🌏 Planet Earth as Our Stakeholder | Navigating Cloud Sustainability

📣 Welcome to the 2nd edition of the Sustainable IT Netherlands Meetup, where passion for technology converges with a shared commitment to sustainability.

Join us on April 3rd for an evening of inspiration, insights, and actionable strategies as we explore the intersection of IT and environmental responsibility!

18:00 - Welcome, network & Pizza
18:20 - Short introduction
18:30 - Navigating Cloud Sustainability: Insights and Strategies - Michiel Hamers and Twan Koot
19:00 - Planet Earth as Our Stakeholder - Marjolein Pilon
20:00 - Drinks & networking

🌱 Planet Earth as Our Stakeholder – Mini workshop
Speaker: Marjolein Pilon – Scrum Master @Alliander

Summary
What would you do differently if you would see Planet Earth as your stakeholder?
This is a mini-workshop for Agile and IT professionals about the climate impact of IT, and how you can help your teams reduce CO2 emissions from their application landscape.
What can you expect from this mini-workshop?

• You learn to look at your team and organization through the sustainability lens.
• You will find inspiration and ideas to help your team reduce their (IT) climate impact.
• At the end of the mini-workshop you will have formulated your first concrete steps to get started.

🌿 Navigating Cloud Sustainability: Insights and Strategies
Speakers: Michiel Hamers - Microsoft (Azure) Cloud solution Lead & Codesmith @ Ordina | Twan Koot -Principal Expert Microsoft Azure & Codesmith @ Ordina

Summary
Explore the latest developments in cloud sustainability and how they impact environmental responsibility and cost efficiency. This session delves into the broader landscape of cloud optimization, emphasizing the role of carbon footprint insights in guiding eco-friendly cloud operations:

• Understand the significance of cloud sustainability in today's tech landscape.
• Explore tools and methodologies for assessing and optimizing cloud carbon footprints.
• Implement strategies for integrating sustainability into cloud operations for cost savings and environmental impact reduction.

Important!
🏢 In order to make sure we can arrange access for everyone, we need to present reception desk in advance an attendee list with everyone’s full names. That is why we need to ask you the following:
If you do not use your real first and surname as profile name at Meetup, could you send us your full name in a private message? The attendee list presented to Ordina will only be used at the reception and will not be published anywhere, we only do this to comply with safety measures.

🔎 Looking forward seeing you there!

Corina Milosoiu, Chris Stapper, Dominick Viëtor and Kitty van Leeuwen