Green IT: opportunities and challenges for companies

Digital transformation is at the heart of every business. So are the challenges of sustainability. Digital pollution is growing exponentially. Sustainability challenges are increasingly ambitious.

In a context where digital and environmental strategies are often not aligned, how can IT strategies meet organizations' climate objectives?

The main challenge lies in understanding the problem. What is digital pollution? Is it that important for a company? For a service company, digital pollution can account for up to 40% of its total footprint.

As a result, over 100 companies in Europe are already on the road to Green IT and have been certified with the international Sustainable IT label.

In this keynote, we will take a closer look at what digital pollution is, what it means for companies, and what the first steps are in measuring digital impact and defining a Green IT strategy.

Ready to take the first step?

Can the modern Frankenstein pass the Turing test? 

RAGs, GAI, LLMs etc are all the rage, but are they any good at answering Database or SQL problems? Would you like to talk to Jonathan Lewis, Tim Hall (oracle-base.com) or other Oracle Experts without actually talking to them? We’ll build and use RAG & LLM using different sources, and explore if it is as good as the Real Thing. 

Spotlight on your CI/CD Pipelines: Integrating security with SUSE NeuVector 

Coding is built, tested and deployed through CI/CD pipelines in a series of structured steps. However, bugs and vulnerabilities can exist anywhere. Fortunately, there are solutions available today that can help us reduce or, at most, mitigate these vulnerabilities. In this session, we will explore how you can integrate the SUSE security platform into your pipeline workflow. 

Implement SSO to manage efficiently your users in the cloud 

It's very easy to deploy different tenants or applications in the cloud and it can become challenging to manage all the accesses. In this session, we will see how to implement a single sign-on strategy to manage your users effectively and securely across different accounts or applications. 

Does ChatGPT write better SQL than human intelligence? 

ChatGPT can be a great help for programming, also in SQL. In this session we have a bunch of questions that we want to answer with SQL queries based on a given data structure. Andrea solves them with the help of ChatGPT, Dani uses his own brain. This way we can find out how to prompt ChatGPT to provide helpful code. We also will see how the code can be easily adapted to our own data. 

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Unlocking Data insight with Elasticsearch 

Global overview on Elastic Stack, Elasticsearch use cases, Dasha and David will show how Elastic can answer customers needs. 

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How Cyber Criminals and Malware Creators Protect Their Intellectual Property and Stolen Data 

In the ever-evolving domain of cybercrime, protecting intellectual property and stolen data has become a crucial priority for cyber criminals and malware creators. As cybersecurity defenses grow more sophisticated, these malicious actors continuously develop advanced strategies to safeguard their valuable assets from detection and recovery. 

Data to GenAI made easy: Overcoming the Challenge to Become a Data-Driven Organization 

In the quest to become data-driven, organizations often face significant challenges in managing and analyzing large volumes of data, extracting real-time insights, and integrating advanced AI and machine learning capabilities. These challenges can hinder timely decisionmaking, reduce operational efficiency, and limit innovation. This session tackles these critical issues and illustrates how Oracle HeatWave supports organizations overcome these obstacles. We will focus on the entire journey from data gathering to lightning-fast analytics & real-time insights, advanced machine learning capabilities and Generative AI, enabling organizations to become truly data-driven. 

Delphix - Continuous Data for your Databases

Continuous Data is the database virtualization tool from Delphix. It helps reducing storage costs, speeding up test/dev databases' provisioning and it proposes Self-Service data flow. Let's find out how it works. 

How to work with other people... the example of the PostgreSQL community 

Lack of awareness around Mental Health issues has always been a problem in IT circles, leading often to unnecessary stress, burnout and strained relationships with colleagues and employers. This in turn can lead to employee churn for companies and strife within open source projects. 

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Effective and secure use of generative AI in the enterprise: Practical examples and solutions with the Secure AI Broker 

Generative AI technologies such as ChatGPT and DALL-E offer great potential for increasing productivity. However, they also pose challenges related to privacy, security, and effective implementation. This session presents a practical solution that addresses these issues. 

Using the Secure AI Broker, we will show how interfaces in conjunction with a DLP solution can ensure high privacy, data security, and technology openness. A concrete use case will illustrate how these technologies can automate tasks, reduce workload, and meet the highest security standards. Technically savvy attendees will gain insight into the architecture and implementation of generative AI solutions and experience how technical challenges can be creatively solved. 

PostgreSQL in Kubernetes: Operation - Day 2 

The talk will address the important issues of running a database (in our case - PostgreSQL) in the Kubernetes environment: 1. Choosing the right storage for the database. 2. Database patching. 3. High availability and geo-redundancy are very important in the database environment. 

Running Virtual Machines on Openshift Virtualization 

Red Hat® OpenShift® Virtualization, a feature of Red Hat OpenShift, enables IT teams to run virtual machines (VMs) alongside containers on the same platform, simplifying management and shortening time to production. 

With OpenShift Virtualization, VM administrators can incorporate VMs into containerized workflows by running a VM within a container on KVM, where they can deploy and manage VMs alongside containers - all on a unified platform. In this presentation you will learn how to create, configure and run VM's on OpenShift® Virtualization. What requirements for storage, network and migration are needed and how to properly setup OpenShift® bare-metal. You will see the whole platform in action to get a feeling on how to run VM’s. 

Mental health: predicting and measuring accidents and recoveries 

Mental health and its matching pendants of motivation and productivity are prime subjects in today's workplace, and this even more so in a post-COVID era. 

While this subject is often talked about in private and more rarely in public circles, it is often managed in an unmeasured and unscientific approach. 

In a conference like this, I would like to propose a structured, measurable and repeatable way to tackle these issues. 

After discovering my personal journey, we will learn and use a full toolset and its outcomes to be able to measure each workplace.