Green Tech South West will welcome Dan Lewis-Toakley, Green Cloud Lead for ThoughtWorks North America to talk about understanding, measuring and reducing the energy and carbon emissions of public cloud use.

Dan will breakdown how to look at this problem, as well as how we can approach calculating and reducing these emissions. He will also explore existing tools in the space, and introduce a new open source tool ThoughtWorks has launched called Cloud Carbon Footprint.

The talk is for anyone interested in learning how:

- To use tools to measure the energy and carbon footprint of data-centers and the cloud

- To evaluate cloud providers on their environmental sustainability

- Development teams can include sustainability and carbon emissions in decision making

- We can optimize our cloud usage to reduce energy and carbon emissions

- To contribute to open source tools in the space

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/articles/green-cloud

As the Green Cloud Lead for ThoughtWorks North America, Dan advises clients on strategies to help reduce the environmental footprint of their technology and oversees the open source project Cloud Carbon Footprint. He also works with climate justice movements to deliver software solutions to scale their growth and impact. Dan's pronouns are he/him, and he loves ramen.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danlewistoakley/

This is a free online event streaming via the CrowdCast platform. You will see the link once you RSVP. The evening before the event, we'll email those that RSVPed with more details about what to expect when using CrowdCast.

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👋 1:00pm - Event starts with a welcome from your meet-up organisers, Ellen, Hannah and Mike

📢 1.05pm - Our famous 60 second intros - a chance for attendees to introduce themselves, ask for help and tell us about something the group might find interesting

🗓️ 1.55pm - Round-up, other community notices and next event announcement

The event will be recorded and will be available along with the slides to view shortly afterwards.

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