Conference at CERN on Environmental Sustainability in Computing

[Markus Schulz]

Dear WLCG/HSF Community,
I would like to bring to your attention that CERN hosts the SC4RC conference from the 4th to the 8th of May 2026.

This is a multidisciplinary conference on sustainable computing. It covers a wide range of topics and sciences.
You can find more information here: https://indico.cern.ch/event/1526482/

Key topics include, but are not limited to:
• estimation and monitoring of environmental impacts and energy usage of computing,
• responsible use of computing hardware (sustainable procurement, extending and optimising use phase, responsible disposal),
• resource-efficient software,
• carbon-aware scheduling,
• FAIR and effective data curation, storage and sharing,
• addressing the rebound effect,
• community building and training,
• general and field-specific best practices,
• changing user behaviour and incentivising sustainable computing practices (addressing e.g. external drivers).

The conference will feature plenary talks, panel discussions and parallel sessions.

If you are involved or interested in these topics, please consider to submit an abstract.
Registrations are also welcome.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
If you are in contact with other communities we would appreciate if you could forward this message.

markus

p.s. the program isn't 100% fixed and we will take into account suggestions and topics derived from the abstracts.