Best Anastasi In Tech Podcasts (2025)

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#67 Can we be optimistic about AI sustainability? With Iuna Tsyrulneva 44:07

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6d ago44:07

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The potential impact of Artificial Intelligence on our worsening climate crisis is certainly a hot topic, pardon the pun. Fortunately, we have an expert on today’s show to help us make sense of it all. Iuna Tsyrulneva is one of the leading voices in AI and sustainability. Well versed on both topics, Iuna holds a PhD in materials science, and works …

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#7 – Inside Xanadu’s New Photonic Quantum Computer 15:23

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In this episode, we dive into the new photonic quantum computer. We discuss: Why use light for quantum computing? How Xanadu’s quantum computer works The challenges of optical loss and scaling quantum data centers What this breakthrough means for AI and beyond Don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast — and thanks for listening! Youtube https://www.…

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#66 Data Centers and Water in the US: a Complex Story with Mohammad Islam and Shaolei Ren 1:01:24

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“We're living under a water stressed world. Maybe not today, but a certain time of the year.” This new reality stated by Dr Shaolei Ren questions both the resiliency and the water footprint of the data center industry. In this episode we bring an academic perspective on these questions with two of the most renowned experts in the field, Dr Shaolei …

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#6 - Ternary Computing Explained 14:36

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What if binary was just a historical accident? In this episode, we dive into the forgotten Soviet experiment with ternary computing, and why Huawei’s new patent could bring it back: How the USSR built the world’s first ternary computer, Setun Why binary won the global race and why it might not be enough anymore How new materials could finally make …

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#65 Green IO London 2025 special episode in collaboration with Architect Tomorrow 26:18

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Today, we don’t have 1 or 2 guests but 10! In partnership with the YouTube channel Architect Tomorrow, we are glad to share with you snippets and interviews of the speakers who made the latest Green IO Conference in London a huge success last week. The audio quality has improved since last year but is still perfectible. Except for this, I hope you’…

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#5 - Inside America’s New Silicon Fortress: TSMC Fab 21 27:14

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In this episode, we cover the challenges of building TSMC’s Fab 21 in Arizona - one of the most ambitious semiconductor projects ever attempted. We dive into: Why water, acid, and gases are the fragile lifelines of any fab How cleanrooms fight back against the Arizona desert The global supply chains hidden inside an “American” fab Remember to subsc…

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#64 Why we hate recycling with Elaine Brown and Ross Cockburn 55:42

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Elaine and Ross hate recycling. Both know first hand about our computers’ and smartphones’ life. About the wasted opportunities to better use the precious resources into it. Elaine Brown is the CEO of the Edinburgh Remakery who refurbished 295 laptops last year. She’s also a keen expert on the right to repair issues. Ross Cockburn is the Trustee of…

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#4 - Protoclone: First Functional Human Clone with Dhanush Radhakrishna 29:33

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In this episode, we sit down with Dhanush Radhakrishna, co-founder and CEO of Clone Robotics, for a deep dive into the android they’re building. Protoclone is the world’s first android powered by artificial muscles, bones, blood vessels, and even a beating heart — a bold step toward creating a functional human clone. Remember to subscribe to the po…

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#63.b AI & Energy Efficiency: just follow the money? with Anne Currie 35:38

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Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books. Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated fro…

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#63a AI & Energy Efficiency: why was DeepSeek a defining moment? with Anne Currie 41:45

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Anne Currie is the co-author of the acclaimed O’Reilly book “Building Green Software”, a pillar of the GSF, a veteran in the Cloud Industry and also a SF novelist with her series of panopticon books. Preparing her forthcoming keynote at Green IO London, she went all the way down into the rabbit hole of AI and energy efficiency. She investigated fro…

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#3 - Update on Brain-Like Microchips: Can Silicon Think Like Us? 15:27

