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Green IO with Gaël Duez explores how to reduce the environmental impact of our digital world. Twice a month, on a Tuesdays guests from across the globe share insights, tools, and alternative approaches, enabling all responsible technologists, within the Tech sector and beyond, to build a greener digital world, one byte at a time.
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Synthetic Media

Henrik de Gyor

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Synthetic Media is created with expanding technology, fueled by rapid growth and curiosity. While we may have heard of the nefarious deepfakes, there is a larger, positive movement to use synthetic media for good reasons and use cases that are already happening. Not simply limited to entertainment, there are many areas where more people including artists, scholars, startups, policymakers, and well-established companies are very conscious about ethics before using powerful technology to creat ...
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This podcast contains lectures on aspects of the history of the Catholic Church in England and Wales. The talks were recorded at meetings held in various locations in England and Wales in recent years, and via Zoom. All our speakers are experts in their field.
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This series consists of interviews with leading experts in the areas of Portuguese and Spanish history, from the beginning of the Portuguese discoveries in 1415 to the end of Spanish dominion in America in 1898. The interviews cover a range of topics on the domestic and overseas histories of both nations, which include, among others: the Portuguese explorations of Africa and Asia, Spanish navigation and settlement in America, the church in Portugal and Spain, monarchy and intermarriage in th ...
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💭 How can a country defining itself as an high-tech spearheader can embrace IT sustainability? Japan is a fascinating example of both the contradictions and the synergies that such a journey creates. 🎙️ In this episode, Gael Duez welcomes two long-time Japan-based experts: Paul Beddie, VP and Sustainability Lead at Capgemini, and Trista Bridges, th…
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💭Decarbonizing tech stacks and platforms? This is the challenge many CTO face these days. 🎙️In our 42th episode, 2 CTOs with different backgrounds and operating in different lines of business cross share their experience in reducing the environmental footprint of their operations. Ludi Akue, former Lunii’s CTO, and Owen Rogers, .eco’s CTO meet Gael…
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☁️ What can AWS users achieve today in terms of decarbonization? And what can they expect tomorrow? 🎙️ In this episode, Gael Duez welcomes Adrian Cockcroft, the former creator and leader of the AWS sustainability team who now leads the Green Software Foundation project “Real Time Cloud”. They had an in-depth chat about measuring carbon for software…
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🤔 Why do we do so little to decarbonize software despite already knowing so much? 🎙️ In this episode, Gael Duez is joined by Janne Kalliola, author of "Green Code," together with Satu Heikinheimo, Planet Diplomats’ founder, to discuss how to trigger more actions among Tech people to reduce the carbon footprint of our code. 🌍 Both being based in Fin…
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🔎 Major regulations have been built up in Europe these past years impacting the Tech sectors. How have they been built? What does it take to pass these kinds of bills in the unique European Union political system? And what are the consequences for the people working in the digital industry? 🎙️ This episode 39 welcomes Kim Van Sparrentak, a Member o…
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🔎 What are the main angles to be covered when you truly want to design, run, and sometimes decommission, software, in the greenest possible way? 🎙️ In this episode, Sara Bergman, a seasoned software engineer and one of the acclaimed co-authors of the O’Reilly book “Building Green Software” joins Gaël Duez to discuss the book, and more specifically …
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💡In product management, there is a strong culture of adapting to change, testing, and rapid learning. Talking about change, we have a big big one ahead of us: climate change! How can product leaders include climate considerations into the build and run of digital services and scale sustainable practices? 🎧In this episode, Gael interviewed two hands…
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📈 44 cm water level rise under the IPCC business as usual scenario. This number shows that climate change is very real for Singaporeans and for their data centers, close to 10% of the whole of APAC! 🎧In episode 36, Gaël Duez discussed with Professor PS Lee, National University of Singapore Dean's Chair of Mechanical Engineering and one of the top e…
