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"Twice a month on the Green IO podcast, Gaël DUEZ interviews great doers in the tech and sustainability arena. Here on the blog you can also find articles related to each podcast episode, plus a catalogue of all the episodes produced - a good place to start if you're looking for a specific topic. As well, Gaël and other thought leaders write every so often about green IT, Tech and digital sustainability. Feel free to comment and share, as collective intelligence is the way forward!"

GreenIO Blog - Episode 38 - Building Green Software with Sara Bergman

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Episode 38 - Building Green Software with Sara Bergman

In this episode, Sara Bergman, a seasoned software engineer and one of the acclaimed co-authors of the O’Reilly book “Building Green Software” joins Gael Duez to discuss the book, and more specifically the chapters on AI, measurements, and hardware.

By Jill TELLIER

GreenIO Blog - Green IO Singapore Conference: Navigating the Sustainable Digital Landscape

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Green IO Singapore Conference: Navigating the Sustainable Digital Landscape

Amidst a kaleidoscope of insights and use cases, the Green IO Conference illuminated pathways toward what a low-carbon digital technology could be like. From powering data centres in the face of climate change to navigating the intricate ecosystem of global corporations to push Green IT agenda, each

By Jezelei Manangan and Thibaut Meurgue-Guyard

GreenIO Blog - Green IO's Podcast Guide

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Green IO's Podcast Guide

This article is designed to help our listeners navigate the topics that Gaël discussed with our esteemed guests. We carefully categorized it to cover every aspect of our environmental landscape. From technology and business practices to lifestyle choices and global initiatives.

By Meibel Dabodabo

GreenIO Blog - Episode 37 - How to be a climate-conscious product manager

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Episode 37 - How to be a climate-conscious product manager

#37, Gaël Duez interviewed two hands-on experts in product management on how to become a climate-conscious PMs. Antonia Landi, based in Germany, is a strong voice in ProductOps, and François Burra, based in Canada, is the co-author of the Climate Product Management Playbook

By Jill TELLIER

GreenIO Blog - All the references and sources used in my conferences: past, present and ... future!

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All the references and sources used in my conferences: past, present and ... future!

In this article, I listed all the sources and the references I have used and I'm still using in my conferences. They are either in English (EN) or in French (FR). Some references are deprecated and are marked [Depr.]

By Gaël DUEZ

GreenIO Blog - Episode 36 - Climate change challenges to Data Centers in SEA

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Episode 36 - Climate change challenges to Data Centers in SEA

Based in Singapore, Poh Seng Lee is a Dean's Chair & Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at National University of Singapore. Gaël Duez and Poh Seng Lee discuss the challenges for the tech industry on how to run a sustainable data center, and more specifically how to build sustainable data

By Jill TELLIER

GreenIO Blog - Episode 35 - Cyber Security & Sustainability - Friends or foes?

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Episode 35 - Cyber Security & Sustainability - Friends or foes?

Cyber security and environmental sustainability are two hot topics, yet rarely are they discussed in tandem. Gaël Duez takes up the challenge with guests Mary Prokhorova and Michael J.Oghia, gleaning insights on the intricate relationship between the two.

By Jill TELLIER

GreenIO Blog - Episode 34 - Carbon aware computing: a false good idea?

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Episode 34 - Carbon aware computing: a false good idea?

In #34 Green IO, Hannah Smith, from the UK, the COO of the Green Web Foundation, and representing Mexico, Ismael Velasco 💡♻️🌎, the founder of the Adora Foundation, discussed with our host Gaël DueZ the Carbon Aware Computing's complexities and limitations.

By Jill TELLIER

GreenIO Blog - Episode 33 - Is open source and sustainability a perfect match?

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Episode 33 - Is open source and sustainability a perfect match?

In #33 Green IO, Gaël Duez talks to Oliver Cronk, Architect Tomorrow podcast host and Sustainable Technology practice lead at Scott Logic (UK), together with his software engineer colleague Katie Davis, who is hardwired for data and statistics and a driving force for sustainable technology practice.

By Jill TELLIER

GreenIO Blog - Episode 32 - How systemic thinking can empower sustainable design?

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Episode 32 - How systemic thinking can empower sustainable design?

In this episode, we dive deep into the world of systemic design and how it can help us increase digital sustainability. Don't miss out on insights from Sylvie Daumal (acclaimed author of 'Design d'expérience utilisateur' ) and Thorsten Jonas (founder of the SUX Network) with Gaël DUEZ

By Gaël DUEZ

February 13, 2024

GreenIO Blog - Episode 31 - Estimating IT footprint: the ABB Motion case study

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Episode 31 - Estimating IT footprint: the ABB Motion case study

In #31 Green IO, Green IT blind spot in the digital sustainability through IT footprint in a massive corporation: ABB Motion with Thomas Mosser (ABB) and Fiona Leibundgut (SparkIT Consulting) will be discussed with our host Gaël DueZ.

