GTSW Event: Local GreenTech Innovator Showcase for Bristol Tech Festival+

Join Green Tech South West for an event that’s part of ‘Bristol Tech Festival+’, again featuring 2 fantastic local GreenTech pioneers.

When: Wednesday, October 8th 2025, 6.00pm-8.00pm

Where: Scott Logic, 1st Floor, 1 Redcliff Street, Redcliffe, Bristol, BS1 6NP

** If you would like to attend this event you will need to sign up on Bristol Tech Festival’s platform!**

This event part of the ‘Community Track’ – sign up for free HERE and then add the event to your schedule in your portal!

We’ll be hearing from Dryden Williams (CEO, CarbonRunner) and Ed Walsh (Head of Product, ZapMap).

About the event: Shifting CI/CD workloads to save money and emissions

CarbonRunner shifts workloads — from GitHub Actions to AI training — across multiple cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP. They’re faster and 25% cheaper and 10x lower emissions than GitHub.

CarbonRunner is a multi-cloud CI/CD runner that dynamically shifts workloads to the lowest carbon regions without changing your workflow. The platform optimizes for both cost and sustainability, ensuring your builds run efficiently, saving money and slashing emissions.

He’ll be covering;

• Problem – Cloud compute and AI power demand is booming and it’s expensive
• Solution – Shifting to low carbon regions is cheaper and greener
• Some cool stats we’ve found from shifting to 47 low-carbon regions saving 90% of emissions and 25% of cost.

About Dryden

I’m Dryden, a passionate techie, environmentalist and surfer, building tools like CarbonRunner.io to reduce the carbon emissions of the internet.

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Zapmap – going beyond making charging simple

Zapmap has long been one of the most valued tools for EV drivers, helping them navigate the transition to electric, and also playing a leading role in informing and guiding industry investment and government policy.

He’ll cover where it all started, how the product has grown and evolved, successes & failures in an emerging industry, and what the future holds for one of the UK’s leading charging service.

About Ed

I’m Ed, Head of Product at Zapmap, and an experienced coach and Product Leader. I’m passionate about tech and user experience, as well as being a lover of the natural world, a keen photographer and hiker, and regular explorer of the UK’s beautiful landscape.

Schedule

🔓 18.00 – Scott Logic doors open for in-person attendees
🔓 18.20 – CrowdCast room opens for online attendees
👋 18.30 – Event welcome from organisers Ellen and Mike
📢 18.40 – 60 second intros – a chance for in-person and online attendees to introduce themselves, ask for help or share something interesting
💚 18.50 – CarbonRunner talk
💚 19.15 – ZapMap talk
❓ 19.35 – Q&A
🗓️ 19.50 – Round-up and close
20.00 – In person attendees can continue networking at LeftHanded Giant

Event will be recorded and available with slides shortly after.

This event is made possible by kind sponsorship from:

ADLIB Recruitment
Bristol Digital Futures: Institute

More info about BTF+: https://techspark.co/btfplus/