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Green IO Munich
Where Tech leaders scale sustainable IT practices, one byte at a time
Green IO Munich will gather 300+ responsible technologists from July 8-9, 2026 in Smartvillage Bogenhausen to discuss the theme of this 2nd edition: "From measuring to achieving: industrializing IT S...
July 8 to 9, 2026
Smartvillage Bogenhausen, München
20
speakers
150
Attendees
8
countries
Agenda
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Day 1: Workshop Day [Room: DANZIG]
Wednesday 8th July 2026
11:00 to 11:30WorkshopSee moreAI sustainability LIVE - the real cost of your Claude prompt.
Ever wondered what your AI usage is actually costing? We'll be showing how to measure your AI usage live-in-action & talking through what goes into making this happen. This session will deep dive into the AI-side of how to take action on reducing and avoiding wasted cost and emissions. Scalable, automated, and fast time to value. See what technology is behind companies like Mastercard, saving millions in Cloud spend and 1000+ MT of Co2.In collaboration with
11:30 to 12:00WorkshopSee moreWhere sustainability meets business architecture: the Vodafone journey
Discover how Vodafone integrates scientific-grade parametric Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) data into its IT business architecture. Powered by Resilio Database and API-driven integration, Vodafone enables real-time sustainability measurement across projects, applications, and departments. Turning environmental insights into actionable business decisions. Presentation slidesIn collaboration with
12:00 to 12:3012:30 to 13:00WorkshopSee moreA scientific approach to rightsizing in the AI era
Cloud cost and carbon are rising together in the AI era, and cloud waste is climbing again for the first time in five years, mostly idle and overprovisioned compute. Native tools flag it but rarely tell you what to fix first or at what risk. This session shows a more scientific approach: modeling real usage as states to deliver prioritized, risk-scored recommendations in euros saved and CO₂ avoided, with field results from a global insurer. Presentation slidesIn collaboration with
13:00 to 14:00Lunch Break & Networking
14:00 to 14:30WorkshopSee moreEvaluating AI use cases with the responsible AI canvas
In the workshop we will evaluate AI use cases by understanding the negative and positive impacts as well as business risks and opportunities. The goal is to get a point where we can make an informed decision if an use-case should be done with AI or not and to have a basis to lower the potential or existing negative impacts as much as possible.In collaboration with
14:30 to 15:00WorkshopSee moreFrom preaching to practice: The Digital Collage as your Trojan Horse
You know the data. You know the urgency. But getting non-technical teams or leadership to care about digital sustainability is another story. In this 25-minute session, discover how The Digital Collage, a collaborative, science-based workshop, can become your most powerful tool to bridge the gap between your expertise and your audience's understanding. Presentation slidesIn collaboration with
15:00 to 15:30WorkshopSee moreAgentic coding & sustainability on the ground - experiences of and exchange with software companies
Agentic Coding is one of the AI use cases that are currently adopted the fastest - but how do software companies deal with AI's environmental backpack and the looming threat of exploding costs? In this workshop, you'll learn from two software companies what they are doing to create the necessary observability, reduce their token consumption and increase their sovereignty from Big AI providers. The development is still in its early stages though, so we invite everyone to then discuss with us and learn from each other: how do you do it, what have you tried already and what works for you?In collaboration with
15:30 to 15:55WorkshopSee moreThe carbon cost of cloud AI in network operations — and the On-Prem SLM alternative
A median frontier prompt costs 0.24-0.34 Wh and five drops of water; a long reasoning query hits 33+ Wh. A fine-tuned 8B SLM answers the same NetOps question for ~0.025 Wh - 10-25x less - with near-zero on-site water and a LoRA fine-tune that amortizes within days. But model size only sets the theoretical footprint; utilization sets the real one. An idle on-prem GPU can waste more than a busy cloud serves. We show how five fine-tuned SLMs run deterministic network fault diagnosis on-prem, when LLM synthesis earns its place - and when the frontier API is still the greener call. Presentation slides16:00 to 16:20Coffee Break & Networking
16:20 to 16:50WorkshopSee moreAI in the context of corporate sustainability
What does an "AI first" strategy look like for the company's sustainability targets? This workshop will look at AI from a sustainability professional's perspective: what do they need to know, how big is the problem and how can they act. As a technology professional joining the workshop you will learn how to communicate with your sustainability team and support their transition. Presentation slidesIn collaboration with
16:50 to 17:20WorkshopSee moreData Center Efficiency: the greenest Data Center is the one you don't build.
