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Upcoming Talks & Appearances

Last updated: 17th Feb 2025

Here’s where the Green Web Foundation team is heading next. If you’re going to any of these upcoming events and conferences, reach out so we can say hello!

Climate Action week

Sydney, Australia – Mar 10 – 16 2025

Fershad Irani will be in person at various events for Sydney’s Climate Action week. Find him at:

GREEN TECH SOUTH WEST

Online event – Mar 25 2025

Hannah will be hosting this free online event, “Communicating digital sustainability issues with impact”, with speaker Sandra Sydow.

Green IO SINGAPORE

Singapore – April 16 2025

Fershad Irani will give his talk “Building a grid-aware web”. What if websites could adapt their behaviour based on the electricity powering them? This talk explores the vision of a grid-aware web that responds dynamically to the availability of clean power sources. We’ll examine the role that developers, designers, and decision makers can play in pioneering a web that operates with a sustainable focus.

DjangoCon Europe 2025

Dublin, Ireland – April 23 – 27 2025

Chris will be in person at DjangoCon Europe and running a workshop “Marimo and Jupyter: Sharing the joys of the Django ORM with Python Notebooks“.

Web Directions Code

Melbourne, Australia – June 12 & 13 2025

Fershad Irani will give his talk “Building a grid-aware web”. What if websites could adapt their behaviour based on the electricity powering them? This talk explores the vision of a grid-aware web that responds dynamically to the availability of clean power sources. We’ll examine the role that developers, designers, and decision makers can play in pioneering a web that operates with a sustainable focus.

Green IO MUNICH

Munich, Germany – July 3 2025

The whole team will be in attendance with some special things planned. More to come soon.

Lima Dastgeer

Looking for a speaker?

Public events

Our team are always keen to attend events to raise awareness about digital/AI sustainability issues.

Company/private events

We’re experienced in presenting engaging talks or workshops for internal teams to explore digital/AI sustainability issues.

Previous events

State of the Open Con

London, UK – Feb 4 & 5 2025

Hannah Smith spoke about our carbon.txt project on Tues 4th Feb in the open data track. View the slides.

Hannah Smith presenting at a lectern with Green Web Foundation logo on the screen.

FOSDEM

Brussels, Belgium – Feb 1 & 2 2025

Chris Adams presented in the Inclusive Web Devroom with the talk How do we work out the environmental savings from accessibility?

Chris Adams pointing at a screen displaying a slide that says "how do digital services cause emissions".
Chris Adams pointing at a screen displaying a slide that says “how do digital services cause emissions”. Photo courtesy of Eléonore Stultjens.

Green Software Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe, Germany – Dec 17 2024

Chris Adams, our Director of Technology and Policy, spoke about one of our latest projects, grid-aware websites. You can find a write up of Chris’s talk here: Talking about grid aware software with the Karlsruhe Green software meetup

Green IO Conference

Paris, France – Dec 3, 4 & 5 2024

Hannah Smith, our Director of Operations, gave a talk called ‘Start at the end’ at the Green IO Paris conference. Chris Adams, our Director of Technology and Policy was also at the conference.

Five people leaning in for a photo.
New and old friends, from left to right: Chris Adams, Anne FAUBRY, Pierre Segonne, Hannah Smith, Marcus Garsdal.

6th International Open Search Symposium

Munich, Germany – Oct 9 to Oct 11

Chris Adams, our Executive Director, was in Munich for the 6th International Open Search Symposium.

EDRI Tech and Society Summit

Brussels, Belgium – Sept 30 – Oct 1

Michelle Thorne, our Director of Strategy, was in Brussels for the EDRI Tech and Society Summit – a convening of digital rights and climate groups.


Want to meet up to discuss a project or work with us? Get in touch.