BetterSoftware 2025
as the organisers put it
BetterSoftware è per chi sceglie di sviluppare codice e fare la differenza: sostenibilità, etica, governance e innovazione per un IT che guarda al futuro.
who it's for
sustainability engineers, cloud engineers, product managers, devops and finops practitioners, data scientists and LLM engineers, ux and service designers, policy and governance leads, web developers
topics
geotemporal workload shifting; Kubernetes with Prometheus and CrateDB; Open Policy Agent policy enforcement; right-sizing and autoscaling; ISO 5055-3 software classification; Digital Energy Score (DES) benchmarking; model quantization pruning distillation; LLM carbon and water metrics; FinOps to GreenOps practices; social return on investment for AI (SROI); sustainable product redesign for mobility; Figma WordPress site migration
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Animals as ICT Stakeholders | Roberto Vergallo | 16m |
Argues that animal welfare should be treated as a concrete non-functional requirement in ICT and presents an interdisciplinary assessment framework. Proposes a… | ||
| Sustainable Cloud Operations | Francesco Lumpp | 21m |
An open-source framework running on Kubernetes integrates Prometheus, CrateDB and Open Policy Agent to export standardized usage data, automate right-sizing… | ||
| Digital for Good and GreenOps | Luca Montecchiani, Anna Forlati | 19m |
TeamSystem explains how ESG is operationalized via a Digital for Good program that uses a formal policy, double‑materiality analysis and collaborative… | ||
| LLM: Efficiency and Sustainability in Practice | R. Soro, N.Fantoni | 20m |
The talk compares environmental and efficiency metrics for large models (e.g., 20,000–50,000 tonnes CO2 to train big models, ~15 g CO2 and ~50 ml water per… | ||
| Classifying Software Energy Efficiency | Massimo Crubellati | 30m |
ISO 5055-3 and a derived Digital Energy Score (DES) are used to classify software energy efficiency into six taxonomy classes, based on a benchmark of 3,200… | ||
| Redesigning an Internal Sustainable Mobility Tool | Nicolò Jacopo Calegari | 25m |
A team redesigned an internal mobility app to make it a sustainability touchpoint by combining user research, product fixes and governance work. Research with… | ||
| Assessing Impact to Showcase AI | Luna Bianchi | 14m |
Introduces using Social Return on Investment (SROI) to evaluate AI projects by mapping stakeholders and inputs, setting short/medium/long-term objectives… | ||
| Cultivating ASL Websites | Caterina Amato, Nicola Bonotto | 23m |
A web redesign model for Italian local health authority (ASL) sites implemented as a Figma template, WordPress CMS and operational procedures; applied to ASL… | ||
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