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In this episode, we cover the latest developments in neuromorphic computing, including Innatera’s new Pulsar chip. We dive into: How brain-inspired chips actually work The trade-offs and limitations of this approach Key applications Remember to subscribe to the podcast — and thanks for listening. Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@AnastasiInTech Link…

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#62 Thirsty datacenters in the heart of Silicon Valley with Masheika Allgood 49:04

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A month ago, Google released its 2024 sustainability report. Its overall water consumption increased by 28% in a year. Less publicized than the data center energy boom, water is also pivotal for the Tech industry and data is even scarcer. To better understand this secret but serious love affair between big tech and water, what better location to in…

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#2 - Japan’s Secret Plan to Win Semiconductors 18:07

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Japan once ruled the chip world — now they want it back. In this episode, we break down Japan’s $67B bet to rebuild its semiconductor industry from scratch: Their bold bet on a company called Rapidus Their new 2nm CPUs Why Japan is experimenting with synthetic diamonds to replace silicon What this means for the future of global tech Hit follow to s…

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#1 – Next-Gen Computing: Spintronics Explained 13:44

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From smartphones to supercomputers — for decades, the world has been running on electronics. But what if there’s more? In this episode, we dive into Spintronics and break down how it works. Eventually, spintronics could: Cut energy use and reduce heat in chips Accelerate AI, edge, and even quantum computing Unlock new paradigms like in-memory, chao…

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#61 Scaling Green Software with Anita Schüttler 49:16

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What does it take to go beyond raising awareness in green software? To avoid checking just boxes? What is required to scale green software practices in a company? To discuss these issues, Gaël Duez welcomes Anita Schüttler on this episode “from the trenches”. Anita is a seasoned software engineer and expert on digital sustainability. She works as H…

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#60 Why Tech companies should not deprioritize future readiness with Rainer Karcher 49:37

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“Climate activist in a suit”. This is how Rainer Karcher describes himself. It is an endless debate between people advocating for the system to change from the outside and those willing to change it from the inside. In this episode Gaël Duez welcomes a strong advocate of moving the corporate world into the right direction from within? Having spent …

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#59 Debriefing Qcon Sustainability track with Erica Pisani 39:32

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How is sustainability covered in main tech conferences? Sure cybersecurity, DevOps, or anything related to SRE, is covered at length. Not to mention AI… But what room is left for the environmental impact of our job ? And what are the main trends which are filtered out from specialized conferences in Green IT such as Green IO, GreenTech Forum or eco…

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#58b Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 2 39:15

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Why is the model of a Nobel prize winner not necessarily good science? What is “good” modelling? Is access to information enough to change a system behavior? This episode is the second part of a long interview with Laetitia Bornes, a Doctor in Human-Computer Interaction, Systems Engineering and Systemic Design who is one of the co-authors of a rese…

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#58a Avoided emissions thanks to Tech: the Vinted use case with Laetitia Bornes - Part 1 48:03

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Can a digital company be “carbon negative”? What should we think of these claims of “tons of carbon avoided” coming from 2nd hand platforms such as Vinted or Back Market? Dr Laetita Bornes conducted research on Vinted claims, investigating its data sources and the methodology used with her colleague David Ekchazer. Their findings were surprising, e…

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#57 Greening Intelligence: Bridging Infrastructure and Governance for a Sustainable AI Future with Pr. PS Lee and Pr. Heng Wang 24:46

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Description “It's always a case of fit for purpose, or what we call a proper engineering.” Some down-to-earth facts and analysis were coined by Pr PS Lee, one of the world's top experts in liquid cooling - and Pr. Heng Wang - a renowned expert in digital governance - while cross-analysing Singapore’s main challenges from an infrastructure and gover…

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#56 Building Green Software, the one year anniversary with Sarah Hsu 49:10

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A year ago, Building Green Software was released by O’Reilly. Since Tim Frick’s book “Designing for sustainability” (8 years ago!), O’Reilly didn’t publish anything fully focusing on sustainability. So, it’s a fair statement that this book was long awaited. But a year is an eternity in IT. This is why Sarah Hsu, one of its 3 co-authors as well as t…

