Often, the role of software in the IT-sustainability discussion is overlooked in favour of ‘embodied carbon’ in hardware of energy misuse across power infrastructure, cooling, servers and the facility itself.

There is a green software movement underway to unpack how developer communities concerned with the impact of their code on the environment can make a difference. Asim will outline how Microsoft are increasing transparency on the carbon per unit of work, empowering developers to build and architect applications in a carbon-aware way and championing green software engineering.