Question 1

What Digital Sustainability training courses does JBI Training offer?

Accepted Answer

JBI Training offers three Digital Sustainability courses, each one day in length. Digital Sustainability Introduction is a broad overview course suitable for any professional who wants to understand the environmental impact of digital technology. Digital Sustainability for Developers is tailored specifically to software engineers and covers practical techniques for writing and deploying more energy-efficient code and systems. Digital Sustainability for Business Analysts covers sustainability considerations from a requirements, process, and decision-making perspective. All three courses are available as scheduled classroom sessions in London, as live online instructor-led training, or as customised onsite programmes for teams.

Question 2

What is digital sustainability and why does it matter for technology teams?

Accepted Answer

Digital sustainability refers to the practice of designing, building, and operating digital products, services, and infrastructure in a way that minimises their environmental impact — particularly their energy consumption and associated carbon emissions. The digital sector is responsible for a significant and growing share of global electricity consumption and carbon emissions, driven by data centres, network infrastructure, and end-user devices. Technology teams — including developers, architects, data engineers, and business analysts — have a direct influence on how much energy their systems consume through the architectural decisions, coding practices, and infrastructure choices they make. Digital sustainability training helps technology professionals understand this impact and apply practical techniques to reduce it within their existing roles and workflows.

Question 3

What does the Digital Sustainability Introduction course cover?

Accepted Answer

The Digital Sustainability Introduction course is a one-day programme providing a broad overview of digital sustainability for professionals across technical and non-technical roles. It covers the environmental impact of digital technology — including the carbon footprint of data centres, cloud computing, networks, and devices — how to measure and estimate the carbon impact of digital products and services, the principles of sustainable digital design, an overview of relevant standards and frameworks such as the Green Software Foundation's Software Carbon Intensity specification, and how organisations can begin developing a digital sustainability strategy. It is suited to anyone in a technology, product, or business role who wants to understand the environmental dimension of digital work.

Question 4

What does the Digital Sustainability for Developers course cover?

Accepted Answer

The Digital Sustainability for Developers course is a one-day programme specifically designed for software engineers, DevOps engineers, and cloud architects. It covers the carbon cost of code and infrastructure decisions — including how algorithm efficiency, data transfer volumes, storage choices, and cloud region selection affect energy consumption. It addresses techniques for writing more energy-efficient code, designing carbon-aware applications that shift workloads to times or regions with lower carbon intensity, measuring software carbon intensity using established frameworks, optimising cloud infrastructure for sustainability, and integrating sustainability considerations into development and deployment workflows. Developers leave with practical, actionable techniques they can apply to their current projects.

Question 5

What does the Digital Sustainability for Business Analysts course cover?

Accepted Answer

The Digital Sustainability for Business Analysts course is a one-day programme covering how business analysts can embed sustainability considerations into requirements gathering, process design, and solution evaluation. It covers how to identify and document the environmental impact of proposed digital solutions, how to include sustainability criteria in requirements specifications and acceptance criteria, how to evaluate trade-offs between functionality, performance, and environmental impact, how to work with stakeholders to set digital sustainability objectives, and how sustainability considerations fit within broader ESG (environmental, social, and governance) reporting obligations. It is suited to business analysts, product owners, and requirements specialists who want to ensure sustainability is considered as a first-class concern in the solutions they specify.

Question 6

What is the Green Software Foundation and how does it relate to digital sustainability training?

Accepted Answer

The Green Software Foundation (GSF) is a non-profit organisation established by Microsoft, GitHub, Thoughtworks, Accenture, and other technology organisations to build a trusted ecosystem of people, standards, tooling, and best practices for green software. It has developed the Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification — a methodology for calculating the carbon emissions of software systems — and the Green Software Practitioner certification. JBI's digital sustainability courses draw on the GSF's frameworks and principles, ensuring that delegates learn approaches that are grounded in emerging industry standards rather than informal guidance. As digital sustainability becomes a regulatory and reporting requirement for more organisations, familiarity with GSF frameworks is increasingly relevant for technology professionals.

Question 7

Can digital sustainability training be customised for a corporate technology team?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All three digital sustainability courses can be delivered as customised onsite or online programmes for corporate technology teams. Content can be tailored to the organisation's technology stack, cloud provider, existing sustainability commitments, and ESG reporting requirements. For example, a development team using Azure can receive training focused on Azure sustainability tools and carbon-aware computing features, while a business analysis team working within a financial services organisation with specific ESG disclosure obligations can receive training that addresses those regulatory reporting requirements directly. JBI has delivered technology training for organisations including the BBC, NHS, RBS, Sky, EDF, and Capita, and can incorporate an organisation's own sustainability data and infrastructure context into the programme.

Question 8

Are these courses available online?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All JBI Training courses run as live online instructor-led sessions as well as in-person in London and as bespoke on-site training at your organisation.

Question 9

Can these courses be customised for my team?

Accepted Answer

Yes. All JBI Training courses can be delivered as bespoke closed-group programmes tailored to your team's technology stack, experience level, and business objectives. Contact enquiries@jbinternational.co.uk.

Digital Sustainability training coursese

Digital Sustainability For Developers & Analysts

Digital Sustainability Introduction

Digital Sustainability (Developers)

Digital Sustainability (Business Analysts)

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