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All events will take place at the University of Potsdam and the Hasso Plattner Institute on Campus III – Griebnitzsee.

Universität Potsdam am Campus III - Griebnitzsee
Haus 6
August-Bebel-Str. 89
14482 Potsdam

You can find the room and site plan here.

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Preprint of the conference proceedings EnviroInfo 2025

Wednesday, September 17th

14:00 - 15:30: Welcome & Opening Session

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chairs: Grit Behrens & Stefan Naumann
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
14:00 - 14:30 Welcome Session    
14:30 - 15:30 Opening Keynote: Escaping digital colonialism Kurt Garloff Former project lead Sovereign Cloud Stack and CEO S7n Cloud Services GmbH

Tea and Coffee Break


16:30 - 18:00: AI+Sustainability I

Room: Hörsaal H07
Chair: Grit Behrens
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
16:30-17:00 Evaluating the Energy-Performance Trade-Offs of Quantized Large Language Model Agents: A Case Study Using Pokémon Battles Achim Guldner Trier University of Applied Science Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
17:00-17:30 SkyFusion: A Physics-Informed GAN-Transformer Framework for Intra-Hour Sky Forecasting and PV Prediction Naoufal El Atmioui Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
17:30-18:00 Towards Reliable Corrosion Forecasts in Waterway Infrastructure. Using LSTM-Based Models and Synthetic Sequences under Sparse Data Conditions Sarah Flohr HSBI - University of Applied Sciences and Arts

16:30 - 18:00: Main I

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Heiko Thimm
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
16:30 - 17:00 An open-source, AI-based monitoring station for insect monitoring Christopher Galle Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
17:00 - 17:30 The Automotive Manufacturing Industry as a Potential Twin Transformer: A Research-In-Progress Perspective Guillermo Vazquez Varela Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
17:30 - 18:00 Green Delivery Analytics: Advancements in Open Data for Sustainable Last Mile Logistics Richard Schulte University of Applied Science Bremerhaven

16:30 - 18:00: GreenCoding I

Room: Seminarraum S15
Chair: Max Westing
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
16:30 - 16:50 Resource Efficiency in Software: A Comparative Study of Two Text Editors Lena Fischer and Marian Messer Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
16:50 - 17:10 Results of the 2024 Focus Group: Requirements Study for a Professional Green Coding Course Format Dennis Junger Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
17:10 - 17:20 Presentation of the Green Coding Training Course Concept and Program Objectives - This session introduces the structure, content, and goals of the new Green Coding training program developed within the Unlocking Potentials of Green Coding project. Lena Fischer and Christopher Freitag Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
17:20 - 18:00 Focus Group: Evaluating Green Coding Training Concepts for the ISOC Unlocking Potentials of Green Coding Study - In this interactive focus group, participants will review and provide feedback on the proposed training concept, helping to refine its structure, content, and practical relevance. Dennis Junger and Volker Wohlgemuth Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Thursday, September 18th



10:00 - 10:30: Poster Presentations

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Victoria Pauw
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
10:00 - 10:30 Poster Presentations    
  Public Perception of Hydrogen Technology: Insights from a Regional Acceptance Study in Germany Johannes Pfeifer Hochschule Rhein-Waal
  BeM‑TG Bayern - Assessment Model for Deep Geothermal in the Bavarian Molasse Basin Julian Stier Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ
  Impact AI: Auditing AI for sustainability and public interest Laura State Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society

Tea and Coffee Break


11:00 - 12:30: AI+Sustainability II

Room: Hörsaal H07
Chair: Kostas Karatzas
Time Title Speaker  
11:00 - 11:30 An Adaptive Ant Colony System for Skip Loader Operations in Roll-on/Roll-off Logistics Luis Deutsch Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and Arts
12:00 - 12:30 Integrated data structures in materials management as the foundation for circular economy in SMEs Stefan Jordan Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
11:30 - 12:00 Rotated bitboards and Reinforcement Learning in Computer Chess and Beyond - Towards Absolute Sustainability and Progressive Computer Science Johannes Buchner IPE Berlin

