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Anita Schüttler

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Head of Sustainability

neuland - Büro für Informatik GmbH

Bremen, Germany

Speaks: GermanEnglish

Biography

Anita is a software engineer and a sustainability professional with expertise in Green Coding, Circular Economy and Agile Sustainability. Having worked in the e-commerce sector for almost 15 years, she now helps e-commerce and other IT companies embed circular principles into their processes and the way they build and run software. In addition to the technical aspects of the topic, Anita focuses on systemic and cultural implications: What do we really need? What are the right problems to solve? And how can we use our people's natural motivators to activate them and make Green Coding an inside job?

Activity History

2025

Feb 6

Shared responsibility - how the energy transition will influence the way we build and run software

speakingOOP - Konferenz für Softwarearchitektur

We're in the middle of the energy transition: from reliable, always-on and dirty fossil fuel to volatile but clean renewable energy. This means that requirements for when, where and how much energy to consume will change, in IT as anywhere else. In this talk, you'll learn what cloud providers' and software architecture's roles in this are, how the future energy market will affect IT systems and what software architects can do today to make sure their products aren't just ready for, but can even profit from this development.

OOP Konferenz | Das Programm 2025
OOP Konferenz | Das Programm 2025

www.oop-konferenz.de

Jan 14

Green IT: Erfahrungen aus der Praxis

speakingGreen Software Meetup Hamburg

Attending a Green Software meetup as a guest speaker to talk about my experiences with implementing Green Software principles in the daily work of IT companies - how to teach people and get them to act, where to start, what to do or not to do etc.

Login to Meetup | Meetup
Login to Meetup | Meetup

www.meetup.com

2024

Nov 13

Sustainable Tech – how the principles of the Circular Economy can transform IT

speakingDigitale Leute

„Reduce, Reuse, Recycle“ – the Circular Economy is gaining traction for physical products, in many cases thanks to digital innovations. What’s still under-utilized, however, is the potential for reducing waste and emissions by applying circular principles to IT itself. In this talk, we will explore what „Design out waste“ or „Keep products and materials in use“ translate to for digital products. You will learn what the environmental footprint of tech is and why it’s still such a secret. And finally, Anita will present you with some tangible, real-world examples from her work with clients that will leave you inspired to start your own Sustainable Tech journey.

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Aug 23

CSRD & Green Software

Wie die Nachhaltigkeit in die IT kommt
writingEcoCompute 2024

Article for ITSpektrum

ITSpektrum
ITSpektrum

webreader.objektspektrum.de

Jul 4

Green Coding in der Praxis – how it started, how it’s going

speakingDeveloper Week '24

Talk about how to go about Green Software in practice, with some theory about what's important, what hinders teams and prevents companies from starting at all, ending with a real-world example about measuring and how about 50% of a team's emissions were saved.

Programm 2025 | Developer Week
Programm 2025 | Developer Week

www.developer-week.de

Apr 25

Real projects - real problems to solve

speakingEcoCompute 2024

Anita works as a Green Coding consultant with IT companies of different sizes. Some of them come seeking help because they have ESG based KPIs and want to reduce their IT’s emissions, others don’t even know yet that this is something they might want to do. Some run all of their workloads in the cloud, others have their own on prem data center. One thing they all seem to have in common, though: most of their devs are “sceptical” towards sustainability in IT. Anita will share insights and stories from her work: How to get clients to start Green Coding initiatives even if they’re not yet interested. Where to start looking for savings potential and how to go about estimating it. What to do if a measuring tool shows numbers that seem too small to be true. And how to make sure people not only cooperate for as long as you’re there but also keep on going after you’ve left - to guarantee this change will truely be “sustainable”.

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2023

Dec 5

Nachhaltige IT jenseits von Aktivismus: eine Head of Sustainability und ein Senior Software Engineer teilen Wissen und Erfahrungen

speakingSEACON digital 2023

Unternehmen, die eine Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie für ihre IT haben, sind heute noch eine Seltenheit. Dabei sind die Zeiten vorbei, in denen Nachhaltigkeit nur etwas für Menschen mit einer Affinität zu Klebstoff oder Tomatensoße war. Anita Schüttler gibt in diesem Talk eine Einordnung, wohin die Reise in Sachen Sustainable IT geht, gesteuert durch Gesetze der EU, des Markts und der Physik. Sie zeigt die Eckpfeiler einer IT-Nachhaltigkeitsstrategie auf und hat eine reiche Sammlung von Maßnahmen der nachhaltigen Softwareentwicklung für verschiedene Gewerke im Gepäck, ergänzt durch Quellen zum Selbststudium und Tools, die bei der Berechnung der Emissionen von Software unterstützen können. Olaf Sebelin hat eine große Affinität zu guter Architektur und wird deshalb erzählen, welche dieser Maßnahmen aus dem Bereich Architektur wir bei neuland bereits selbst ausprobiert haben und wie das so gelaufen ist.

SEACON 2023 | Programm
SEACON 2023 | Programm

www.sea-con.de

Nov 23

Keynote Debate - The way forward for Green Coding in Europe

speakingSDIA Green Coding Summit 2023

On this panel we discuss two key questions: What are the barriers to the wider adoption of Green Coding practices and what can we do to reduce or remove those barriers? Participants: Anita Schüttler (neuland), Max Körbacher (Liquid Reply), Atanas Atanasov (Intel) and Janne Kalliola (Exove)

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Oct 6

#ClimateActionNow! Wie nachhaltige Software-Entwicklung den Weg in deinen Programmieralltag finden kann

speakingXPDays Germany 2023

Das Thema Nachhaltige Software-Entwicklung hält langsam, aber sicher, Einzug in die IT und wird, neben Generativer KI, eines der wichtigsten Themen der kommenden Jahre sein. Im Vortrag begründet Anita, warum jetzt ein guter Zeitpunkt ist, sich mit dem Thema Nachhaltige Software-Entwicklung zu beschäftigen, welche regulatorischen Anforderungen auf Firmen zukommen und welche Rolle die IT beim Einsparen von CO2 spielen kann. Sie zeigt Wege auf, bei den eigenen Kolleg:innen Interesse und Lust auf das Thema zu wecken und einen sanften Einstieg zu finden. Und natürlich hat sie auch einige konkrete Tipps für den Programmieralltag, Quellen fürs Selbststudium und Tools zum Ausprobieren im Gepäck.

XP Days Germany 2023 - Extreme. Together.
XP Days Germany 2023 - Extreme. Together.

www.xpdays.de

Sep 14

#ClimateActionNow! How Green Coding can find its way into your daily programming routine.

speakingcode.talks 2023

The topic of sustainable software development is slowly but surely finding its way into IT and, alongside generative AI, will be one of the most important topics in the coming years. In this presentation, Anita explains why now is a good time to address the topic of sustainable software development, what regulatory requirements companies will face and what role IT can play in reducing CO2 emissions. She shows ways to get your colleagues interested in the topic and introduce them in a gentle way. And, of course, she also has some specific tips for everyday programming, resources for self-study and tools to try out.

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