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Program – 1st INFRASTRUCTURE Workshop

Thursday, December 4th – Pre-Workshop Dinner

Dinner venue (19:30): La Loco restaurant | OpenStreetMap | 23 allée Commandant Charcot, Nantes

Beware, last-minute change of restaurant!

Friday, December 5th – Workshop Day

Venue: Auditorium, Building 34, Faculty of Science, Nantes
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Keynotes (9:30–10:45 CET)

Chair: Adrien Luxey-Bitri (Université de Lille)

1. Governing infrastructures: keeping compute infrastructures within planetary boundaries
Speaker: Fieke Jansen | Slides

Fieke Jansen is a postdoc researcher at the Media Studies Department and a co-principal investigator with the critical infrastructure lab at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interest lie in understanding how the material impact of expanding infrastructures is shaping the management, distribution, and depletion of natural resources.

2. Carbon and water footprints of computing infrastructures: evaluations and tendencies
Speaker: Anne-Cécile Orgerie | Slides

Anne-Cécile Orgerie is research scientist in computer science at CNRS in the IRISA laboratory in Rennes. She belongs to a team working on large-scale distributed systems, including Cloud and Edge computing. Her research topics focus on measuring, modeling, simulating and reducing the energy consumption of distributed systems, and more broadly on evaluating and limiting their environmental impacts.

1st Session (10:45–12:15 CET)

Chair: Baptiste Jonglez (Inria)

• Local-First Software: An Energy-Efficient Alternative to Cloud-Centric SaaS Architectures — Lylian Siffre, Thomas Ledoux, Renaud Pawlak, John Guery (25 min)

  • Article
  • Slides
  • Question: Can we design local-first systems that inherently constrain, rather than induce, new resouce demand?

• Making ICT sustainable: no technician, nor social solutionism but a “milieu” approach — Pauline Picot, Mathieu Triclot (25 min)

  • Article
  • Slides
  • Question: What ways to avoid both technician and social solutionism and at which particular entry points in the ICT infrastructure?

• Breakout discussion (40 min)

2nd Session (13:30–15:30 CET)

Chair: Erwan Bousse (Nantes Université)

• Modeling the digital sector’s production system: a timely & interdisciplinary endeavour — Samuel Dubuisson, Adrien Luxey-Bitri (25 min)

  • Article
  • Slides
  • Question: How can we model the role and interactions of the digital sector in order to visualise and predict its holistic environmental and social impacts?

• The environmental footprint of data storage or what can lie behind a gigabyte — Adrien Berthelot, Daniel Schien (25 min)

  • Article
  • Question: Can the size of an “individual datasphere” of a person be a good proxy for its use and/or digital sufficiency limit?
  • Question: Can a complex infrastructure like a distributed online storage exist within planetary boundaries or a paradigm of digital sufficiency?

• Breakout discussion (50 min)

• Group report (20 min)

3rd Session (16:00–18:00 CET)

Chair: Vincent Giraud (IHEDN)

• An interdisciplinary approach to studying long-term social resilience to ICT hardware limitation — Ludmila Courtillat–Piazza, Marceau Coupechoux, Clément Marquet, Sophie Quinton (25 min)
  • Article
  • Slides
  • Question: How can studying current socio-technical systems in world based on growth inform a future in a limited world?
• Infrastructure as Commons, Low-tech Principles and Territorial Distribution: a magical recipe for resilience ? — Lucien Astié, Hélène Coullon (25 min)
  • Article
  • Slides
  • Question: What would your magical recipe be? How would you make infrastructure resilient to fluctuating dependencies?
• Breakout discussion (30 min)
• Group report (40 min)