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Green IO New York
Where Tech Leaders Unite to Navigate AI's Role in Sustainability—and Its Contradictions
Green IO New York will gather 300+ responsible technologists on May 13 and 14 to confront a defining question of our time: "AI as a Controversial Force for Sustainability" With New York's groundbrea...
May 13 to 14, 2026
Convene 360 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10017
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250+
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Agenda
The agenda is now live! You can view it below or check the digital version of our booklet here.
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Day 1: Workshop Day [Room: Johnson Studio]
Wednesday 13th May 2026
10:20 to 10:45WorkshopSee moreWhere are Responsible Technologists? A Live Ecosystem Mapping Session!
In collaboration with
10:45 to 11:00Coffee Break & Networking
11:00 to 11:25WorkshopSee moreBattle of AI: This isn't a talk. You're playing.
Battle of AI is a live decision-making experience where teams debate the real trade-offs behind AI adoption - including the one this audience cares most about: is the environmental cost worth it? You will argue, negotiate, and probably disagree. That's the point. Most organizations are rushing into AI deployment without ever having that conversation out loud, as a leadership team. For 20 minutes, you're not in the audience. You're inside the game.In collaboration with
11:30 to 11:55WorkshopSee moreAI sustainability LIVE - what's 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
12:00 to 12:25WorkshopSee morePractical Tips for Web Sustainability
The Web Sustainability Guidelines is a set of guidelines that offer an approach to design, developing, and operating digital products and services that lead to a web that is clean, efficient, open, and honest. This workshop will offer practical tips to implementing the guidelines for people in different roles, including UX, Web Development, Hosting, and Product.In collaboration with
12:30 to 12:55WorkshopSee moreMapping the Unmapped: Linking AI, People, and Planetary Regeneration
What relationships between the future of AI and regenerative planetary ecosystems are we missing — and what becomes possible when we see them? In this 25-minute collaborative workshop, participants map the unlinked connections between AI and planetary well-being — drawing directly from the IEEE Planet Positive 2030 Global Methodologies framework. Through silent individual generation, shared canvas-building, and a collective vote on what matters most, the group produces a single artifact no participant could have created alone. Bring your insight and perspective. Leave with a map of collective intelligence in-action. This workshop transforms that barrier into action. Grounded in the IEEE.org Planet Positive 2030 Global Methodologies framework — which identifies "Lack of Linking and Mapping" as a key systemic barrier — this 25-minute participatory mini-workshop invites conference attendees to practice the linking and mapping in real time. Participants leave with an adaptable methodology for collective collaboration, replicable across sectors and cultures.In collaboration with
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Day 2: Conference Day [Room: French Forum 3]
Thursday 14th May 2026
09:00 to 09:25OPENING REMARKSSee moreDenial at scale: an AI success story
Generative AI is the fastest-adopted enterprise technology in history. Boards demand it, capex flows to it, earnings calls celebrate it. Job done — let's call it a win and move on. But should we? In this opening of Green IO New York 2026, I'll share why the most underrated AI success story of our time might be denial — deployed at unprecedented scale.09:30 to 09:55TalkSee moreAI Data Centers and the 21st Century Sacrifice Zone
Sacrifice zone is a term from the US environmental justice movement, but the framework is useful for understanding the societal impact of AI data centers. While in the 20th century sacrifice zones were based on poverty and redlining, AI data centers’ unique infrastructure requirements are completely shifting the character and reality of sacrifice zones in the 21st century. This talk will discuss how this shift is playing out locally in the US, and consider the global implications of US companies exporting this social architecture to countries across the world.10:00 to 10:25TalkSee moreData Centers and Environmental Injustice
Data centers are now competing with humans for land, power, and water. Despite the huge resource consumption of this industry, data center developers and operators have made a concerted effort to obfuscate the impacts on communities. In this talk, I will highlight what is known and what remains unknown about data center impacts on communities, on the environment, and on our climate.10:30 to 10:55TalkSee moreCustomer Success with GreenOps for Cloud and AI - Double wins for cost savings and IT Sustainability.
