The folks over at QGEMS have kindly offered to host and sponsor the 2nd .NET Meetup of the year. We will be at **Building 5, Airport Freightway Freight Village, Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne NE13 8BH** \- plenty of free parking on site and a short walk from the nearest Metro\. We have a fairly relaxed agenda, but will follow: 5:30 - Doors Open 5:45 - Pizza arrival 6:00 - Introduction / Housekeeping 6:10 - Talks begin 8:00 - Closing **Who should attend:** Beginners and experienced .NET developers, architects, cloud engineers, and anyone curious about building smarter, AI-enhanced applications with Microsoft technologies. **Speaker 1:** Mark Thompson **Title:** Sustainable .NET: Measuring the Energy and Carbon Cost of Software **Description:** Software may be virtual, but the energy it consumes is very real. In this talk, Mark Thompson, Technical Director at QGEMS, explores sustainability from a developer’s perspective and asks a question we rarely consider when building applications: how much energy does our software actually use? Mark will look at practical approaches .NET developers can use to understand and measure the energy consumption associated with their applications, from individual workloads and services through to cloud infrastructure and data centres. He’ll explore how energy consumption can be translated into carbon emissions, why the carbon intensity of electricity changes throughout the day and between locations, and how developers can use this information to build more carbon-aware software. The talk will then move beyond software itself to look at the wider energy system. Mark will demonstrate how the QGEMS Energy Management Platform collects and analyses detailed energy data for buildings ranging from individual homes and commercial properties to large-scale data centres. Using real energy generation and carbon-intensity information, QGEMS can show not simply how much energy is being consumed, but when it is being consumed, where that energy is c

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