Detailed Program
Tuesday, February 12
08:00-22:00 Side-Event
Green Hackathon – Hacking for Sustainability
In collaboration with KTH-CESC Stockholm
Wednesday, February 13
11:00-18:00 Side-Events
Launch of the SECO-Empa Programme on Sustainable Recycling Industries Slides
Green IT Crash Course Slides
Green IT special interest group of the Swiss Informatics Society
ICT solutions for sustainable lifestyles Slides
World Resources Forum (WRF) Association, International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Global e-Sustainable Initiative (GeSI), Hewlett Packard (HP)
Thursday, February 14
9:00-10:10 Plenary Session P1
Opening Session
Conference Welcome
Peter Woodward, Conference Facilitator, Quest Associates, Coventry, UK
Gian-Luca Bona, Professor, Director General, Empa – Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Dübendorf, Switzerland
Göran Andersson, Professor, Energy Science Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Slides
Introduction to the Conference Slides
Lorenz M. Hilty, Conference Chair, Professor of Informatics and Sustainability, University of Zurich and Empa, Switzerland
Electricity Networks and ICT – the Chain to Sustainability Slides
Pierre-Alain Graf, CEO Swissgrid, Frick, Switzerland
10:40-12:40 Plenary Session P2
Background
Chaired by: Peter Woodward
The Economic Imperative of ICT Slides more
John “Skip” Laitner, Economic and Social Analysis Program Director, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
Interactions between Energy, Information and Growth Slides more
Daniel Spreng, Prof. em., ETH Zurich
Reports from Pre-Conference Activities
ISL report Slides
SRI report Slides
Green Hackathon report Slides
Introduction to the Draft Conference Recommendations and Discussion Slides
Peter Woodward and Lorenz Hilty
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session A1
ICT Hardware – Energy
Chaired by: Reinhard Madlener and Vlad Coroama
The development of ICT Sector Guidance: rationale, development and outcomes Slides
Andie Stephens and Mark Didden
The Future Carbon Footprint of the ICT and E&M Sectors Slides
Jens Malmodin, Pernilla Bergmark, Åsa Moberg and Dag Lundén
The Greenhouse Gas Abatement Potential of Enterprise Cloud Computing Slides
Daniel R. Williams, Peter Thomond and Ian Mackenzie
Capabilities and Limitations of Direct Free Cooling in Data Centers Slides
Peter Gysel, Rolf Morf, Cyrill Grüter and Matthias Krebs
Energy Consumption of Smart Meters Slides
Michael Preisel, Adriana Diaz and Wolfgang Wimmer
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session B1
Smart Resource Management
Chaired by: Jorge Marx Gómez and Kristina Voigt
Keynote: Data-Driven Resource Management Slides
more
Marko Turpeinen (The Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Smart Metering Infrastructure for Residential Water Efficiency: Results of a Trial in a Behavioural Change Program in Perth, Western Australia Slides
Martin Anda, Fabian Le Gay Brereton and Elise Paskett
IT System for Computer Aided Management of Communal Water Networks by Means of GIS, SCADA, Mathematical Models and Optimization Algorithms Slides
Jan Studziński
Using ICT for Climate Adaptation and Mitigation through Agro-Ecology in the Developing World Slides
Helena Grunfeld and John Houghton
EcoLogTex: a Software Tool Supporting the Design of Sustainable Supply Chains for Textiles Slides
Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli, Heinz Zeller, Mireille Faist, Roberto Montemanni, Michela Gioacchini and Nicola Nembrini
Incentives for Inter-Organizational Environmental Information Systems
Hans Thies and Katarina Stanoevska-Slabeva
16:30-18:30 Parallel Session A2
ICT Hardware – Materials
Chaired by: Daniel Schien
Keynote: Scarce Metals as Raw Materials for ICTs: Do We Care Enough?
Patrick Wäger and Rolf Widmer
Social Life Cycle Inventory and Impact Assessment of Informal Recycling of Electronic ICT Waste in Pakistan
Shakila Umair, Anna Björklund and Elisabth Ekener Petersen
Insights from a Decade of Development Cooperation in E-Waste Management
Mathias Schluep, Esther Müller, Lorenz M. Hilty, Daniel Ott, Rolf Widmer, and Heinz Böni
Acceptance of Mobile Phone Return Programs: A Case Study Based Analysis
Britta Bookhagen, Julia Nordmann, Inger Dyrnes, Oliver Stengel and Nils-Holger Schmidt
Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks: A Case Study
of the D4R Laptop
Peter Beigl, Stewart Hickey, Gudrun Obersteiner, Colin Fitzpatrick, Karsten Schischke, Paul Maher and Jose Ospina
16:30-18:30 Parallel Session B2
Smart Buildings and Cities
Chaired by: Stefan Naumann and Andrea-Emilio Rizzoli
Best Paper:
Building Sustainable Smart Homes Slides
Marco Blumendorf
BubbleSense: Wireless Sensor Network Based Intelligent Building Monitoring Slides
Cheng Li, Forrest Meggers, Mo Li, Jithendrian Sundaravaradan, Fei Xue, HockBeng Lim and Arno Schlueter
Urban Social Sustainability through the Web: Using ICTs to Build a Community for Prospective Neighbors Slides
Eun Ji Cho and Liat Rogel
Evaluating Sustainability in Smart Cities – Methodology Requirements
Nina Lövehagen and Anna Bondesson
ICT for Sustainable Cities: How ICT Can Support Environmentally Sustainable Development in Cities? Slides
Anna Kramers, Mattias Höjer, Nina Lövehagen and Josefin Wangel
Energy Efficiency in Hammarby Sjöstad, Stockholm through ICT and Smarter Infrastructure – Survey and Potentials Slides
Örjan Svane
Friday, February 15
9:00-10:30 Plenary Session P3
New Horizons
Chaired by: Peter Woodward
Harnessing Collective Intelligence to Address Climate Change: The Climate CoLab Slides
more
Robert Laubacher, Research Scientist, Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA
Defining an Agenda for Computational Sustainability Slides
more
Jennifer Mankoff, Prof., Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Discussion, Update on Conference Recommendations Formulation
Peter Woodward, Conference Facilitator
11:00-13:00 Parallel Session A3
Smart Energy Solutions
Chaired by: Göran Andersson and Jean-Marc Pierson
Keynote: ICT for a Sustainable and Secure Electricity Supply System Slides
Rainer Bacher, Bacher Energy Ltd.
