2024-06-12 –, Main stage
For the past 50 years, the computing industry has been following Moore's law, so we end up sending to trash millions of well-working computers every year. We can do better. In fact, now that climate change and biodiversity collapse are here and getting worse, we urgently need to do better. I have a plan. The good news is that Moore's law is slowing down. If we start optimizing the software stack we have, we'll realize we're sitting on a huge pile of unused ressources. This will enable us to keep innovating without having to build new IT equipment, which is the biggest environmental issue with IT. In short, we'll run tomorrow's services on yesterday's computers? We have to, we can't wait any longer.
Tristan Nitot is an entrepreneur, book author and hacktivist who has been involved the the Mozilla project (Firefox) since its early days. He has co-founded and was president of Mozilla Europe. He was then in charge of advocacy for the Qwant European search engine before becoming its CEO. After a quick stint as Scaleway's Sustainability Lead, he is now associate director for digital commons and Anthropocene. Tristan is deeply concerned about climate change and as such he is the producer and host of the Octet Vert podcast in French, which aims at exploring the complex relationship between digital and climate change.