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#55 Decarbonizing Kubernetes with Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki 44:41

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Did containerisation ship away our environmental responsibility? Containers come with the promise of automation, scalability and reliability. The question is how to add sustainability to the list without breaking its other benefits. To talk about these challenges, Gaël Duez welcomes Flavia Paganelli and Niki Manoledaki, 2 experts in Kubernetes who …

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# 54 Agility and Sustainability with Joanna Masraff and Joanne Stone 48:44

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"We are 100% convinced that IT sustainability matters but we can’t add more non business requirements, we have agile teams." This often heard sentence from product managers or CPOs, led to this dedicated episode on agility and sustainability where host Gaël Duez welcomes 2 seasoned agile coaches: Joanne Stone, the founder of Agilist 4 planet and th…

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#53 Scaling GreenOps at Back Market with Dawn Baker 37:03

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Changing its Cloud provider is never small potatoes, especially when a platform operates up to 40,000 containers and has about 4 million unique visitors a day to its website. Yet Back Market made the move from AWS to Google Cloud Platform motivated primarily by … sustainability concerns! In this episode its CTO, Dawn Backer, chats with Gaël Duez an…

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#52 Sustainability at WordPress: an update with Csaba Varszegi, Nahuai Badiola, and Nora Ferreiros 47:46

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“Today I learned that we have a sustainability team.Thank you for your effort in this area, looking at results of the team so far, and the ROI of time invested, it's probably a good time to officially dissolve the team entirely”. In 3 sentences, almost 3 years of work from the WordPress Sustainability Group vanished and their Slack channel archived…

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#51 Exploring the digital revolution paradox from a UN perspective with Paz Pena and Pablo José Gamez Cersosimo 56:41

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It’s a 252 pages report with the foreword of António Guterres, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, talking about digitalization and sustainability. And, for once, it’s not another report from the UN stating “let’s digitize everything to boost sustainability”. Quite the contrary as it states a “unequal ecological exchange between developed …

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#50 Is Eroom's law the future of Moore's law? with Tristan Nitot 44:27

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Moore’s law is dead! Long live Eroom’s law! This provocative statement from Tristan Nitot highlights the pivotal role of software engineers in our journey as an industry toward a sustainable and more frugal digital world. The majority of our old devices, from smartphones to desktop, still work. How come that we waste such a massive gathering of pre…

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#49 How to actually do Green Software in my company? with Annie Freeman 36:25

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Have you ever heard “The complaint of the lonely sustainability champion”? Its IT sector version? Here it is “I listen to the Green IO podcast and others as well, I read newsletters and articles from CAT, GWF, Boavizta, Greenit.fr, GSF, etc. But I’m isolated as a green software champion. I have the feeling that I cannot achieve much by myself. How …

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13. Too Many Tasks, Not Enough Time? Let ChatGPT Take Something Off Your Plate 11:33

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In this episode, I walk you through a typical day in my life as a solopreneur and show you how I use ChatGPT to save hours of time. From drafting emails and updating documentation to brainstorming blog post ideas and solving client issues, ChatGPT helps me tackle tasks efficiently so I can focus on what matters most. Whether you’re overwhelmed by a…

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12. Myth-Busting AI: Separating Hype from Real-World 14:44

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In this episode, I bust some common myths about AI and ChatGPT that might be holding you back from using these tools effectively. I’ll show you that AI isn’t as complicated as it seems; it can sound just like you, and it’s not just for big businesses. Whether you’re a solopreneur or running a small business, AI can help you do more with less, givin…

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#48 - Greening the video game industry with Ben Abraham and Maria Wagner 53:23

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3 billion gamers worldwide, billions of devices, terabytes of data streamed, the gaming industry comes with pretty big numbers starting with its $455 billion sales in 2023. Is its environmental footprint as big? (Not) fun fact, not a single executive in this sector could answer the question. A new non-profit initiative, the Sustainable Gaming Allia…

