# Mitigate. Innovate. Sustain.

- Institution: CERN
- Speaker: Wilco Burggraaf
- Year: 2026
- Language: English
- Subjects: Mathematics, Computer science
- Source: [CERN](https://videos.cern.ch/record/3025559)
- Licence: [CERN](https://copyright.web.cern)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Mitigation starts by treating technical debt and digital waste as sustainability problems. Idle compute, chatty microservices, oversized payloads, unbounded concurrency, always-on resilience, and forgotten data, environments, or duplicate workflows all become permanent excess: more kilowatt-hours, more emissions, more cloud spend.

We uncover where energy is wasted in everyday systems, from CPU boost events with no user value and I/O waits misread as CPU issues to zombie instances and hidden digital waste across storage, pipelines, and tooling.

These findings become a green debt backlog tied to measurable reductions in energy, cost, and operational heat.

The talk reframes performance as value per watt. It explores event-driven designs, lean data contracts, carbon-aware compute placement, and CI/CD checks for efficiency.

Attendees leave with practical habits to mitigate waste, innovate greener systems, and sustain gains long after the conference.

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## Lectures

1. [Mitigate. Innovate. Sustain.](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/cern/3025559/c5490c4afe3e), 32 min (CERN's player)