By Jill TELLIER

January 30, 2024

GreenIO Blog - Episode 30 - Can Digital Marketing be low-carbon?

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Episode 30 - Can Digital Marketing be low-carbon?

Green IO Episode 30 takes a look at the environmental impact of digital marketing. Two tech experts with a soft spot for sustainability join Gaël DUEZ: Diarmuid Gill, CTO at Criteo and Audrey Danthony, co-founder and Chief Product Officer at IMPACT Plus.

By Jill TELLIER

December 19, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Episode 29 - Cosmology and Technology

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Episode 29 - Cosmology and Technology

In episode 29 of the Green IO podcast, Gaël DUEZ meets up with the tech anthropologist Maxime Blondeau for a deep conversation about IT, all things digital and the effect that technical systems have on our perception of the world.

By Jill TELLIER

December 05, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Episode 28 - Rage against the AI

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Episode 28 - Rage against the AI

Episode 28 of the Green IO podcast explores the concept of data for good. Inquisitive as ever, Gaël DUEZ, our regular Green IO podcast host meets up with Lou Welgryn Welwyn and Théo Alves Da Costa from Data for Good, plus Anastasis Stamatis from Dataphoria, to find out how AI & data

By Jill TELLIER

November 21, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Episode 27 - Ayahuasca, consensus, and standards to green software

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Episode 27 - Ayahuasca, consensus, and standards to green software

Tying in with the forthcoming Green Software Foundation’s Decarbonize Software conference on Nov 16th, Gaël DUEZ, our Green IO podcast host meets up with Asim Hussain, the GSF director. In Episode #27 we hear how to negotiate the myriad of tools regarding carbon efficient software and carbon impact

By Jill TELLIER

November 07, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Episode 26 - Digital Sustainability in LATAM

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Episode 26 - Digital Sustainability in LATAM

This episode is not in Spanish or Portuguese but it might have been. With Catalina Zapata - founder of La Web Verde community in Colombia - and Ismael Velasco - founder of the Adora foundation and based in Mexico - Gaël Duez explores the momentum of Digital Sustainability in Latin America.

By Jill TELLIER

October 24, 2023

GreenIO Blog - The 100 Participants Milestone: Why I Doubled Down on the Digital Collage

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The 100 Participants Milestone: Why I Doubled Down on the Digital Collage

Have you ever experienced this mixed feeling when you realize that the idea you had was actually a very good one, but that someone else had already deployed it in a better way than you ever could?

October 19, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Episode 25 - W3C Sustainability Guidelines

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Episode 25 - W3C Sustainability Guidelines

On August 31st this year, the W3C released its first ever Sustainability Guidelines (draft version). Ines Akrape and Lukas Mastalerz, two of its core contributors, share insider insights in this episode on how it will impact the way of working for millions of web developers, designers, ops and data.

By Jill TELLIER

October 10, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Episode 24 - IT Sustainability in SaaS companies

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Episode 24 - IT Sustainability in SaaS companies

In the latest Green IO episode I (Gaël Duez) sat down with Tereze Gaile to get insights from Salesforce’s approach. Tereze is the lead author of the “Sustainability Guide for Salesforce Technology”. Together with Niklas Sundberg, author of “Sustainable IT Playbook for Technology Leaders”

By Jill TELLIER

September 27, 2023

GreenIO Blog - Why is Harari's “Sapiens” a must-read book to fight our environmental crises, starting with climate change?

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Why is Harari's “Sapiens” a must-read book to fight our environmental crises, starting with climate change?

Reading such a masterpiece requires some thought processing afterwards ????. Doing so, I tried to connect it with our challenges in the Digital Sustainability field. So, here are my 4 takeaways from Hariri’s book ???? from the point of view of a responsible technologist ????:

October 03, 2022

GreenIO Blog - The letter I would have loved to receive 6 months ago about Green IT and Web Sustainability

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The letter I would have loved to receive 6 months ago about Green IT and Web Sustainability

Last time I checked, the DeLauren still does not time travel. Too bad for making a difference in 2021. But, I will be 100% focused on helping teams build greener digital products starting February 2022. And helping executives leverage this needed change toward sustainable IT as a strategic opportuni

February 12, 2022

GreenIO Blog - The Green IO podcast : Season 1 wrap-up

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The Green IO podcast : Season 1 wrap-up

And a bit more actually. Green IO will start its second season next week after reaching 22 episodes, 34 guests and … 10K listeners

January 19, 2022

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