Last updated: 17 July 2025
Here’s where Green Web Foundation team is heading next. If you’re going to any of these upcoming events and conferences, reach out so we can say hello!
Design for Planet: Digital Design
Online event – July 23, 9am – 10am CEST 2025
In this webinar series on Design for Planet, Fershad will be part of the panel and in-depth discussion on what it means to be a sustainable digital designer. He is joined by Ben Rennie, co-founder and managing partner at Reny ®, and Chris Speed, Professor of Design for Regenerative Futures at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.
Global Gathering
Estoril, Portugal – Sep 8 – 10 2025
The Global Gathering is a community meet-up organised by TeamCommunity and held in September in Portugal. Katrin will represent Green Web Foundation’s work there.
Green IO London
London, United Kingdom – Sep 24 2025
Hannah Smith, our Director of Operations, will attend the Green IO London conference in autumn this year.
Beyond Tellerrand
Berlin, Germany – Nov 06 & 07 2025
Hannah Smith, our Director of Operations, will be speaking at the Beyond Tellerrand conference, a single-track event where creativity and technology meet, in autumn this year.
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Previous events
WordPress Meet-Up
Amsterdam, Netherlands – July 8 2025
How can a website’s frontend respond to the state of the electricity grid? In this talk, Fershad Irani introduced The Green Web Foundation’s latest initiative: Grid-aware Websites. This project empowers designers and developers to build websites that react to the type of electricity powering a visitor’s session – adapting design and features to reduce environmental impact during high-carbon periods.
Green IO MUNICH
Munich, Germany – July 3 2025
The whole team attended this conference. We gave a workshop on the environmental impacts of AI, and participated in a panel that asked “Is AI yet another software to eco-design?”. Thank you for the invite, Gaël & team!
Digital Summit 2025
Zwolle, Netherlands – June 14th 2025
Chris Adams was speaking at the first digital sustainability track of the GroenLinks-PvdA’s annual Digital Summit, an event to explore how to lead the digital transition in fair, humane ways – so that everyone benefits.
Web Directions Code
Melbourne, Australia – June 12 & 13 2025
Fershad Irani gave his talk “Building a grid-aware web”. What if websites could adapt their behaviour based on the electricity powering them? This talk explored the vision of a grid-aware web that responds dynamically to the availability of clean power sources. He examined the role that developers, designers, and decision makers can play in pioneering a web that operates with a sustainable focus.
RE:PUBLICA
Berlin, Germany – May 26 & 27 2025
Katrin Fritsch was part of the meet up (in Geman) “Global Digital Compact: Fahrplan für eine gerechte und nachhaltige digitale Zukunft?” together with Marcel Dorsch, Geraldine de Bastion, Elisa Lindinger and Friederike von Franque.
Climate Action week
Sydney, Australia – Mar 10 – 16 2025
Fershad Irani was in person at various events for Sydney’s Climate Action week:
- Gen Z Driving the Green Tech Revolution (introducing Green Code Challenge)
- Green IT: Educating, Recruiting, Transforming Tomorrow (panelist)
- Digital Carbon Footprint : From Greenwash to Accountability (panelist)
- Sustainable Digital Products: Beyond the Buzzword (presenter)
State of the Open Con
London, UK – Feb 4 & 5 2025
Hannah Smith spoke about our carbon.txt project on Tues 4th Feb in the open data track. View the slides or watch the video.
FOSDEM
Brussels, Belgium – Feb 1 & 2 2025
Chris Adams presented in the Inclusive Web Devroom with the talk How do we work out the environmental savings from accessibility?
Green Software Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe, Germany – Dec 17 2024
Chris Adams, our Director of Technology and Policy, spoke about one of our latest projects, grid-aware websites. You can find a write up of Chris’s talk here: Talking about grid aware software with the Karlsruhe Green software meetup
Green IO Conference
Paris, France – Dec 3, 4 & 5 2024
Hannah Smith, our Director of Operations, gave a talk called ‘Start at the end’ at the Green IO Paris conference. Chris Adams, our Director of Technology and Policy was also at the conference.
6th International Open Search Symposium
Munich, Germany – Oct 9 to Oct 11
Chris Adams, our Executive Director, was in Munich for the 6th International Open Search Symposium.
EDRI Tech and Society Summit
Brussels, Belgium – Sept 30 – Oct 1
Michelle Thorne, our Director of Strategy, was in Brussels for the EDRI Tech and Society Summit – a convening of digital rights and climate groups.
Want to meet up to discuss a project or work with us? Get in touch.