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11. How AI Can Help You Get Unstuck (Without the Overwhelm) 11:42

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Do you ever feel like there are too many things to do and not enough time? In this episode of Tea & Tech with Jennifer, I talk about the overwhelm solopreneurs face, the stress of juggling multiple roles, and how AI tools—especially ChatGPT—can help lighten the load. I share real-life examples of how I use ChatGPT to save time, improve productivity…

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#47b - The Microsoft Azure dilemma with Holly and William Alpine - When enabled emissions “offset” sustainability claims 38:14

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They both went to this job interview to hone their skills, and got a dream job at Microsoft! In its fast-growing and AI-pioneered Azure division. With a romance on top of it… Yet several years later, they decided to both resign. Why? On sustainability ground, and more specifically for the lack of support on “enabled emissions” issues. Holly and Wil…

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10. Why I Rebranded and What’s Next 14:30

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In this first episode of Tea & Tech with Jennifer (10th overall), I’m sharing why I decided to rebrand the podcast and what you can expect in future episodes. I talk about my journey over the past few years, moving from running my own business full-time to joining my family’s technology consulting company, and how I missed certain aspects of my old…

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#47a - The Microsoft Azure dilemma with Holly and William Alpine - Learnings from a 10K employee grassroots sustainability initiative 42:03

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They both went to this job interview to hone their skills, and got a dream job at Microsoft! In its fast-growing and AI-pioneered Azure division and with a romance on top of it… 💕 Yet several years later, Holly and Will Alpine decided to both resign. Why? On sustainability ground, and more specifically for the lack of support on the “enabled emissi…

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#C1 Special Green IO London 2024 32:56

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Today, we don’t have 1 or 2 guests but 12! In partnership with the YouTube channel Architect Tomorrow, we are glad to share with you snippets and interviews of the speakers who made the latest Green IO Conference in London a huge success last month. I have no idea if you have some appetite for this kind of content so feel free to come back to me at…

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#46 - Green SEO with Natalie Arney and Stuart Davies 58:12

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🔎 Green SEO? Not the most widespread concept in the sustainability field. Still, seasoned web designers and developers know it well: folks in charge of SEO often have the final say when it comes to content, design and even sometimes technical choices. And on top of this influence, SEO practices also carry their own environmental footprint being ver…

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#45 - Assessing digital sustainability’s maturity with Aiste Rugeviciute and Rob Price 1:01:32

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In the early 2020s, companies started facing a big question: how could they be more responsible in the digital world? Could something similar to CSR exist for this virtual and yet highly materialized world? Corporate Digital Responsibility (CDR) was coined to offer some much-needed guidance. 🎙️ To explore its ramification, Gaël DUEZ chats with two …

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#44 - Can the data center industry become circular? with Deborah Andrews 55:47

1y ago55:47

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💭Fueled by the ongoing artificial intelligence boom, data centers are popping up around the world like mushrooms after a good rain raising serious sustainability concerns. Hence a pressing question: can the data center industry become circular? 🎙️To get some answers, Gaël Duez welcomes a veteran in Circular Economy and Life Cycle Sustainability Ass…

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#43 - Digital sustainability in a Tech behemoth: Japan with Trista Bridges and Paul Beddie 49:58

1+ y ago49:58

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💭 How can a country defining itself as an high-tech spearheader can embrace IT sustainability? Japan is a fascinating example of both the contradictions and the synergies that such a journey creates. 🎙️ In this episode, Gael Duez welcomes two long-time Japan-based experts: Paul Beddie, VP and Sustainability Lead at Capgemini, and Trista Bridges, th…

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#42 - Decarbonizing Tech: 2 CTO share their paths with Ludi Akue and Owen Rogers 55:40