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⚙️Cybersecurity and sustainability do share a complex relationship! The two approaches share commonalities, such as grappling with resistance from teams and executives and prioritizing resilience, but they also seem to split in notable ways such as constant updates in cybersecurity impacting bloatware and equipment obsolences. 🎧In this episode Gaël…
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🎙️In our latest episode, Hannah Smith, the COO of the Green Web Foundation, and Ismael Velasco, the founder of the Adora Foundation, highlight the potential pitfalls of Carbon Aware Computing a strategy that aims to reduce carbon emissions by aligning software operations with the carbon intensity of the energy grid. While this approach has gained t…
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🔍How open source software slashes energy consumption, extends hardware lifespan, and drives sustainability? 🎙️In this episode, Gael Duez unravels the intricate relationship between open source software and IT sustainability together with Oliver Cronk, the host of Architect Tomorrow podcast and Sustainable Technology practice lead at Scott Logic (UK…
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How can we make systemic design operational for sustainable design? 🔧Systemic design is dedicated to handling complex systems, complex questions, and complex issues. Sounds familiar with Sustainability? But if things are so complex how digital product people willing to design sustainably can embrace them? In this episode, we dive deep into the worl…
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How do we tackle the Green IT blind spot? 🏞️ In many big corporations, IT is never number one, number two, even number three for GHG emission sources (and other environmental factors). But everyone working in the digital sustainability sector knows that, actually, little streams make big rivers with the digital sector accouting for around 4% of glo…
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Joanna Bogle gives an engaging presentation about the fascinating, little-known life of Caroline Chisholm, Catholic reformer and friend of emigrants in the Australia of the 1840s. Caroline travelled to Australia with her husband and family in 1838. Very soon she realised that little help was given to migrants, especially women, who often, as a resu…
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0.9g of CO2e. It’s pretty ridiculous when you think about it. According, the French SRI association this is the carbon footprint for a 10K prints digital campaign with a 200k image. So not a big deal? Not that simple because we’re talking about volumes in trillions per day here. So maybe it’s a good idea to dive a little deeper on the environmental…
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We don't always need a science-fiction device "à la Star Trek" to get transported somewhere else. Discussing with Maxime Blondeau results in such a journey where I discover how anthropology, geography, and cosmology can help us understand better digital technologies and more specifically: 🤯 Why Digital Tech is not the first mind revolution humanity…
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🤯 AI is all the rage at the moment but what about its impact? 🌱 Especially its environmental cost? 🛑 Does it mean we should stop leveraging this tool? 🏃 Can we extract ourselves from this rat race? AI comes with many questions and this episode comes with a clear angle to debate it: how do data experts specialized in impact business such as Lou Welg…
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Meeting Asim Hussain, the Green Software Foundation’s Director, is always an uplifting experience and this episode makes no exception. A patchwork episode where we talked about: When we finally have the chance to meet with Asim Hussain the Director of the GSF, the episode becomes a crazy mailbag one where we talked about: 🙌 How trust and consensus …
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This episode is not in Spanish or Portuguese but it might have been 🙂 With Catalina Zapata - founder of La Web Verde community in Colombia - and Ismael Velasco - founder of the Adora foundation and based in Mexico - Gaël Duez explores the momentum of Digital Sustainability in Latin America as well as the pitfalls it faces. From COP21 memories to th…
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What if you could get sued if your website is not low-carbon enough? What if you would be barred from many call for tenders if your digital services don’t hit minimum sustainability requirements? Science-fiction? This is what people said on 5 May 1999 when the first version ever of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines was released by the World …
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How do you decarbonize your operations when most of the action takes part outside of your organization? 🕵️ This is the issue SaaS companies face with IT sustainability. 🌱 In the latest Green IO episode I (Gaël Duez) sat down with Tereze Gaile to get insights from Salesforce’s approach. Tereze is the lead author of the “Sustainability Guide for Sale…
