Sustainability is no longer a side topic — it's becoming a core responsibility in tech leadership. But sustainable software isn't just about energy-efficient code or carbon-aware cloud choices. True impact happens when tech leads empower their teams to think and act sustainably — at scale.

As a tech lead, your influence can amplify far beyond what you build yourself. By growing people who understand the environmental impact of their decisions, you help create teams that design for sustainability, challenge wasteful defaults, and build tech that lasts.

This talk explores the key leadership skills that enable sustainable thinking in engineering teams — from cultivating ecological awareness, to guiding architecture decisions, to mentoring with long-term impact in mind.

You’ll learn how to:

Inspire your team to factor sustainability into everyday technical decisions

Coach environmentally conscious thinking and challenge short-term trade-offs

Use your influence to advocate for sustainable defaults in architecture, tooling, and infrastructure

Build a culture of responsibility and long-term product thinking

Walk away with strategies that not only grow your people — but also help your teams build a greener future through technology.