Highlights
- Construct a business case for digital sustainability based on risk and value.
- Identify key architectural and feature decisions that drive "carbon lock-in."
- Define and track software sustainability KPIs alongside traditional metrics
Course Details
The Business Case for Green Software
Explore the growing regulatory and market pressures shaping digital sustainability, alongside the commercial and operational benefits of green software.
Understand how sustainable practices can reduce costs, improve efficiency, and strengthen organisational reputation.
Carbon Lock-In
Examine how early design and architectural decisions can lock in long-term carbon emissions before development even begins.
Learn how to make informed choices around infrastructure, cloud services, and system design to avoid costly sustainability trade-offs later.
Sustainability KPIs & Budgets
Discover how to drive better engineering decisions through meaningful sustainability KPIs.
Learn how to define, measure, and implement carbon and energy budgets within projects, aligning technical performance with environmental goals.
Q&A
An open session to ask questions, discuss practical challenges, and explore how to apply these concepts in real-world projects.
Who should attend
This course is designed for software developers at any stage of their career and is relevant to both front-end and back-end development.
The morning session introduces key concepts in digital sustainability and demonstrates how they apply to software development making it suitable for nontechnical team members (project managers, product owners, and UI/UX designers, etc) who want to better understand and support sustainable practices within development teams
Feedback
4.8 out of 5
“Learning about the different environmental impacts of cloud services and how to assess digital carbon footprints was really useful — especially the practical tools for estimating emissions. The section on sustainable design principles was very good, and it was great to see clear examples of how to apply them in real-world digital projects.”
ZH, Software Developer, July 2025