Makahiki+WattDepot: An Open Source Software Stack for Next Generation Energy Research and Education Slides
Philip M. Johnson, Yongwen Xu, Robert S. Brewer, Carleton A. Moore, George E. Lee and Andrea Connell
When Looking out of the Window is not Enough: Informing The Design of In-Home Technologies for Domestic Energy Microgeneration Slides
Blaine Price, Janet Van Der Linden, Jacky Bourgeois and Gerd Kortuem
Developing a Strategy for the Implementation of ICT in Energy Efficient Neighbourhoods Slides
Max Blöchle, Branislav Iglar, Daniele Basciotti and Jessen Page
11:00-13:00 Parallel Session B3
Societal Aspects
Chaired by: Michael Decker and Kristina Voigt
ICT as Motor for Transition: Towards a Low Energy, Low Carbon Society Slides
Josefin Wangel, Kristian Løbner and Marie Sølgaard Bang
Practicing the Smart Grid Slides
Cecilia Katzeff and Josefin Wangel
From Fixed, Mobile to Complex – The Social Shaping of ICT for Sustainable Travel Slides
Carlos Cano Viktorsson
Towards a Holistic Assessment of Environmental Impacts from ICT: the Case of E-Commerce
Miriam Börjesson Rivera, Cecilia Håkansson, Åsa Svenfelt and Göran Finnveden
National Collaboration on Green ICT in the Dutch Higher Education: Lessons Learned Slides
Albert Hankel
Translating Green IT: The Case of the Swedish Green IT Audit
Per Fors and Thomas Taro Lennerfors
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session A4
ICT Software – Energy
Chaired by: Patricia Lago and Wolfgang Lohmann
Keynote: Energy Consumption from a Software Perspective Slide
more
Jean-Marc Pierson (Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, France)
Green Software and Green Software Engineering – Definitions, Measurements, and Quality Aspects Slides
Eva Kern, Markus Dick, Stefan Naumann, Achim Guldner and Timo Johann
The Impact of Improving Software Functionality on Environmental Sustainability Slides
Sedef Akınlı Koçak, Andriy Miranskyy, Gülfem Işıklar Alptekin, Ayşe Başar Bener and Enzo Cialini
Identification of Application-Level Energy-Optimizations
Kay Grosskop and Joost Visser
Pilot Result Monitoring Energy Usage by Software Slides
Frank Van Bokhoven and Jarno Bloem
14:00-16:00 Parallel Session B4
Smart Decisions
Chaired by: Elaine M. Huang
Data Mining in the Closed-Loop CRM-Approach for Improving Sustainable Intermodal Mobility Slides
Thees Gieselmann, Marcel Severith, Benjamin Wagner vom Berg and Jorge Marx Gómez
An Awareness Based Approach to Avoid Rebound Effects in ICT Slides
Giovanna Sissa
mat – an ICT Application to Support a More Sustainable Use of Print Products and ICT Devices Slides
Roland Hischier, Michael Keller, Rudolf Lisibach and Lorenz M. Hilty
Climate Change Impact of Electronic Media Solutions: Case Study of the Tablet Edition of a Magazine Slide
Mohammad Ahmadi Achachlouei, Åsa Moberg and Elisabeth Hochschorner
Small Community Media for Sustainable Consumption Slides
Gergely Lukács
16:30-18:00 Plenary Session P4
Panel Discussion
Chaired by: Peter Woodward
Wicked Issues and Recommendations: Expert panel and audience discuss key conference insights, issues and recommendations
Saturday, February 16
9:00-18:00, subject to change
Sustainability, Social Accountability and Computing
IFIP TC9 Joint Workshop of Working Groups 9.2 Social Accountability and 9.9 ICT and Sustainable Development
9:00-16:00, subject to change
PhD Students’ Workshop
Informatics and Sustainability Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich
9:00-16:00, subject to change
Swiss Workshop: Nachhaltige Entwicklung und Informationsgesellschaft, in German
BAKOM (Bundesamt für Kommunikation) und ARE (Bundesamt für Raumentwicklung)