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Our regular Green IO host Gaël Duez meets Harriet Kingaby and Mathieu Jahnich to get the low-down on greenwashing, and, more importantly, how to avoid it. Mathieu Jahnich is a consultant and researcher, and also a lecturer at Sciences Po, Paris, where he teaches responsible communication & marketing on several Masters programs. Harriet Kingaby is a…
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Hello everyone, welcome to Green IO the podcast for responsible technologists building a greener digital world, one byte at a time. Why this podcast? What to expect in Season 2? Take a 5 minutes walk-through with our Host Gaël Duez 🎙️ ❤️ Subscribe, follow, like, ... stay connected the way you want to never miss an episode! Transcript Gaël: Hello ev…
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A special (northern hemisphere) summer one! An uncut, raw, spontaneous episode where Perrine, Tristan and Gaël discuss about podcasting in Sustainability, in Tech and in general! 🎙️ Enjoy it at the beach, in the moutains or in front of a warm fire if this is winter time for you 🎧 Learn more about our guests and connect Perrine's LinkedIn Tristan’s …
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Are you ready to take a closer look at the environmental consequences of coding and join the movement towards green coding? What actions can we collectively take to minimize the harmful effects of software development on our environment? That’s what we discussed in this episode on the harmful impact of code on the environment ! Join Gaël Duez to me…
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What about the 53.6 million metric tons of e-waste generated worldwide ? How can we, as responsible individuals and global citizens, take action to address this critical issue? That’s what we discussed in this episode on e-waste ! Join Gaël Duez to meet : Jacqueline Mukarukundo, co-founder of Wastezon in Rwanda and Vanessa Forti, Associate Programm…
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What would be the three most harmful website design practices ? What are the actions that you can’t take without the client’s approval ? How could you convince your boss or customers on this sustainable journey ? That’s what we discuss in this episode on sustainable design ! Join Gaël Duez to meet : Michael Anderson, Frontend Web Developer at Initi…
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Can you deploy an impactful Sustainable IT strategy under market pressures? What if metrics are not there? What if your customers do not care? .. To get feedback on these questions, join Gaël Duez to meet two great leaders : Drew Engelson, Starbuck’s Director of Engineering in Seattle and Dominique Bruinier, OCTO's Chief Operating Officer and Chief…
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Ready to explore the digital sustainability landscape of Singapore? Travel there with Gaël Duez to meet Thibaut, the local representative of both the Climat fresk and the Digital Collage in Singapore and Ian, founder of Greenie web. ➡️ Join us for an insightful discussion as we delve into the Singaporean tech ecosystem and its sustainability landsc…
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What if we unveiled the often overlooked environmental impact of data centers together ? Travel with Gaël Duez to Sweden to meet Life Cycle Management expert Stanislava and to France to meet Benoît, co-founder of Hubblo and NGO Boavizta who works on impact evaluation and energy/material efficiency for businesses. Join us for an eye-opening episode …
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Did you know that 81% of energy will be consumed before you turn your laptop on for the first time ? 🤯 Gaël Duez travels to New Mexico, USA and Dublin to meet Katie Singer - acclaimed author of “A silent electronic spring” - and Gerry Mc Govern - well-known author of “World Wide Waste” - for an episode about the dark truth of the data tsunami and i…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Bakz T. Future about synthetic media. You can also listen to the Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM · Stitcher · Spotify · RadioPublic and more. Check out Synthetic Media: The Next Reality…
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In this episode, we went across the world for Digital Cleanup Day. Our first guest, Ingrid Nielsen is based in Tallinn, Estonia and she has been working with Let's Do It World NGO for the last years in different capacities, as the head of Global marketing and communication, running initiatives regarding digital waste and other projects. “Let’s do i…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Alan Smithson of MetaVRse.com about synthetic media. Check out: https://syntheticmedialandscape.com/ Synthetic Media: The Next Reality You can also listen to the Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM · Stitcher · Spotify · RadioPublic an…
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In this episode, Gaël Duez stayed home in France to discuss gender equity in IT and building sustainability teams in large companies. His guests Lucille Vannier is one of the strongest voices in the French IT sector for gender equality. She is also the Strategy Deputy Director of the Sustainable IT Institute, which is the academic body spearheading…