11:00 - 12:30: Main II

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Jochen Wittmann
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
11:00 - 11:30 Analysis and Optimization of the CO2 Footprint of Machine Learning Models Konstantin Reh Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
11:30 - 12:00 Novel Approaches for Estimating Building Survival Probability: Compositional and Parametric Modeling Toshihiro Osaragi Institute of Science Tokyo
12:00 - 12:30 High Performance Data Analytics for Earth Observation at LRZ Viktoria Pauw Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ

11:00 - 12:30: GreenCoding II

Room: Seminarraum S15
Chair: Stefan Naumann
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
11:00 - 11:30 Evaluating Performance and Energy Efficiency of RISC-V and x86 Processors for Java Workloads Noah Behm et al. Munich University of Applied Sciences HM
11:30 - 12:00 Programming Practices Influencing Software Energy Efficiency – A Systematic Literature Review Ann-Christin Fleischle Technical University of Munich
12:00 - 12:30 Analysis and Optimization of a Web-Based HMI on an Embedded Building Automation System According to Green Software Criteria Stefanie Nina Steinbichl Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin

Lunch Break


14:00 - 15:30: AI+Sustainability III

Room: Hörsaal H07
Chair: Cesary Orlowski
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
14:00 - 14:30 Artificial intelligence and machine learning in environmental authorities - potentials, challenges and recommendations for action, Results of a qualitative research Eva Wein Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
14:30 - 15:00 Ethical Challenges in Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis Considering the Asilomar AI Principles with a Focus on Sustainability Martina Willenbacher Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
15:00 - 15:30 IoT-Driven Data Solutions for Water Scarcity: The Nutzwasser & Nutzwasser Stadt project approach Asim Zulfiqar Leibniz Supercomputing Centre LRZ

14:00 - 15:30: Main III

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Hans-Knud Arndt
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
14:00 - 14:30 Supporting a Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Agriculture Federation using Dashboarding Klervie Toczé Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
14:30 - 15:00 Global Embodied Emissions of Digital Technologies: The Hidden 42 % Janna Axenbeck Umweltbundesamt
15:00 - 15:30 Immersive Simulation of Forest Development Martin Döllerer TU Muenchen

14:00 - 15:30: Green Coding Roundtable

Room: Seminarraum S15
Chair: Stella Drebber and Lena Hoffmann
Time Title
14:00 - 15:30 A 90-minute interactive discussion on the present and future of sustainable software development

Tea and Coffee Break


16:30 - 18:00: AI+Sustainability IV

Room: Hörsaal H07
Chair: Martina Willenbacher
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
16:30 - 17:00 Comparison of Incremental Machine Learning Methods and Graph Neural Networks for the Field-Calibration of Air Quality Low-Cost Sensors Ourania Gkavezou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
17:00 - 17:30 Environmental Impact Measurements of AI Models with NADIKI Max Schulze Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. (SDIA)
17:30 - 18:00 Spatiotemporal analysis of PM2.5 in Nanjing, China, using network theory and PCA Georgios Georgoulis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

16:30 - 18:00: Data Centres, Infrastructure, and Sustainability

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Viktoria Pauw
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
16:30 - 17:00 Sustainability Assessment Guidance for Digital and Energy Services Infrastructure Magiel Bruntink TNO
17:00 - 17:30 State Estimation of Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicle Applications: Integrating Artificial Intelligence with Conventional Approaches Konstantinos Tsirkinidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
17:30 - 18:00 AI takes its toll – minimising ecological and societal costs Reinhard Messerschmidt and Max Schulze Eco AI Lab and Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance e.V. (SDIA)

16:30 - 18:30: Meeting of the Technical Committee Enviroinmental Informatics of the German Informatics Society

The Meeting is cancelled.

