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>> Okay everyone, as we think
about the future of the software industry,
we believe we have
a responsibility to help build a better future,
a more sustainable future, both internally at
our organizations and in partnership
with industry leaders all around the world.
To help with this endeavor,
we are so excited to announce
the formation of the Green Software Foundation.
It's a nonprofit founded by Accenture,
Microsoft ThoughtWorks, and GitHub,
established with the Linux Foundation.
Today, we have the founding members of
the Green Software Foundation to tell us more about it.
We have Sanjay from Accenture, Jeff from Microsoft,
Erica from GitHub, and Elise from ThoughtWorks.
Hello everyone.
Thank you so much for joining us.
I'm so excited about this.
Sanjay, let's start with you.
You're the Tech and Sustainability
Innovation Lead at Accenture.
What is Green Software?
>> The term "green software" relates to the design,
development, and use of software,
and is a term we use to help
companies consider the carbon emissions
related to software with the intent
to keep emissions as low as possible.
It is important because while
digital technologies are key
to protecting the environment,
their proliferation is also
resulting in software's growing carbon footprint.
This is an area we are focusing on at Accenture.
We believe that companies need to make
sustainable Green Software an
integral part of the ESG strategy.
But we also realize that it's
a new field requiring new skills,
new standards, new training, and new tooling.
We found Jeff's team at
Microsoft working on the same area.
As we started talking,
we knew we wanted to collaborate and
that we needed to engage with organizations,
with shared commitment to sustainability.
That's when the idea of launching a foundation,
so the Linux Foundation was
born, and we're thrilled to be announcing it today.
>> Very cool. Jeff, you are
the CVP of Developer Relations here at Microsoft.
What excites you most about this foundation?
>> Probably not surprised, it's about the community.
If you think about it, our communities
matter more than anything.
Look, shout out to the MVPs,
or our physical spaces
that we go out into the communities,
or reactors, or how people
contribute to open source on GitHub.
Those communities, we need to listen to them.
We advocate on their behalf.
When we go out and connect to them,
what stands on the enterprises
or a startup to developers is they
want to build apps that
consider the impact of the climate,
they care deeply about their work.
For that to happen, we need to
understand how to build green software.
Folks need tools and they need the knowledge really to
become qualified wherever they are in
the world on a really important matter.
Our goal with this is to really establish
best practices, set up standards,
really work together to
be able to make sure that we integrate the
community of Green Software practitioners.
Now, no one company can do this alone.
No one individual can do this alone.
It will take the entire community.
It will be the responsibility of
the higher development team to go build Green Software.
Our ambition with this is to connect
with our community, help,
and really enable organizations to do their part,
to really look at the broader tech center.
Can we reduce the greenhouse gas emissions by
45 percent by 2030?
All in line with the Paris Climate Agreement.
To me, we got to get out there
with our communities and it's
really the responsibility of us
all to build sustainable software.
>> So true. Erica, you're the CEO of GitHub.
Why did GitHub decide to join this foundation?
>> Like Jeff said, it really is about the community.
At GitHub we talk about
being the home for all developers.
If we're going to be that home for all developers,
we need to build the environmentally sustainable home
for all developers.
We want to look at how we can incorporate
sustainability-conscious green software
decision-making into the DNA of software development.
As a community, we first need to build
the standards for green software applications and
then we need to support
developers in applying those standards
by integrating them seamlessly
into the developer workflow.
The goal is to make it easier for
developers to use and contribute to
the global climate solution by empowering them with
the right visibility and the right tools so they
can create and maintain green software themselves.
We're excited to be here co-founding
the Green Software Foundation with
this joint mission of helping to
grow the open-source ecosystem of
green software applications and
tooling that will benefit all of us.
>> I love that. Elise, you are the global head of DEI,
Sustainability and Social Change at ThoughtWorks.
How do you think the industry will
adjust to build the green software?
>> Thanks Dona.
Sustainability and climate change
mitigation is a priority for
ThoughtWorks because we believe that the tech sector has
a really important role to play
here in taking action on climate.
We're increasingly seeing our clients
coming to us for thought leadership,
tools, and advice on this.
While there's a desire to take action,
it's not always clear where to start for them.
For example, how and where do you
invest to get the biggest impact.
We have to develop some tools based on
what priorities and needs that
we're seeing in the marketplace,
like the new open source
Cloud Carbon Footprint calculator we just launched.
But if we want to get to change its scale,
we need to encourage the creation of
more shared tools and standards as everyone
else mentioned that govern these tools so
organizations can trust that they're
moving in the right direction.
We're just very excited to be joining
the foundation to help define the standards,
to help organizations adapt and implement new tools,
and to work with government,
academia, nonprofits, and all of you,
and build this community to shape the vision of the work.
>> Thank you all so much for your time today and coming
together to launch the Green Software Foundation.
The other founding members are Goldman Sachs,
the nonprofits WattTime, Leaders for Climate Action,
and the Green Web Foundation.
The membership is open. If you're interested in
green software, head to
greensoftware.foundation for more information.
Coming up now, it's time for Into Focus.
We will be right back after.
You're going to love this.
Thank you so much. See you soon.
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