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. Anglepoint will share the ABB program for IT sustainability across data centres, devices, and Cloud. An update on Mastercard and NTT Data progress since last year in New York.11:00 to 11:20Coffee Break & Networking
11:20 to 11:45TalkSee moreBuilding Community-Integrated AI Data Centers
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and computing technologies relies on physical foundations—gigawatt-scale data centers. Alongside their societal benefits, these facilities can have tangible community impacts, including pressure on local power grids, municipal water systems, and public health. This talk explores how community-centered metrics can be directly integrated into data center design and operations to better support the well-being of host communities.11:50 to 12:15TalkSee moreGrid-Adaptive Compute Scheduling: A Renewable-Aware AI Load Orchestration Framework
As AI compute demand surges and grid infrastructure strains under the load, the energy cost of intelligence has become impossible to ignore. This talk presents AI-driven load management model, which dynamically schedules compute workloads — from data center operations to distributed GPU clusters — against real-time renewable penetration signals. Drawing on deployment data from 100+ communities and 10,000+ households, we demonstrate how temporal shifting of energy-intensive tasks can reduce peak fossil-fuel draw by 10–30%, while enabling greater solar intermittency absorption.12:20 to 12:45TalkSee more“Wait! What?” When the Sustainability Team Starts to Measure the Emissions of Using AI Cloud Apps
Many organizations that pay to use AI apps in the cloud are starting to realize that their usage drives carbon emissions. If their sustainability teams try to measure that impact, they hit four key problems. They don’t know the steps, the carbon reporting tools don’t either–and also can’t measure app usage, and cloud app vendors don’t share necessary data. This talk will explore approaches and pitfalls on the journey to making green AI mainstream by creating customer demand for transparency.12:50 to 13:15TalkSee moreKepler in Retrograde: From Bare Metal to Cloud
Kepler is a CNCF open source tool used to monitor energy in large scale Kubernetes clusters. Adoption is growing: it is used to optimize edge infrastructure for Europe's biggest telco carriers. It is also used in the AI infrastructure that analyzes data from CERN's particle accelerator. Kepler took a step forward in portability and accuracy, moving closer to GHG Protocol alignment, yet took a step backward for virtual machines, which cloud workloads typically use. What challenges and opportunities lie ahead for the project?13:20 to 14:10Lunch Break & Networking
14:10 to 14:35TalkSee moreFrom Research to Action: Operationalizing AI Sustainability
Progress is being made across the AI stack to reduce environmental impacts, yet much of this work remains siloed in academia, rarely reaching the decision-makers who need it most. This session explores how to bridge that gap. Dr. Sasha Luccioni, a leading researcher on AI’s environmental footprint, joins Boris Gamazaychikov, who has worked to operationalize AI sustainability, to discuss translating research into actionable insights and tools. Through case studies, they will demonstrate how cutting-edge research is being turned into practical action to drive AI sustainability.14:40 to 15:05TalkSee moreGAMING: Benchmarking Sustainable LLM Deployment on Edge Devices
Large Language Models (LLMs) deliver strong capabilities but require substantial energy for inference, raising concerns about efficiency and sustainability, especially on edge devices. We present GAMING, an energy-aware framework for benchmarking edge-based LLM inference through data, inference, and deployment pipelines. Evaluated across NVIDIA and Intel-based platforms with nine quantized LLMs, GAMING measures latency, throughput, resource use, energy consumption, and CO2 emissions.15:10 to 15:35TalkSee moreBeyond Cold Starts: Carbon Observability and WebAssembly's Role in Sustainable Serverless
Serverless promises greener infrastructure through multi-tenant, scale-to-zero execution, but two challenges undermine this: cold-start latency and carbon visibility. WebAssembly largely solves cold starts with sub-millisecond initialization, reducing over-provisioning. However, the deeper challenge is visibility. Platforms track and bill for CPU and memory usage but ignore other shared resources that determine platform-wide provisioning. This talk explores why attributing the carbon cost of a function is difficult, and what approaches better align developer behavior with sustainability goals.15:40 to 16:05TalkSee moreSustainable Architectures and Responsible AI - "Redesigning the digital blueprint for a resource-constrained future"
In an era where unchecked digital expansion and the computational intensity of AI threaten global resources, this session outlines a necessary paradigm shift, redesigning the digital footprint for a resource-constrained future. By establishing Enterprise Architecture as the "ESG Front Door," organizations can move beyond legacy drivers like speed and scale toward a "Dual Mandate" that takes into account financial costs and carbon emissions liability. The presentation introduces a Responsible Technology Framework and a practical Architect’s Toolkit—including cascading ESG through the architecture stack and the Sustainability Seven R’s and the Carbon-Aware TIME matrix. Ultimately, the session advocates for a global mission to build standardized architectural patterns that transform digital blueprints into a Responsibly Green IT reality.16:10 to 16:30Coffee Break & Networking
16:30 to 16:55TalkSee moreLessons learned leading sustainability tech at Microsoft and Amazon
This talk provides a practical roadmap for scaling sustainability initiatives and navigating the organizational challenges of implementing green technology at an enterprise level.17:00 to 17:25TalkSee moreClimate Futures, Cooling, and Cities: Using AI to Map Extreme Heat Risk in a Warming World
This talk explores predictive modeling approaches to heat stress in cities under increasingly frequent and severe climate extremes. Using building physics and urban thermal dynamics, I examine how data-driven and anomaly-aware methods can anticipate localized heat risk beyond traditional design assumptions. The focus is on identifying early signals of thermal stress across urban environments to improve resilience in buildings and public spaces, enabling more adaptive, climate-responsive urban design.
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Why they attended our past New York editions
The GreenIO conference in NYC was an important reminder for us that technology is not just about growth at all cost. I got a lot of useful insights from the sessions on all aspects of digital sustainability, including indepth case study from employees at leading companies, and many great face to face interactions with sustainability leaders during the social events.
Pascal Joly, Founder, IT Climate EdThe GreenIO team put together a great conference; it was packed with enjoyable speakers, engaging content, and a great network of Green IT practitioners. It's a great place to learn practical tips on how to decarbonize your software stack and build out your network of sustainability professionals.
Will Alpine, Cofounder (Enabled Emissions Campaign)What makes GreenIO special is how it bridges the gap between the technical realm and the climate crisis. As a designer, I was surprised to find myself riveted by even the most esoteric and technical topics. The quality of the speakers and the breadth of content were exceptional.
James Christie, User Experience Director (SustaianbleUX)
"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
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, ...
May 13 to 14, 2026
Convene 360 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10017