industry needs to take to handle the energy transition, "Building Green Software".

Anne has worked in tech for over 20 years as an engineer, manager and entrepreneur doing everything from inventing desktop products to helping people buy underwear 24 hours a day. She likes to believe she can still read assembly language AND help you buy the right socks at 1 a.m.

Ravi Sarkar, Enterprise CTO - Technology Strategy, Microsoft

Ravi Sarkar is Enterprise CTO within Microsoft’s Financial Services. He leads the technology strategy & innovation, oversees the architecture and engineering of business solutions across the cloud and AI product stack for Capital Markets industry.

With over two decades of expertise in enterprise software product design, architecture and engineering as well as deep expertise in AI + data-driven systems built on cloud, Ravi is a recognized fintech leader and influencer. He frequently speaks at industry events and conferences. He actively advises early-stage startups as well as the enterprise CIO/CTO peer community in NYC. Additionally, he is a contributor and speaker for the Green Software Foundation, working actively on a mission to reduce global carbon emissions associated with software.