Global data center expansion reflects a democratic failure before a technical one: infrastructure decisions price in technology and capital while excluding nature's limits, society's exposure, and individuals whose daily digital choices drive demand. Using Dr. André Baier's TINS_D framework and the forthcoming Climate-Aware Data Center as the Winning Data Center in 2030, this workshop equips IT leaders to embed climate risk, democratic accountability, and long-term resilience into infrastructure and investment decisions. Presentation slides17:20 to 17:45WorkshopSee moreLean UX ❤️ Sustainability: designing for people, planet, and profit
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Day 2: Conference Day [Room: TOSKANA]
Thursday 9th July 2026
09:30 to 09:45OPENING REMARKSSee moreThe DACH Mittelstand industrialised the world. Can it industrialise Green IT in the age of AI?
Austria, Switzerland, and Bavaria didn't just manufacture products — they exported a philosophy: rigour, standards, long-term thinking over short-term gain. The Mittelstand didn't scale by moving fast and breaking things. AI is now the fastest-growing source of IT environmental pressure — and the least governed. Every organisation in this room is either already deploying AI at scale or under pressure to do so. The question isn't whether to adopt it. It's whether the DACH tradition of engineering discipline can be applied to Responsible AI the same way it was applied to quality manufacturing. Presentation slides09:45 to 10:15KeynoteSee moreCircular economy for IT infrastructure: from sustainability narrative to strategic imperative
Circular Economy has outgrown its recycling and "green" reputation. Geopolitical pressure, volatile raw material markets, and disrupted supply chains are forcing a harder question: How do we keep products, components, and materials in use - and preserve the value locked inside them? For IT infrastructure and data centers, this is no longer theoretical. Hardware lifecycles, critical material dependencies, and end-of-life losses represent measurable cost and resilience risks and concrete recovery potential. But circularity doesn't scale in isolation. It requires shared infrastructure, aligned incentives, and coordinated action across the value chain. Technology and first solutions already exist - building the ecosystem is the work that starts now. Presentation slides10:15 to 10:45KeynoteSee moreGreen software: Are we on the right track?
Even when organizations are willing to set sustainability goals for their software systems, they often lack the necessary metrics and tools to measure their progress. This keynote will explore the critical gap between intention and measurement, explaining why closing it requires more than just better tools. Together, we will develop a shared vocabulary that brings leaders, developers, sustainability practitioners, and vendors together. We will answer four key questions: (1) Why are we measuring anyway? (2) What do we need to capture, and how can we do so? (3) Where are our system boundaries? and (4) Should we consider all lifecycle phases? Presentation slides10:45 to 11:15Coffee Break & Networking
11:15 to 11:40TalkSee moreSocial and sustainable IT-End-of-Life-Management in practice
How can organizations reduce the environmental and social impact of IT End-of-Life processes? This session explores how afb social & green IT turns circular IT into practice by enabling multiple lifecycles through secure data erasure, refurbishment, reuse and remarketing. Daniel Büchle (CEO afb social & green IT) and Martina Scherer (Head of Corporate Sustainability United Internet) take the audience inside their collaboration, showing how sustainability and IT operations can be meaningfully connected in practice. The session highlights how United Internet uses afb’s transparency and impact data to make sustainability performance measurable and strengthen reporting. Presentation slides11:40 to 12:05TalkSee moreMeasuring what matters: why IT efficiency is Tech sustainability's biggest win
The datacenter industry focuses on infrastructure efficiency while ignoring where 80% of energy impact actually occurs: in the IT layer. Operational data reveals the gap: facilities at 30% capacity, servers averaging 12-18% utilization, millions of machines idle yet consuming full power. This talk makes the case that IT efficiency – not building efficiency – determines true sustainability. Attendees will learn how to measure IT efficiency, what optimization opportunities emerge when you measure what others ignore, and why this creates decisive competitive advantage. Presentation slides12:05 to 12:30TalkSee moreCustomer success with GreenOps for cloud and AI - double wins for cost savings and IT sustainability. Customer showcase.
