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Opening Keynote: What should we be doing to ensure digital equity for all?
Recorded for Data Centre Review, on November 29th 2023. You can download my presentation on Digital Equity here: 2023-11-29 Critical Insights2023-11-29 Critical Insights.pdf9 MBdownload-circle
Rethinking the SDIA: Regional Cloud & IT Infrastructure
Evaluating the SDIA to become an association working on regional sustainability.
Data Center World: Panel on energy efficiency & keynote on regionality
In May 2023, Data Center World invited to give a keynote with my thoughts on regionality & sustainability. In addition I was invited to moderate a panel discussion on energy efficiency with my friends Stijn de Kruijf and Niek van der Pas.
NeosCon: A Vision for Digital Sustainability
The team of the Neos Conference invited me to deliver an inspiring & activating session on Digital Sustainability. You can find the recording below.
Green Coding at the German Digital Strategy Event
Max speaks about Green Coding at the update event of the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.
Commonwealth - Lesotho: on locally-owned, sustainable digital infrastructure
Enabling the sustainable development of locally-owned digital infrastructure.
Sustainable IT Summit - Düsseldorf
On March 14th, 2023, I hosted the SDIA's Sustainable IT Summit in Düsseldorf. The event was centered on two key themes: Regionality & Sustainability. The main topics: * Creating regional champions - digitalization is done by people and not the cloud, how do we foster regional ecosystems? * What are
Agile Testing Days: Why do we need an environmental footprint for software?
How do we measure the energy & resource consumed by software? Why does it matter? What's the role of software in the global climate crisis?
Continuous Lifecycle/ContainerConf 22: Keynote on Sustainability
Published on Heise Online. The event was in-person and I was happy to be co-presenting with Marina Köhn, from the German Federal Environmental Agency. The link to the talk can be accessed here.
Panel at Federal Representation of the State of Hessen
In November 2022, the State of Hessen (in which the data center hub of Frankfurt is located) invited me to debate with representatives from Telehouse, Google and the Eco Association on the topic 'data centers - fundamental for a sustainable digitalization?'
