[EVENT] Sustainable IT as a lever of sobriety

Join us in Geneva on 27 March from 5.30 pm - Conference / Cocktail - Place: International Geneva Welcome Centre

Digital technology is part of our future. At present, it contributes significantly to climate change and is developing by creating inequalities in our society. How can we rethink a digital world that respects planetary limits and benefits everyone?

ISIT-CH (Institute for Sustainable IT in Switzerland), 2050Today and ITU (International Telecommunication Union) are organising an event in Geneva on the theme of Sustainable IT in order to engage as many people as possible in taking into account the social and environmental footprint of digital technology in their activities. Our guests, experts in the digital sector, will take turns to discuss with you the challenges of sustainable IT in Switzerland.

Our panel of speakers and the course of the evening:

• INTRODUCTION – Jocelyn Oppenlander (co-founder ISIT-CH), Jean-Pierre Reymond (Executive Director 2050Today)
• KEYNOTE – Vincent Courboulay, Sustainable IT Expert for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, Scientific Director of ISIT FR
• KEYNOTE – Vanessa Gray, Head, Emergency Telecommunications and Environment Division, ITU
• FEEDBACK – Anthony Gloor, Deputy Director, Ethos Foundation
• FEEDBACK – Raphaël Thézé, Scientific Deputy to the Digital Transformation Office, UNIGE

Our speakers will successively give feedback to help you better understand the issues related to digital responsibility and find solutions to reduce the footprint of your IT activities.

The discussions will end with a question and answer session and will be followed by a cocktail at around 7.30pm. The event will end around 9pm.

Start: 6pm, hosting from 5.30pm

Place: Auditorium of La Pastorale Foundation (on the site of the International Geneva Welcome Centre), 102 Ferney road, 1202 Geneva.

Register for the event