Real-world customer success stories that drive the double wins of cost reduction and hitting IT Sustainability goals. Data-driven execution of GreenOps and FinOps. Practical use cases you can use. Includes Sustainable AI - the fastest growing segment of both cost and emissions. Greenpixie provides the data and tools needed to evaluate 220 LLMs for proactive selection of model, the way it is used, and where it is run. Shift Left and Sustainability by Design. Presentation slides12:30 to 12:55TalkSee moreOn-Device AI with Microsoft foundry local – more sustainability, more privacy, less cost
The future of AI inference is moving to end devices. With powerful NPUs and solutions like Microsoft Foundry Local, on-device AI enables sustainability, privacy, and cost efficiency. This approach covers runtime environments (Windows ML, ONNX Runtime, Genie), execution units (NPU, GPU, CPU), and optimized models. Learn how to integrate LLMs locally, implement tool calling, and understand the potential and limitations of on-device AI. Presentation slides12:55 to 14:00Lunch Break & Networking
14:00 to 14:25TalkSee moreReporting won't save you: why GreenOps stalls without leadership accountability
Most organisations do not have a GreenOps knowledge problem. They have a leadership problem. When environmental impact sits outside real ownership of budgets, strategy, delivery and governance, teams get stuck measuring and reporting rather than changing anything meaningful. This talk explores why that gap matters, why it blocks the shift from reporting to optimisation to avoidance, and how to start building the accountability needed to fix it. Presentation slides14:25 to 14:50TalkSee moreDeep dive: how to measure carbon footprint of a microservice architecture
In this session I would like to provide insights on state of the art solutions on how to measure carbon footprint of a software solution. Content of the session will include: - challenges that we face as an industry that make these measurements difficult - what metrics are used - and what tools and processes are currently present in the state of the art that enable measuring and tracking carbon footprint of software applications in a microservice architecture This session will also contain a live demo how to measure and visualise the carbon footprint using two different tools. Presentation slides14:50 to 15:15TalkSee moreSustainable software – from programming to Blue Angel certification
Software has become increasingly complex, frustrating and harmful to the environment. The end of security updates for Windows 10 illustrates the phenomenon of ‘software obsolescence’, where fully functional devices become electronic waste due to changing software requirements. In response to this, the German Environment Agency developed the ‘Blue Angel’ eco-label for software – this talk introduces the world's first certification for sustainable software, which promotes long-term updates, user autonomy and transparency. Presentation slides15:15 to 15:40TalkSee moreStandardization for resource-efficient software and AI
The environmental footprint of software and AI is rising as digital services scale across cloud, edge, and data‑intensive workloads. Unlike hardware, software and AI still lack widely adopted, comparable standards for measuring and improving resource efficiency. The talk shows how shared definitions, harmonized metrics, and lifecycle‑based principles can accelerate resource‑efficient software and AI. It draws on ongoing national, European, and international standardization activities on sustainable digital technologies. The talk also explains how standardization processes work. Presentation slides15:40 to 16:05Coffee Break & Networking
16:05 to 16:30TalkSee moreIs Open Access to Information Still Open
The internet is the world’s largest dataset, giving billions of people access to accumulated human knowledge. However, access to public web data has become increasingly restricted, a trend intensified by AI’s growing need for large, unbiased datasets. Fearing costs and loss of control, website owners limit access and pursue legal action, while some major data users restrict others, creating hypocrisy and new gatekeepers. Moving forward requires ethical data collection based on fair legal frameworks, responsible technology use, and open access that serves the public interest. Presentation slides16:30 to 16:55TalkSee moreFrom Stargate to the Indigenous Arctic – tracking the planetary impact of the entire digital ecosystem
Following the AI supply chain from behind the AI data centres though to the world’s most advanced semiconductor fabs, and all the way to some of the planet’s last wildernesses; this talk will showcase exclusive insights from semi-conductor researchers, as well as voices from indigenous leaders in Northern Canada, Indonesia and other regions that are targeted for a new wave of giga-extraction. In this talk we’ll also introduce alternative approaches to technology that could bring us back into relationship without planetary constraints; we’ll explore permacomputing, we’ll bring convivial technologies into the digital era, and introduce regenerative futures for digital infrastructures. Presentation slides
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"The blossoming of tools and initiatives in greening IT is a heart-warming signal from the digital sector. More than ever sharing experience and insights is pivotal for actors to ramp-up their effort."
Gaël Duez
Green IO Founder
Why they attended our past Munich editions
It was a joy to attend Green IO Munich! As a former Green IO guest and someone who has been championing more sustainable tech since 2016, the Green IO conference series embodies everything I have been advocating for. To experience it in person – the community, the passion, the solutions, the inspiring stories of how people are working to make a difference. It embodies what I had hoped to realize in this space, what I imagined it could look like. I am so grateful to Gaël for everything he's done to foster this community
Michael J. Oghia, Partnerships Manager & Co-producer (Datacenter Changemakers)Whether a newbie or a practitioner, there's something for everyone's taste on the GreenIO menu. The GreenIO conference is a perfect opportunity to share Digital Sustainability practices in the industry and explore new solutions from amazing startups. Regardless of your company's size, you'll be inspired by both the audience and the speakers, leaving you wanting more.
Laurie Servais, Sustainable IT Officer (Airbus)About FOST
Future Of Software Technologies is a unique federation of 25+ independant, global and vendor-neutral tech conferences which regroups iconic conferences such as Green IO, apidays, Generation AI, GraphQL Day, ...
