Green Tech South West brings together some of the best minds from organisations in the digital tech community, all working to surface and implement meaningful change to the tech industry's impact on climate change.

Join us for an insightful and carefully curated panel discussion that will provide inspiriation and practical advice on how YOU can get involved in making changes within the tech industry in 2022.

SANDRA PALLIER - Lead organiser at ClimateAction.tech (CAT)

CAT is a community of practice of tech workers that provides support and guidance for systemic change in our organisations and industries, to face the climate crisis.

Its purpose is to empower technology professionals to play their part — to meet, discuss, learn and take climate action.

CHRIS ADAMS - Director at The Green Web Foundation (TGWF)

TGWF believes humanity deserves a healthy and sustainable internet; one that is green, open and diverse, and works towards making this a reality.

In 2006, TGWF started working with a small team on a project that aimed to make the kind of energy that powers the internet visible: green for renewables, grey for fossil-fuel powered. Today they run a number of tools to make that data easier to look up, and have expanded their offering to focus on representing the needs of smaller and medium size organizations online, and actively building a professional community around the idea of an internet that is green, open and diverse.

MOHAN GANDHI - Head of policy and research at the Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (SDIA)

The SDIA advocates for a more sustainable, economic, and scalable digital infrastructure that reconciles with the ambitions of a decarbonized society.

The SDIA roadmap enables every industrial actor to connect, benchmark and deliver sustainability within their segment of the digital infrastructure value chain. Through the universal reporting regimen, and the industry led action plan, the roadmap is simultaneously the reporting and collaboration vehicle that will ensure we hit sustainable digital infrastructure by 2030.

JANET GUNTER - Outreach lead and co-founder at the Restart Project

The Restart Project is a people-powered social enterprise that aims to fix the human relationship with electronics.

It was born in 2013 from frustration with the throwaway, consumerist model of electronics that we’ve been sold, and the growing mountain of e-waste that it’s leaving behind. They run regular Restart Parties where people teach each other how to repair their broken and slow devices – from tablets to toasters, from iPhones to headphones. And use data and stories to help demand better, more sustainable electronics for all at a European policy level.

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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.

👋 12.30pm - Event starts with a welcome from your meet-up organisers, Ellen, Hannah and Mike

📢 12.35pm - 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

❓ 1.15pm - Audience questions for Sandra, Chris, Mohan and Janet

🗓️ 1.25pm - 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.

Panel discussion: How can tech workers take action on climate change in 2022?