About the event

Join François Burra, author of Sustainable by Design: A Playbook for Product Managers, and Pascal Joly, Sustainability Tech expert, for a practical session on building products that prioritize the planet.


Drawing from the Digital Product Decarbonization course and Sustainable AI curriculum, they’ll share how smarter choices like model design, data strategy, and feature scope can reduce emissions without slowing innovation.


Whether you're shaping AI roadmaps or deploying digital services at scale, this is your chance to get ahead of the sustainability curve.


If you’re in product, design, or development, this is your roadmap for leading the next wave of digital products, one built on responsibility, sufficiency, and sustainable growth.


Meet the Speaker(s):

Pascal Joly is an experienced product leader with 25 years of experience in IT services and digital product development for large companies. He is the founder and owner of IT Climate Ed, providing consulting and education services in digital sustainability. He holds a certifications in Machine Learning and LLMs, is a graduate of the INRIA Environmental Impacts of Digital Technologies program, a Terra.do fellow and is certified in GHG Scope 3 measuring.


François Burra is a sustainable digital and low-carbon product consultant, mentor, and speaker with several successful turns as a Product Lead and UX Designer and 13 years of experience working with startups and agencies in Canada and the US. He helps digital companies reduce their digital emissions by delivering training, measuring digital emissions, and creating low-carbon experiences. He has trained individuals and teams in a variety of organizations such as Huge, ServiceNow, Planes, fruggr, Accenture Song, Cossette, etc. He recently wrote the climate product playbook “How to Become a Climate-Conscious Product Manager”. François is also a Terra.do fellow, completing Climate Change: Learning for Action in 2022.


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