Topic
Sustainability
Sustainable technology, Green IT, carbon accounting and digital sustainability.
Speaking
- MCing and Leave no stone unturned (DIST workshop)
- Harnessing AI and Digital Tools to Transform Infrastructure Delivery
- DIST: Digital Impacts Schema and Taxonomy Workshop
- Shifting to Regenerative Architecture: An Introduction for Business and Enterprise Architects
- Is AI Sustainable? Risks, Trade-offs and Futures
- Navigating AI Innovation, Sustainability, and Uncertainty
- Greener AI: What Matters, What Helps, and What We Still Don't Know
- Beyond the Boundary of the Organisation: Strategies for a Resilient Supply Chain
- Balancing AI Innovation and Sustainability
- Optimising the Cloud: GreenOps, Data Management and Sustainable Best Practices
- The Importance of QA in Technology Sustainability
- When the Virtual and Natural Worlds Collide
- Can Networks Keep Up with the AI Boom? A 2030 Discussion
- Striving for More Sustainable AI Architecture
- Combatting Greenwashing Using AI Workflows and Agents
- The Sustainability of AI (Panel)
- GreenOps and Green Coding: Are You Optimising the Right Things?
- Innovating with Purpose: Social Impact and Technology
- The Growing Impact of Data Centres on Nature (Panel)
- Using the Tech Carbon Standard
- Leveraging Open Standards to Drive Sustainable IT in Financial Services
- Business Architecture Meets Sustainability: Shaping the Path Towards Sustainable IT, Part II
- How to Achieve Energy Efficient and Sustainable Networking in a 6G Age
- Technology Carbon Standard and the Carbon Estimator Tool
- Sustainability in Architecture, including AI and the Tech Carbon Standard
- Developing More Sustainable Software with Open Source
- The Vital Role of Open Source in Technology Sustainability
- Sustainable Enterprise Architecture
- Architecture for Sustainability
- Sustainability Aligns with Security
- Conscious Architectural Choices: UN Sustainable Development Goals for IT Architects
- The Evolution of Business as Usual
- The Evolution of Business as Usual (and Architecture)
- IT: The Strategic Business Partner for Environmental Management
Writing
- GreenIO London and Architecture Governance Episodes
- Sustainable Technology in Conversation with Mario Michaels
- Green Software: Making Progress, But Let's Be Honest About Where We Are
- Why Data Centres Belong in Elderly Homes (Not Isolated Warehouses)
- When Waste Becomes Wealth: Using Data Centre Heat.
- Cloud Security and Sustainability
- Twenty Two in Review & Sustainable Software
- Gaining a Sustainable Perspective
- Are Autonomous Electric Vehicles the future of Personal Transport?
- Digital waste and recycling solutions?
External writing
- Balancing AI Innovation and Sustainability at HM Treasury ID25
- Beyond Compliance: How Sustainable Technology Creates Value
- GenAI Sustainability: A Review of the 2025 Numbers
- Are We Sleepwalking into AI-Driven Societal Challenges?
- Finding the Right Architecture for AI-Powered ESG Analysis
- Sustainable Software Architecture: Prioritising Open Source Optimisation
- Will Generative AI Implode and Become More Sustainable?
- The Impending Implosion of Generative AI and the Potential of a More Sustainable Future
- How Can CxOs Spot Technology Greenwashing?
- How CxOs Can Spot Technology Greenwashing
- Toward a Pragmatic Future: Accepting Imperfect Systems whilst Striving for Regeneration
- Technology Carbon Standard Update
- Announcing the (Proposed) Technology Carbon Standard
- Announcing the (Proposed) Technology Carbon Standard
- Conscientious Cloud: Pick Your Cloud Location Consciously
- Conscientious Cloud: Pick Your Cloud Region Deliberately
- The Sustainable Computing Ecosystem
- Conscientious Computing: Facing into Big Tech Challenges
- Conscientious Computing: Facing into Big Tech Challenges
Podcasts
- The Recarbonisation of the Internet with Chris Adams
- Green IO London 2025 Conference Interviews and Highlights
- Will sustainable AI ever be a reality?
- S2 E13: Sustainable Technology with Oliver Cronk
- Green Software Engineering with Wilco at Voxxed Days Amsterdam
- EP58: The Darker Side of Tech and ESG with Oliver Cronk
- Why Data Centres Belong in Nursing Homes (Not Isolated Warehouses) with David from Leafcloud
- Using waste heat from data centres: Deep Green - Mark Bjornsgaard
- Green IO Conference London 2024 Highlights
- Sustainable IT Advice from Gael Duez of Green IO
- Can we do better than 'carbon aware' computing?
- Embracing AI | Episode 2 | AI and the energy transition: Do the benefits outweigh the risks?
- Geospatial Innovation for Mapping Sustainability and the Built Environment
- #33: Is open source and sustainability a perfect match? (with Katie Davis)
- Can technology sustainability really make a difference?
- Is Cloud native and Serverless better for the planet?
- Tech Trends 2022 part 2 | Metaverse, Sustainability, Regulations, Ethics, Product vs Project
- Episode 43: The One About Sustainability
Projects
- DIST (Digital Impacts Schema and Taxonomy) A collaboration with the Green Web Foundation to help organisations measure and reduce the environmental footprint of their digital infrastructure.
- InferESG An open-source project exploring the use of AI to support ESG analysis and reporting, developed at Software Engineering Consultancy for the Fintech Innovation Lab (FRIL). Investigates how large language models can help organisations navigate complex sustainability reporting requirements.
- DfT/OLEV — Plug-in Car Grants Technical architecture for the Department for Transport and Office for Low Emission Vehicles plug-in car grants scheme, supporting the UK's early EV adoption programme.
- Renewable Energy Statistics Database and Web Application A statistics database and public-facing web application for renewable energy data, developed at AEA Technology for a UK government client.
- Technology Carbon Standard An open standard for measuring and reporting the carbon impact of technology systems, co-authored while at a technology consultancy. Provides a consistent framework for organisations to understand and reduce the environmental footprint of their technology estate. Note now largely superceded by DIST.
- Domestic Wind Turbine Safeguarded Land Tool A geospatial web tool for assessing safeguarded land constraints on domestic wind turbine installations, delivered for a UK government client at AEA Technology.