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In this episode, Gaël Duez went to Argentina (or did he?) to discuss digital agencies. Guests Vineeta Greenwood and Gavin Shinfield share a passion for communicating sustainability in ways that their clients can connect to. Veterans of the B-Corp movement, they also prize collaboration and honesty, two keys to their success, and indeed our collecti…
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In this episode, Gaël Duez went to both Oslo and Paris. Elin Hauge and Heloise Nonne never met before but still they have a lot in common. Same huge experience in AI and Data management … and more important - the very reason you will enjoy having them on the show - same despise for buzzwords and lazy short-cutting thinking. A candid discussion wher…
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Nicholas Breakspear was elected pope in 1154, but his story started long before that. The son of a local churchman near St Albans, he would battle his way across Europe to defend and develop Christianity, facing war in Scandinavia and the Moors in the Iberian Peninsula. But it was after he took the throne of St Peter as Adrian IV that he would face…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Joel Bellenson about synthetic media. Check out Synthetic Media: The Next Reality You can also listen to the Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM · Stitcher · Spotify · RadioPublic and more.…
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In this episode, we went to Stockhölm to meet Sören Enholm, TCO Certified CEO 🏷️. For 30 years, TCO has been assessing IT products reaching a whopping 10'000 references today 🤯. We discussed the environmental footprint of digital devices, natural and urban mining, how to secure a qualitative certification process, the current momentum in Digital Su…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Adrian David Cheok of iUniversity Tokyo Japan about synthetic media. Check out the new book Synthetic Media: The Next Reality You can also listen to Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM · Stitcher · Spotify · RadioPublic and more.…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Francois Wayenberg of Ajinomatrix about synthetic media. Check out the new book Synthetic Media: The Next Reality. Follow us for more weekly episodes of Synthetic Media Podcast. You can also listen to Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player F…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Ashish Jaiman of Microsoft about Synthetic Media. Check out these new books on synthetic media: Deepfakes & Synthetic Media: Humanity at the Edge of an Uncanny Valley Synthetic Media: The Next Reality Follow us for more weekly episodes of Synthetic Media Podcast. You can also listen to Synthetic Medi…
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In this episode, we went to Chicago to meet a legend: Tim Frick 🧙. The author of “Designing for Sustainability” and a relentless advocate of the B Corp movement told us about being a trailblazer in Digital Sustainability 🌱 for more than a decade. He also took the challenge to answer 10 questions on Sustainable Design in 20 minutes + an 11th “low-ba…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Jack Esselink of Studio Pulpit about Synthetic Media. Check out Synthetic Media: The Next Reality Follow us for more weekly episodes of Synthetic Media Podcast. You can also listen to Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM · Stitcher · Sp…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Kevin Ume of Metaphysic.ai about synthetic media. Check out: Synthetic Futures Synthetic Media: The Next Reality Follow us for more weekly episodes of Synthetic Media Podcast. You can also listen to Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM …
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In this episode, we took a virtual Eurostar between Paris and London and met Anne Faubry, a Board Member of Ethical Designers ⚖️, and Tom Jarrett, a seasoned designer involved in the ClimateActionTech community where he designed its Branch online magazine 📰. Both are recognized thought leaders in the Sustainable Design field because they implement …
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Gerald Holubowicz of Sciences Po about Synthetic Media. Check out the new book: Synthetic Media: The Next Reality Follow us for more weekly episodes of Synthetic Media Podcast. You can also listen to Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM…
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Here is a brief interview by Henrik de Gyor with Farsh Fallah of Samsung about synthetic media. Check out the new book Synthetic Media: The Next Reality Follow us for more weekly episodes of Synthetic Media Podcast. You can also listen to Synthetic Media Podcast on Amazon Music · Apple Podcasts · Google Podcasts · iHeart Radio · Player FM · Stitche…
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