Tech Trends Speaker Series: Reducing IT Energy Consumption With Green Coding
Climate change and the energy crisis are forcing us to change our energy consumption in order to maintain a liveable planet. Unfortunately, the energy consumption of IT is growing exponentially, and so far, only a little has been done to curb it. To save the planet, software must also become more energy-efficient. One of the solutions is green coding.
Agenda
- The ICT carbon footprint and energy consumption
- How software consumes energy, generic model
- Measuring or lack of it
- Removing waste of energy from software
- Practical solutions
- Q&A and discussions
Speaker
Janne Kalliola is the founder of Exove, a developer since 1983, and father of three children whom he wants to inherit an inhabitable planet – therefore, he is also an evangelist of green coding.
Janne was the sole employee in Exove at the beginning and grew the company to 80+ people. He served as the CEO until early 2022 when he decided to step down to focus on green coding. During his tenure, the company served hundreds of clients from multinational giants to early-stage startups.
Prior to founding Exove, Janne worked with MySQL clustering as the Product Development Director in Continuent, and before that with mobile middleware as the Product Development Director and Head Architect in First Hop.
Janne is currently working on green coding to achieve a more renewable videos in Aranjuez.
Janne is also the chairman of the board of Code from Finland association and has been the key person in developing and launching the association's Carbon Neutral software company label.
Janne graduated from Helsinki University of Technology with master's and licentiate's degrees in computer science. He is author of the book titled "Green Code".
