Green IO Munich 2026: From Measuring to Achieving

Green IO Munich 2026 takes place 8–9 July 2026 at Smartvillage Bogenhausen — the second DACH edition of the conference, and the next stop on Green IO’s 2026 world tour after Singapore, New York, and Amsterdam.

The theme is direct: “From measuring to achieving: industrializing IT Sustainability.” Germany’s manufacturing heritage makes this edition especially relevant. The programme moves past dashboards and frameworks toward how organisations actually scale Green IT and sustainable AI in production environments.

Why Munich matters for Green IT now

Three focus areas frame the conference:

• Scaling hardware and e-waste management — circular IT, refurbishment, and end-of-life practices that turn sustainability from narrative into operational reality
• AI is not in the Cloud — on-prem SLMs, edge inference, and the trade-offs between cloud frontier models and locally run alternatives
• Broader digital sustainability — standardisation, procurement levers, and the governance gaps that keep GreenOps stuck in reporting mode

Opening day asks a provocative question: the DACH Mittelstand industrialised the world through rigour and long-term thinking — can that same discipline be applied to responsible AI deployment?

Workshop day — 8 July

The workshop programme (Room: DANZIG) is hands-on and practitioner-led. Highlights include:

• AI sustainability LIVE — measuring the real cost and emissions of AI usage in action
• Rightsizing in the AI era — prioritised, risk-scored recommendations for idle and overprovisioned compute
• Agentic coding & sustainability — how software companies handle AI’s environmental backpack and token consumption
• The carbon cost of cloud AI in network operations — comparing frontier prompts with fine-tuned on-prem SLMs for NetOps workloads
• Evaluating AI use cases with the responsible AI canvas (SUX Network)
• The Digital Collage as a bridge between sustainability experts and non-technical teams
• Data center efficiency — embedding climate risk into infrastructure decisions
• Lean UX and sustainability — designing for people, planet, and profit

Conference day — 9 July

Day two (Room: TOSKANA) features keynotes and talks on topics that rarely share a stage elsewhere:

• Circular economy for IT infrastructure — moving from recycling narratives to strategic imperatives
• Green software metrics — closing the gap between sustainability intention and measurement (Hochschule München)
• IT end-of-life management in practice — United Internet and afb social & green IT
• Why IT efficiency is tech sustainability’s biggest win — the gap between datacenter PUE and actual server utilisation
• On-device AI with Microsoft Foundry Local — sustainability, privacy, and cost at the edge
• Measuring carbon footprint of microservice architectures — live demo with state-of-the-art tooling
• Blue Angel certification for software — the world’s first eco-label for sustainable software (Umweltbundesamt)
• Standardization for resource-efficient software and AI — DIN and ongoing European harmonisation work

Part of FOST Munich

Green IO Munich runs alongside FOST Munich — the Future Of Software Technologies federation that brings together independent, vendor-neutral tech conferences under one roof. If you are already in Munich for agentic orchestration, API design, or production automation, Green IO is the sustainability track worth adding to your calendar.

Green IO 2026 — other editions

At a glance

Green IO Munich 2026 is part of the FOST conference federation. For anyone working on green software measurement, DACH-scale GreenOps, or sustainable AI deployment, this is the DACH community’s most concentrated meeting point of the year.