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💭Decarbonizing tech stacks and platforms? This is the challenge many CTO face these days. 🎙️In our 42th episode, 2 CTOs with different backgrounds and operating in different lines of business cross share their experience in reducing the environmental footprint of their operations. Ludi Akue, former Lunii’s CTO, and Owen Rogers, .eco’s CTO meet Gael…

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#41 - Decarbonizing AWS with Adrian Cockcroft 1:00:35

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☁️ What can AWS users achieve today in terms of decarbonization? And what can they expect tomorrow? 🎙️ In this episode, Gael Duez welcomes Adrian Cockcroft, the former creator and leader of the AWS sustainability team who now leads the Green Software Foundation project “Real Time Cloud”. They had an in-depth chat about measuring carbon for software…

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#40 - Triggering action in green software: a Nordic perspective with Satu Heikinheimo and Janne Kalliola 53:14

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🤔 Why do we do so little to decarbonize software despite already knowing so much? 🎙️ In this episode, Gael Duez is joined by Janne Kalliola, author of "Green Code," together with Satu Heikinheimo, Planet Diplomats’ founder, to discuss how to trigger more actions among Tech people to reduce the carbon footprint of our code. 🌍 Both being based in Fin…

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#39 - European Regulations in Tech: some insider perspectives with Kim Van Sparrentak and Max Schulze 53:56

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🔎 Major regulations have been built up in Europe these past years impacting the Tech sectors. How have they been built? What does it take to pass these kinds of bills in the unique European Union political system? And what are the consequences for the people working in the digital industry? 🎙️ This episode 39 welcomes Kim Van Sparrentak, a Member o…

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#38 - Building Green Software with Sara Bergman 43:10

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🔎 What are the main angles to be covered when you truly want to design, run, and sometimes decommission, software, in the greenest possible way? 🎙️ In this episode, Sara Bergman, a seasoned software engineer and one of the acclaimed co-authors of the O’Reilly book “Building Green Software” joins Gaël Duez to discuss the book, and more specifically …

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#37 - How to be a climate-conscious product manager with Antonia Landi and François Burra 52:34

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💡In product management, there is a strong culture of adapting to change, testing, and rapid learning. Talking about change, we have a big big one ahead of us: climate change! How can product leaders include climate considerations into the build and run of digital services and scale sustainable practices? 🎧In this episode, Gael interviewed two hands…

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#36 - Climate change challenges to data centers: lessons from Singapore with PS Lee 54:00

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📈 44 cm water level rise under the IPCC business as usual scenario. This number shows that climate change is very real for Singaporeans and for their data centers, close to 10% of the whole of APAC! 🎧In episode 36, Gaël Duez discussed with Professor PS Lee, National University of Singapore Dean's Chair of Mechanical Engineering and one of the top e…

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#35 - Cybersecurity and sustainability: friend or foe? with Mary Prokhorova and Michael J. Oghia 43:35

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⚙️Cybersecurity and sustainability do share a complex relationship! The two approaches share commonalities, such as grappling with resistance from teams and executives and prioritizing resilience, but they also seem to split in notable ways such as constant updates in cybersecurity impacting bloatware and equipment obsolences. 🎧In this episode Gaël…

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#34 - Carbon aware computing: a false good idea? with Hannah Smith and Ismaël Velasco 52:44

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🎙️In our latest episode, Hannah Smith, the COO of the Green Web Foundation, and Ismael Velasco, the founder of the Adora Foundation, highlight the potential pitfalls of Carbon Aware Computing a strategy that aims to reduce carbon emissions by aligning software operations with the carbon intensity of the energy grid. While this approach has gained t…

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#33 - Is open source and sustainability a perfect match? with Oliver Cronk and Katie Davis 38:47

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🔍How open source software slashes energy consumption, extends hardware lifespan, and drives sustainability? 🎙️In this episode, Gael Duez unravels the intricate relationship between open source software and IT sustainability together with Oliver Cronk, the host of Architect Tomorrow podcast and Sustainable Technology practice lead at Scott Logic (UK…