Call for Abstracts and Participation

Symposium on Sustainable IT Systems (SUITS)
22-25 September 2025, Copenhagen, Denmark
https://suits-25.github.io/

Important dates (AoE)

Submission of abstract: Mon August 4, 2025
Notification: Thu August 7, 2025
Symposium dates: 22-25 September 2025

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Scope

Symposium on Sustainable IT Systems (SUITS) will foster collaboration and knowledge exchange within the emerging and dynamic field of sustainable IT. To this end, the 4-day symposium will bring together scientists and PhD students to explore the interdisciplinary challenges of achieving sustainability in computing. SUITS provides a premier opportunity for young researchers (such as top graduate students, PhD students and PostDocs) working within the area to communicate and sharpen theirs research directions and discuss with top experts. SUITS is not a PhD symposium, but will have a focus on providing opportunities for young researchers.

As this area inherently spans multiple domains of computer science, the symposium will be the premiere event to convene researchers from across the scientific community—spanning software engineering, systems, hardware, and networks—to spark new collaborations between previously disconnected fields.

We encourage PhD students, postdocs and other young researchers to contribute, but the symposium is open to all. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• energy aware programming languages and algorithms,
• green coding and programming practice,
• energy smells and code analysis,
• green infrastructure sustainable design and technologies
• low-power, distributed data processing on sensors
• optimization and/or analysis in green computing and communications (including core network optimization),
• green big data, cloud, and data center architecture,
• energy harvesting communications and networks, and
• computing affects to environment analysis and impact.
• energy-efficient scalable computing infrastructures.
• sustainable ICT applications: Grid, EV, Robotics, etc.

Participation and venue

The purpose of SUITS is to bring together a varied group of experts and students to potential interaction and results for Sustainable IT Systems. The symposium has room for a limited number of participants (about 30). The organisation committee will, thus, make a selection based on relevance and quality of abstract, diversity of participants, and variation of academic level and fields.

The participation fee for SUITS is 2.000 DKK (about 270 EUR) covering hotel (three nights), social event, and all meals during the symposium. No travel is covered by the fee.

We can provide a limited number of partial support grants for travel and other costs to participants with limited funding or extra needs. The application process will be detailed later, but it will be after the abstract acceptance.

Submission guidelines

Researchers wishing to participate at SUITS are requested to submit short abstracts (English, maximum 800 characters) providing motivation and research direction for their work. You can expect readers to have knowledge about relevant background.

Provide your submission on the following page:

https://nettskjema.no/a/suits

Invited Speakers

• Jens Malmodin, Ericsson Research, Ericsson AB, Sweden:
  Evaluating the energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions associated with ICT products, networks, and services.
• Fernando Castor, Associate Professor, University of Twente, Netherlands:
  Green software development and energy-efficient system design.
• Michael Welzl, Professor, University of Oslo, Norway:
  Energy-efficient networking and data transmission.
• Kerstin Eder, Professor, University of Bristol, United Kingdom:
  System-level energy optimization and energy-aware software design.

Organisation committee

Chairs

• Maja Hanne Kirkeby, Roskilde University, Denmark
• Michael Kirkedal Thomsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and University of Oslo, Norway

Members

• Bent Thomsen, Professor, Aalborg University
• Henrik Bærbak Christensen, Professor, Aarhus University
• Leif Katsuo Oxenløwe, Professor, Technical University of Denmark
• Mahyar Tourchi Moghaddam, Associate Professor, University of Southern Denmark
• Niels-Kristian Hersoug, Researcher, Technical University of Denmark
• Pínar Tözün, Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen

Contact

Questions about submissions can be sent to the conference contact email:
Maja Hanne Kirkeby majaht@ruc.dk, Michael Kirkedal Thomsen m.kirkedal@di.ku.dk