In this lightning talk, as a CTO, I'll share my practical "babystep approach"—applying a classic divide and conquer strategy to transform Green IT from a vague idea into concrete engineering tasks.

We'll skip the buzzwords and dive straight into the cloud-native world: from creating transparency with the Green Software Maturity Matrix to hands-on GreenOps patterns you can implement immediately—including 'Scale to Zero' with KEDA and a look into the future of Carbon-Aware Scheduling in Kubernetes.

You'll leave this talk not with a guilty conscience, but with a clear framework to act as a multiplier within your team and to see sustainability for what it is: our industry's next great engineering challenge.