19:00: EnviroInfo-Conference Dinner (on own expenses)

Restaurant Fliegender Holländer (Flying Dutchman)

Friday, September 19th

09:00 - 10:30: AI+Sustainability V

Room: Hörsaal H07
Chair: Grit Behrens
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
09:00 - 09:30 A platform for machine learning in environmental agencies - Use Cases, User Roles, Functions Paul Schulze Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
09:30 - 10:00 Predicting the Annual Dirty Ten Based on Open Data about Pollution Releases Heiko Thimm Pforzheim University
10:00 - 10:30 EnerAgent: Energy-Aware Code Refinement with LLM-Based Agents Max Westing Trier University of Applied Sciences

09:00 - 10:30: Main IV

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Stefan Naumann
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
09:00 - 09:30 Digital Product Passport for Insect Meal: Enhancing Sustainability and Traceability in Feed Value Chains Benjamin Leiding Clausthal University of Technology
09:30 - 10:00 Management of geological data and notifications in accordance with the Geological Data Act in Schleswig-Holstein Friedhelm Hosenfeld DigSyLand - Institute for Digital System Analysis & Landscape Diagnosis
10:00 - 10:30 An innovative educational format for the heating transition: The Heat Transition School as a practical teaching and learning concept Sven Lampe Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg

Tea and Coffee Break


11:00 - 12:30: AI+Sustainability VI

Room: Hörsaal H07
Chair: Grit Behrens
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
11:00 - 11:30 A Self-Supervised Vision Foundation Model for All-Sky Imagery Yassine Ribouh Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
11:30 - 12:00 Sustainable Software in Practice: A Use-Case-Oriented Tool for Exploring Sustainability Criteria Anas Abukhadijah Environmental Campus Birkenfeld
12:00 - 12:30 Hybrid Forecast of Phytoplankton in the California Current Ida Hausmann University of Applied Sciences Karlsruhe

11:00 - 12:30: Digital Sustainability

Room: Hörsaal H01
Chair: Volker Wohlgemuth and Martina Willenbacher
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
11:00 - 11:30 On the research and development of digital sustainability in publicly co-funded innovation alliances Malte Reißig RIFS | at GFZ
11:30 - 12:00 Life cycle assessment of an edge computing software application Jens Groeger Oeko-Institut

11:00 - 12:30: SDInfrastructures

Room: Seminarraum S15
Chair: Achim Guldner
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
11:00 - 11:30 Empowering Communities through IoT2: A Citizen Science Approach to Flood Monitoring and AI-supported Resource Optimization - Digital Resilience, Maker Education, and Energy-Aware IoT Development Franziska Mai Hochschule Trier - Umwelt-Campus Birkenfeld
11:30 - 12:00 Good practices in odor management - Application for recording episodes of odor nuisance in the environment Odor Field Control abbreviation OFC Lukasz Szalata Wroclaw University of Science and Technology

Lunch Break


14:00 - 14:45: Student Prize Presentations and Award sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Room: Hörsaal H01
Martina Willenbacher and Utz-Uwe Haus, HPE
Rank Title Speaker Affilation
TBA Forecasting ground level particulate matter concentrations from aerosol optical depth data Tim Bollmeyer & Mark Mödeker & Lukas von der Heide Hochschule Bielefeld
TBA Monitoring Effects of Floodplain Drainage on Oxygen Levels with Guerilla Sensing Hagen Eickhoff & Mathis Kölker & Paul Tepe & Paula Wegerich Universität Oldenburg
TBA PipeView - AI-based visual detection of contamination in wastewater pipes using an out-of-the-box single camera toolset Jonas Gaißler Hochschule Pforzheim
  Award ceremony and Ranking Martina Willenbacher and Utz-Uwe Haus HPE

14:45 - 15:30: Closing Session

Room: Hörsaal H01
Time Title Speaker Affiliation
14:45 - 15:00 EnviroInfo 2026 Presentation Grit Behrens University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany
15:00 - 15:15 Closing Remarks Grit Behrens University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld, Germany